Post partum preeclampsia?

🙋🏽‍♀️ I was readmitted 6 days pp with postpartum preeclampsia. My BP was 175/122. I got my BP medication adjusted & stayed over night for observation, I never developed any other symptoms besides BP so I didn’t get put back on mag. I had a C-section at 38weeks & was on a mag drip for 4 1/2 days

I hope you found help & are doing better 🫶🏽

I had a meeting the other day with deputy head of midwifery and lead obstetric consultant and they both agreed I should never have been discharged I was home for 2 days back in hospital for 4-5 they delivered me later than they should have and the SHO who told me PP preeclampsia doesn’t exist and that you’re cured soon as the placenta is out shouldn’t have said that xx you still have preeclampsia for a few days/ weeks after it’s all still settling! Xx

I had a cat 1 emergency c-section at 35+6 weeks after my BP reached 210/200 and I was seizing but guess what the doctors can’t agree on if I had seizures or not my family know and say I did and so do a few doctors xx

That is so scary. Way to be a bad ass & continue to advocate after. 🫶🏽 how are you feeling now? I am 7 months pp & still on medication but am finally feeling better.

@Tanea my GP took me off my BP meds too soon and now new GP won’t see me to test my BP unless I don’t have a migraine defeats the purpose seeing my BP triggers migraines 🫠 I discussed this at a meeting I had not too long ago and the consultant and deputy head midwife agreed I need to go back! Xx it’s not been the smoothest recovery I ended up with a DVT AND PE! I stopped my blood thinners injections after only 3 weeks and yet developed those way too quick for after stopping the injections! Xx I hope your recovery hasn’t been too bad! Xx ❤️‍🩹

❤️‍🩹 I hope your recovery improves & you are given the appropriate care & recourses to recover. BP stuff is crazy, I am so sorry! I got my meds adjusted again (I also got told to stop taking my meds too early by my obgyn) by my GP 5 month pp, it made a judge difference. Keep pushing to get the care you need, you know your body. I am so sorry you have to fight for proper care !!

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I had PP preeclampsia! I had to be on medication for 6 weeks. I’m sorry doctors aren’t taking you seriously :/ hopefully you can find someone who believes you and respects you as a professional

@Elizabeth 🩵 i had my baby boy 2 weeks ago and have pp preeclampsia. Do things usually go back to normal after 6 weeks?? I'm ready to feel like myself again. Im on labetolol 1200mg a day and still having migraines.

UPDATE: after weeks and weeks of finding a doctor to listen and not just say lose weight Had an ECG yesterday and was told that a doctor from my practice will call at some point to discuss it well before 9 am I had a missed call voice message and another call to say I had a FACE TO FACE (iykyk) long story short referred for 24hr heart monitoring and to keep an eye on my BP if my average after 2 weeks is 135/80+ then I’ll need meds currently my average is 135/85 and that’s 3 days monitoring with 148/124 and 145/115 readings xx

I would sue. Pp preeclampsia is very real and very deadly! I had it 6 days pp and had to be readmitted. I had to take procardia for 4 weeks and still have to monitor myself.

@Lily honestly considering it! My GP took me off my meds without weaning and without further monitoring I’m currently 6m PP and possibly this week back on BP meds! I had preeclampsia and eclampsia before baby was born my BP was 210/200 and day before that I was denied a scan apparently it wouldn’t have shown distress in the baby but surely it would have shown poor placenta function! Xx I’ve since had a meeting with lead obstetric consultant and director of women’s health of my hospital and it was useless! Xx

I don't know if this will help any ladies but I had PP preeclampsia with my son 2.5 years ago. I was induced at 37 weeks and was monitored constantly for high BP. I have always had high platelet count but never knew why and then skyrocketed after giving birth. My blood pressure wasn't going down and was readmitted a week later after giving birth for magnesium drip. I bought a blood pressure cuff and was put on labetolol but no matter how much I took, my blood pressure was high and I always felt lousy. Finally I went to an amazing NP that felt like I had symptoms of Anemia and low iron. She referred me to a hematologist which was a few months out so I started taking iron religiously until then and I kid you not my blood pressure went back to normal and I felt so much better!! I was eventually seen by the hematologist who ran test and agreed I was anemic but wasn't monitored properly during pregnancy and was the reason for my high platelets.

I'm not a doctor or a scientist, but everything in the body is connected and I feel there might be a correlation in some women between Anemia and preeclampsia. Ether exasperating symptoms or possibly causing them altogether maybe? In my case taking iron solved my problem and now my BP is usually 120/80 which I think I'd fairly decent.