Those diagnosed with pre-eclampsia..

[HappiestMom]

what week were you and what were your BP numbers before your Dr diagnosed you or the ones that caused your Dr to diagnose you? do you have an induction date scheduled or what did your Dr tell you/plan of action?

I have a digital cuff at home and Ive checked it a few times in the last days and its been in the 130s/90s ...sometimes high 90s...its normally in the 110s or 120s over 70s or 80s....

I have my 36 week appt tuesday and am going to bring it up...just hoping they give me a week or so to check and make sure as we dont have anything ready for her yet..would love for her to be here early..specially as long as shes healthy and itd be better for her if I am diagnosed...but just need one week to get everything here lol..

 

[SuperKat]

I'd actually be surprised if their first course of action was to talk about induction this soon if you aren't already on bed rest. I've had it with two of my pregnancies. My first i was put on strict bed rest at 20 weeks, my numbers started off low, but then at 20 weeks jumped up to the 140/90 range and i had several other symptoms. I followed the bedrest, and the ended up inducing me the day before my due date because I started passing uric acid in my urine, and my leg swelled up. With my third pregnancy I was place on bed rest 8 weeks before my due date, My numbers went up like they did the first time, and they said that if the best rest didn't keep them down, then they wanted to talk about doing a repeat c-section at 36-37 weeks. I followed the bed rest to a T, and was able to make it to my scheduled c-section date (which was a couple of days shy of 39 weeks).

I have been checking my blood pressure regularly with this one and when it starts to seem like it is getting high, I am doing the same things that I did when i had it two previous times- and so far so good!!! I have my fingers crossed that things continue as they are.

(oh, I should mention that my normal blood pressure is actual hypotension- around the 80/50-60 range, so when it shoots up to 140/90, that is a big leap for me)

 

[you&me]

Hi, I have had PET twice...and our doctors here in the UK will NOT diagnose pre-eclampsia on high blood pressure alone...pre-eclampsia is a number of symptoms all adding up together to get to that diagnosis...if you have high blood pressure alone you would be suffering with pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH), which there is no need to act by inducing early for unless it proceeds into pre-eclampsia, protein in urine, great weight gain, swelling to hands, face and feet, rib pain, frontal headaches and visual disturbances.

PIH alone can be controlled with medication which will enable your blood pressure to be stable whilst baby carries on baking

I am not sure if it all works differently in the USA, I know they are not so strict on early inducing as our doctors are here.

 

[you&me]

Forgot to say...it is the bottom number that they are concerned with, and allow a change of about 10...so if the bottom number for you normally is 80, then at 90 it should be looked at...but those electronic cuffs don't generally give correct readings, hence they check BP manually at the doctors surgery/hospital.

Hope everything works out okay.