Pre-eclampia?????

[blueeyedtabbycat]

I have a questiom for anyone who has ever had pre-eclampia.
Ok here is my problem...........
I have been having this numbing sometimes sharp pain under my right side under my ribs for awhile now. I brought it up to my doctor a few months ago but I have also had/ have a knot in the middle right side of my back that wont go away and it felf like the pain in my back was radiating around to the front under my ribs. My doctor said that was probably it. Well lately the pain under my right ribs has gotten so bad that I havent been able to sleep, I am in so much pain:( I know that its not the baby lodged under it because the pain started months ago before my uterus was even that high up. I have has only 1 check up were my BP has been high 145/94. that is very high for me but since than it has been normal. My doctor has never mentioned any problems with my protein in my urine (sp) . Any one eles ever experiance this with pre-eclampia?? Or maybe its something total unrealated?????? I have had a little swelling but nothing major.

[mosaicsjo]

if you have no proteinn in your urine and you have normal blood pressure, you do not have preclampsia. Preclampsia is caused by your body breaking down protein in your tissue, thus the protein being detectable in your urine.

If you do not have protein in the urine, that means your body is not breaking down protein from your tissues, which means you do not have preclampsia.

They always look for those two things though- protein in urine and spiked BP.  Be happy.. Preclampsia is a serious condition.

During pregnancy, your ribs actually get a little wider due to the extra load you are carrying in the womb- your body is essentially preparing itself by stretching in all kinds of places. This is normal, as are phantom pains surrounding the entire front/back of the torso.  I would not worry about it.