8 weeks and food and drinks makes me sick

[Hyams]

Hi there,

I am currently 8 weeks pregnant and the dreaded morning sickness kicked in over a week ago!!

Currently i cant eat or drink hardly anything at the moment as all day every day i feel sick! The thought of food and drink makes me want to get sick let alone actually eating and drinking!

When i do get round to eating it always takes me so long to try eat as i just feel so ill.

Currently am getting sick 2 - 3 times a day with the constant feeling dof sick.

does anyone have any tips or advice i have research and tried so many natural remedies but its not working! Especially in this heat to i am really not feeling too good 😞.

Any help would be much appreciated xx

I found if I kept my blood sugars up I felt better. I ate something plain and dry every hour.

Thank you

Word of warning, it can make it really obvious to anyone who has been through it themselves that you are pregnant

Thats whats been so hard because the people i work with dont know yet and i dont usually eat at work so currently been starving and feeling more sick as not ready for questions yet 🙈

I struggled with morning sickness from around week 8 to 20 and then it disappeared overnight. I would get it most mornings until early afternoon. I always felt better if I made myself eat something, just in small amounts, distract myself and wait for it to go down. I also let myself eat whatever I considered most palatable even if it wasn't the healthiest and then make up for it when I felt better. Most of the time this was crisps at 10am :) not the healthiest of snacks but it made me feel better, could keep them down and then eat more nutritious food for the rest of the day.

Hope you feel better soon. Mine wore off at 10 weeks then felt great x

TRY USING ASIC TABLET. IT DAS HELP A LITTLE AND TRY NOT TO GET HUNGRY OR TOO FULL THROUGHOUT THE DAY

HOPE U GET BETTER

Ugh I feel you OP, for 2 weeks I ate nothing but plain pasta and water. Literally. Was awful. Try anything with ginger. Ginger biscuits eased my sickness feeling most of the time after 3/4 - was amazing relief. There's also lemon and ginger teas. I found smelling mint helped but couldn't drink it

I had severe sickness from week 8-week 20, most days I ate maybe one dry cracker and drank maybe one glass of water (teeny sips throuout the day) I was sick literally from 6am-bed time and nothing helped, doctors suggested having a drip etc for hydration and also prescribed anti sickness meds, if this happens with you PLEASE try your best not to take the medicine, as soon as they gave to me I did research and it can cause all sorts of problems for baby, they never should have prescribed especially not in my first trimester. I know the sickness is awful, I was stuck on the sofa all day, would be sick just from lifting my head let alone getting up, think yourself lucky it’s only 2-3 times a day.. it will get better, it will pass, and it is well worth it. I had it severe during both pregnancies but it still wouldn’t stop me doing it a third time. I hope it passes for you soon!! Be strong and don’t take the meds if they offer! Good luck!

@WorriedMum1987 please don't scaremonger like that. There are a wide variety of antiemetics available, a number of which are safe in pregnancy. You know what's really bad for the baby? A mother who is dangerously dehydrated and malnourished. It is people spreading "facts" like that who stop women seeking help when they need it most.

@MsHippo Oh don’t be ridiculous, or so rude. I had the drip, so did what I needed to. My GP prescribed a med in the first trimester that clearly stated on box to NOT be taken in first trimester.. hence me warning her to keep an eye out just in case her GP foolishly does the same. Not “scaremongering” at all tyvm.. just using common sense. She is lucky to only be sick 2-3 times a day, and I told her that.. how is that scaremongering?? Antisickness meds shouldn’t be taken in first trimester, but drips are fine for hydration if needed. MYOB if you’re just going to be nasty or offensive.

@WorriedMum1987 I wasn't being rude, I was was just making sure OP wasn't mislead. I'm not denying your situation, and obviously it's bad that your GP prescribed an unsuitable drug. But you've not even said what drug that was, and there are other drugs that would be suitable. All you said in your original post was "don't take the drugs!!", not "make sure you check you are prescribed something suitable for your situation".

There’s nothing wrong with the medication and it makes a huge difference. Also if you are really struggling you need your gp to check for dehydration. Before ee could do medicine and Iv drips for this, hyperemesis was a significant cause of death in pregnancy so the idea that you should be able to get through unmedicated is wrong. I have two healthy gorgeous babies and have worked my way through nearly all the different medicines for sickness in pregnancy to find some that work for me.
Also the packet guidance is not always the be all and end all. I recently asked the pharmacist for some hay fever medication and I’m breastfeedkng. There are none advised as safe by the manufacturers but the nhs says several are safe anyway so the pharmacist gave me one of those. It’s about the testing.

WorriedMum you are talking absolute horseshit

There are plenty of medications prescribed for HG and severe morning sickness that are completely safe
You think after the thalidomide scandal doctors would knowingly prescribe something which is dangerous?

