How many medications is too many? Feeling frustrated. Need support
Some background on me: I had my first child 6 years ago, which ended at 31 weeks because of sudden on set preeclampsia with severe features including peripartum cardiomyopathy. Thankfully she’s healthy now and thriving!
Moving forward to today, I’m pregnant with our second and was doing extremely well until about a month ago. My heart is completely fine but my blood pressure and labs are all trending towards preeclampsia again. I’ve been in and out of triage for BP and swelling and was admitted last week with BP so high they gave me steroid shots for baby’s lungs. I’m now 34+4 still having increased labs just barely to the threshold and increasing BP numbers. My team added two new meds over the last two weeks, one 3 times a day and the other twice daily on top of what I’ve already been on…so 3 medications total.
I feel like absolute garbage. I feel like I did when I had preeclampsia with my first and I am continuing to be dismissed despite my medical history. The new medications cause major headaches which just adds to everything and honestly makes me anxious because I can’t tell if it’s the medication or preeclampsia causing the headaches. I feel so scared, sad and defeated. At what point is it too much? At what point does my health come into play? I’ve been told over and over to just hang on till 37 weeks for the baby and I agree, I’d love to, but should it be at my detriment? I know the only way I’ll get better is to deliver…shouldn’t the end goal be a healthy mom and baby?