My wife is expecting with our first child, and is at week 23. She got pregnant mid September and by the end of October had started to experience negative symptoms. Symptoms that started one month in and have been bothering her for her entire term so far are 1) shortness of breath and a persistent dry cough, 2) tachycardia, usually above 95 bpm resting, measured as high as 140 while doing light walking, 3) exhaustion and 4) gas. She also had nausea throughout her entire first trimester, at all times of the day, for which she took Zofran (Ondansetron). Nausea was her first symptom and started early October but had gone away by Christmas.
At this point, her shortness of breath and dry cough bother her the most. OBGYN and ER doctors can't explain it or the tachycardia. She's tried an antibiotic for pneumonia, emergency inhalers, nasal sprays, allergy OTC pills, nothing helps. Her breathing difficulty keeps getting worse, and she has some brief periods where she struggles to breathe. She never had breathing trouble before she was 1 month pregnant.
She saw a throat doctor last week who thought her breathing difficulty was caused by progesterone. Early in her term, I got her to take 5 drops of Progest-E twice daily sublingually for five weeks, from her fourth week pregnant to her nineth week. This was before she developed breathing problems and was only to try to help her nausea. At the time, she disliked the taste and said it made her feel worse. She found web articles that said progesterone won't help past the tenth week, so she stopped. I wanted to continue progesterone for the entire term, but it was obviously not helping her nausea alone and the only thing that brought relief was Zofran.
She says I poisoned her with Progest-E and partially blames her breathing difficulty on that, as the problem developed while taking Progest-E, and the throat doctor wanted to blame it too. I don't buy it. I think it's caused by elevated estrogen and other pregnancy-induced metabolic burdens, including elevated endotoxin and serotonin from recently increased digestive issues. I don't think she even took enough Progest-E to make a difference, especially compared to how much she gets from being pregnant now.
She's agreed to continue taking GNC Pre-Natal Multi No-Iron, Unique E capsules, calcium carbonate 600mg, and gelatin capsules daily. She'll also take raw carrots. She won't take fat soluble vitamins other than E or eat liver.
Her diet is mostly stews with turkey or pork, sweet potatoes and carrots, rice or peas or lentils. Also cereal and fruit smoothies which are her only sources of milk. Also eggs and variety of cheese. Earlier in her term she ate mostly sandwiches with sliced meat and cheese. I don't approve of any starch, but for the one week I got her to give up starch it didn't seem to reduce the gas that started since getting pregnant.
I'm wondering if anyone has more info about breathing difficulties in pregnancy, physiological causes and solutions? If it is estrogen, what are the best ways to combat estrogen during pregnancy?
At this point, her shortness of breath and dry cough bother her the most. OBGYN and ER doctors can't explain it or the tachycardia. She's tried an antibiotic for pneumonia, emergency inhalers, nasal sprays, allergy OTC pills, nothing helps. Her breathing difficulty keeps getting worse, and she has some brief periods where she struggles to breathe. She never had breathing trouble before she was 1 month pregnant.
She saw a throat doctor last week who thought her breathing difficulty was caused by progesterone. Early in her term, I got her to take 5 drops of Progest-E twice daily sublingually for five weeks, from her fourth week pregnant to her nineth week. This was before she developed breathing problems and was only to try to help her nausea. At the time, she disliked the taste and said it made her feel worse. She found web articles that said progesterone won't help past the tenth week, so she stopped. I wanted to continue progesterone for the entire term, but it was obviously not helping her nausea alone and the only thing that brought relief was Zofran.
She says I poisoned her with Progest-E and partially blames her breathing difficulty on that, as the problem developed while taking Progest-E, and the throat doctor wanted to blame it too. I don't buy it. I think it's caused by elevated estrogen and other pregnancy-induced metabolic burdens, including elevated endotoxin and serotonin from recently increased digestive issues. I don't think she even took enough Progest-E to make a difference, especially compared to how much she gets from being pregnant now.
She's agreed to continue taking GNC Pre-Natal Multi No-Iron, Unique E capsules, calcium carbonate 600mg, and gelatin capsules daily. She'll also take raw carrots. She won't take fat soluble vitamins other than E or eat liver.
Her diet is mostly stews with turkey or pork, sweet potatoes and carrots, rice or peas or lentils. Also cereal and fruit smoothies which are her only sources of milk. Also eggs and variety of cheese. Earlier in her term she ate mostly sandwiches with sliced meat and cheese. I don't approve of any starch, but for the one week I got her to give up starch it didn't seem to reduce the gas that started since getting pregnant.
I'm wondering if anyone has more info about breathing difficulties in pregnancy, physiological causes and solutions? If it is estrogen, what are the best ways to combat estrogen during pregnancy?