Low BP and Nutrition issues

I am having a very difficult time gtting in eveyrhting I need to get in, especially enough salt/sodium and water.

I'm slightly dehydrated which has been causing a lot of low blood pressure issues.

The last few days I've been chugging the gatorade to get in the electrolytes I need and I've been trying to get in more high sodium foods.

It's just been so difficult lately, now that the baby is so high and up in the ribs. I can't eat as much as I used to and to balance the amount of liquids I need to get in with the amount of foods is really getting tedious. I feel like I am trying to eat all day long but I don't want to or I just get full so fast. 3 bites of a yogurt or a pudding cup and I am full & I don't feel like finishing it, but I force myself to.

I'm really liking the new sub from Subway (the Orchard Chicken Salad) but the 6" sub takes me 6-7 hours to eat at 1 bite every half hour, LOL, or an inch an hour.

My one MW told me to try and get more broths in for the sodium but hot liquid broth in this heat is torture.

I've never had such problems keeping my blood pressure up before and it's driving me crazy now.

In past pregnancies, and of course pre-WLS; my BP was usually steady around 120/70 but my BP can drop as low as 65-70/60 when I am out doing errands because I'll stoop down to look at something or get something from a low shelf and when I get back up I need to hold onto the cart or DH or something so I don't fall over.

My resting BP is around 100/60-70 but when I stand up it drops to 90/60, and if I kind of do a bend over manuver to simulate life it drops to 80/60. IRL though I am walking around the store before squatting or stooping or neding and what not so I KNOW it drops lower because I really get dizzy & faint and nearly pass out.

Does anyone else have issues like these? If so how do you get the fluids and salts in? I don't want to have to have a feeding tube when I am this close to delivering.

I'm just not sure what to make of it all and with us having to move soon (don't get me started on that rant) I am not going to be ANY help at all.

**As far as what the MW / Dr says . .basically I need to keep up on the gatorade or pedialyte and actually try to increase my sodium/salt intake as much as possible. I'm supposed to get 2000mg of sodium in a day and I can barely get in 1000mg of sodium a day.

I've heard of salt tablets but I don't know where to find them. I've tried the HFS and the supplement sections of stores and can't find them. I'm looking online at fast food restuarants for the highest sodium based foods, LOL. I've even over salted my popcorn and added salt to my broth. This has all only helped marginally so far. :(

i have always had low blood pressure even when i was over weight. its not usually a big deal for me unless i have an "episode".  I can usually tell when one is comming... feels like im getting a hot flash then dizzy and disoriented like right before you pass out but stuck in the moment before... acctually for some reason when i was younger taking an advil would always help... docs always thought i was nuts about that, but i really think it had to do with thinning my blood a little... doc always said "whatever works" to get you out of it.... i remember once borderline passing out and trying to call for help from my cell... dialed my best freind and was talking to her like she was my mom... she was able to get ahold of my parents who came and got me and rushed me to the doctor... by the time i was at the doc i felt a million times better and was coherant and my blood presurre was at 85/46... i too am told NOT to watch my salt.... great for me as i am a salt junkie! so i dont usually have any issues getting the salt in... i put salt on everything!!! but for a low cal high salt snack my favorite reserve is PICKLES!!! and we pregos loooove pickles!! :) I love pickels even when im not prego... with all the salt intake i do usually take a water pill, but not while prego... doc will only advise a water pill if i start to swell and i have had no issues with swelling yet knock on wood!

Good luck and EAT SOME PICKLES WOMAN!!!

just noticed we also had our surgeries the same month and are due the same month.. funny... :-)

;) Yeah, I noticed that a while ago.

Pickles is a good idea. I hadn't thought os that one yet. This was my first pregnancy I craved them in the first month of pregnancy, but I haven't had a craving for them since.

I could definitely get some dills and even drink a little of the brine. Sounds slightly gross but is really good like gatorade. I just can't do much at once.

Thanks for the idea.

Maybe slider foods? 

Sorry I don't have a lot of advice here.  I can eat like a little piggy.  :(

Believe you me I have been trying to eat slider foods the best I can, LOL

Potato chips don't do well with me, but puffed "chips" like cheetos I can handle, and thankfully they have more sodium, LOL

Too many slider foods I can think of are sugar based though, LOL, with the hot weather ice cream sounds better to me than popcorn; and a slurpee sounds better than gatorade, LMAO

Maybe I am just not thinking properly but I can't think of too many slider foods with salt.

Taco Bell is my best source though, wth both protein and high sodium, it's just we don't have the extra $$$ all the time to get it. LOL

Pickles are a good idea though and I'll probably send DH out to get some later. I'm down to my last 3 bottles of gatorade too.

Yeah, Taco Bell's pintos n cheese might be good.  Or maybe some instant mashed potatoes? 

It's funny to try to think of salty, caloric stuff to eat.

How are you on dairy?  Milk has saved me from dehydration.  It allows me to get an extra 16 oz of liquid in a day.

Milk is okay. I'm not a big milk drinker to begin with, but I got some Ovaltine and Carnation Instant breakfast to go with it to boost flavor as well as some extra vitamins and that's worked out okay. It's good.

It is difficult to try and revert to bad habits, LOL