I had an OB appointment yesterday - just a checkup. All is fine, heard the baby's heart beat, and have gained an horrific 8lb since my last visit at Christmas! I expressed this horror to the OB but she actually said that as I hadn't gained anything in the first 13 weeks she would be worried if I hadn't gained any now, and that 8lb was perfect...... so she's not worried. But I do feel enormous!! I need to stop eating so much crap. I asked her about the 'thick placenta' thing that the Perinatologist had mentioned and she said that in and of itself it is nothing, esp. as all the blood work and everything looks good. Just ignore it. They also took an armful of blood while I was there to do the AFP screening.
Then I had to go back to the custom pharmacy where I got the cream for my itchy arm. Basically it had made my arm 100x worse, drying out the skin and aggravating the itch to the point where I've wanted to chop my arm off over the last few days. I've had to slather the whole arm in Vaseline and Aquaphor to try to get some moisture back into it. I called the Neurologist office and they sent another prescription over to the Pharmacy so I had to go and pick it up. The pharmacist was interested in what he'd made for me and told me that he'd changed the base cream and that this new one would be better. The new one has Diclofenac, Dextromethorpan, and something else. It's bright yellow and thick goo. I put it on last night and my arm itched worse so it's not looking promising :(
Posted by katie at January 24, 2007 11:56 AM