Does anything on your body swell when you first get pregnant

Does anything on your body swell when you first get pregnant?

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In the 1st trimester, there really isn’t much noticeable swelling. If you notice swelling in the hands face or eyes, contact a Dr.

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I hate being pregnant, and I cannot be alone?!!!!?

Q: A CHILD is everything me and my husband could ever want…… That does not mean I have to like the process. I already have a daughter, that’s going on 4 from a previous relationship. Which that time was bad enough. Going from having nice Curves, strong and healthy bones w/ a sold stature on to puking every 30 mins or so, losing 10 to 15lbs skin turing pale yellow , hair drying and falling out. Oh the joy. Now to do it all again….. This so will be the last time. I cannot for the life of me go on day by day, thinking this pregnancy will be better than my last only to realize that it’s just the same. Your favorite foods tasting like crap, and your mood like **** majority of the time. Then everyone and their momma wanna ask if you want to go do something with them, only to turn them down b/c you feel like crap and you don’t feel like taking the time to make yourself look any better or dolled up. Then when you choose to go “get out the house” only to go, and feel like **** and ruin someone else’s time, b/c their spending most of it making sure you’re doing ok. I mean other than feeling the child move for only that first time, there’s nothing to enjoy. Not the swell-age, the bumps in the night, the hunger pains, that then turns in to nausea once you do eat. Not to mention constipation, which eating fibrous food don’t do ****…… or produce it either if you know what I mean? Is it just me, or do you too try not to fall in to the…. Cranky, snappy, bitchy prego woman roll? You try your damn-dist to put on a face, and smile when a ska-billion people passing by you ooh-ing and aww-ing. Riiight! when deep down in side you just wanna tell a ***** not to look your way. I don’t understand why people get all silly when a woman is pregnant, (really referring to strangers). Oh how far are you? When are you due? What the hell does it matter to you. “Damnit I don’t know you, and will never see you again. You want me to take your number and give you a call when I’m in the hospital grasping and pushing?” It’s like get real. Of course I’m GOING TO BE excited to see my beautiful creation, but in this moment does it seem like I am one to jump up and down in excitement that my body is being taken over and readjusted chemically and physically? I hope I don’t sound like I’m out of my mind. I just hate when women who’s had a child before play stupid like it wasn’t that bad. Yeah my first had no complications, and I couldn’t have asked for a easier labor, delivery, and birth, but I’ll be damned if I sit here and act like from 6 weeks to 8 mos was a cake walk. I CANNOT WAIT until this crap is over. There’s nothing pleasant about this at all. At first I was sort of afraid to say I hate this until I was searching for an outlet. I can’t say anything to my family, b/c like I said before all the women (who’s had kids) get stupid, and act like they don’t remember, and there is no way for the men to even attempt to understand. They just eat when we eat, and sleep when we sleep. Then the rest of the time look at us like we are just some wimpy *** whinny babies. I swear if I hear “you’ll be ok”, one more time I’m going to snap. Anyone feel like me and just want to be left alone and understood sometimes? **THIS IS NOT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE HAPPY AND LOVING IT TO TELL ME WHAT KIND OF PERSON I SOUND LIKE. SO I DON’T NEED THOSE OPINIONS. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO HEAR FROM THOSE WHO AGREE, AND WHO WANTS SOME KIND OF OUTLET AS WELL**OK whatever MEN…. to the first 3 that commented my question, open your eyes, you don’t know and you’ll never know. Do some research, google and see how many WOMEN feel this way. It doesn’t change who we are and make us a bad person. Just cause I want a child does not make it a crime, nor does it forces me to like everything it puts you through. Having the child is great, but everything before that is really life altering, and something MEN will NEVER understand… So now that I see that you guys are close minded, and can’t read well when I say don’t comment and tell me what kind of person I am, it would be great if you don’t make a response.Thanks to all those who seem to relate. No I’m not out of my mind, but It’s better to vent then to REALLY feel this way and keep it inside. No one is wacko or in need of therapy. It is understood that those who cannot bare would love to be me, but that’s what we’re talking about here ME!!! So nothing anyone says can change how I feel, It’s not like I said I didn’t want the baby, people read way to much into things. Like I said I just wanted to here other similar voices and let other women have an outlet. I guess since the critics here don’t understand, maybe I should have said it how someone else here put it…… “I don’t hate being pregnant, I just hate all that it puts you through” Good enough?!!

