What a fun day
Last weekend we were out and I suddenly got blurry vision to the point where I couldn't read anything and was dizzy and had bright spots in front of my eyes. Usually for me this is the first sign of a migraine, so I had some caffeine, then we got home, but not for a couple of hours later (we were in San Francisco and had to drop a friend at the airport). I never got the migraine, but did get a bit of a headache.
Today I had it again - vision went, got dizzy and a headache started coming on. So I called labor and delivery to check if it was anything worth worrying about, and they said to come in to get checked out.
So I went in and they were fantastic - I went straight into a private room and we had lovely lovely people looking after me. They monitored the baby and my blood pressure, and took urine samples and took blood to get checked and checked with neurology to see if they were worried about it being brain related.
Apparently their main concern was preeclampsia as vision problems is one of the symptoms of it. My blood pressure was fine though, and my urine samples were fine, and the bloodwork took forever to come back, but that was fine as well, so I got released again.
Overall though, it was good - they brought me a tray of food which was half decent, the doctor and nurses were fabulous, we could watch tv, they checked on me regularly, and we got to peek in the L & D recovery rooms which seemed quite nice.
So they have no idea what's causing the blurry vision, but said to get my eyes checked just in case it's a vision thing, but it's probably pregnancy related and migrainey, but manifesting differently to how my migraines normally would.
Fun way to spend an afternoon
Last weekend we were out and I suddenly got blurry vision to the point where I couldn't read anything and was dizzy and had bright spots in front of my eyes. Usually for me this is the first sign of a migraine, so I had some caffeine, then we got home, but not for a couple of hours later (we were in San Francisco and had to drop a friend at the airport). I never got the migraine, but did get a bit of a headache.
Today I had it again - vision went, got dizzy and a headache started coming on. So I called labor and delivery to check if it was anything worth worrying about, and they said to come in to get checked out.
So I went in and they were fantastic - I went straight into a private room and we had lovely lovely people looking after me. They monitored the baby and my blood pressure, and took urine samples and took blood to get checked and checked with neurology to see if they were worried about it being brain related.
Apparently their main concern was preeclampsia as vision problems is one of the symptoms of it. My blood pressure was fine though, and my urine samples were fine, and the bloodwork took forever to come back, but that was fine as well, so I got released again.
Overall though, it was good - they brought me a tray of food which was half decent, the doctor and nurses were fabulous, we could watch tv, they checked on me regularly, and we got to peek in the L & D recovery rooms which seemed quite nice.
So they have no idea what's causing the blurry vision, but said to get my eyes checked just in case it's a vision thing, but it's probably pregnancy related and migrainey, but manifesting differently to how my migraines normally would.
Fun way to spend an afternoon