Op,
Go and see your GP. You don't need to suffer

@MsHippo I didn’t state which medicine it was because after asking for a second opinion from a different GP I was told that absolutely NO anti sickness meds were to be taken during the first trimester, she is in her first trimester.. I wasn’t trying to scare her I was trying to make sure she didn’t make the mistake of not waiting until second trimester for drugs.. she can continue trying natural remedies until then surely..? Unless both GP’s were wrong? And I apologise for saying you were rude but I found you saying I was bad for being “dehydrated and malnourished” after doing everything I could/was told to by second GP, not to mention the fact that I had no complications and gave birth to perfectly healthy baby. I would never try to scare any expectant mother.. especially as I have worries of my own during this second pregnancy, I was just trying to tell her to stay positive and try get through it without taking less during first trimester..

@tenbob ok so when it states in box “not to be taken during first trimester” that is horse shit?? Because you know more than the people who make the medication right?? It’s people like you with your ill advising that convince people to take meds they shouldn’t. If the box says “don’t take in first trimester” then I think it’s pretty safe to listen to that advice

I absolutely wasn't saying you were dehydrated or malnourished! I was saying some women are scared to ask for help because they are worried about harming their baby and then become dehydrated etc. I have no disagree with you though, there definitely are antiemetics safe to use in the first trimester.

@WorriedMum1987 *I have to disagree with you

Worried, there is a difference between medication which is proven to be harmful, and not proven to be safe

There are many things which manufacturers can't state as safe to take when pregnant/in the first trimester because they can't back that up with evidence. Because it is unethical to do double blind studies on pregnant women
But there are also medications which doctors know haven't been shown to cause harm and therefore they can prescribe to pregnant women
This is usually because women took the medication without knowing they were pregnant, and went on to have normal pregnancies and births, so it could be concluded that the medication wasn't harmful

You don't say what you were prescribed nor what 'research' you did to conclude it was harmful (did you just read the box?)
Therefore it is utterly ridiculous that you should suggest the OP doesn't take any medication

And OP, please don't ignore the advice of a medical professional on the basis of a pretty ill-informed poster on the Internet who doesn't know basics of risk and evidence

@tenbob did you even read my posts?? No I did not just read the box, I saw another GP for a second opinion, and did my own research.. which I have already said above, try reading posts properly before going on at someone. The medication was Metoclopride, first gp prescribed, second gp said to not take, my own research ended with me finding someone who had two perfectly healthy babies, then suffered on third pregnancy and took this med and ended up having a child who was severely deformed, she blamed the medicine, I followed second gp’s advice to not take this particular medicine and wasn’t offered an alternative. You are more than welcome to give your own opinion but don’t try shouting your mouth off when someone else gives their personal experience of something.

Do you mean metoclopramide?

Routinely prescribed in pregnancy and widely shown to be safe
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/709802
www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/help/women-suffering/treatments/metoclopramide/

Now will you stop your ridiculous scaremongering?

@tenbob 👍🏻 Tell that to the mums that have suffered from taking it after already having perfectly healthy babies previously

Eh? You don't know how science works, do you..?

I had 2 healthy pregnancies and then loss
I drank a lot of apple juice before I lost that baby. Proves that apple juice is dangerous, right?

It's obviously very sad that your friend has a baby with issues but just because she thinks taking a medication that is evidenced as safe was the cause, doesn't mean she is right
Anecdote is not the same as data...

@WorriedMum1987 that's just like when people say "well my nan smoked 50 cigarettes a day and lived to 104, obviously cigarettes are safe". One anecdote does not prove causation. It's really sad that your friends baby wasn't well but there's no telling what caused it. In all likelihood it was one of those terrible things that just happens randomly with no real explanation.

Sorry @WorriedMum1987 but as PP have said, you are quite wrong.

Whatever you were prescribed may well have said that on the box. That's because any antiemetics prescribed in pregnancy are always done off label, because it is not possible to carry out clinical trials on pregnant women.

Posts like yours make me so cross because they stop women seeking the treatment they need. As you - and the OP - can see, the NICE guidelines on this state that treatment of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy should be aimed at helping the woman have as normal a quality of life as possible, including by prescribing the range of safe drugs that exist:

https://cks.nice.org.uk/nauseavomiting-in-pregnancy#!prescribinginfo

OP, look for the hyperemesis support thread on the pregnancy board in here, run by the marvellous LucindaE. Even if you just have 'normal morning sickness' and not HG, the women on there will have loads of accurate advice for you, and plenty of support and understanding. It's been going for years and got me through two HG pregnancies - both of which I was medicated for, and which resulted in very healthy babies.

Good luck OP.