36 weeks & facial numbness??!!!???? « Back to Group Discussions

[BeanBean06]

I just got back from the doctor finished having some lunch and while reclining in my rocker my whole left hand suddenly went numb, like completely numb! And then while I was trying to rub it and shake it MY FACE STARTED GOING NUMB!!!!! Like my lips, nose and tongue ARE NUMB and feel like they do after dental work!

I'm waiting for my dr to call me back but it got me REALLY freaked out! Anyone else expirence thi before???

[stormysky]

That's scary. Keep us posted. I'm assuming you had your stitch removed. Good luck!

[TIFF4NY]

Yikes BeanBean! I hope you hear from your doctor soon. Keep us updated please! You can absolutely text me if you want.

A friend of mine had the left side of her face go numb once but it had something to do with a new ear piercing she had gotten. It was temporary but we were pretty freaked out for a bit. 

I hope it has something to do with an irritated nerve and nothing more. Please let us know!

[1babysmom]

Yikes! My first though was Bell's Palsey, I have read some connection between pg and it. But that would usually just be half the face. I hope it's nothing!

[JennJenn84]

Let us know! I hope everything is ok!

[Greenlea]

Originally Posted by 1babysmom 

Yikes! My first though was Bell's Palsey, I have read some connection between pg and it. But that would usually just be half the face. I hope it's nothing!

This is what I thought too.

[BeanBean06]

I just got home from L&D and wanted to update you real fast... When I first went in there my whole face had gone numb again and it was so bad I couldn't speak properly, so they were rushing around thinking I was having a stroke! Totally freaked me out! After a ton of tests and fluids... They had nuero come down to see me and it was determined I'm having a cranial facial migraine with "a typical" symptoms, caused by advanced pregnancy! I got more fluids and was sent home to eat something take some migraine meds and try and sleep it off... If the numbness comes back ir the migraine meds stop working I have to go back for more tests... They think it was triggered by all the pain I had this morning with the cerclage removal.

[TIFF4NY]

 I'm so sorry it happened and I hope that is the last of it. Get some rest!!

[stormysky]

Thanks for the update. I was thinking/worried about you. Hope things are better from now on. Feel better and then go into labor ;) !

[1babysmom]

Wow! Glad it isnt anything serious at this point!!

[Cali2SC]

Oh Bean Bean- How scary!    Thank you for taking the time to update us.  Hope the migrane meds and rest do the trick.  Hang in there!

[firespiritmelody]

Yikes, I hope you're feeling much better now!

[cagnew]

I logged back on tonight just to see how you were doing. I hope the meds help and the numbness goes away. Removing the stitch must have been hell! 

[BeanBean06]

Thank you all so much! I'm feeling a bit better this morning and did get some sleep, but even with strong meds at this point in pregnancy a full nights sleep is impossible... After abt 6 hrs from taking my first migraine med and after abt 5 hrs of sleep I woke up to go to the bathroom and my right I was dark! Like I couldn't see out of it! No not "blurry" BLACKNESS! Nothing... I started to freak and then my DH said wait a minute the migraine meds are for acue symptoms every 4 hrs it's been 6! So I calmed down and took another pill... Within 30 minutes my eye "flickered" a bit and I could see again! Albeit really blurry... Then I fell back to sleep and when I woke this morning my vision is fully back. Thank god! I still have a little lingering of the headache but nothing compared to yesterday and so far no more numbness!

@cagnew - it was hell. Pure hell. I was screaming twords the end of it and squeezed my DH hands so hard they are both black and blue today... I shook uncontrolably and cried for a good hour after, before I could get myself together... they kept asking me if i wanted to go to the hospital and get a spinal for it but i didnt want another spinal... the one i had when they put it in really messed me up! but they also told me it would only be at most 10 minutes! it took 45 and two different drs to get it out... if i had known then how bad it would have been, i think i would have taken the spinal.... sigh*

[cagnew]

Oh my gosh. That sounds horrible. On the bright side,  compared to that experience, birth might seem like a walk in the park! Labor hurts like heck (at least it did for me), but I have had other experiences that made labor seem not so bad- it sounds like stitch removal is one of those!!!!

[BeanBean06]

Originally Posted by cagnew 

Oh my gosh. That sounds horrible. On the bright side,  compared to that experience, birth might seem like a walk in the park! Labor hurts like heck (at least it did for me), but I have had other experiences that made labor seem not so bad- it sounds like stitch removal is one of those!!!!

I agree! Everyone kept saying "ohh well just wait for labor" and I've never labored but I imagine labor to be easier cuz its just happening, and coming and going... This was someone DOING this TO ME and I was stuck flat on my back and it was constant for 45 minutes... Up until yesterday when they put it in was the most pain I'd ever expirenced! Now it's when they took it out lol hopefully nothing is ever that painful again...

[Oliver's Mama]

Originally Posted by BeanBean06 


I agree! Everyone kept saying "ohh well just wait for labor" and I've never labored but I imagine labor to be easier cuz its just happening, and coming and going... This was someone DOING this TO ME and I was stuck flat on my back and it was constant for 45 minutes... Up until yesterday when they put it in was the most pain I'd ever expirenced! Now it's when they took it out lol hopefully nothing is ever that painful again...

Agreed.  It's so different when pain is serving a real purpose and most likely has a definitive, happy ending, like during labor. Even if the pain is technically worse, it's so much more tolerable when it's coming in waves and you have even 20 seconds inbetween to recoup.  Labor with ds1 was so intolerable even though I had an epidural, and I think it's because the pitocin created a 6-hour long contraction essentially, with not a single second of let-up.  With my natural birth with ds2, I used those brief moments between contractions to just go completely limp which refreshed my brain and conserved energy (did my own form of hypnobirthing).  Yeah, maybe as he was crowning it was the worst pain in my life, but I really don't think of it that way; in retrospect it just really doesn't matter. I think the hypnosis created a warm, fuzzy memory for me and I didn't see it as a day of agony like my first birth.