Preclampisa, my story.

All threw my pregnancy, i knew something was wrong.
i could feel it. Something was just not right....besides the fact that my ankles were so swollen i went from a size 6to a size 9 shoe. i woke up one day to find my face so swollen i looked like the micilin giant.
So on feb 28th i went to work as usual, only to start to feel this sharp pain shoot up my back. and move upwards, then i passed out, scared my boss called my best friend (my family lives in NC and my husband was on deployment) who rushed to NAS JAX labor and delivery. Where the coreman continued to tell me that i was fine, even though my blood pressure was 200/150 and i had high amounts of protein in my urine.
Pissed off because i knew something was wrong with me, and my best friend knew something was wrong she took me home and called my mom and told her what was going on, my mo who was up in Charlotte and couldn't make it in time called my grandmother who lives in Charleston. MY grandmother was so pissed at NAS she told my friend to take me back and not to leave until she got there. She drove at 1am to NAS. When she got there she forced the core man to admit me because she knew right away i had peclampisa.( I will show you before , during and after pictures of what it does to you.) Anyways, I am so thankful that she came down, because had she not neither me nor my baby girl would be here today.
Not even and hour after they admitted me, i started to have a stroke, my blood pressure was so high it sent me into stroke mode.
The Dr.s tried to bring me down with magneasim and hydrolzine. However i was so unstable they had to transfer me to UF & SHANDS , the best NICU hosp in Jacksonville's.
Now SHANDS had to keep me in ANTIPARDIM ward where i was on strict best rest for a week, i could not eat anything except ice chips, which sucked, and btw i went from 159lbs at 7 mons to 196 in one day, and kept growing from the water retention. IT was kinda weird, they kept forcing water down my throat, but it would just absorb into my muscles and not my kidneys, so my kidneys started to shut down, they had to insert a catheterized in me (and believe me you do not want that..it was so bad i could not shower by myself because i was under fall precautions, i was so low, i seriously wanted to die.
they took my blood pressure every five minutes as well and took my blood every three hrs,so sleep was close to impossible with the constant poking and prodding as well and constant pain nausea and dizziness.
on march 1st at 11pm i had a seizure that was so severe it riped out my IVs, at that time i passed out so i do not remember what happened, but i do know that i woke up on march second to the most beautiful baby girl ever. Isabelle was born at 9:15am march second, at 2lbs 6oz.
so, for those of you who do not know what Preclampisa is. It is a sickness that some women get. Most women get it if they are are very young and if it is their first baby.
unfortunately it runs in my family. Preclampisa comes on suddenly and without warning. the first signs is swelling in the hands and face. as well as protein in the urine.
What makes it so bad is that it makes your blood pressure fly so high that you can start to have seizures, and strokes. it also affects the baby as well, by cutting off nutrients and oxygen from the uterus so that the babies come out under the normal birth weight (in Izzy's case she had to stay in the NICU for 1 1/2 months before she could come home, i could not even hold her for the first month of her life). Anyways, i just wanted to share my experience with this sickness. there is no way to prevent it, and the only cure is to deliver the baby. So here are the warning signs of this, please guys, if you ever feel like something is wrong, only you know your body, so do not let the dr, tell you that you are fine, because it could be something worse than you could ever imagine.

people who are at high risk of coming down with pre-eclampisa
Under 20 years old
Over 35 years old
Pregnant for the first time
Pregnant with twins or more
Chronic hypertension or diabetes
Family history of pre-eclampsia

warning signs
Severe headache or blurred vision
Nausea or vomiting
Dizziness or double vision
Excessive swelling of the hands or feet
Decreased frequency of urination
Rapid pulse

if your pregnant, please be careful. keep watch on your pregnancy, and only you know your body. so listen to your instincts.
ok the [ictures i found were when the swelling was starting to go down...

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