PIH

Please realize I write this "tongue-in-cheek" but at the same time sarcasm usually helps me vent!

Well I am now officially carrying 12 pounds and 8 ounces of babies.  Easton is 6 lbs, 5 oz. and Elle is 6 lbs, 3 oz.  I am 36 weeks and measuring 43. I am very tired, aching, and irritable.  My hair is dry, my teeth hurt, and I would pay someone good money to put me to sleep for 12 hours straight. I am supposed to take Benadryl to sleep, yet it gives me restless leg syndrome.  Water gives me heartburn. I can hardly breath through my nose, which ironically wakes me up 4 out of the 22 times I wake up from midnight until five (the hours I "sleep").  I pee over 3 liters of liquid a day, and it hurts.  Sitting on the couch hurts my back, the recliner is worse, I can't sleep on my right side/left side/back or obviously my stomach.  For the first time in my life, I hate my dogs, have hardly anything to wear, and do not like anyone, I mean anyone.  I have diagnosed myself with being extremely pregnant.

I am also disappointed in myself.  For some reason, my blood pressure has spiked. I have had to do the 24 hour urine analysis twice now.  I have not been diagnosed with preeclampsia. I am not swelling, have no headaches, seeing no spots, and have no pain in the upper right quadrant of my stomach. But I am dizzy and having "transient" episodes of high blood pressure. My issue is being called pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH), something that I have had before...The first time I was diagnosed was in 2009, I had gained 42 lbs! What's the deal? Does pregnancy hate me? This time around I have gained 0 pounds... I am three years older, but I thought being 31 was the upper limits of an ideal age to carry babies. What makes me so disappointed is I have eaten very well, exercised (up until recently), monitored my weight, consulted with a health coach, and done my research. Why is my blood pressure high? Is is possible, I am having anxiety about these babies? I am trying to control my anxiety, but evidently not doing a good enough job. It gets me down... 

My questions right now are:
1) Since it is not preeclampsia, does that mean I have to "relax" the next three weeks until nature takes its course, or can I resume usual activities?
2) Does this change how I will deliver the babies? It seems so unfair to think I would have to have a c-section when both babies are vertex and my pregnancy has been so uneventful until just a month or so ago. Plus, I have been so good!
3)Do I need to change my diet? Watch my sodium, eat more magnesium... etc?  Do I go on medication? (Agh!)

On a positive note, once the babies are out the problem is gone, but what do you do in the meantime?

Here's the addendum - I went to the doctor and was told (this is restated, not word for word) "See those bones and veins in your arm, if you can't see them call me. The protein in your urine is on the low side of normal. You don't have preeclampsia. You do have PIH, and that is not preeclampsia. You can continue to work, do not need bedrest, and do not need any therapeutic intervention (I assume he meant medicine). We wouldn't have put you through this if your were not carrying twins."  So here I am 7,000 weeks pregnant and diagnosed with PIH.  Damn.