Best anti-nausea pills?

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I'm thinking of asking my GP for anti-nausea pills. I'm 9+5 and have gotten through it so far because I am off work - I'm a primary school teacher. However, next week is the last week of the holidays and I know I won't be able to go to work if I feel like this. But, I've never actually been sick, I just feel sick constantly. Would anti-nausea pills actually help? What kinds are most effective in your experiences?

I constantly felt sick too - but rarely was. I didn't want to take pills while pregnant so I used crystallised ginger instead. Have you tried that? Also I'd eat a couple of dry biscuits (e.g. Carr's) whenever I could stomach them - seemed to dull the queasiness for a while. Hope you find something that works soon!

I've been on several different for HG but they should work for nausea as well, from what I understand different pills suit different people so it's a trial and error process. I found cyclizine really good for anout 10 weeks but they have stopped working now and metoclopromide didn't help me at all.

I would agree that any form of ginger is worth trying and often helps. Good luck!

Another vote for cyclizine.

Seriously, you people advocating ginger - wtf? Do you think that'a breaking news? Do you think OP will read that and think "oooh, ginger, I wish someone had told me before".

ginger didn't help AT ALL for me. I tried everything the books/internet suggested for non medical ideas but nothing really helped.

I'm now 11 1/2 weeks and still on cyclizine (been on it since week 6). It has really helped me. It's no wonder pill though so don't expect to feel completely better, but I generally felt less extreme nausea so frequently and it helped me sometimes to eat a few more foods (I still had 2 weeks whilst on it when I could eat nothing but jam sandwiches and crisps and I had to spend most of the day in bed as I felt I would be sick any second). It also made me extremely tired for a few weeks until I got used to it. I also mainly just had really bad nausea without much sickness.

Eating wise I found what went down well one day made me sick the next. Initially I thought 'well, if it helped yesterday, it must help today' and forced it down, not a good move!

If it helps I had my worst week (so far.....touch wood) around where you are, then it did start getting better. I had 7 weeks where I didn't go out of the house. It's only this week I've started making (very small) trips out and hope it keeps improving.

Thanks for your answers everyone.

I have tried everything non-medical. I cannot stand the taste of ginger, but nonetheless have forced it down in various forms. Makes no difference.

I think I'll try and see the doc as soon as they'll see me and ask for the pills. I'm not keen on pills when pregnant either but have struggled through this for 4 weeks and don't feel like I can go on like this much longer.

I think there are some threads for support for HG, sounds like you have that. Non-medical - have you tried acupuncture, supposed to be like a miracle for some people?

People suggesting ginger and dry crackers clearly have NO IDEA what severe all day morning sickness is like! If you can sort it out with crystallised ginger or sea bands then frankly you never had severe sickness to start with.
I have a combination of cyclizine and metaclopromide which I still have to take every day at 31 weeks, but I haven't actually been sick for weeks and feel much better providing I keep eating regularly. I think the secret is to take the meds to make sure you can keep food down, and then keep eating regularly to make sure your stomach doesn't empty out. Even on both cyclizine and metaclopromide I feel very sick on an empty tummy. Cyclizine and and metaclopromide are both safe to take in pregnancy.

Another vote for cyclizine here.

Promathazine did nothing at all for me (except give me some lovely psychadelic dreams!)

Cyclizine is about as safe as it gets - even then my doctor didn't want me taking it daily - just when I couldn't go on. I was still taking it until birth and actually had ms and threw up the day I had him. :(

skihorse - that's a bit harsh! No, of course I don't think ginger is "breaking news", it just helped me -as did the dry biscuits - and the OP describes a morning sickness similar to mine (feeling sick constantly without actually being sick). That's all, just trying to help.

Gosh, think people are being a bit harsh I have to say, emma People are just trying to help and offer all kinds of different things that may or may not have worked for them.

I have severe sickness and had it last 3 pg#s too and sometimes the simpler methods have helped, doesn't mean, I've never experienced true sickness.

Thing is Op is actually looking for remedies to nausea as she's not actually vomitting so therefore advice and suggestions would maybe be different.