A: Well said! I understand completely how you feel! I am 38 weeks pregnant with my second child and couldn’t possibly be more miserable. I know from having my first that all the trouble was worth it in the end, but that doesn’t mean I should have to enjoy the whole process and neither should you. Now that I have reached the end (I am told preg cannot last forever!!) I feel like my life is put on hold while I just sit around and wait for this baby to be born – which could conceivably be another 4 weeks away! I am tired of the constant questioning from people, I am tired of people starring at me at the mall like I am an alien from another planet, and I am tired of not being able to do the things I normally do – like play on the floor with my two year old. It is NOT selfish of us to want to meet our babies in person finally and get on with our lives again! It is also alright to hate it when other women constantly tell us how they loved being pregnant. I guess if having naseau, heartburn, back aches, pelvis aches, acne, cloasma, burning skin, sore boobs, swelled hands, stuffy nose, and constant kicks to the bladder is their cup of tea – awesome. Guess what? I loved holding my newborn son and even changing his poopy diapers a heck of a lot more than all of that!!! Don’t let the men who have posted answers make you feel bad, men will never comprehend what it is like to have another person completely take over their body in everyway! My suggestion to all the men reading – don’t give unsolicited advice to pregnant women – EVER!!! I don’t care how many women you have impregnated! As I filled my coffee cup at work the other day, I had a morbidly obese, red-faced, a** hole tell me that he “hoped” I was drinking decafl! Like I need some piece of crap-looking, ticking time bomb on the edge of a heart attack to tell me how to take care of myself and my baby!!! I am in great shape, eat very healthy, and have continued working out throughout both of my pregnancies – a small cup of REGULAR coffee is not going to hurt me or my baby!!! I wanted to splash the hot coffee on his face and break the mug over his forehead – but I really like my job, haha. UGH! Ok, off topic, I know, but men that think a little sperm donation makes them experts on pregnancy really burn me up! Please don’t feel bad or guilty about how you feel. It’s okay – it doesn’t make you a bad person or mother. Just hang in there! As you know, the suffering will all be worth it in the end – but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t stink!!!!!

I have horrible pain that moves around my body- usually it is in a shoulder for a day then the next day?

Q: the next day it may be in my wrist on the other arm, then in a finger, I went to a rheumatologist who said it is too quick moving to be arthritis. He attributed it to my breast feeding and said it would stop when I did. However I have had it now for 2 years. (By the way it first began when I was pregnant- if that has anything to do with it. I never had fluid retention or high blood pressure.) It comes and goes- typically gets better in the day and worse at night. Often so bad that 600mg of Ibprophen does not help me to sleep. It always stays in my arms or shoulders- and is always in the joint itself. When it is in my fingers you can see redness in the joint- but, never swelling. I am desperate for some help and relief. I thought it might be fibromyalgia but, it does not seem to match the symptoms. I am a 34 year old female- if that helps for diagnosis. I have been to my MD also- who has no clue! Thanks for reading this- and for your help!

A: My mother in law has a strange form of arthritis. It also moves around. Her RA blood tests came back negative for several years then finally a positive result. I believe the name is something like: Intermittent Migratory Rheumatoid Arthritis. She is now taking Embrel shots and it has helped alot. Good luck!

losing my breath and swelling of my joints…only 33 years old?

Q: The past few months, I’ve been noticing two very disturbing symptoms happening to me. The first one started about mid March/09. I’ve been getting swelling in my hands, ankles and now my wrists and toes. At first it was only in the morning, I would wake up with tight hands unable to make a fist. Then my ankles got really fat and my socks would leave indentations on my ankles like when I was pregnant with my son (I AM NOT PREGNANT…lets get that clear). I started drinking more water and keeping my legs elevated when I could to eliviate the swelling in my ankles and feet. It lasted about a week the first time then all of a sudden I started peeing like crazy and over night it was gone…just like that! The second time happened about three weeks later and lasted about a week. Same thing with the pitting edema….drank more water….started peeing like crazy and it went away. This is where things get a little weird. I started having my body taking quick short sucks of breath on its own….like when you can’t catch your breath. It wasn’t anything major until I started having to take these little extra breaths in the middle of sentences. (Please note, I am not doing this at night in my sleep at all..only when I am awake My diaphragm is initiating these breaths without my conscious effort and its really starting to scare me. The swelling has now gone into my face a little (my husband can see it in my neck a little along my jaw line and also in my cheeks). What the heck is going on here???? I went to my doctor and she sent in req’s for me to have pulmonary lung function tests done and a chest xray. I”ll go this week and have them done and maybe it’ll shed some light as to what is going on with my body.

A: You have fluid on the lungs…….is it possible you may have pulmonary oedema? your symptoms are very spot on.The chest Xray will show whether you have increased fluid in the alveolar walls.