Totally debilitating nausea but no sickness

[pipoca]

Anyone else have this? I feel like I am about to puke every waking moment, but I haven't actually been sick at all.
I keep getting these hideous waves of nausea and have what feels like a lump at the back of my throat.
Had HG with DS and it started like this at about 7 wks (I'm 7 wks this Friday) and soon degenerated into full blown puking. Feeling a bit desperate..is there anything I can do or take? Sometimes I just want to put my fingers down my throat as it feels like it might be a relief to actually throw up, but I know from my last pg that doing that just opens the floodgates IYKWIM?
I can't believe how SHIT I feel and I'm not even being sick.
I am NEVER EVER being pg again as long as I live I just can't stand it.

Oh Pipoca, I actually could have wrote this, I am so so so so sick, without actually getting sick which I almost feel is worse. Im sorry, I have absolutely no advice as I too dont know what to do but am getting to a stage where I am desperate and actually dont know how much more of this I can take. I told DH hes getting the snip after this pregnancy as I cant do this again. Completely debilitating nausea was exactly how I was describing it.

I have meeting tonight and college tomorrow night (thank God Im off work at the minute) but dont know how Im going to get through them.

Im embarrased to admit that I actually have put fingers down my throat

I sat and cried for an hour last night

Just wanted to reply to let you know your not on your own and I will be watching this thread praying for advice. Hope your ok

6 weeks today and am sick since 8 dpo

Yes - I really sympathise as this was me 2 months ago - it's rough. I just had to lie in bed for weeks as moving or doing anything tipped me over the edge and I felt I would be sick any sec. I barely coped and just got through it. Can't offer anything to get rid of it I'm afriad :( I took presrciption drugs from 5 weeks to help nausea and it did help but still felt permenantly just about to throw up most moments of the day. I found lying down all day every day, sleeping as much as possible, eating little and often, drinking what I could manage, and taking every day as it comes and being pleased to being one day closer to the end was the only way through. I had a period of nearly 3 months where I barely managed to get out of bed and didn't get out of the house hardly at all in that time. I felt lonely, cut off, sick, exhanusted, miserable - I felt like I couldn't take it anymore and even though I am desperate to have a baby I felt like I couldn't go through this any more. I had to eat all the time and have gone up a dress size and probably a stone or so more than I should have done by this stage but had to just to get through it. I was signed off work for weeks (only just back at 20 weeks and struggling). I just wanted you to know you're not the only one but a couple of months and it should ease a bit. big non-nauseous hug

I totally empathise. I am in bed at the moment just too exhausted to do anything and what feels like relentless waves of nausea. I've been like this since 6 weeks but have never actually been sick. DP laughed at me last night when I told him that even moving my head or turning over in bed made me feel badly travel sick - he wasn't being mean just amused by the use of the phrase "travel" for moving my head 1/2 and inch. I do think though that it's impossible to understand unless you've been through it. Can't offer any advice other than sleep as much as you can, eat little and often and if you feel very bad just lie down and stay still as you can adn take deep breaths. Polos also help me and sometimes distracting myself with something (ironing, posting on mumsnet etc). I'm approaching 12 weeks so am hoping my bloom time is just around the corner...

I'm another one who had (and still does to some extent at 23 weeks) this horrible pregnancy symptom. All day, every day I felt on the edge of throwing up, but didn't.

The school run was the only reason I left the house and it was absolute torture, was terrified I would throw up in the playground and gross people out lol.

I still don't go out that much (apart from driving 200 miles to see my parents a few times which was hideous) and as a result I have ONE pair of jeans that fit me, I NEED to shop lol.

OP you have my total sympathy, it is awful and distressing to feel so ill constantly, I really hope this doesn't last too long for you, I will keep my fingers crossed for you.

I have had this and also had a friend who WAS sick for the whole 9 months of 2 of her pregnancies. We both did accupuncture and it worked. Hers was much more severe than mine and they actually left a tiny needle in her ear which was covered with a plaster. One night it fell out and she was instantly sick again until put back in.
I have found accupuncture amazing for blinding headaches I get too in pregnancy so may be worth a try?
Good luck, I'm pregnant with number 4 and at 12 weeks feel much better but still get the odd wave (moved house and haven't done accupuncture this time) but definitely the 12 week mark was a big improvement for me.

I really sympathise as I too had all day nausea up until a couple of weeks ago - I'm now 12 weeks. My mum got me some travel sickness wrist bands which eased the nausea quite a bit and made me feel more human. Not especially healthy, but I also found eating Starburst sweets helped too!

