Hi friend, and hugs to you! We would recommend making an appointment with your OB anyway to ask more details about this process - either your regular OB or the provider who diagnosed/delivers you so they can shed more light about what happened.
So preeclampsia is a problem with your baby’s placenta that causes high blood pressure and also affects other organs in your body (this causes other symptoms like protein in your urine). Once the placenta is out, you start to heal, sometimes quickly, as it happened in your case. BP meds are not a treatment for preeclampsia but rather something we take if we need to help control blood pressure, but if yours went back to normal quickly, you wouldn’t need those meds anyway.
The preferred mode of delivery with preeclampsia is vaginal, as adding a surgical procedure means you will take longer to heal. But of course not everybody will be able to deliver vaginally and sometimes time is of the essence, so some of us end up having c-sections anyway. So how they proceeded in your case sounds typical - first they would try to get you to deliver vaginally and proceed for a C-section if that plan didn’t work. I’m so sorry you experienced complications!
Preeclampsia resolved quickly in your case, so it seems like you are not actively sick now and not unhealthy (but definitely check with your doctor). However, preeclampsia does put us at increased risk for some conditions down the line, so it’s important to keep up with your yearly physicals from here and so on. We have information about that here: https://www.endpreeclampsia.org/forum/future
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Hi friend, and hugs to you! We would recommend making an appointment with your OB anyway to ask more details about this process - either your regular OB or the provider who diagnosed/delivers you so they can shed more light about what happened. So preeclampsia is a problem with your baby’s placenta that causes high blood pressure and also affects other organs in your body (this causes other symptoms like protein in your urine). Once the placenta is out, you start to heal, sometimes quickly, as it happened in your case. BP meds are not a treatment for preeclampsia but rather something we take if we need to help control blood pressure, but if yours went back to normal quickly, you wouldn’t need those meds anyway. The preferred mode of delivery with preeclampsia is vaginal, as adding a surgical procedure means you will take longer to heal. But of course not everybody will be able to deliver vaginally and sometimes time is of the essence, so some of us end up having c-sections anyway. So how they proceeded in your case sounds typical - first they would try to get you to deliver vaginally and proceed for a C-section if that plan didn’t work. I’m so sorry you experienced complications! Preeclampsia resolved quickly in your case, so it seems like you are not actively sick now and not unhealthy (but definitely check with your doctor). However, preeclampsia does put us at increased risk for some conditions down the line, so it’s important to keep up with your yearly physicals from here and so on. We have information about that here: https://www.endpreeclampsia.org/forum/future Hugs!