Link between motion sickness and morning sickness?

[blueamber]

Hi everyone, I read there might be a link between having motion/ car sickness and getting morning sickness in pregnancy. I would like to hear your experiences to see if this is true.

I'm ttc now, I get motion sickness and I'm just being really curious!

[BoohPear]

I get motion sickness, always have. I only threw up once during my pregnancy and that was due to a migraine. I did have almost constant nausea though for the first trimester.

[kelda]

I've always thought this. Morning sickness feels very similar to motion sickness in my experience, and I've suffered badky from both.

[SpanielFace]

I get nausea from motion (rarely vomiting) and was exactly the same from 8-14 weeks pregnant. Imagine motion sickness that never goes away. Interesting to hear there's a link, I said at the time that it felt like motion sickness (rather than sickness when you're ill, if you see what I mean).

[CreatureRetorts]

I never had motion sickness until I got pregnant. Since having my babies, I suffer quite badly from it (but only on fast trains - am ok in cars).

My morning sickness could be kept at bay by eating certain foods. So if I had brown rice for dinner with a small amount of protein, I'd feel ok the next morning. I'd have protein for breakfast (usually eggs) then a small lunch with snacks in between I'd be ok. Also apples helped and never letting myself get hungry. If I strayed from those "rules" (eg white rice or pasta for dinner), I'd feel dreadful!

[CreatureRetorts]

(brown rice and eggs have a certain vitamin which may help with morning sickness I forget which. Supplements didn't agree with me).

[MurderOfGoths]

I get motion sickness and suffered from hyperemesis. The drives to hospital to deal with the hyperemesis were hell on earth. I always described the hyperemesis as feeling like a cross between motion sickness and when you've drunk too much.

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

I get motion sick on swings in the park!

No morning sickness for me, occasional extremely mild nausea which gave me the excuse to scoff ginger biscuits :)

[froggiebabies]

I've always suffered with motion sickness, on buses and on long car journeys. I had terrible morning sickness in both pregnancies. I had hyperemesis and ended up in hospital on a drip.

Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

[AllSWornOut]

I'm going to buck the trend and say I get motion sickness (used to get it very badly but tbf it has calmed down a bit over the last few years) but I didn't get morning sicknesses at all with pg1 and only very minor and short lasting bouts of nausea with pg2.

But it's interesting that there seems to be a link.

[CPtart]

I get motion sickness badly, literally vomit on certain modes of transport at times and also had bad morning ( all day sickness) too with both pregnancies.
I seem to be a very sticky person though. When drunk...yep, throw up then as well, and even feel nauseous if I mn for too long!

I always suspected there might be a link, a certain predisposition if you like. It's a horrid horrid feeling.

[TunipTheVegedude]

No link for me.

A year before dd was born I was in a yacht happily bouncing along in a force 5 or 6 with everyone except me on deck throwing up and me merrily frying bacon sandwiches in the galley.

3 kids, all with HG of varying degrees of awful.

[ChickenLickenSticken]

Yep - a link for me too.

And agree that thy two feel about the same.

[BettyandDon]

The first time I realised I was pg with DD2 was on a roundabout in the park when very quickly I got insanely dizzy and sick.

I've now had DD2 and can no longer go on roundabouts and such. I'm sure my sense of balance is shot too.

[BettyandDon]

I had extreme nausea but not sickness with both DDs. Only controllable with biscuits.

[nextphase]

Motion sickness here.
Didn't throw up in either pregnancy (til labour, then I spent the whole time hurling), and any mild nausea was controlable with food.

[Artijoke]

I get bad car sickness unless I'm the driver. I also had terrible nausea and some vomiting for the first 16-18 weeks of all three pregnancies.

[MsFiremanSam]

I get motion sickness quite badly and also suffered morning/all day sickness in both pregnancies, from 6-18 weeks. The feeling was exactly the same.

[blueamber]

Oh, it seems there is a link, although there are some exceptions. But I didn't know morning sickness actually feels the same as motion sickness!

[Kelly1814]

yes, i get terrible motion sickness, and had mronig sickness (no vomiting though)

any morning sickness was made ten times worse when in a car.

[HumptyDumptyBumpty]

Always had terrible motion sickness in cars/coaches/buses, never on planes, trains or boats. Now just getting over 14 weeks of horrid nausea on tube to work each morning - no vomming, thank god, but absolutely sure motion sickness is a contributory factor to feeling so rough, it was far far better at weekends when I didn't have to travel first thing.

[LateBear]

I get motion sickness; cars, buses, trains, boats, but had very little in the way of morning sickness, just some nausea from about week 6-7 but fine other than that. Having said that being pregnant has made my motion sickness worse!

[bruffin]

No link for me either really. I get awful motion sickness unless i sit in front of car but hardly any morning sickness. MS was a bit worse for dd than ds.

[justaweeone]

Never had morning sickness nor motion sickness
However I have a colleague who is receiving chemo for breast cancer and the chemo has caused severe sickness and she was told that if she had bad morning sickness(which she did with her 3 pregnancies )you had a higher chance of being sick with chemo.

[RedRobin1]

I suffered from motion sickness - cars, trains, buses basically any mode of transport. Also sea sickness.
And also if I drank too much and felt nauseous it would all come back up. Always vomited with motion sickness.

Pregnancy is pretty much the same. Horrendous ms and still mild nausea at 17w! Can't wait to have my body back when this baby pops out.