Puppps Arsenal
So, I have this Puppps thing.
Its red itchy bumps on my arms, legs and belly.
It is firey and constant.
Night time is the worst because I am making more contact with fabric and thats when it starts to "crawl".
Any little pill or rough spot on the fabric is irritating. I have spent each night crying and scratching and giving myself contractions from being so tense.
I went to Dr. and he wrote a script for prednisone.
I didn't wanna take it, but he reminded me that it was safer than delivering a pre-term baby.
I then did research on line and found some natural things to try courtesy of many personal websites on Puppps and a Yahoo group of fellow itchy preggy Puppians.
This is what I will take now.
1. 500 mg of Flax Seed oil 2 x a day
2. 550 mg of dandelion root 2 x a day
3. yogurt
4. a bar of Puppps remedy soap made by Rainier soapworks available online for $3.50 and made with natural ingrediants.
5. Drinking only water with fresh lemon
6. Drinking natural cherry juice with no sugar added (dang this stuff is expensive)
7. no more sugars or caffeine
I have read the Puppps could be linked to difficulty in the digestion of uric acid. The natural things above aid in this.
I will update on how this goes.
When i was given the prednisone i took several the first day and will wean myself down to the last pill in 2 days. It was much better yesterday, but now that i am weaning, it is coming back. :(
I pray this natural deal will work as I will not refill anymore steroid scripts. I just don't feel right about it.
SO along with the regular aches and pains from 3rd trimester pregnancy I will have to muddle through a world of sanity-busting itchiness and red 2nd degree burn-looking ugliness. No delivery room pictures this route around.
Can you say friggen "TUBAL-LIGATION!???"
PS a rather heart-breaking aspect...i may not be able to breastfeed because many womens puppps continue if they breastfeed. I know that between the exhaustion a baby brings and a big chance that i may have PPD again that the added puppps will seriously affect me and I cannot do that to Mr. Babyman or DH or Noah. :****( I'm worried it'll affect my milk supply.
Also, the bumps spread to that area, and given the fact that for me, BFing is not comfortable..can you imagine BFing with Puppps? I don't wanna think on it.
Again..it wasn't supposed to be this way. I feel robbed. I feel like my baby will be robbed.
It sucks not being Superwoman.
Its red itchy bumps on my arms, legs and belly.
It is firey and constant.
Night time is the worst because I am making more contact with fabric and thats when it starts to "crawl".
Any little pill or rough spot on the fabric is irritating. I have spent each night crying and scratching and giving myself contractions from being so tense.
I went to Dr. and he wrote a script for prednisone.
I didn't wanna take it, but he reminded me that it was safer than delivering a pre-term baby.
I then did research on line and found some natural things to try courtesy of many personal websites on Puppps and a Yahoo group of fellow itchy preggy Puppians.
This is what I will take now.
1. 500 mg of Flax Seed oil 2 x a day
2. 550 mg of dandelion root 2 x a day
3. yogurt
4. a bar of Puppps remedy soap made by Rainier soapworks available online for $3.50 and made with natural ingrediants.
5. Drinking only water with fresh lemon
6. Drinking natural cherry juice with no sugar added (dang this stuff is expensive)
7. no more sugars or caffeine
I have read the Puppps could be linked to difficulty in the digestion of uric acid. The natural things above aid in this.
I will update on how this goes.
When i was given the prednisone i took several the first day and will wean myself down to the last pill in 2 days. It was much better yesterday, but now that i am weaning, it is coming back. :(
I pray this natural deal will work as I will not refill anymore steroid scripts. I just don't feel right about it.
SO along with the regular aches and pains from 3rd trimester pregnancy I will have to muddle through a world of sanity-busting itchiness and red 2nd degree burn-looking ugliness. No delivery room pictures this route around.
Can you say friggen "TUBAL-LIGATION!???"
PS a rather heart-breaking aspect...i may not be able to breastfeed because many womens puppps continue if they breastfeed. I know that between the exhaustion a baby brings and a big chance that i may have PPD again that the added puppps will seriously affect me and I cannot do that to Mr. Babyman or DH or Noah. :****( I'm worried it'll affect my milk supply.
Also, the bumps spread to that area, and given the fact that for me, BFing is not comfortable..can you imagine BFing with Puppps? I don't wanna think on it.
Again..it wasn't supposed to be this way. I feel robbed. I feel like my baby will be robbed.
It sucks not being Superwoman.