Hi. I'm 38 wks. pregnant and miserably sick. It started Monday - I have achy ears, sore throat, a productive cough , a nose that is somehow both runny and congested at the same time, and shortness of breath. Since I don't like to take any medicines, I've just been getting lots of rest, keeping Vicks and a heating pad on my chest, and drinking extra fluids to loosen the secretions, and it's been tolerable until now.
NOW my sinuses are acting up and I'm miserable. I have some Sudafed in the medicine cabinet, but since my OB-GYN never gave me the list of safe meds to take during pregnancy, I don't know if I should take it or not. To top it all off, they are out of the office all week moving to another building and all I got was a recording with an emergency number.
I looked it up in my drug guide and it's category B, not contraindicated but it said to use caution. Please, please some of you OB nurses tell me if it's on the safe list. If not, what OTC can I take? Also, my little boy has a nebulizer, but he has Xopenex for it and I know I can't take that. Is it okay to use some sterilized water in it to break up these icky secretions that I can't seem to get up?
Thank you so much to anyone who replies - I really am so miserable I feel like crying!
I Hope you feel better soon. I remember, I developed severe conjuncitivistis right before my scheduled csection. It was BEYOND Miserable, esp in the last few days of pregnancy. UGH.
Thank you all for commiserating with me. I'm scheduled for C/S Thursday. I just hope I'm over this mess by then. I certainly don't want a hacking cough to go along with my abdominal incision!
rn2be_joni, as you can see, I'm awake at 2:42 a.m., so it looks like I might be one of those jittery types too. Or maybe it's b/c I slept for awhile today... or the inability to find a comfy position... the heartburn... or the nocturia.
Well, I'm off to research tubal ligation... :rotfl:
nurse_wannabe
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Thank you all for commiserating with me. I'm scheduled for C/S Thursday. I just hope I'm over this mess by then. I certainly don't want a hacking cough to go along with my abdominal incision!
rn2be_joni, as you can see, I'm awake at 2:42 a.m., so it looks like I might be one of those jittery types too. Or maybe it's b/c I slept for awhile today... or the inability to find a comfy position... the heartburn... or the nocturia.
Well, I'm off to research tubal ligation... :rotfl: