To feel absolutely at the end of my tether?

[lostoldlogin2]

I am about 9 or 10 weeks pregnant (second baby hence lack of exact knowledge on how far along I am...)

I had no nausea with my son. This time.....I feel sick....literally ALL THE TIME. I wake up in the night with it, I feel sick all through the day and I just feel absolutely wrecked physically and emotionally. I am not actually vomiting much....3 or 4 times a week perhaps. ....but constantly retching. ....everything stinks and turns my stomach. I live in Spain in a city so it is 30 degrees and stuffy and I am honestly reduced to tears with how I feel.

People keep saying the following....
It will only last a few more weeks then you will feel fine

But it's just part of being pregnant (from someone who has no experience of being pregnant )

These things are often psychological. ...just stop thinking about it

HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER / GINGER BISCUITS ( fuckofffuckofffuckingfuckoff )

And also I feel like no one understands at all how emotionally exhausting it is.

Any experiences/tips from people who have been through similar? (NOT ginger biscuits please )

[Blatherskite]

I had 5 months of morning sickness with DS and a mere 4.5 months with DD! And then got pre-eclampsia with both and started being sick again.

Ginger biscuits only work if you actually like them ime and I don't! Sickness wristbands were equally useless for me.

Mints helped - extra strong ones or polos as they mask the smell of pretty much everything else around you so you don't react as much.

For the long, hot summer I was pregnant with DD, orange ice lollies helped immensely. Something about them cooling me down and being fruity really, really helped. It couldn't be ice cream, that was too thick and made me feel worse but orange ice lollies were amazing.

[NeedACleverNN]

Ah yes ice lollies. I used to go through a box of ice poles a week

[MadSprocker]

I used to ask people how they felt when they had a sickness bug, but imagine it for 12 weeks. I was only sick once or twice, but it was the constant nausea.

At one point salt and vinegar crisps and mini rolls did it for me. Everything else tasted like cotton wool.

[Blatherskite]

It was Del Monte Orange lollies for me NeedACleverNN. It made me feel better that they had vitamin C in them so at least I was getting something nutritious!

When things calmed down a little, I used to have one before every meal as it would make me feel so much better that I could actually eat.

[Eliza22]

And I agree. There's no such thing I only as Morning sickness.

[BeckyMcDonald]

This is my fourth and last pregnancy. Last only because of the horrendous sickness. You have my every sympathy. People genuinely don't get it unless they have been in the same situation. It's utterly awful. I describe it as being like the worst hangover you've ever had but permanently, for (in my case) 20 weeks.

I couldn't keep anything down before about 2pm. Then it was super noodles and Greggs corned beef pasties all the way. There are things I've been permanently put off because I tried to eat them in the first pregnancy 7 years ago.

This time has been slightly better because I've been really, really strict with my sleep. I go to bed at 9pm and don't get up until I absolutely have to. Husband gets up with the kids every morning. I also eat through the night (salt and vinegar crisps) and take on loads of liquids overnight.

It will get better. Please go to the doctor though. There's lots of things you can take to improve things though the only thing that ever worked for me was hospital admission

[PacificDogwod]

All-day-sickness is just horrible and I have yet to find any kind of logical evolutionary advantage attributable to it - sympathies!

You know you can speak to your GP/MW about it? There are medications you can take for pregnancy sickness. And hyperemesis is a whole other ball game...

[lostoldlogin2]

the thing is also I am normally super active - I box (muay thai) I am always out and about, I'm super social......I was a single mum with my son until he was nearly 5 (he is 5 and a half now - ahem - swift moves with new partner - engaged and pregnant after 5 months but I waited - no boyfriend at all really for 4 years and waited and met someone really special) , 3 jobs .....you get the idea...

I guess on top of the sickness I am also so frustrated by feeling useless like I can't do anything really. argh!

[PenelopePitstops]

I'm living on ice lollies and maccys cheeseburgers. I'm at 13 weeks now and it's called down a bit. Little and often is the key.

[vEGANvERA]

apologies if someone has mentioned it - but try gaviscon at this stage

my sickness was all related to heartburn!!

[swampytiggaa]

Carbs helped me. Potato waffles on plastic white bread with loads of butter got me thru.

Eat anything you fancy - don't worry about what it is x

[Tilliebean]

We were on holiday in Spain while was 7w pregnant with DD. Cold grapes did the trick for me! The seeded ones that were really sweet and Oreos.

