 | Thank you for the informative post.
I also experienced the horror of PUPPS with my first pregnancy. I found out this morning that I am again pregnant and am already here looking for info on PUPPS. The memory of it has not worn off after 2 1/2 years. I have been told that it is highly unlikely that I would get it again, but of course I am concerned. Mine started around 30 weeks and became progressively worse. At times I thought I would go out of my mind. I wasn't able to sleep and my doctors really didn't seem concerned about it in the least--just advised me to take cold showers. I felt fine in the shower/bath but as soon as I got out I was itching again. Who can stay in the tub all day? I did finally get an Rx for a medrol dose pack which helped significantly, but as soon as it was done the rash came back immediately. I then saw a dermatologist who rx'd another medrol dose pack and said it was safe to take them during pregnancy. My doctor allowed me to take that second one but said she would not advise any additional meds. Benedryl and all the over the counter stuff I spend a fortune on didn't work at all. Fortunately I delived a little early shortly after the second medrol dose pack was finished, just as the rash was getting bad again.
I was one of the lucky ones in that although I could still see traces of the rash on my skin for several weeks afterwards, the majority of the itching went away as soon as I delived--although I scratched like heck during delivery.
Interestingly, I recalled my grandma (father's mother) talking about what she called "the itch" and was fairly sure that it was during her first pregnancy. She died early in my pregnancy but I asked her sister about it and she verified that she did indeed have a rash all over her entire body--with the exception of her face. She even seemed to recall that she had it in her vagina. I didn't have that, but almost everyone I've heard about who has had this said it never spread to their faces. I have one cousin on that side of the family (our fathers are brothers so her paternal grandmother as well) and a sister who have both had babies and neither one experienced it.
My two year old is beautiful and worth everything I went through but if I knew for certain that I'd have PUPPs again, I don't know that I would have had another baby. I have no idea how I will deal with my little one all day if I had get it again. By the end I was just scratching and crying.
Good luck to you. I hope you don't get it again. |
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