I had this from week four (the first day of my missed period..I couldnt believe it) up until 18 weeks. I am now 32 weeks and its come back a bit but nothing like it was. I remember at week 7-9 it was at its worst and I couldnt work I would just lie on the bed and cry because I was so terrified I would have it for the duration of the pregnancy and to be honest there was no way I could have withstood much more than I did. It was horrific! All these things about try ginger, arroweroot biscuits etc etc..NOTHING worked and I got sick of people offering well meaning advice because when you have 24 hour nausea you dont want to hear that there is something you could do to 'handle' it because if there was you would be! I totally feel for you, my pregnancy has been a nightmare I now ave SPD, looks like I have gestational diabetes too and have been in and out of hospital with preterm labour. Roll on November.

Another vote of sympathy from me... I am 33 weeks and still feeling awful most of the time and on anti emetics. Hope it passes for you though - it does for most people. Until then, just do what you have to to get through it - lay still as much as poss, eat what you fancy etc...

And I am not ever getting pregnant again!

I really sympathise - I was like this for about 6 weeks of this pregnancy.
I was actually sick with DS, puking 5+ times a day and in some ways it was better because I at least had that momentary relief from the nausea!

I found eating carbs helped, and I never went more than about 1.5 hours without eating something. It started to get better when I was about 11 weeks, and now at 15 weeks I'm ok as long as I eat soon after I wake up and don't let myself get too hungry.

Really hope you find something that helps and feel better soon!

Thanks everyone, you've made me feel a little better at least, although sorry so many other people are suffering too. It's nice to be understood, I really don't think people who haven't experienced it can understand.

DH is great, but I really don't think he gets quite how shit I feel. He does all the cooking and I am managing to eat, in fact it makes me feel better temporarily to eat something, but he asks what I want him to cook and can't seem to understand that thinking about food makes me want to retch!

With my first pg I was fine til about this stage (7 wks) then puked about 4 times a day til 16 ish wks and lost a stone.

I've been having a better afternoon with barely any nausea, unfortunately DS seems to be unwell and vommed all over himself in the car on the way home from visiting the GPs.

Can you get medication if it's "only" nausea and not vomiting and does it work?

I had lots of nausea early on and never got sick. I found wearing a set of travel sickness bands really did help! I had bruises from where they sat on my wrists cuz I left them on all day all night. :)

It's a relief to read this thread, actually, even though you all sound as miserable as me - at least I'm not alone and I'm not exaggerating.

I've had mild nausea before but this pregnancy is the worst and I have exactly some of things others have described. I'm just hoping it might improve soon as it's been getting steadily worse since 6 weeks (am 8 and a half weeks now). I work part-time and have my older 2 to look after when all I want to do is lie really still (or actually lean as lying completely flat isn't good for the nausea).

Am going to look for the travel sickness bands just in case they help actually.

My sympathy and understanding to everyone.

I am taking Cyclizine at the moment and whilst it does lessen the nausea to some extent, it hasn't taken it away completely.

My surgery is very understanding and allowed me to take the anti-emetic despite not being sick as I was hospitalised in my last pregnancy, so they agreed it was a good idea for me to take the medication to try to prevent the same thing happening this time. I also need to keep going for my 5 yo dd and the drs took that into account too.

Today though, I am in the mother of all bad moods! I have just had two REALLY good days with barely any nausea, so I made the most of it and went into town and generally was more active. Today I am back to feeling shit and it's upset me so much, I am fed up with this at almost 24 weeks.

Sorry for ranting on your thread , hope your ds is better soon. x

You have my total sympathy! I was so sick with DD, was off work for 6 months and spent a lots of that time in hospital on a drip. :(

Then someone suggested accupunture, had to drag myself to the appointment, at that time I couldn't even keep a sip of water down and was likely to be admitted to hospital again. Anyway, by the evening after my appointment I managed half a cup of soup! It took a long time to feel better and manage to eat again because my gullet was so sore and I just hadn't ate for the last 6 months (lost 2 1/2 stone) but I got there and the nausea was gone! Got my life back, managed to get back to work and even get married before the baby arrived!

No idea if it would work for anyone else (but have heard good things) but how I wish that someone had suggested it to me earlier in my pregnancy! Was £30 for 20 min session but it was the best £30 I have spent in my life and would have paid 100 times that for the relief it gave me! Good Luck!!

I was prescribed drugs at 5 weeks for nausea having not been sick but had been signed off work it was so bad. I don't have any other DC to look after (if that comes into thoughts of GP as to whether to prescribe). I just rang my GP in tears and she told me I had to go in if we were to consider drugs, which I just about managed.

