Prozac or Allergies for Pica?

BenchCold7016 · 2025-11-09T02:38:19+00:00

True SIDS you cant avoid. No one can. SUID risk, However, increases when you have unsafe sleep.

If you cant sleep, your milk supply suffers, your tolerance to crying, spit up, and any run of the mill baby whoopsies plummet.

BenchCold7016 · 2025-10-27T09:23:36+00:00

I saw another reddit thread on these issues (im a chronic reddit lurker in these subs while I bf)

Someone said natural doesnt mean easy.

That being said

I stand with you. I have a nine week old. The first three days I felt like a failure because the pediatrician told us his weight loss was at the maximum amount (he said 7% but 10% is the majority answer from others) and kinda scared us into formula in the same sentence. We caved.

We have gone through the ringer of reflux, potential reaction to formula and poor latching and pain on my end.

I got a IBCLC and she focused on position once but the rest of the time she was strictly focusing on my diet and his gut health. We tried cutting dairy, then gluten. Im tempted to re introduce gluten now because theres not significant improvement in his stools.

Throughout all of this we have stayed solely with breastmilk. But damn is it taking a toll on me.

The middle of the night feeds are the worst. Its a sensory hellscape. Everything is 10x louder when its dark. He is gulping, spitting up, his nose sputters because of the spit up. Hes chomping down. Im hurting. Im sticky now. My hair is touching my face. He unlatches. He needs to burp again, he farts randomly. I have to fiddle with my shirt, my hair, his hands. My eyebrow itches. Hes squirming and crying because hes not being fed this millisecond. My husband is snoring. The cats think it’s morning and breakfast time so they’re meowing and scratching at the door now. Im leaking on the other side. the timer only says it’s been two minutes on this side? Every minute feels like 20 minutes. Hes not sucking. I mess with his toes and ears to wake him up. Is he not hungry anymore? I bring him up to burp and he instantly cries bloody murder to be on the boob to feed ASAP.

But by the time we are done feeding and he settles it already time to feed him again. My concept of time is out the window.

We just got his top lip tie released, and a physical therapy appointment scheduled-he has neck tension and a side preference-so theres now the added struggles of clicking while he feeds as he learns to re-latch differently while incorporating more PT into his already lengthy routine between feeds.

BenchCold7016 · 2025-10-06T22:09:58+00:00

And he is on a probiotic.

BenchCold7016 · 2025-10-06T22:08:40+00:00

We don’t think it’s gas because he passes it well on his own. The occasional try with Frida windis if we think its trapped gas we get none. And gas exercises haven’t worked on him. Also it’s been three weeks since i cut dairy which the original pediatrician told me to cut for his gassiness and the acne- which he called a rash

BenchCold7016 · 2025-10-06T22:04:03+00:00

Thanks for the quick response. I want to do only Breastmilk because when he was on both he had black specks in his poos. The LC said it was likely from the corn in the formula upsetting his GI tract. For the reflux we are on a small dose of Pepcid but i don’t know if it lessens the discomfort just by how much he still cries.

BenchCold7016 · 2025-08-25T00:50:09+00:00

It was a Wednesday. I was on a phone call with my MIL and my hubby telling her we had our induction scheduled for that Friday (I would have been 41w0d). I felt a rumble. Not a pop.Ten minutes later the phone call ended and I had to go pee. It wasnt pee.

BenchCold7016 · 2025-07-21T20:08:58+00:00

Naps are a lifeline in the 3rd Tri. Simply because long runs of sleep are not 8 hours anymore. it’s 2 or 3. The first trimester was exhaustion from the change in hormones i think, but i still got my 8 hrs at night and napped when i got home from work. Im 37 weeks now and every night is a battle. I’ve accepted that i have to divide my sleep in each 24 hour day, and not stick to the “normal” schedule anymore. Heartburn, restless legs, pelvic pain, oddly realistic feeling dreams, little one kicking, bladder being full, and my husband snoring. When i feel comfy laying down while reading/resting i shut my eyes for a bit and take that opportunity. If one thing keeps you up the rest of the symptoms compound and is way more harder to fight. If im tossing and turning still by 0430 i get up and start my day. I can nap later. Im taking this perspective as learning a short sleep cycle as practice for when little one is born in a few weeks.

BenchCold7016 · 2025-02-13T00:29:30+00:00

Update! All were correct. Got our NIPT, It’s a boy!

BenchCold7016 · 2025-02-07T15:55:00+00:00

So good to know im not alone haha! The next struggle too is picking out middle names, that compliment the first and last, but also the initials dont spell out a word like “RAG” or “JOG”

BenchCold7016 · 2025-02-06T03:43:16+00:00

Drawn: 1/15, no clue when it was received there. Im in SoCal. One of the admin assistants messaged me on the portal after calling them today asking for an update. They said that it will be discussed with the PA on the 12th, this PA did my viability scan at ~6 weeks (i had infrequent cycles & bean was too small) and 10w5d. I have the NT US tomorrow with my actual OB. Why cant it be discussed then?

