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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?!

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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 :(

maja00 · 11/07/2013 21:00

It feels like car/travel sickness to me btw.

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?

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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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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.

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.

Damnautocorrect · 11/07/2013 21:15

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

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.

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.

AuntPepita · 11/07/2013 21:18

Like a really bad, constant hangover. Ugh.

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.....

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.

FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 11/07/2013 21:46

From what you are all describing I think I am suffering from it now! I'm 6+2 with my first and for the last few days have had almost constant nausea. I haven't been sick yet and eating does help.

I refuse to complain though, it's taken me 3 years to get pregnant and I am conscious that plenty of others would kill to be in my position.

KeepTheFaithBaby · 11/07/2013 22:06

Yay Frank :) not for the nausea, I'm just so pleased for you!

FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 11/07/2013 22:11

Cheers Faith I didn't think it could be MS as it is literally lasting all day, but sounds like it is! A symptom at last!

WillYouDoTheFandango · 11/07/2013 22:16

Mine was exactly the same as CPtart's really puts you off getting rip roaringly drunk afterwards!

leelteloo · 11/07/2013 22:17

I'm really struggling with it at the moment. For me it's not actual vomiting: just constant travel sick/hangover feeling accompanied by a complete inability to do anything. It's all encompassing.

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 11/07/2013 22:26

Like being seasick with a hangover. Fucking awful frankly.

And it isn't like when you have a tummy bug and you get some respite after you vomit, the nausea just carries right on!

Worth it when you look at your lovely children though :)

Yamyoid · 11/07/2013 22:35

All the above are brilliant descriptions. I'd just like to add this: standing in front of the open fridge nearly crying because you are so hungry but the 'morning' sickness means you don't want to eat anything.
I remember taking a whole day to pack for a weekend away because I could hardly move.
It is miserable but soon ish forgotten.

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Nessalina · 11/07/2013 23:04

Wow. Sounds I'll know it when I feel it! How silly is it to hope to feel ill, eh? Symptom spotting is a nightmare, lol. I look forward to wishing it away!

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RaRaZ · 12/07/2013 07:28

For me, I was hardly ever sick, but had the most horrendous nausea. At it's worst, I couldn't look down - bit tricky when you have uni work to do and need to look down to write! - and survived on just roast potatoes for several days as I couldn't entertain the notion of anything else. Felt terrible all of the time and could barely cope with being in the car - journeys home from work made much worse by having to stop half-way for me to get out and get some air.

LittleMissGerardButlerfan · 12/07/2013 07:37

I was only sick a couple of times but in my last pregnancy I felt awful, constantly nauseous and nothing helped.

I went completely off all meat and even now 5 years later can't eat ham!

internationallove985 · 14/07/2013 00:05

God it was awful. Mine started from 7 weeks in. The only thing I could keep down was chocolate and coffee or all things. It was all day sickness for me and mine lasted right throughout my pregnancy d.d was worth it though.
I have heard that the more severe your morning sickness then it supposed to mean you're carrying a girl. xx

DramaAlpaca · 14/07/2013 00:29

For me it was like being constantly seasick - for about four months .

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