I had reflexology a couple of weeks ago and felt great for a few days after - nearly normal, it was fabulous, but didn't seem to last long as back to normal now :( I think it's something you need to do regularly to have long lasting effect but lady is so busy I can't see her for another 3 weeks...

rocklover (waves) don't do too much!! This is the same with me - if I do nothing, rest and relax at home I really don't feel too bad but as soon as I do any more than I know is within my capabilities (ie going somewhere early in morning/a trip out for longer than 2 hours etc) I feel terrible again in the evening/next day or so while I recover. I'm starting to realise I just can't manage much and it's not worth it. I'm back at work an hour and a half a day but not really even managing that, and my mw talked to me yesterday about maybe even that is too much. Btw (hopes rocklover doesn't mind me mentioning this) have you had to fill in a 'vulnerable person' sheet on NHS with mw? My mw sees now I'm having issues with anxiety too and I had to fil in a special form so docs etc keep a special eye on me during pg/after birth to check I'm coping OK. I feel a bit of a nutcase now - and like I'm terible in my lack of coping with everything.....

Yes, there are people who have constant nausea which is really, really bad, and sometimes people consider termination because of it - much like Hyperemesis, in fact it's still called Hyperemesis even if you aren't being sick.

I had it both times, and had various drugs for it. Cyclizine didn't work for me, stemetil wasn't too bad, metoclopramide was probably the most helpful but I wasn't prescribed that, only given a jab of it once.

Staying hydrated is the most important thing - it REALLY helps, so don't worry about food, just try and keep sipping. I actually found ice cold milkshakes (just milk with some sweet stuff added, not thick milkshake from the shop iyswim) really relly helped as they gave me some sugar but weren't actual food. Couldn't stand the thought of bread, pizza, crackers, anything like that. I suspect I would have felt way better if I had been better at drinking, but I've always been rubbish at drinking enough.

People who have been into hospital to be rehydrated always seem to feel so much better afterwards for at least a few days. So I think if you can manage to drink, you will be on the right track.

I used to sip a glass of freezing icy milkshake and not eat for several hours - and it made me feel I could actually eat, after that. Hydration is crucial.

Good luck, and don't wait to start being sick - see your GP now, get something prescribed. If it doesn't work, get something else. Phenergan is usually what they start you off with.

X posts Esme - glad you're having some luck with the Maxolon! I think if I ever do have another baby I will ask for that from the off.

Also what weirdly helped was going out every morning (struggling out!) and going to get something really unhealthy from the bakery like a sausage roll or cheese & whatever thing. As soon as I had the first bite I was fine. That lasted about an hour or two. It was so worth it. Bizarre but there you go!

Esme I also have a phobia of being sick - it's made the constant nausea I had in the first trimester (and on and off nausea in second trimester) unbearable and my phobia has gotten much worse having to deal with this. I've been signed off alot too and really sympathise with feeling lonely - I do too! When I was at my worst in the first tri the hours and days just dragged and I thought I'd never get to 12 weeks. Someone on mn directed me to this web site:

gutreaction.myfreeforum.org/forum2.php

It's a message board/forum for people with phobia of being sick. It's REALLY helped me when I've felt so bad and lonely as they people there are all really friendly and caring and they feel the same way about their worry of being sick. There's also a fair few currently pregnant women on there too.

Hi everyone. Had a good afternoon and then felt v queasy again this am. Have dreadful sinusitis which I think is making it worse so went to the drs today and got amoxicillin, hipefully it'll help.

I spoke to him about drugs for nausea (I live in Spain) and he couldn't find cyclizine on his prescribing list and I couldn't remember the other names. He's given me cariban which is basically B vits. I had it last time but wasn't told how to take it , was tolds to take it as and when I felt nauseous, so totally useless. i'm gonna give it another go and look into accupuncture.

How's everyone else today? I'm feeling a little better, which is good cos I was beginning to wonder why on earht I'd got pg at all and that maybe our little family should have stayed at 3

Hi Angels! No I haven't filled in a form with the midwife, that being because I haven't seen her since my 16 week check up (not due againj til 25 weeks).

I was actually starting to feel a bit better at that stage so didn't feel the need to discuss things, but I may at the next appt as I have gone down hill a bit since then. I did tell her in my booking in appt that I was on anti-depressants for anxiety earlier this year, so she is aware that I have had mental health issues previously.

I get what you are saying about not doing too much, that's what I have put my "lapse" down to, that my body was just not happy with me exerting it lol. I am being crap today, I'm lounging about and I haven't even done the washing up or put the laundry away (which has been waiting for days lol).

