Nervous and Uncomfortable

I’ve been in and out of the ER (labor and delivery bc the ER won’t see a pregnant person they send them straight upstairs) for shortness of breath and feeling like I can’t get enough air, BP & fast HR. They did an EKG Friday before last and found questionable delta waves looking kinda like an arrhythmia. I have a heart ultrasound scheduled for this Friday but in the mean time they’re having me work through the breathlessness but I’m at the point where I can’t lay down without feeling absolutely out of breath. I’m not wheezing but I just feel like there isn’t enough air in me no matter what I do. I don’t want to go back because there’s really nothing for them to do. But I’m at the end of my rope. I feel so out of breath I just wanna lay down but ugh.. idk. I only feel some relief when I sit up straight in bed.

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I feel the same way I thought it was just me

Arrhythmia is normal, and resting heart rate (RHR) for a pregnant woman is an average of 90bpm. As long as they checked your blood pressure, and temperature and it looks normal, there probably is nothing emergent. Your uterus is large enough to cause restriction to your lungs, and your heart is pumping more blood to increase oxygen supply. All of this contributes to feeling shortness of breath. It sucks, but very necessary for baby.

Yikes that sounds really scary 😳 some ERs will see pregnant patients, I had to go around 22 weeks for severe pain near my kidney. Of course I told them I’m pregnant but they still took care of me in the normal ER, never sent me up to the labor & delivery ward

I believe shortness of breath can be related to preeclampsia, but if they said nothing about your blood pressure and everything else looks good then it could be possible that your uterus is pushing the rest of your organs into your lungs causing the shortness of breath which unfortunately is normal in pregnancy

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