I'm going to try to keep this short, but wanted to share with you ladies who have supported me so much:
So as some of you know I found out early on in my pregnancy that I have 15 fibroid tumors on my uterus. The risk to the baby is preterm labor; the risk to me is pain and possibility of hemorrhage during c-section delivery (in addition to a few other things).
Well since that time I have had several instances of intense pain for 24-36 hours, which have been diagnosed as degenerating fibroids. I have vicodin for the pain and a treatment plan that includes steroids should things go from bad to worse.
Saturday/Sunday they went to worse.
I went to bed at 11pm Saturday night and got a very strange wave of like a head rush - almost felt like an intense panic attack coming on. Seconds later, I started having the familiar fibroid pain and knew I was having another episode. Except this episode was so intense that I was writhing in pain in my bed, rocking back and forth, calling out "ow ow ow ow" over and over and began to have the sensation that I needed to go to the bathroom or 'pass' something.
I took a vicodin and passed out finally, only to wake up at 7am with the pain just where I left it. We are talking 10 out of 10. So I I'm lying there thinking man, I wonder if I need to call an ambulance or something - finally decide to try to get up, quickly shower and make the trip down to the car and to the hospital. I got violently sick in the shower, blood vessels popped all over my face. It was horrible.
So I get to the ER and they admit me and give me some meds and do a cervix check and some fluids. I was there for a few hours and then the ER doc came in and said Labor and Delivery wanted to admit me so they could observe me for a while.
I was in L&D all day long. Until 6:30 p.m. They were even talking about keeping me overnight (scary). They did the fetal monitor thing on me and it turns out that what I had been experiencing were contractions. I was 18 weeks on the dot that day - so nowhere near viability
They gave me morphine and a pill to stop the contractions (some kind of blood pressure medication) and also did an ultrasound to look at the fibroids. Through all of this the baby seemed to be fine, heartbeat fluctuating between 139 and 160.
I asked the L&D doctor (an awesome guy btw) if I needed to be worried and he said that yes, to be honest he was worried. He also said that they don't typically see preggos in L&D at the hospital until 20 weeks, but because of my fibroids and the fact that I'm already being treated by a perinatologist, they were making an exception to try to preserve the pregnancy. My husband was crying. It was awful.
But - long story short - my contractions did start to die down, I started to look/feel better, and they eventually sent me home. It's still a wait and see game, but for now I'm still pregnant, still feeling movement from this little sucker, and still hanging in there.
Thanks for reading and I guess the TLDR is: Fibroids in pregnancy are nothing to screw around with, and that if your instinct tells you something is wrong with your pregnancy, just in general, you need to get to the doctor ASAP and not worry about looking dramatic.
So as some of you know I found out early on in my pregnancy that I have 15 fibroid tumors on my uterus. The risk to the baby is preterm labor; the risk to me is pain and possibility of hemorrhage during c-section delivery (in addition to a few other things).
Well since that time I have had several instances of intense pain for 24-36 hours, which have been diagnosed as degenerating fibroids. I have vicodin for the pain and a treatment plan that includes steroids should things go from bad to worse.
Saturday/Sunday they went to worse.
I went to bed at 11pm Saturday night and got a very strange wave of like a head rush - almost felt like an intense panic attack coming on. Seconds later, I started having the familiar fibroid pain and knew I was having another episode. Except this episode was so intense that I was writhing in pain in my bed, rocking back and forth, calling out "ow ow ow ow" over and over and began to have the sensation that I needed to go to the bathroom or 'pass' something.
I took a vicodin and passed out finally, only to wake up at 7am with the pain just where I left it. We are talking 10 out of 10. So I I'm lying there thinking man, I wonder if I need to call an ambulance or something - finally decide to try to get up, quickly shower and make the trip down to the car and to the hospital. I got violently sick in the shower, blood vessels popped all over my face. It was horrible.
So I get to the ER and they admit me and give me some meds and do a cervix check and some fluids. I was there for a few hours and then the ER doc came in and said Labor and Delivery wanted to admit me so they could observe me for a while.
I was in L&D all day long. Until 6:30 p.m. They were even talking about keeping me overnight (scary). They did the fetal monitor thing on me and it turns out that what I had been experiencing were contractions. I was 18 weeks on the dot that day - so nowhere near viability
They gave me morphine and a pill to stop the contractions (some kind of blood pressure medication) and also did an ultrasound to look at the fibroids. Through all of this the baby seemed to be fine, heartbeat fluctuating between 139 and 160. I asked the L&D doctor (an awesome guy btw) if I needed to be worried and he said that yes, to be honest he was worried. He also said that they don't typically see preggos in L&D at the hospital until 20 weeks, but because of my fibroids and the fact that I'm already being treated by a perinatologist, they were making an exception to try to preserve the pregnancy. My husband was crying. It was awful.
But - long story short - my contractions did start to die down, I started to look/feel better, and they eventually sent me home. It's still a wait and see game, but for now I'm still pregnant, still feeling movement from this little sucker, and still hanging in there.
Thanks for reading and I guess the TLDR is: Fibroids in pregnancy are nothing to screw around with, and that if your instinct tells you something is wrong with your pregnancy, just in general, you need to get to the doctor ASAP and not worry about looking dramatic.