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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No symptoms for me even though it was classified as severe and I had the mag drip. [/quote]

Ugh the mag is the worst. I had to beg them to turn it down because I was so delirious I couldn't even lift my head. [/quote]

The day after I gave birth on mag, I was trying to read the paper and I couldn't focus my eyes. I was worried I'd had a stroke because no one warned me that mag relaxes all of your muscles including your eye muscles.[/quote]

Yup. I couldn’t arrange my lips to drink from a cup or a straw and they finally turned it down somewhat. Luckily my second time around I talked to them beforehand and they kept it at the lowest level of the “therapeutic range,” still unpleasant but much more manageable. [/quote]

How awful. I was so out of it that I couldn’t advocate for myself. Couldn’t talk, sit up, focus, etc. I’m so lucky *one* nurse saw it was a problem and pushed for me to get it lowered. I remember hearing her arguing with the doctor, who kept saying I was “in range”.

5 days of magnesium, 2 failed inductions, 40 pounds of retained water, zero sleep for 5 days because I needed my blood pressure checked every 20 minutes, 6 blood draws a day around the clock, no food….and they kept pressuring me to deliver vaginally. I had to beg for a c section, and even then only one doctor supported my choice. [/quote]

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