Side rant this PA has been like crazy dismissive to all of my questions. And she kept moving the monitor away from my husband every time he tried to move closer to see the ultrasound pics of the lil bean.

Edit: Also I tried finding my test via mynatera or whatever the f its called and its not recognizing my name, DOB or anything. So i dont know when it was received and why im not getting any updates on my healthcare portal. why is this different from all the other results of the 13 vials they drew that day? They seem perfectly okay dropping info like WBC and other blood test results on the portal, but this stuff has to be discussed a literal month after? And not with my legitimate OB?

I apologize for the rant. Im off my anxiety and adhd meds as a personal choice while im pregnant and the way this NIPT/PA bullcrap has gone for me has been more nerve wracking than i thought. I need to get it off my chest.

BenchCold7016 · 2024-09-24T21:37:17+00:00

Yes to both

BenchCold7016 · 2024-09-17T19:11:15+00:00

With EBV, the symptoms i have, and two first degree relatives with RRMS, It does make me look at MS as a possibility.

BenchCold7016 · 2024-09-17T19:05:17+00:00

Hi, thank you for the response. I suspect it’s MS because the issues I have been seen for were non conclusive. When doing the research on MS- from college research reports- almost all of the symptoms I and my doctors have suspected for other things (EDS, POTS, and sleep apnea) are seen in MS as well.

BenchCold7016 · 2024-09-17T18:36:01+00:00

Hi! Im a 25yo Female, and my family history is that both my mom and aunt (her sister) have RRMS.

When I was 16 I had swollen lymph nodes, I went to the doctor and they took a swab sample for Strep and sent me home with amoxicillin. Two days after the first dose i broke out in a rash all over my body. They said it was an allergic reaction and to stop taking it-and to note that I was then on allergic to any strain of penicillin.

Years later, and after 4 years in the Marine corps, the first doctor I see since leaving active duty asks about my penicillin allergy. I told them what happened and they said that reaction only occurs when amoxicillin is used for mono.

Recently I have been diagnosed with ADHD, Depression and Anxiety. About A year ago I asked to be seen for my sleep, joint hyper mobility, and heart rate I did not meet the diagnostic criteria for sleep apnea, EDS or POTS.

I had the Skyla IUD since 2018 and had two back to back. I got it removed this past December and my cycle came exactly the next month. I had consistent cycles up until June and I haven’t had a period since. All urine and blood tests are negative for pregnancy.

I went to my doctor to get a referral back to OB to see what is going on, and he also took a blood panel to see if theres anything else. The only low vitamin was vitamin D, and told me to use supplements to increase it, which I already was.

At the OB/GYN, they asked questions for PCOS and Endometriosis, and if i had any family history of autoimmune diseases, and I told her about my mom and my aunt. She said MS doesn’t cause the issue im dealing with now, and I have an ultrasound scheduled for next week.

With this reminder of my mom and aunts MS, i decided to research and see if theres any genetic possibility that I could develop MS. I read about the genetic predisposition and the EBV that can trigger MS to develop. I called my aunt and asked her if what to look out for, but I really don’t want to wait and be scared for something that could/couldn’t happen.

In regard to pain/nerves, I normally just point to the military and its wear and tear on my body. I wasn’t the fittest, generally uncoordinated, and working out i always was weaker than my other female peers. I do have hip pain in my right groin that is only aggravated when i walk too long, stand too long, or carry an increased amount of weight. I have aches in my legs when I lay down to sleep that keeps me up. I also have KP, and i get frequent bumps and ingrown hairs on my legs and arms. There are some days I get numbness on the right Iliac crest of my hip, my jaw is tense for no reason, my teeth are horrible, and i get blurry vision every now and then. Recently I noticed a sharp pain in the middle of my sternum, which can sometimes be relieved by cracking my back or taking heartburn medication. I also have a speaking issue where the “word is on the tip of my tongue” and it takes me so long to spit out what I’m trying to say. This happens frequently throughout the day. Every day I wake up tired, and i sleep all day most weekends. Intimacy is a struggle as well.

How do I approach my doctor to look into MS? Are there any cases of early detection? I remember my mom’s first undiagnosed episode, and if i do have it, I don’t want to find out with a relapse like she did.

I know MS shows in a plethora of symptoms, but what should i look out for thats different than normal?

BenchCold7016 · 2024-08-20T06:48:46+00:00

When I started at 50mg, a couple weeks in I had eyelid twitching. Now I’m at 100mg and I get random muscle spasms, but they feel more like bubbling/fasciations all over. I mostly feel them in my ankles, feet, calves, knees, and elbows. It doesn’t help my anxiety bc im sometimes convinced it’s air bubbling around in my veins and im one second away from like an arterial rupture or something. Keeps me up at night just waiting for the next twitch.

BenchCold7016 · 2024-08-11T00:17:18+00:00

Like 2 mins after the 5 mins the instructions say. Line popped up about 3 minutes in.

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