A little venting

[ste_noni]

I have this ache just below my sternum. I think it's my stomach and I think I'm hungry. I ate a regular amount of food yesterday and went to bed starving so I got up and had some cereal.

I woke up feeling hungry so I had an English muffin, juice, a snack bar, and apple sauce for breakfast. I was starving when I got to school, so I had a bagel with cream cheese and apple juice, yogurt. Stomach was still feeling achy and hungry at lunch, so I ate a turkey and cheese sandwich, some pringles, and some Cherry Garcia ice cream.

This is all in the last 8 hours since I got up. That seems like an acceptable amount of food in that time, but I still have this ache. It won't go away and if it really was hunger, it should at least go away for a while after eating. These are the moments when pregnancy drives me crazy. I want this ache to go away. Eating doesn't seem to be helping, but I can't identify what else the pain would be besides hunger. At the same time, it doens't feel exactly like hunger, but I can't figure it out.

I think I may just eat plain bread until I feel better. There's nothing in just bread that could upset my stomach and I'm just tired of feeling so blah today.

Comments

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Have you ever had heartburn before? It is very common in pregnancy, and many people have it even if they eat bland things. Worth trying a tums (I think they are perfectly safe.)

[minim_calibre]

As Flea said, try the Tums. My aches there have all been heartburn. Mild heartburn, but annoying never the less. Tums help.

For some reason, it let up for the most part after about week 25. I'm sure it's just lurking, waiting to come back and taunt me, but I'm welcoming the vacation from it.

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

Rolaids seem to have done the trick - at least the ache is bearable now.

It's funny - all sorts of greasy, fatty, or too spicy foods upset my stomach and I've had just about every sort of test imaginable done on my stomach and intestines, but I've never had heartburn like this before. At least now I can hopefully identify it.

[minim_calibre]

It's weird. For me, it feels almost like there's something stuck there instead of the burning I think of when I think of heartburn.