All day nuasea is no joke belive me, just cos we don't have our heads down the loo 24/7, doesn't mean it doesn't make us feel like shit, I can barely function come 5pm as it's so bad.

I was prescribed prochloroprazine - it was useless except for a placebo in the first day.

I also think that someone going to the lengths of thinking of getting anti-nausea meds from the GP has probably tried all of the non medical methods. I know I tried everything.

Poor you. I was terribly nauseous too, and spent 6 weeks on and off in hopsital with hyperemisis. I coudl barely function for t

Hospital and GP were great. Metroclopromide worked for me in the end. Be prepared that some more "old guard" GPs may be wary of/may not prescribe anti-emetics (anti nausea pills) as they remember Thalidomide. I burst into tears on one of my GPs partners (60s) when he refused me more metroclopromide, but did sign me off work for a fortnight. From then on I stuck to my own GP (40s).

I also found that melting an ice cube on my tongue helped. And toast and marmite - Vit B maybe?

I agree liahgen66. Although I was only sick three times, I had delibiltating nausea until 14 weeks (now 26). I tried everything I could get my hands on including fresh ginger grated in hot water. It did temporarily ease the stomach pains but was by no means a cure. I was annoyed when people suggested a ginger biscuit though - this would never take the edge off the kind of nausea that comes with pregnancy!

Looking back on it I think the only thing that ever helped me was sleep. I know it's impossible when you work full time to just go for a little lie down, but get into bed as soon as you get home from work and stay put.

I spoke to my doctor about the drugs and because I wasn't being sick he was reluctant to give me any. I chose to ride it out and stay in bed whenever I could. Hopefully for most people ms only lasts until 12 - 15 weeks ish so there is light at the end of the tunnel - although I didn't believe it at the time.

Hope you feel better soon.

the OP is asking about prescription medication from her GP. Anyone who has read a single book about pregnancy knows about ginger/dry crackers/vitamin B6/seabands etc. Presumably she has already tried all that. Most pregnant women don't get to the point of resorting to drugs until they have tried everything else.
I maintain that if you have severe morning sickness then NOTHING except prescription medication and trying to eat little and often will help you. Presumably the OP is asking this question because she has not been able to get relief from anything else.
You have no idea what its like to have someone cheerily suggest ginger to you, as though you haven't already thought of that, when you are completely unable to get out of bed you are so sick. I might be being harsh - but I would rather be accused of that than of being insensitive and patronising!

I would see how u get on in the next few days. If you still feel really rough ask ur doctor to go through all the tablets with you. I found that none of them worked and it was only when i was in hospital and was given ondasatron that i finally stopped feeling sick. It is a long long process if u have Hyperemesis G and all i can say is i hope you get better and dont develop it as i have have had it for the last 7 months and been on meds since the beginning. Beware though they dont like giving ondansatron out as its major expensive on the nhs.
hope this helps and u feel beta.

EmmaKateWH - I totally understand where you are coming from. However the OP may not have tried other measures. I found seabands in my 4th pregnancy and what a difference they made. I progressivley felt sicker with each pregnancy however I was very lucky that it never went beyond 16 weeks. I was 'lucky' in that I was actually sich which in some ways made me feel better. I would eat, be sick, and eat again. My 4th pregnancy was by far the worst. I was given stemetil but it didn't work. Seabands out the chemist did.

I have had terrible nausea since the very beginning. I have not been sick, but often feel as though I could be, get all faint and clammy and getting through work is a trial. I am now 25 weeks and although I am coping better, I still feel quite sick.

I have had a very understanding doctor who prescribed Promethazine, which I agree, does not stop the nausea completely, but it does take the edge of things enough to get and get through the day. Anyone who suffers nausea (whether you are actually sick or not) has my complete sympathy and I know how awful this is. I tried ginger, did nothing, tried the travel bands, which may have helped a little, but not nearly enough to help me actually move from my bed or the sofa...

Just be persistent with your doctor and change doctors if you are not happy with what they tell you!

Good luck