To ask if this is normal?

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7 weeks pregnant and I am considering contacting my GP tomorrow due to the sickness.

I feel so rotten. I have been pregnant before and suffered morning sickness then where I threw up once every few days maybe and then felt better but nothing like this.

I feel sick to my stomach all day, every day and have done for about a week. I'm struggling to eat anything. The only thing I can manage is a few potatoes and a small amount of water, maybe a glass a day throughout the day.

I only physically vomit once or twice a day but the nausea is constant. I can't do anything. I've been in bed practically for a week and anything more than just a sip of water of a potato once every now and then makes me gag.

It's how I was with my 1st, although the vomiting gradually increased too - 10 + times a day 24/7. I was signed off work for 3 months and lived off dry rice crispies. This was 18 years ago though and things have improved. I started the same way with my second, but the GP was happy to give me medication. It stopped the permanent nausea, but I was still sick quite frequently.

Speak to your GP about medication.

Fairly normal in the sense of try not to worry. Good idea to discuss with GP.
I had this for 20 weeks with 3 children.
Unfortunately NOT eating makes it worse so a vicious cycle.
Try a dextrose tablet before you get up. I found this raised by blood sugar just enough to be able to eat something and went from there. Continue to take them throughout the day to help suppress nausea in order to be able to eat little and often.

Can you try something different other than potatoes?

I had this with ds1 and would eat potatoes as I thought they made me feel better. I was even having one for breakfast. I did feel a little better after eating the potatoes.

It was only a few years later I read that potatoes in pregnancy can make you feel better for a short time after eating them, but the full effect of eating them will actually mean you end up feeling worse after the initial 'high' that you get from eating them. I think it was down to the type of carbohydrate/starch.

Yes, it’s pretty normal during early pregnancy. Proper lemonade (madd out of lemon juice) really helps with nausea, you can get it at M&S. Crunchy salty food also really helps. M&S do pita chips which are ideal.

Thanks. I can try something else other than potatoes but it honestly feels like the only thing I can stomach eating. I feel sick at the thought of anything else! I can give it a go though.

Didn't know about the lemonade. I'll send DH to M&S.

I just want the relentless nausea to stop even for an hour or two. I'm struggling to sleep well because if it. I wake up often in the night feeling really sick so not having a good night's sleep isn't helping either I imagine.

Talk to your midwife, that's what they are there for. Give her a ring
It's really resort days and this could go into hypermedia or settle down.

In my first Pg (of 5) I could only eat cold tuna or rice pudding, coleslaw, the odd cubes of mild cheddar cheese, smoked salmon with raw spinach (3xweek) and drank milk in litres (!!) for the first 4 months. Nothing else except multivitamins. I vomited 3-5 times a day and felt nauseated constantly, carried toothbrush and toothpaste bottled water and plastic bags with me everywhere.

I still felt sick until gone 5 months but ended up catching up later in my pg when the need for steak and potatoes arrived (!!)c baby boy was off charts tall and weight when he was born early (long and skinny) and hit 6 foot age 14, 6'2" now and the healthiest boy I know. It didn't affect him, it was me that lost weight as they steal your nutrients! That's why you're tired. It's so tough but please get advice from your maternity team, you might not have seen midwife yet but you can ring your GP surgery to get their contact number

Sorry autocorrect changed a few words

I could only eat cold tins of rice pudding (no tuna, I wish I could have eaten tuna!) and at the start I said 'it's early days' (at7 weeks) not it's resort days...!

Thanks. I don't have a midwife via my GP. I'm under a special antenatal team at the hospital due to having 'high risk' pregnancies because of a blood condition I have. They haven't seen me yet though due to Covid and it's near impossible to get through to them, which isn't great but that's another thread, which is why I was thinking of speaking to the GP instead to see if he'd prescribe something.

I'll try the hospital again tomorrow. I've been trying them for a while now. I'm supposed to have scans at 6 weeks because of this but so far I've been unable to arrange one or speak to anyone.

Ps. I'm not concerned about the blood condition having anything to do with this which is why I didn't mention it to start with. That causes different problems relating to bleeding which I haven't, touch wood, had any problems with yet.

It just means it's hard for me to get through to anyone at the moment as they deal with all my pregnancy related stuff.

Email them?

Leave a message on their answerphone?

ask the hospital reception/switchboard to email the midwifery team- if you have that instead of a community midwifery team- to call you?

They're not replying as I doubt team assistants or team are in their office to get calls during coronavirus period

Most of us in specialist teams are working remotely if not on the ward , so that's how you get through to a hospital outpatient team- you'll get a call back that way

No I wouldn’t be concerned. Morning sickness is totally normal. I couldn’t get my head off the pillow without being sick for the entire one of my pregnancies. Ask the GP for some anti sickness tablets, flat coke helps too.

Don't worry, but speak to someone
I can really sympathise, I was in a very similar position. I could only drink water and eat bread/potato. I lost about 9lbs in the 1st trimester, despite being quite small to begin with. Baby was fine, it sounds awful, but they really are little leaches in the beginning. I was prescribed Metoclopromide 3x daily and Omeprazole. It didn't stop it, but it really helped, so don't suffer more than you need to, ask for help. Midwife totally fobbed me off, but saw a locum Dr and he was fab. Good luck

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I have already left answerphone messages at the hospital but they never get returned. That's on the voicemail that the switchboard puts me through to. I've never been given an email address but I'll try and find one.

Not much consolation I know but it is a VERY good sign of a healthy baby/pregnancy.
I had 3 healthy babies. The only pregnancy where I didn't feel as sick as a dog ... the baby failed to develop and I miscarried at 13 weeks.
Take care x

Have a look here. www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk

My heartfelt (non medical, I've been there) advice is to seek medication and keep going back to GP and trying alternative medications until you find one that works. The best way to explain it to people who don't know, is that it's like having Noravirus, except it goes on and on, at the same intensity for months and months. Please get help and ask for another GP if yours isn't supportive.

Phone your gp and tell the receptionist you can't eat or drink much at all because that sounds like how I started with my pregnancy and I had hyperemisis and you don't want to get dehydrated.
There's an excellent thread that got me through my pregnancy on here just search hyperemisis gravdium. My spelling is so off but they're really supportive and have loads of ideas for what to try to eat and drink.

The thread I just mentioned is called Hyperemisis support and @LucindaE is the one who keeps it going! Without her I wouldn't have gotten through it all.

I was eventually advised to take travel sickness tablets when it was really bad which seemed to help. Obviously make sure you talk to your gp before taking anything like that though.

Mine started at 6 weeks and stopped at 14 weeks with both my babies.

I used to eat crackers and ice pops/lollies too.

I get it though, it's awful!

I found ginger helped. Sipping flat ginger beer (non alcoholic obvs) and ginger biscuits helped. I had to force myself to eat.

I don't think it's unusual but I hear you.
Didn't Kate Middleton have this with her boy?
Hrth but seek medical intervention OP. It can't be easy

If you are keeping anything down, you are actually doing pretty well. It won’t hurt to talk to the GP. You may get lucky and it stops soon, you may come to be amazed at just How much abuse your body can take. I was sick daily for 9 months. My best days happened if I managed to eat a small amount of lean steak. I’m guessing other meats would have worked, but steak was the only one that remotely appealed. The protein really helped. The worst days were spent in the hospital hooked up to an iv.

Ginger really helped me (nibbling ginger biscuits, and I also started each day with a cup of hot water with fresh ginger in it). And I got some of those travel sickness wristbands and wore them all the time - that seemed to take the edge off for me enough to function.