Preclampsia question. and headache ?

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With my son i started to develop preclampsia late in pregnancy. I was wondering if you had preclampsia the first time around.. will you have it with every following pregnancy??


Also.. With my son i was induced.. i ended up getting an epidural. When i left the hospital after being there for three days... maybe 2 or 3 days at home.. one nite i got an excruciating headache. I swear on everything i would rather indure labor and deliver natural 100000000 times over before ever having that headache again. I really thought i was going to die. I never did call the dr about it.. as husband was home an assured me i was fine. But i was in tears because of this headache ect. I have no idea what caused it .. but it had kind of scared me out of wanting another baby. I mean i want another baby badly.. but am terrified i will again get this headache. Anyone else get a headache like this ?? =( What was it.. or any ideas what it was?

Sorry for the long post.
If you made it this far i really appreciate it. :flower:
 
Hey didn't want to read and run, I have a friend who had preclampsia on both her pregnancy's :/ but she has only one functioning kidney and the doctors put it down to that, they monitored her alot more on her 2nd preg because of the preclampsia on the first....I also know another girl who had it on her first she is about 38wks preg again now and she is completely fine atm, so guess it can go either way, perhaps aak your docs if he advises anything, it's awful and traumatic thing as I learnt with the first friend I mentioned coz her and the baby nearly died on her 1st preg :( very scary :( xxxx
 
It's a migraine caused by high blood pressure. People with hypertension report migraines like this and in people who have sudden onset of migraines, often the first test a doctor will do is test for high blood pressure.

Pre-eclampsia has no known cause or cure other than to deliver the baby. While every pregnancy is different and it is not a sure fire thing that you will develop it again, you are at a greater risk this time round. However, you will be closely monitored this time around with almost weekly midwife appointments from as early as 22 weeks and you will probably be induced as early as possible even if you do not show signs of pre-eclampsia by 36weeks. eta although mild late term pre eclampsia is less likely to reoccur than full blown pre eclampsia. I'm not sure which you had but most people have mild late term and the incidence of reoccurence is like 5%-10% or something.
 
With my son i started to develop preclampsia late in pregnancy. I was wondering if you had preclampsia the first time around.. will you have it with every following pregnancy??


Also.. With my son i was induced.. i ended up getting an epidural. When i left the hospital after being there for three days... maybe 2 or 3 days at home.. one nite i got an excruciating headache. I swear on everything i would rather indure labor and deliver natural 100000000 times over before ever having that headache again. I really thought i was going to die. I never did call the dr about it.. as husband was home an assured me i was fine. But i was in tears because of this headache ect. I have no idea what caused it .. but it had kind of scared me out of wanting another baby. I mean i want another baby badly.. but am terrified i will again get this headache. Anyone else get a headache like this ?? =( What was it.. or any ideas what it was?

Sorry for the long post.
If you made it this far i really appreciate it. :flower:
i had pre eclampsia with first daughter,i too had the bad headache, i have gone on to have 2 more children one 20years after the others,even with age against me no further signs of pre eclampsia at all. it is mostly caused by doin far too much whilst preg just take it easier and should be fine x:hugs:
 
With my son i started to develop preclampsia late in pregnancy. I was wondering if you had preclampsia the first time around.. will you have it with every following pregnancy??


Also.. With my son i was induced.. i ended up getting an epidural. When i left the hospital after being there for three days... maybe 2 or 3 days at home.. one nite i got an excruciating headache. I swear on everything i would rather indure labor and deliver natural 100000000 times over before ever having that headache again. I really thought i was going to die. I never did call the dr about it.. as husband was home an assured me i was fine. But i was in tears because of this headache ect. I have no idea what caused it .. but it had kind of scared me out of wanting another baby. I mean i want another baby badly.. but am terrified i will again get this headache. Anyone else get a headache like this ?? =( What was it.. or any ideas what it was?

Sorry for the long post.
If you made it this far i really appreciate it. :flower:
i had pre eclampsia with first daughter,i too had the bad headache, i have gone on to have 2 more children one 20years after the others,even with age against me no further signs of pre eclampsia at all. it is mostly caused by doin far too much whilst preg just take it easier and should be fine x:hugs:

Sorry, but this is absolutely inaccurate. Preeclampsia is not caused by doing far too much. Docs will tell women with this issue to be on bedrest, but that isn't going to cure it or keep it from happening.
 

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