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dancerjodiThe hives/rash is still going, not worse and not better. My face is so swollen that I look about 15 years older around my eyes. Fun. So swollen that reading is - interesting. I can't wait to have this baby and see if it resolves.
I was crampy all day Friday and stayed home on my last day of work thinking that this may be the start. All freaking day! Then at night I was up every hour - not sure if it was due to the cramping, or the rash, or the fact that I tried to sleep in my own bed again. I would last an hour on my side, get up because my hips/pelvis were killing me, try and pee, and get on the other side. An hour later repeat. So much for trying to sleep on the bed. That morning was when I woke up with scary old lady eyes. Due to lack of sleep? Facial swelling? Who knows.
A couple of times in that night I felt an actual, quick, measureable, concrete contraction. There were two of them that caught me off guard. But that was it.
Yesterday was Saturday, and my eyes were puffy/wrinkled all day. I only had a couple of the crampy/numb periods like Friday, but none of those concrete, quick, measureable contractions. I slept on the loveseat again and did sleep much better, but still woke up with a swollen face and the scary eyes. They are more swollen feeling, and I can tell from looking out of them that reading/driving for a long ways wouldn't be effective. :/ I feel more rested, only got up a couple of times to pee (normal for a pregnant lady). Still, with the eyes. It is time to take another antihistamine and I may try a cold cloth on my face again, cool wet tea bags, maybe make a paste out of the Domeboro stuff (if the box says that's safe for the face) or the Aveeno Oatmeal bath as my midwife suggested.
I never thought I was vain (post teenage craziness) until this pregnancy. I don't want to leave the house but I don't want to sit in the house all day. I want to dress up but it is harder and harder to do that comfortably where I don't look like a moose in black on black on black (the pants that fit are black now, the shirts that don't accentuate this rash due to color or short sleeves are black. I am so freaking high maintenance. And crazy. Which I hate. "I can't win".
I am humbled by this whole experience, as I guess I should be.
I was crampy all day Friday and stayed home on my last day of work thinking that this may be the start. All freaking day! Then at night I was up every hour - not sure if it was due to the cramping, or the rash, or the fact that I tried to sleep in my own bed again. I would last an hour on my side, get up because my hips/pelvis were killing me, try and pee, and get on the other side. An hour later repeat. So much for trying to sleep on the bed. That morning was when I woke up with scary old lady eyes. Due to lack of sleep? Facial swelling? Who knows.
A couple of times in that night I felt an actual, quick, measureable, concrete contraction. There were two of them that caught me off guard. But that was it.
Yesterday was Saturday, and my eyes were puffy/wrinkled all day. I only had a couple of the crampy/numb periods like Friday, but none of those concrete, quick, measureable contractions. I slept on the loveseat again and did sleep much better, but still woke up with a swollen face and the scary eyes. They are more swollen feeling, and I can tell from looking out of them that reading/driving for a long ways wouldn't be effective. :/ I feel more rested, only got up a couple of times to pee (normal for a pregnant lady). Still, with the eyes. It is time to take another antihistamine and I may try a cold cloth on my face again, cool wet tea bags, maybe make a paste out of the Domeboro stuff (if the box says that's safe for the face) or the Aveeno Oatmeal bath as my midwife suggested.
I never thought I was vain (post teenage craziness) until this pregnancy. I don't want to leave the house but I don't want to sit in the house all day. I want to dress up but it is harder and harder to do that comfortably where I don't look like a moose in black on black on black (the pants that fit are black now, the shirts that don't accentuate this rash due to color or short sleeves are black. I am so freaking high maintenance. And crazy. Which I hate. "I can't win".
I am humbled by this whole experience, as I guess I should be.
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Date: 2012-01-15 06:43 pm (UTC)...it's not even vanity. You're about to 'splode, so you have a hall pass if you are feeling moose-ish. Although you could just call yourself goth Death Star and feel stylish again. :)
Yay! You're almost there! Scary eyes and all the rashy, swollen bits will be over soon. Soon!
*love*
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Date: 2012-01-15 11:57 pm (UTC)(to the point where I was buying it and said it was for my eyes and Roy said "Uh doesn't it say not to use near your eyes?" and I said SHUT THE EFF UP ROY! *grins*)
I take a dot of it, either straight from the tube, or put a little on my non dominant hand, and take a WEEEEEEE bit onto my index finger and pat it very gently into the skin around my eyes, lids and underneath because both got swelly, so it's not gloopy or runny, and gets absorbed right in. I stay as far away as possible from my eyelashes and the corner of my eye.
When I reacted to my makeup in Whitby, it was the only thing that let my eyes become less swollen so I could see where I was going. AND to keep my contacts in, one almost fell out because the lids kept rubbing up against it, they were so swollen.
I understand your pain, I was ok with itchy if I just LOOKED like I wasn't a plague case. Using the itch cream made me feel just human enough to keep going, and let the skin calm down.
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Date: 2012-01-16 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 05:08 pm (UTC)you are anything but high maintenance.