Talk:Eclampsia

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i developed eclampsia after the birth of my 4th child with the only symtom being swelling of the anckles.this was friday afternoon 10 days after his birth. saturday afternoon i felt like i had the flu had a seizure in the bath tub and went to get my husband. after this we drove to the hospital where my ob gyn. saw me and after testing dicovered the problem. thanks to her i am alive today. i would just like to say everyone thinks e and pre are related and they are not..i have since then had another child with no complications of any kind.... thank you for your time felicia parker

I delevoped Eclampsia after the birth of my son. I looked like I was still pregnant when I left the hospital, but everyone told me that was normal.(I had a C-Section) I felt ok until two nights after I was home, and I started hurting in between my shoulder blades. It felt like a pulled muscle. I was very emotional and I started crying and couldnt figure out why, and I aslo couldnt sleep. I kept arguing with my husband about going to the emergency room, I told him it would go away, I just needed to get some fluid off of me.I asked my friends if anyone had a water pill, a prescription one, and no one did. Its a good thing that they didnt, because the doctor told me I would have died. I was holding over 30lbs of water, and he said it would have ruined my kidneys and busted my bladder. I ended up going to the emergency room that next morning about 6am, and looked like a balloon. The staff took one look at me, and immediately started drawing blood, and hooking me up to monitors and then inserted a cath. My blood levels were down to 6. Which is very very bad. I had to have 2 units of blood, and then I seized. My blood pressure shot up and they took me to ICU. I was there for 2 days before they could regulate me. I felt worse than I ever have in my life. I thought it was going to be fine from that point on, but I was very wrong. I had trouble with my blood pressure for weeks after, and my swelling is just now going away, and its 10 weeks later. I have always been very healthy, and my blood pressure very low. I have to monitor my blood pressure at least twice a week, and still have small problems still. I hope that my experience can save someones life. I know if it wasnt for my sister-in-law and my doctors, I wouldnt be here today. Jennifer Phegley. clark8670@hotmail.com

[edit] life after eclampsia

i had an emergency c-section 4 yrs ago. after having a 15 minute seizure. my son is in perfect health, i am not... since that day, i have the following health problems... type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovaries, fibromyalgia, my blood work is very off... my sed rate is high, my ast and alt liver enzymes are high, red and white blood count is high, i have gained in four years about 50 pds, prior to my pregnancy i was only 120 pds and i am 4-11... now i am close to 180 and ofcourse still short...my docter has no clue as to what is going on... she resintly sent me to a gi specialist... she tends to think that i may be having liver failure and something called metabolic syndrome.... i must mention that i had my gallbladder removed nov,2007... she has mentioned some sort of procedure to get rid of my fatness... like the band or something.... since the seizure i also have bad memory... short term.... my question is this> Is there anyone out there that has had anything like this happen to them after having a seizure due to eclampsia???? please let me know... chrismandy1@yahoo.com thank you,,, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.217.62.87 (talk) 00:45, 11 February 2008 (UTC)