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[erbie]

Argh! Ophthalmic migraine! I never had a single migraine when I was pregnanct with Bob, but now I have an ophthalmic one, and I can feel the vise tightening on my head in preparation for all out migraine. And I can't tell if the nausea is just from the regular pregnancy nausea, or from the impending migraine. Please excuse any typos. I am just now

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[erbie]

According to both my OB with Bob and this one, up to three cups of coffee or the equivalent are fine. I generally have an iced tea at lunch during the week, and I tend not to have any on the weekends. It has recently occurred to me that the headaches I've been getting in the afternoons on the weekends are caffeine related.

Interesting theory on caffeine and early pregnancy. I do have a coffee aversion, but more to do with the milk I always put into coffee than the actual coffee. I have no problem with iced tea, and in fact, it's preferable to water even. I'd refer to drink only that, but it's too much caffeine and it would dehyrate me.

Water has to be distilled and not too cold, not too room temp. Like cold water left out for about 15 minutes. Unless it's not distilled, then it has to be ice cold. Pretty much any other drinks, I'm just not interested. Funny that I don't much want hot tea either. I haven't been able to stand the thought of my favorite peach-passion fruit tea.

And llnaughty thought I was picky before pregnancy! Heh.

Migraine seems not to have developed, though I'm still a little light and noise-sensitive and not entirely pain-free. But at least I'm not in a darkened room, writhing in pain. I took some tylenol, which never touched my migraines before, and I had a glass of iced tea, and I seem to be mostly okay.

[lietya]

I'm glad the migraine doesn't seem to have completely kicked in! That's good news, at least.

Interesting preferences you've developed - it could be worse, I guess, but I can see how it's a bit complicated to make sure you get enough water AND caffeine in your system these days. (And it's a shame about the hot tea.)

[erbie]

Yeah, I have a really hard itme staying hydrated in the morning. And I can tell when I'm not, because it hurts in various places. I try to rink a full glass of water before I leave the house and then I keep a case of water in the car so I can drink some on the way to work. If I can get it in me, I'm okay. But I've also been having trouble drinking more than a sip at a time, as it makes me nauseous. Fun!