That's Just Awful
So my doc said that because of my slight anemia I needed to take extra iron in addition to the prenatal vitamins - not so much for the baby but for my own health. I've done that in the past when the doctor mentioned it, so I stopped to buy some on the way home from work last night. I took one of the tablets with dinner and then suffered the rest of the night. It kept me up most of the night and I'm still suffering this morning - nausea that will not quit and this is not the normal queasiness of my morning sickness. Eating hasn't helped.
I am resolved that I will not take another one of those tablets until I'm done with the morning sickness. If I get the same result at that point then I'll have to live with anemia. This is completely unbearable.
I am resolved that I will not take another one of those tablets until I'm done with the morning sickness. If I get the same result at that point then I'll have to live with anemia. This is completely unbearable.
posted by Jen at 9:49 AM
13 Comments:
Maybe if you just eat lots of leafy dark greens, to supplement your iron requirement?
I've already increased my intake of beef and other red meats (I used to abstain). That's why I'm only slightly anemic these days. I'll just have to do something else to get that iron.
Blood sausage, anyone? Okay, seriously, eat lots of spinach if you can stomach that (and if you add a little bacon, it's all good :-).
Bacon is always good. Blood sausage, not so much. *gack*
I hope you get over the nausea soon. I think that's only a first trimester thing. For me it was incredible fatigue, the butt-draggin'-the-floor kind until the four month mark at which point I perked up and ate anything and everything, three helpings. I had only two babies, now grown. Looking back, I wish we'd had the income for at least 6. (seriously).
I'm looking forward to the day when I can eat anything and everything (again).
Just hope the morning sickness doesn't last most of the pregnancy! It can.
Are you sure the iron pill was the proximate cause in this case, and not the dinner? You may find that your diet changes dramatically, just to be able to eat *something* at all, and that when and with what or how much food you take the vitamins will matter.
Oh, and each pregnancy will be different. Yay.
I felt fine until I took that iron pill - within an hour I started feeling queasy like never before. So I will abstain from that until the morning sickness is over. I'm taking the prenatal vitamins, so at least I'm getting some extra iron.
Get a steel nail. Anything will do but bigger is better and it has to be ungalvanized. Now sterilize it as much as you want. Once you are content it's clean, shove it into a fresh apple all the way and wait a while. The apple will leach out iron from the nail naturally. Remove the nail, eat the apple, use the nail in another apple. Eventually you'll need to replace the nail, but by then your anemia will be all better. The iron will be mostly near where the hole from the nail is left, so don't pare that away. If you push the nail through just the flesh and not the core, you get more iron faster.
Probably need to define "wait a while." "A while" is overnight. Place the nail in the evening, put the apple in the fridge overnight, eat it in the morning. You can start another apple then and have it when you get home from work and start another for the next morning.
At least Dad didn't tell you to "eat nails." I read in my nutritional healing book last night that a tablespoon of blackstrap molasses every day is best. Ugh, that sounds nauseating even to me, but maybe it's better than the supplements you tried. And better than being exhausted for lack of oxygen in your blood. You should talk to your doctor about alternative supplements too. You really shouldn't have to live with anemia. Not good.
I do pray that you find some relief from the morning sickness and anemia soon!!
I've long dealt with anemia, so that's nothing new. And I'll try to add the iron back in after my morning sickness is over. Right now I'm more focused on not throwing up all day.
Dad, I might try the nail thing. I ate an apple on the way in to work this morning. Well, I ate about 1/3 of an apple before I started to feel sick anyway.
Hi...I came across this site while doing reseach for a school project and read your post about the iron pill and how you suffered all night from it, and I think I know why this has happened. I am creating a webpage for my assignemtn and I will post the URL here when I am finished, I think you will be very interested in reading up about why you experience morning sickness, and although it seemed awful, we are lucky we have it, it helps protect babies against toxins. The stage where you have morning sickness is the stage that the fetus is the most vulnerable because it is developing. When you took the iron pill your body was rejecting it to keep from harming your baby. I will post my url link here in a few days, it might really interest you!!!
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