ITCHY feet
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Topic: ITCHY feet
Posted By: kellverona
Subject: ITCHY feet
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 4:29pm
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Does anyone else, after standing in the one spot get itchy feet and ankles?? When Im doing the dishes, standing in the shower or jsut making a coffee I get really tingly, itchy, burning feet and ankles. Wonder what it may be?? IT gets unbearable. ------------- http://pregnancyplanet.net/tickers/"> 
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 4:33pm
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Lol, how interesting. I've had this a lot too and just wrote it off. I wonder if it could be a pregnancy thing after all? I get it a lot in bed, its really annoying! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 9:39pm
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check with your midwife.. don't want to scare you but that's one of the signs my sis had when she got pre-eclampsia... not much swelling just really itchy tingly feet. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 10:45pm
I have puffy feet and get tingles and itchies for me its the heat coz thats when they mainly swell really bad 
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Posted By: mrs frantic
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 9:13am
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I get itchy hands - is that the same? ------------- Mrs Frantic Baby Maddisyn born 28 Sept 2006 http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 1:40pm
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Yeah, high (?) blood pressure causes swelling and itchy hands and feet. For the feet, have a sit down with your legs up as high as you can manage with a giant belly to contend with. And for hands.... hrmmm... walk round looking like and idiot with your hands in the air?!?
But yeah, Janine is right too, it's a sign of pre-eclampsia. Here are other symptoms to look out for - severe headaches, - vision problems such as blurring or seeing flashing lights before the eyes, - pain in the upper abdomen, - vomiting, and - sudden swelling of feet, ankles, face and hands and excessive weight gain because of fluid retention. The pee on a stick tests the midwives do each visit shows up protein when pre-eclampsia is setting in. But don't worry about it too much as all the symptoms are also pregnancy generally. Maybe mention it to your midwife when you next talk to her (if you only have one of the symptoms). |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 2:03pm
| ok with the flashing lights are they like the ones that light up and shoot across ur vision? I have been having them lately and had a bout about 15 mins ago... |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 5:07pm
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I get the flashing lights/visual disturbance thing too. Mine is cos of low blood pressure! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 8:08pm
Well, if mw has check proteins lately and they are fine then the visual disturbances could be entirely unrelated. Just to make it easy! 
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Posted By: kellverona
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 2:13pm
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yeah I rang midwife and she said All normal "as usual" Ive been going dizzy too. She said its ok. Told me to go get blood pressure checked if Im worried but she was not concerned. ------------- http://pregnancyplanet.net/tickers/">
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 2:53pm
| i told my midwife and she checked my blood pressure and it was up higher than last week so she sent me for bloods etc |