Dear Archie,

I have not had a very good week, my blood pressure has suddenly shot up, feeling sick, having tension in the middle of my head, feeling faint and very tired, my bp has gone as high as 180/115 and the bottom figure was constantly over 100 even though I am on the maximum dose of methyldopa and taking one baby asprin. I went to hospital yesterday as they wanted to check whether i was having just hypertension or was it Preeclampsia, they check my urine and found no protein and took some blood to check whether my organs are functioning as they should, I have not heard anything about my blood report as yet. They also did my bp monitoring in hospital 1st reading was 180/111 and second was 170/99. They did a 20min CTG baby was fine moving about and hb was perfect. They said to me it looks like the onset of Preeclampsia which is very scary for me as im only 31wks pregnant. My consultant decided on putting me on another medication on top of what I am already taking which is labetalol i am taking the minimum dose 100 2times a day. I have read about this drug and it states that it may affect the baby, I know i will have to take this medication otherwise my bp is going through the roof but im very scared i dont want to harm the baby.

I also have to say resting in bed or sitting doesnt help me, everytime my bp is high i go for a 20/30min walk and some how the bp reduces considerably this is what I keep doing now, it is very hard for me to do this as in London its freezing and raining alot but I know I have to.

Do you have any advise for me, I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you

B ash replied. B, hope everythings under control by now.

take care

Ash archie replied. try to relax as much and do not think about issues those bother you a lot.

you will be asked to take frequent trips to OBs office to get to see fetal heart rate and that will assure all is well with baby.

Take only when required.

Put in layers and walk as it seems working and not a concern at all.

you are 31 weeks and you should not be that worried. Worse can happen is baby will be delivered ahead of time.

without protein in urine and without swelling does not seem to be pre-eclapsia either. Sure you are a hypertension case and would be alright in time.

Try to keep in perspective to complete a few more weeks.

Babies after 28 weeks are born although preterm they do good.

Archie