morning sickness

[Abi88]

I found that ginger and travel sickness bands helped a bit as did eating a little whenever I could so I didn't get hungry. Honestly, not a lot helped and 10-15 weeks were the worst for me. The doctor can prescribe medicines to help if nothing else is helping. It's miserable but try to rest as much as you can and the worst part of the sickness will be over soon.

 

[cmah]

I'm now 9 weeks and some days and the nausea is just constant and making me crazy and so tired. I haven't eaten meat in about a month and really no food sounds good at all. I force myself to eat and have lost weight but can't seem to eat. It's quite miserable, and without a bump it's hard to remember at times that it's all worth it. All of the usual solutions like dry toast, crackers and ginger ale also make me want to be sick. It's like the beginning of the stomach flu! I haven't thrown up yet, but have been close many times. Kind of forced myself to get a grip (I hate throwing up).

Anyone have any ideas?! When will this lessen? I'm getting desperate.

this is where im at too.. I'm put off alot of food right now I'm getting the odd few hours where I feel a little more normal but most of the time I'm feeling like i can't function. it is very draining when you don't know what else to do about it and I am forcing myself to do stuff like got to work and clean the house .. I'm 7 +4 now and if like the other ladies say (and like my previous pregnancy) it gets worse i dunno what I'll do x

 

[Sparklisam]

9 weeks too and struggling with it all.

I am drinking loads as my urine is so concentrated. Not sure if it’s xonnected but being dehydrated doesn’t help.

I can’t have long periods of not eating because I feel worse. An odd biscuit now and then or fruit helps.

I avoid getting hot as this makes it worse.

A good nights sleep helps and not over doing it. Tiredness makes me worse !!

 

[Abi88]

Another tip is try squash. I found it easier to keep down than water and the sugar helped with energy. I think I got though 1 big bottle of ribena a week at the worst of my sickness!

 

[Radleycat]

Go to your gp. They can prescribe you anti sickness that is perfectly safe to take in pregnancy. Initially this may be cyclizine, then if that doesn't work they can give metaclopramide and if that doesn't work they can give ondansetron. Not eating much in the first weeks isn't going to do any harm but if you are struggling with fluids as well it would be better to get a handle on this rather than struggle on. I was signed off from 7-12 weeks with sickness and even with the meds it still took time to settle. I'm 25+2 now with twins and still take metaclopramide in the morning as the sickness has never fully sibsided.
I know for some it disappears at 10, 12, 14 weeks but for me it didn't abs waiting for this mythical weeks made it all seem worse.
Speak to your doctor, its known that women struggle on and the last thing you want is admission to hospital due to getting worse xxx

 

[night owl]

I agree with radleycat above, often with bad morning sickness there is no mythical point at which it disappears and when I had it I was hanging all my hopes on getting to 12 weeks and it disappearing overnight and suddenly feeling great again as that’s what people were telling me, that didn’t happen, in fact on the morning of my 12 week scan id never felt more horrendous and couldn’t hold down the water you are meant to drink, I was still throwing up multiple times a day at 18 weeks, it was only after 20 weeks for me that it started easing off and I stopped throwing up throughout the day, only in the morning, even now at 38 weeks I still regularly get nausea
I found the food aversions the hardest - there was literally nothing which didn’t make me retch even thinking about it, I lived off sugary drinks, bread and chips for a long time which normally I don’t eat a lot of at all, anything else just made me feel like dying and I know that sounds dramatic lol! I didn’t get meds but I absolutely should have and if I ever felt like that again I would this time (OH was very against it and just wanted me to struggle on) if you are really struggling get the meds, and don’t feel bad about what you are or are not eating just eat what you can when you can and try to keep taking the vitamins xx