I was diagnosed with PE a few weeks ago, but I only had high blood pressure at my doctor's visit, once they sent me over to the hospital to get checked out, my blood pressure was fine. Since then they have me doing 2 stress tests a week and I see my doctor once a week as well. I also had to do a 24 hour urine collection (which came out okay). They are monitoring you and the baby closely as precaution (which is very good). You are far enough along that if you need to deliver, everything should be fine. For you and the baby's sake, stay off your feet (which your doctor may have you on bed rest??). Try not to stress, if at all possible. Just take it easy and do everything the doctor tells you to. Hang in there hun, I know it's scary. Just get plenty of rest and take care of yourself and the baby.

Thank you so much for all your comments everyone, I really appreciate the support. If I can't get on to update you for any reason I'll be in touch with my text buddy and get her to let you ll know what's happening! xx

Here you go Scuba. And rest assured, none of this will effect your baby. Their big concern is about you (which is good to- to have people concerned about you ). Here is that list of stuff I did My best advice is just to listen to your baby, listen to your body, and do what you feel is right for you. For me, that meant disobeying bedrest orders. But for many, your body tells you it just needs a break- so trust yourself.

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So here is my unsolicited advice:

1) Check out this website. He believes a lot of pre-eclampsia is diet based- it is more likely to occur if you are not eating healthfuly. I will say, with my first, when I followed his diet, all my numbers (bp and protein) came down, and when I would fall off the wagon they would all skyrocket again. I know- you can't really tell anything from one person, but I figure there is no harm in following it so if there is even a chance it will work, I'm doing it. Here you go: http://www.blueribbonbaby.org/ .

2) Eat lots of nutritious foods. When I'm pg I crave lots of foods that are bad for me, so I let myself eat those, but I make sure to eat lots of nutritious foods on top of it (which means I tend to gain a bit more weight). Vitamins/nutrients from food are MUCH better than from the prenatal vitamin. So eat lots of fruits and veggies.

3) Watch your salt. You don't have to eliminate it, just make sure you are staying in the lower range of normal amounts.

4) Exercise, exercise- at least as much as you feel safe doing. If you are stressed, this will help relieve that. But also, exercise will help your cardiovascular system become stronger, which will decrease your bp.

5) Drink tons of water- I drink between 80-100oz, even though I HATE water. The more water in your system, the easier the blood flows through your system, which will decrease the bp. If you notice you are swelling more than a little (which is normal, but excessive swelling increases your bp), drinking lots of water will help, as will swimming or taking a bath.

6) Learn how to meditate or do a relaxation exercise and do this several times a day- it will help your system tune down a little.

I will tell you this, and this just depends on your comfort level, I rarely followed my docs orders to be on bedrest. Only because I knew laying about, gaining more weight, and doing nothing good for my cardiovascular system, couldn't be helpful. So I did very light exercise (usually swimming) while on "bedrest." Again, I noticed when I did not follow her orders AND I ate better, all my numbers improved. I had a similar problem to you that my numbers would all be really high, they would send me to hospital for monitoring- and everything would come down. It seemed so inconsistent, which is another reason I felt okay disobeying orders (not to mention I'm generally a disobedient gal) But I will say I threw in plenty and good amounts of rest, so that is important too.

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Thanks Ragirl - you're an absolute star, those all sound pretty sensible to me really especially the drinking water one, thank you so much!

***UPDATE***
Here's my update from today - I've copied and pasted it from the reply I gave to Sonny so if you've read what I said to her in there then you've read this too lol!!

Well today I had to go to the consultant and have a series of bloods taken and baby was observed on that TOCO heart monitor thing and I had blood pressure checked.
Through my whole pregnancy I'd been pretty average at around 110/70 on most visits but yesterday I was 140/80 plus had a trace of protein in my urine and have also had a few headaches and blurry vision - so off I got sent to have bloods etc done today.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnyway todays BP was 127/84 and they said that was fine as even though its a bit of an increase its not classed as hypertensive, the urine still only had a trace of protein in and baby sounded fine on the monitor, her base heart rate was 150 (I think) and they said she sounded a very happy and certainly very active baby lol!

Blood results took about 2 hours to get back but they all came back within normal limits WOOHOO!!!! I've got to go back on Monday to have BP checked again but its as a precaution rather than because they are expecting anything out of the ordinary I think!

They also found that while I was on the fetal monitor thing that I had several tightenings, lasting about a minute each, although they did tail off towards the end of being monitored, so even though they're not coming regular enough for them to be the real thing YET, I'm hoping its another sign that she won't be TOOOOOO much longer!!

Once again thanks to everyone for your support xx

Glad your appointment today went well

Yay...that all sounds like great news!!!! As for the trace of protein, I had it one of my earlier visits this time and freaked out that it was a sign of PE problems again, and my mw said no- traces amounts are normal. It's only when you get into the +1 and more range that it is a problem. I'm very glad for you and hopefully you are right- not too much longer!!

Thats Good news! I suggest you be on bed rest with the lights off and try not to worry about anything. I had PE with my daughter when I was about 37weeks but my blood pressure went up to 195/95 so they had to induce me. My baby was fine(6lbs) and I had alot of bleeding but everything was fine. No need to worry...Your Dr. and nurses will take good care of you!

Glad it went ok!!

Glad it went well.

Thankyou all! I feel really lucky to have got this outcome so far! x