I desperately need to go shopping though, I need some maternity clothes, I am surviving on one pair of jeans. I can't order off the internet as I need to try stuff on (maternity jeans my sister has lent me are too big). I just hope I feel well enough this weekend.

big hugs rocklover. I've been ordering stuff online but then having to send most of it back at it doesn't fit right . I have found most stores to a crappy limited range in their store and online is much better range. I know with next lots of things online you can ask to be delivered to store free so you can try on with no obligation to buy and you know it will be there when you get there.

I forgot I had an 'extra' mw appointment - I saw her at 15 weeks and she wanted me to see her at 20 and 21 weeks as 'extra' appointments as she was worried about how I've been. I think now I've filled in this form I'll have more appointments in general.

I'm starting to wonder if working is just counter productive - all I can manage is an hour or so a day and it means I have to MAKE myself rest for the rest of the day so that I have enough energy/don't feel too terrible. Just feels frustrating as if I was at home all the time I could just do things as I felt abvle and know I could rest for the rest of the day. It would also mean I could actually try gentle excercise with little walks etc, but at present I can't do that AND work. I'm starting to wonder if I'll be less anxious (so feel better) and more healthy in my lifestyle by not working.

I keep trying to think positive - at least I can now have good days so long as I take it easy.

Angels I am noticing the same thing about maternity clothes, more online than in store. I think I use up all my "good" energy doing the school run, weirdly the morning trip is much easier than the afternoon one. By 3 I have had plenty of time to think about how crap I feel and make myself nervous about going out again.

I am really annoyed that I am not doing much housework and weekends I find really hard as I feel bad not taking dd out. I have agreed to go and do an Asda shop on Saturday with dp and i am already dreading it, but he can't drive so I have to get us there.

I usually leave the washing up til after dd is home from school, so whilst i feel lazy, at least it gets done. I am also doing the majority of the cooking now, whereas it was dp before. I think when dd gets back I am going to have a blitz and do a decent amount of housework.

It may be a good idea to try and cut the work out if you are still not coping with the physical effort it is taking. None of this is your fault and you need to do what is best for you, it sounds like you will get support from your midwife with this.

For what it's worth, I think you are doing really well in a very difficult situation and it will all seem like a distant memory when the baby is born. :)

I'm feeling everyone's pain here! Will be 8 wks on Saturday with my first and it would be no exaggeration to say my life has been hell since week 5. Have gone from wanting 3 kids to telling DP that if it's not twins, then this one is going to be an only child! I feel violently nauseous all the time and since Sunday night, have been throwing up or having to go and retch over the toilet bowl a few times a day. I think it's the sheer evil pain of the griping that's the worst thing. Virtually every type of food seems unbearable and this problem for me is compounded by the fact that I have a wide range of food allergies/intolerances so what I can eat and drink were already limited. However, I have to eat every hour or so just to stop the nausea pains becoming unbearable! When the baby is born, I shall NEVER comfort eat again

I shake with nausea all day and night. In my dreams, I'm on boats, or have food poisoning or someone has punched me in the stomach! Just before we found out I'm pg, we'd planned and booked a romantic 2-day trip to London for my birthday at the end of October but we might have to cancel it and lose cash we scrimped and saved to spend, because I'm just not going to be up to it. Last week, I went 3 days without being able to leave the house (was made redundant in summer).

Am having acupuncture weekly and it does help, but only to take the edge off things. The wristbands also help a little bit too. Ginger, which I usually love, has been responsible for nearly every vomit I've done! I've asked my GP about medication - and I'm the sort of person who doesn't take anything for a headache - and I was dismissed with 'every woman feels a bit sick now and then', even though I was actually gagging over one of those paper kidney bowls they keep in GP's surgeries as I spoke to her and she had to help me out of the room, as I was bent double with nausea. Interesting to know that others have been prescribed stuff without vomiting non-stop, as my GP said that she could only prescribe for very serious hyperemesis.

This has taken me ages to type as have had to lie down, shaking, between sentences! Sorry it's so long; is just so good to offload with others going through the same thing.

gosh scopette - so sorry about what you're going through, but it sounds just like me a couple of months ago (except for the being sick thing - mine was predominantly terrible nausea). I also have food issues (veggie, can't eat gluten and avoid a number of foods due to IBS) and it's a nightmare - the only things I'd actually fancy were things I couldn't eat as they would make me ill with having gluten in. Still I find I can eat only a few things, eat nothing but that for a few days, get sick of the sight of it and can never eat it again and go onto something else - at one point I actually ran out of things to eat! Still now at 20 weeks I can't eat most gluten free breads or any gluten free breakfast cereal as they remind me of feeling sick and I can't stomach them. Yet I quite fancy things like coco pops (which have barley in so can't eat grr!). Hope it gets better soon.