Pregnancy & hormones, was Re: Re: My Intro...Sharon

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When I was pregnant with my daughter I suggested to my

doctor that maybe I was allergic to pregnancy hormones. I couldn't take

the Pill because it made me almost as nauseated as pregnancy, and when I

finally hit menopause I'm not going to be able to take any of the

hormones. Estrogen makes me climb the walls, and Progesterone nauseates

me. I even tried the synthetic (can't remember the name of it, but it's

made from peanut oil) and I broke out into a bright red rash that landed

me in the ER. It took several days to go away, and the doc told me I was

allergic to peanuts. I'm really careful when eating Chinese & Thai

food at restaurants, and ask if they use peanut oil because it breaks me

out now (it didn't used to, until I tried that hormone). And yes, I had

several miscarriages too. I had my tubes tied after the fifth one,

because I'd start getting morning sickness and then after a few weeks

having a miscarriage and one particularly nasty D & C afterwards. They

didn't give me any pain medication before the surgery, and I was crying

and begging for something for the pain and the nurse actually snarled at

me that I was being a baby and it wasn't THAT bad. I wanted to slug her.

cyn

At 09:09 AM 3/16/2005 -0500, Ritter wrote:

Here s my thought on the matter:

autoimmunity. Just like Lupus, FMS, etc.. I feel the body is allergic to

the baby and the pregnancy hormone hence the extreme symptoms while

pregnant and if you re like me, miscarriages.

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