All week, it seems as though I have to pee all the time - every pregnant person can identify with that. The issue is that when I try, I might only get a few drops out. It is as if the baby is sitting on the valve that would release the urine from the bladder. I have no idea if that make sense but that is the way my brain works. I was up half of the night thinking I just wish I could go to the doctor and get a foley for them to empty my bladder and let me go on my way.
I tried. I emailed them to see if this was an option. The nurse came back with a litany of questions to try to rule out a UTI or who knows what else. I haven't had any pain, just the inability to go. They asked me to come in for a urinalysis just in case, which I did. The early indications showed no bacteria, which is great. It did show a good amount of sugar, to which the NP that I saw asked about what I had eaten that day. Oh, how embarrassing! Normally, four out of five days a week I can say that I ate really healthy and even had a salad for lunch. Well, not today! I had to be honest. I was mortified to tell her that I had Bojangles for breakfast and leftover Chinese for lunch. Yep, it happened. Not often, but today was bad. I had to own it in case there were other issues. Apparently, all of the carbs from that was a reason that there was a high sugar content in the little bit of pee I was able to expel.
Beyond that, there was nothing that they could do other than tell me to lift my belly when I sat down to pee. I used to pee great in the shower, but even that hasn't worked well lately. We shall see what lifting the belly does - I just hope I get some relief soon!
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