Please help, I'm at a loss

[melissa94]

Hi ladies,

thanks very much to those who replied to my previous post about the faint positive line, I did go to my doctor and she confirmed my pregnancy with a quantitive blood test. I have two other questions and would be eternally grateful for any opinions on either. The HCG levels from my first blood test showed a 198, I did that test at about 10 am on Sunday, for the past few days, I have been having some breathing difficulties, it kind of feels like when i try to breathe deeply, my breath gets cut short and I'm not getting enough oxygen, I eventually started to panic which resulted in a trip to the ER who gave me a clean bill of health and confirmed that I was suffering from a form of panic attack, which they can apprently do nothing about, this shortness of breath is 24/7, is there anything I can do naturally to deal with this? I also asked them to check my HCG levels last night since they were drawing blood anyway, and doc said it had gone up to 240, is that a normal increase for 35 hours? I have suffered miscarriages before so am quite cautious this time, any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks alot,

Melissa

[shadowserpent]

well without medication its basiclly breath through the panic attacks and quote this mantra.... "NO ONE has ever died from a panic attack!"
there are safe meds to take while pregnant to help with the panic, one is called hydroxyzine, its a mild sedative and also an antihistamine. its helped me TONS but i suffer from panic and anxiety every day for 13 years now=)

[melissa94]

thanks for your reply, i had posted this question before and no one replied so I am grateful to you for taking the time. I am going back to the hospital tonight hopefully so I will post my new levels up as soon as I know whats going on.

[motherofan18month]

everything sounds normal...and as for the panic attacks i didn't suffer from them until i got pregnant with my son and the only thing they could tell me was just to relax, breath, and then everything would calm down a bit....oh evryones levels of hcg are diffferent but those levels put u right between 4-6 weeks! have a happy nine months!!!!!