To want to punch the next person who tells me their morning sickness cures!

[mummynumber2]

Because quite honestly if eating a biscuit before you got out of bed stopped you throwing up all day or if you were able to keep down all the healthy food YOU OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T HAVE IT!!!!

YANBU at all. Punch away

Seriously, I had hyperemesis with pg number one and severe all day sickness (but not as bad) second time round.

When I meet women going through the same it triggers such horrid memories that I often cry with them in sympathy.

I chatted with one woman on the phone and said to her that if anyone brought ginger beer, rich tea biscuits etc and all those miracle cures just to stuff them straight in the wheelie bin. She told me that her dh had been telling her off for doing just that!

Massive sympathy to you.

Actually if you think it would help then you could punch me (not too hard, obviously) :)

i had hypermesis X 5....people dont think it was so bad as i went on to have 5 dc....you do forget the misery!!

acupuncture did work....but expensive!

exercise worked short term
staying full ,eating often,yes worked. but i wanted the wrong stuff

but ultimately,it was only drugs that got me through.....last preg it was 28 weeks before it stopped

i never ate anything before considering what it would be like to throw back up!!

Ok, well monitor it. If you lose weight, find yourself unable to keep down fluids or stop needing to go to the loo, please call your doctor. You can get dehydrated very, very fast and there are safe pregnancy anti-emetics. The suppositories are particularly fun. Especially the huge dose ones that resemble torpedoes. Now, I shall annoyingly list things that did help for me. Huge doses of vitamin B12 (administered through humungous injection, but I believe you can buy tablets). Eating/drinking whatever I fancied whenever I fancied it, so a sausage roll at 2am was quite acceptable. I also lived on flat coke. Utterly vile, but contains calories, sugars and salts. Whatever you do, don't stop trying to eat/drink because you're afraid of the vomitting. It will make you feel worse. Also, one bit of information which I clung to was the fact that the more sick you are, the less likely you are to miscarry. Any flame in the dark, eh?

YANBU!

I didn't have hypermesis but had 24/7 ms until I was 24ish weeks. I literally was ill from the day after I got bfp.

I can't face ginger...it makes me want to be sick now and dd is 4. I lost weight whilst pg and was lovely and slim after giving birth [hsmile], helped by my craving for fruit after the sickness stopped.

I used to eat white food constantly, as it was the only way I could get through working and I had to tell my boss really early. Conveniently, the smell of the oven warming would set me off so I couldn't cook. That was the best bit!

We're ttc now.....I must be nuts reading this back.

Thanks zombie. I'm feeling so miserable at the moment am just hoping it disappears at 12 weeks. Is loosing weight the difference between Hyperemesis and bad morning sickness? I didn't really want to take any medication but I might book drs appt for tomorrow.

It's not just morning sickness that brings the helpful suggestions from old and young, male and female, though... general babyhaving makes you open season for 'assistance'!

I was so gutted that ginger didn't work the first time I was pg, I really truly thought it would be this magic cure. 'Morning' sickness really is the pits and hyperemesis is a whole other level.

I feel your pain. I'm sick on a daily basis too but once I've done it I only have to cope with the constant nausea and immediate need to stuff my face at times.

It will get better- even if you have to wait till baby arrives it won't last forever!

I had to put up with 20 weeks last time and at 14 weeks now it's no better.

I would like to punch the people who said it won't be as bad next time. LIARS!

Take care and eat any junk you fancy. That's my tip. :)

I think they class Hyperemesis as vomiting more that four times a day and losing 20% of your body weight. However, for dramatic purposes, vomiting blood, bursting blood vessels in your face/eyes, vomiting in your sleep and hallucinating will get you noticed. Until that point, some doctor's will assume it's all psychological and what you really need is to go for a walk. Despite not being able to get out of bed, or indeed roll over, without spraying vomit exorcist style. Puking blood/stomach lining on the consultants shoes is another way of making an impact. Good times

thankfully my queasiness pretty much evaporated at 12 weeks both times (it was much worse 2nd time too). I didn't have the puking though - you have my every sympathy.

However at 14 weeks I do still go to throw up everytime I brush my teeth - its a nightmare. I'm lucky to get 30 secs with the brush. My teeth are eeewww & my mouth feels dreadful. Tried to use mouthwash and that does make me throw up - can't even have a wiff of it now without the gag reflex kicking in.

