Pregnancy does weird things to your body, but this is wild. A mom in England went viral on TikTok after she made a video about experiencing a truly weird pregnancy symptom: She was leaking blue "ink." Yes, you read that correctly.
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Keisha Sethi, who is an expectant mom and and fitness coach, felt like she was in a movie suddenly.
"It just happened overnight. It was quite crazy, actually, it was like I was leaking blue ink," Sethi told Kennedy News, as reported by the New York Post. "I felt like an octopus."
Her boyfriend asked her, "Keisha, are you wearing something blue?" after noticing blue stains on their toilet.
At the time, Sethi was wearing all-white pajamas and noticed that they were suddenly streaked with blue, as were her light pink sheets.
"I thought I was turning into [a creature from] Avatar," she shared. "I tried to wipe it, but it just would not come off."
When she tried calling her doctor, they thought it was some sort of trick or joke.
"I called the triage up, and they said they’d never heard of it. It’s so rare. The person I spoke to was laughing because she thought I was joking around," she said.
So she and her boyfriend decided to take matters into their own hands.
"It turns out it was just my skin and the sweat changing color due to hormones," she shared.
Sethi specializes in working with women who have PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome. Even though she knows that changes in hormones happen, she didn't know they could make you leak the color blue.
"It lasted for about a week. It came ‘out of the blue’ and then just stopped," she shared.
And while she did not share a specific medical diagnosis, what she described sounds like Apocrine chromhidrosis, which is a "very rare, idiopathic disorder of the sweat glands characterized by the secretion of colored sweat," according to the National Institutes of Health.
"Mama’s has anyone experienced this? Does it affect baby in any way? – I did call the maternity helpline but they said they’ve not heard of it & weren’t really helpful I feel like a squid ," she captioned the video.
Thankfully, Sethi wasn't alone. She got a bunch of comments from women who had experienced the same thing.
"Happened to me w/both pregnancies. I'm anemic," someone said.
"IT HAPPENED TO ME!! I thought i was turning into a smurf! " another person added.
"Omg this happened to my white clothes and I was convinced it was dye from my jeans but it never made sense," a person commented.
"This happened to me when I was pregnant with my second child I didn’t know this was a thing," someone wrote.
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