This is only from Reuters. CNN, ABC and others have been publishing about this for years. There has been over a decade of studies. Which is how I knew. How everybody knew until Trump mentioned it and suddenly it became controversial.
In my first pregnancy, when I had a severe form of PUPPPs, I was in extreme pain for months. Not a single time did I take any brand of acetaminophen because I knew that for pregnant women it’s out of the question. My OB-GYN said, “I know this is torture but please remember you can’t take anything. Try oatmeal baths.” And I said, “Oh, of course, I wouldn’t take anything.”
Oatmeal baths did fuck all other than gunk up my bathtub, by the way. But the point is that it’s nuts to start pretending now that this is controversial knowledge. Besides, nobody really needs Tylenol. It’s not insulin. Tylenol is for mild pain. What’s the big deal with not taking it for a few months? I’ve taken it maybe twice in my life (with no noticeable effect), and I’m somehow surviving. I’ve had four major surgeries without post-op painkillers. Taking a break from acetaminophen for the duration of a pregnancy can’t possibly be a bad idea.
I hate stupid, infantile contrarianism both on the left and on the right. And during pregnancy it’s especially ludicrous. I’d let myself be sliced into ribbons, and I pretty much did do exactly that, to ensure that my baby is fine. Trump, schmump, you have a person inside you. And you are making bloody Tik Tok videos instead of going for a quiet walk, relaxing, and making sure your baby isn’t drowning in adrenaline? Your baby is not a prop for your political opinions.
This whole controversy is very triggering to me for obvious reasons. A healthy, easy pregnancy is a miracle. Which doesn’t mean it’s abnormal. I know I’m an outlier, and almost nobody has it that bad. But if you are pregnant, that should be the absolute focus of your life because you only can have a handful of them at most in your lifetime. Your body is doing the most amazing thing it’s capable of doing. Just bloody let it. Trump can wait.
I believe, by the way, that most women in those videos aren’t really taking Tylenol. They have to be faking it. I also think that the story about the woman who overdosed and is rumored to be dying is fake. But the emotion they are showing in those videos is real. And it’s not healthy for a baby.
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Had PUPPP with my second pregnancy. Just the last couple weeks, but still. Hellish.
Found a lotion at the hippie food shop containing grapeseed extract, that helped a little. Was the only thing that made any difference at all, and it wasn’t much.
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Some of them may actually be stupid enough to take real Tylenol, but I’m pretty sure most are faking it.
This reminds of the sad case of a friend of mine and her daughter. My friend tended to be a laissez-faire sort of mother in many ways, but she was very strict about her children’s diet. No sugar or any kind of junk food was permitted, ever. Some of her children complied dutifully, even when Mom wasn’t watching and they could have gotten away with sneaking a forbidden treat. But one of them was a rebel through and through who cheated whenever she thought she could get away with it. When she became an adult, she doubled down, gorging herself constantly on all kinds of disgusting junk food just to spite her mother. To no one’s surprise, she became grossly overweight. Somehow it made sense to her that the way to punish her mother for having deprived her of junk food when she was a child was to become an obese, unhealthy adult. Sigh…
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