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What does Morning Sickness feel like?

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Nessalina · 11/07/2013 20:58

It might sound like an odd question, but in TTC I've been symptom spotting like mad, and I was wondering what genuine morning sickness feels like? Is it like indigestion? Or like a tummy bug? Does your stomach gurgle?! Can anyone help me out so I know which symptoms to obsess over?! Shock

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ShowOfHands · 11/07/2013 21:19

It's was almost nothing to do with my stomach at all. No stomach cramps, no churning, no need to empty it of an irritant. The urge to vomit seemed to come from somewhere around my throat and chest and the nausea/sickness just pulls up whatever happens to be available into whatever receptacle was available at the time. It isn't a relief either. Not in the way vomiting with a bug is. It's just this weird shit your body's doing unbidden and without reason.

rempy · 11/07/2013 21:18

Constant nausea. Unable to deal with smell of pretty much anything, including your previously favourite perfume. Literally gagging on breakfast. Constant nausea (oh, said that). Vomiting when you brush your teeth. Having to leave a restaurant when the person sat next to you ordered lamb.....

AuntPepita · 11/07/2013 21:18

Like a really bad, constant hangover. Ugh.

CPtart · 11/07/2013 21:16

Indigestion? A tummy bug??
Ha! No it is far worse than that. Think a combination of travel sickness and bad hangover....constantly, like a feeling that you're slowly being poisoned, and the only respite is sleep.
Horrendous.

KeepTheFaithBaby · 11/07/2013 21:15

Thinking about it I got normal pre-AF cramps but not stomach ache like TheBusker says. You know with a bug you get stomach pain as a warning. With ms it was instant nausea/sickness.

Damnautocorrect · 11/07/2013 21:15

It was a different feeling to being ill/drunk. For me it was literally just bouncing drink/ food

ShowOfHands · 11/07/2013 21:15

It's utterly senseless in some ways. I didn't feel 'ill' in the way you would with a bug. Sometimes it was a trigger like moving my head up and my throat would contract and I'd vomit. Or a smell or a sight would make me dry heave or vomit out of nowhere. Sometimes brushing my teeth would hit a nerve and I'd start to gag.

At its worst, food in all its forms caused me to gag, retch or vomit due to its smell/appearance but without feeling ill. It was a very visceral reaction to the world around me.

TheBuskersDog · 11/07/2013 21:10

It's not like a bug or indigestion because you're not in pain, just feel like you are about to throw up and of course for some people actually being sick.

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Nessalina · 11/07/2013 21:05

I'm only cd20 Keep, so way too early for MS I think, but my stomach has been out of sorts, just a bit blah and not fancying my usual food. Just got me thinking what the real deal would feel like!

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KeepTheFaithBaby · 11/07/2013 21:01

I think it depends on you and your pregnancy. For me it came out of nowhere to start with, cleaning products at work made me think help I'm going to be sick. Then I got waves of nausea. Smells and certain foods triggered it off.
Where are you in your cycle?

maja00 · 11/07/2013 21:00

It feels like car/travel sickness to me btw.

maja00 · 11/07/2013 21:00

You'll know if you have MS - nausea and vomiting!

In my first pregnancy I mainly just had horrible nausea from about 6 weeks. This time I am 7 weeks and have thrown up for the first time this morning :(