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Hi Group,

I am now 16 weeks and 3 days through my pregnancy and I am feeling just so horrible. The last time I felt so crap was when my MS was pretty bad back in 2002 - 2003. From week 9 of my pregnancy I started with really rough morning sickness and I still have it but it's improved a bit. All the usual remedies didn't work for me, and I tried everything , well almost everything till I realised I was wasting so much money and things are tight that way for me at the moment. At start the BBD was going fine but I've been turned off so many foods from the damn pregnancy hormones that my diet was becoming so limited that I started eating things I don't usually, like some bread and some products that had glutan or milk proteins. I am sticking to the diet as best I can, at least I'm not eating rubbish like junk food etc. Some people have said to me it shouldn't really matter that I'm not so strict on the diet during pregnancy because the pregnancy will

put my MS in remission anyway but I fear now I'm one of those unlucky ones and that my MS may be acting up. The last few weeks my fatigue has just got worse and worse, I'm now at the stage where I have that awful heavy fatigue all day long and wow I've not had that in at least a year and forgotten how bad it was. I know though that pregnancy brings on fatigue especially for the first trimester but after talking to many others on message boards and reading up loads I now think the fatigue I have is not only pregnancy but MS too and I fear it's a sign my MS is acting up. For the last 8 weeks I've been barely able to leave the house with nausea, painful indigestion or fatigue and my fatiuge is now at the stage that even going up the stairs is a big effort at times. This for me is such a change as I've done so well the last year and half and have got great control over my MS.

Now though I'm beginning to get a little frightened by all this. I thought I'd breeze through my pregnancy health wise as I'd been doing so well ..... maybe I'm just unlucky and it's just the pregnancy hormones, but I have my doubts.

I am taking very little supplements compared to what I was taking at the beginning, mainly becasue I find it extremely hard to get them down, anything makes me gag and I noticed after really bad indigestion starting a few weeks ago that my calcium supplements were making my nausea and indigestion worse, so I stopped. Now I'm just taking minimal supplements , the ones that I think are most important and that go down ok, these are daily pregnecare multi-vitmain, Fish Oil, Flax Oil, and B Complex. I find these alone hard enough to get down and as it is I can't afford to take anymore anyway as our budget is very tight now. We have many expenses now to get ready for the baby and also we are trying to sort out at moment whether we could get a mortgage for our own house, but we may end up renting as I don't think we'd be able to get a big enough loan for a house. Tricky situation and rent here is high, as high as a mortgage. Ya I've lots of

things to sort out and I'm trying my best not to stress but I'm finding it very hard. I usually handle my stress pretty good and when I tell myself to cop on it will make my MS worse I usually relax but now with so much responsibility of trying to do everything the right way for my pregnancy and being healthy for my baby and making sure my baby is healthy and we trying to get our own home it's just so much happening.

I have so many emotions too ,damn pregnancy hormones again lol. The last few days I've been getting these darting pains from behind my eyeballs, which I've not got in so long, over a year too and I know it's my optic nerves acting up a bit as this is one of my classic symptoms from the start..I just hope it doesn't get worse....that with my extremely bad fatigue...oh and my bladder has got worse..maybe combination of pregnancy with MS too but god I never thought things would get this hard. As you can imagine all sorts of things are going around my mind..I'm fearing that I'll just get worse and worse and I won't be able to look after my baby when it's born. A lot of weeks back when things were ok I was so much more positive and thinking about it all going ok and that I'll have a natural birth and breastfeed, now I think my plans will have to change radically...but I suppose as time goes on I'll know more.

I know many with MS have perfectly fine pregnancies and feel better than they ever did...I guess I'm unlucky or maybe things will get better...but they've only got worse so far. My fatigue is getting worse by the days and at this stage in pregnancy it should be improving.

Ok I'll stop moaning on now....sorry for the whinge but I'm dying for any good advice. If anyone has any please reply.

xx

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