[lostoldlogin2]

I don't have hyperemesis - thank goodness I can't imagine how horrendous that must be.

My problem is constant nausea with very little vomiting. feeling sick all the time but perhaps only being sick every other day and then only once - but retching.......dry retching ewewew

[lostoldlogin2]

I don't have hyperemesis - thank goodness I can't imagine how horrendous that must be.

My problem is constant nausea with very little vomiting. feeling sick all the time but perhaps only being sick every other day and then only once - but retching.......dry retching ewewew

[lostoldlogin2]

I don't have hyperemesis - thank goodness I can't imagine how horrendous that must be.

My problem is constant nausea with very little vomiting. feeling sick all the time but perhaps only being sick every other day and then only once - but retching.......dry retching ewewew

[allnewredfairy]

I nibbled on marmite sandwiches at work to keep nausea at bay.
Is it a single preganancy because I felt twice as bad with twins?

[AnyFucker]

You poor thing.

If someone had offered to shoot me in the first 16 weeks of my pregnancies I would have taken them up on the offer.

[Terrifiedandregretful]

I remember how truly awful it was. YY to grazing and not getting hungry. I kept crackers by the bed and had then through the night as well. I couldn't stomach water (it came straight back up again) so I sipped coke or lucozade. One week the only thing I could stomach was chinese takeaway. Luckily I lived in central London so could go to different one each night to avoid embarrassment!

[MatildaTheCat]

Have you seen your GP and requested medication? You can have hyperemesis without actual vomiting though to be fair you are eating and drinking so don't have it. Anyway, medication is effective and safe and there has been discussion in medical circles recently encouraging doctors to prescribe more to help with this misery.

Hope you feel better soon.

[OrianaBanana]

I completely sympathise - constant nausea, hunger and complete exhaustion. Still going to some extent (16 weeks here) but not as bad as it was. There were only a few things that didn't make me want to throw up: dry or thinly buttered crackers (sometimes with a bit of marmite); salted chipsticks; apples. But I had to be presented with them because the thought of them made me sick it was only when they were right there I could eat them. Sickness bands did sod all and don't mention ginger.

Drinking made me feel sick and I could only force down the very small folic acid pills, the great pregnancy horse pills would make me gag halfway through swallowing (not recommended).

Friends kept trying to list things I could try (like I just did, hah!) that made me feel sick too.

Have you tried your GP as suggested above? They might be able to give you something to relieve the awfulness

[theredjellybean]

100% sympathy
I was nauseated or vomiting for whole 9 months of second pregnancy ( first until 6 months)...

i tried those pressure bands and pressed so hard on them gave myself pressure sores :)

cyclizine worked but made me sleepy so couldnt drive or work..

acupuncture worked first pregnancy and a bit the second time.

My obs consultant said high sugar high fat foods...so full sugar coke, and lots of fat laden carbs...pity i felt too sick to enjoy it :0 but did stabalise it a bit.

my fave was cheese and onion pasties ..had to hold nose as smell made me vomit but if i got it down with a coke as well usually felt better for few hours.

At the point you are at, i actually contemplated a termination , as i felt so ill and fed up, and this was a very wanted baby !

[pillowaddict]

Very sour sweets, ice cold water to sip, plain crisps and toast were all I could stomach. Managed lucozade too with dd2. I did use the sick bands too, I think they helped a wee bit.

[Oysterbabe]

I remember the constant gagging trying to brush my teeth all too well.

[SaltySeaBird]

It's horrid. I did have some anti sickness medicine prescribed to me with my first pregnancy and in my second I found that slightly flat diet coke really helped and just trying to eat frequently. Unfortunately mine lasted pretty much throughout the pregnancy both times and I did get used to the feeling of feeling sick. It was amazing the morning after I had DS to not feel sick anymore!

[hellswelshy]

Huge sympathy from me, I had extremely bad sickness with my twin pregnancy!! Had it from 13 weeks to about 20 weeks. Survived by eating elderflower lollies, drinking milkshakes, and nibbling plain biscuits. Avoid opening bins! It did ease eventually but even now 8 years later I still remember the misery. One friend at the time even thought I was exaggerating my symptoms ...she had a sick free pregnancy and just couldn't believe someone could be so ill! Still bit cross about that tbh