Loving grapes & I can't count the number of times I've had poached eggs on toast for dinner.

YI'm 30 weeks and still like this only thing that helps me is Orange lucozade but you are being unreasonable wanting too punch someone they are only trying too help after all

Oh dear it is awful I remember it well! I was sick from 6 to 39 weeks between 5 and 10 times a day. I wouln't recommend actually punching anyone :0) but I understand the sentiment! In common with another poster I found that most people I spoke to who talk about ms never actually threw up (one who had the cheek to tell me that was worse! I politely pointed out that at least she didn't have to spend all day smelling of sick.) You'll find it easier if you accept (with gritted teeth) that you do become public property when you're pregnant, people feel quite happy to foist all sort of opinions on you......wait till the gory birth stories start! My ms didn't stop until after my babies were born but it does wear off for most people so hang on in there!

You have my sympathy and empathy on the morning sickness issue in general, but presumably you are moaning about it to people (I certainly have been!), and if so, what do you expect them to do?!

So yes, YABU, but I see the funny and horrible side of this too, so I sympathise!

Ok. I get that imbu! But you're allowed to be when you're pregnant aren't you?! And I'm not about to punch anyone, even if they do mention the g t words! I think Dornan hit the nail on the head. People I've been talking to in rl didn't actually ever throw up, they just felt sick so are convinced that Ginger tea etc. was what did it for them. When actually they probably weren't going to throw up anyway. I know people are trying to help.
I saw my sister at the weekend who, before she spent a couple of hours with me thought she cured her ms with biscuits!

zombie that sounds terrible, glad you got through it! I haven't got hyperemesis, although I do sometimes throw up more that 4 times a day it's not every day.

poor you-i really sympathise i had hyperemesis with my 3 pregnancies and it was a horrible time (and ginger made it worse!).

there are loads of things you can try i did and ended up on prochlorperazine tablets but they didnt take it away completely.mine went at 20 weeks.

its a horrible thing to go through i wish i had some advice that would help but i dont all i can say is it will get better at some point!

all the best

I had hyperemesis and had got my puking at work down to a fine art. Schlage card over the shoulder, wet wipe in one hand, discreet flush.

Plus this was SE Asia where people used to eat stuff with kidneys and fermented fish pastes at their table

It simply wouldn't occur to me to want to punch someone who offered a helpful (if pointless) hint. But I did used to get annoyed by a woman who passed my desk and criticized me for eating breadfruit -- because it was too 'heaty' (ayurvedic claptrap). But then this woman faintly irritated me before pregnancy.

Orange lucozade was the only thing that helped me too. There you go, that's two people on this thread that it's helped. Worth a shot?

You have my sympathy. I was cursed with a circle of friends who, whilst they'd all had babies, not one had suffered from morning sickness. They all thought I was an exaggerating whingebag.

I used to lie in bed int he morning, knowing that I had to get up, knowing that I would be sick when I did, knowing that really I should just get on with it. But I still lay there feeling sick for ages and putting off starting the day with a heave. It was daft, but so miserable!

With DD I started off being glad I had MS because I didn't when I miscarried. But it wore off...

You do have my sympathy, and I do realise that you aren't actually going to harm anyone . and at those who are ticking you off for wanting to, YADATBU (that is you are definitely allowed to be unreasonable) when you are pregnant and sick!

I was sick not just queazy and it is horrible and it can be anytime-of-the-da sickness.

There is a very very good chance that it will stop at around 12 weeks, I know that is little comfort now, but I am keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Good luck with it all.

I also had hyperemesis, right up to (and during) labour. It was horrible and nothing helped, including the medication. You have my sympathy, and YANBU at all.

YANBU and you have my sympathy, I had morning sickness (badly named, actually all day sickness) from before I got a positive test to 24 weeks.
Got totally sick of people suggesting ginger, etc, etc. Nothing really worked.
The best thing I got told was just after you've thrown up there's a 'window' of about ten min where you can stuff your face and you're body doesn't notice you've eaten, so that food stays put. Not a great solution but at least you get some food, and on good days the fact that you have eaten something settles your stomach a bit.