Totally debilitating nausea but no sickness

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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.

Aww, Scorpette that's awful. I had the same problem in my first pregnancy, I wasn't being sick much but had horrific nausea (couple with constant diahorrea).

The drs refused to give me anything until I ended up in hospital to be rehydrated after not eating for 3 days. Idiots!

Your dr sounds like a tosser, I would get yourself to another dr asap and REFUSE to take no for an answer. Tell them you are not coping and you need help, I bet if it was your dr feeling as ill as you she'd be necking pills straight away!

Yes I think a lot of us have been through several doctors that way...a different partner at the surgery may not fob you off Scorpette.

They usually do the first time you go in. You have to persist. The balance has to tip between safety for the unborn child in terms of toxicity (most of the drugs they can prx for this are not known to cause defects etc, but clearly they can't test for these things without unethical protocols so nobody has it in writing) versus safety of the mother and unborn child in terms of nourishment and/or mental health.

Once it tips over they will generally give you something. Be a nuisance, it's the only way.

Thanks for the advice. Have just had to change GP's surgeries, so perhaps they're fobbing me off because they don't know me yet. I'm normally very forceful, but it's hard to be pushy when you're trying not to vomit all over a Doctor! Think I'm going to have to go back and insist if it doesn't start getting any better within a week or so. Am now starting to find it impossible to keep any liquids, fruit or vegetables down (and managing okay with small portions of bland food) and am getting dehydration headaches. Yet I am still putting weight on! How is that fair?!

Esme I'd much rather be punched in the face than be sick any day - I'd rather have pretty much ANYTHING else than be sick actually.

I am just under 7 weeks pregnant and feeling terribly nauseaus 24/7. my partner is away most of the time which TBH I don't mind as do not really want to be near anyone at the moment as i feel dire. I would however love him to be home to look after the other 3 kids.

Thankfully it is sunny today so I picked the younger 2 up from their activities and sent the 11 year old in to KFC to buy their lunch, this was then put in the boot on the way home but as I have a hatchback car I could still smell it (sorry if this is making anyone more ill!).

All 3 of them are now eating said junk food unsupervised in the garden which by the sounds of things they seem to be thoroughly enjoying. Not their usual roast Sunday dinner but needs must as I too can't even bear to see or smell food at the moment. Am just wondering what I am going to do when its raining.....

Good to see I am not alone

Have had awful sickness with this pregnancy from about 6.5weeks onwards. Spent most of August in bed and barely moving - poor DH had to do loads and DS went from going to nursery 3 days a week to full time

Was signed off work with HG, even though wasn't actually vomiting that much as it was so severe. Went back to work last week but had a relapse after that - think it was all too much combined with doing the school run and was signed off for this past week

Hoping to go back to work tomorrow but am worried how it will affect me if I get too tired etc...I only do four hours a day but have to drop DS off, two buses to work, work (with no break as 4 hrs don't qualify although can eat at my desk etc), two buses home, school run and then see to DS until DH comes home

Was also eating every 1.5-2hrs just to ease the sickness and was v annoyed that when I went back to work, one of the managers said she was surprised I looked so healthy...I told the Dr that and he did not look impressed...I mean I'm hardly going to look thinner with all what I've had to eat just to ease sickness

I think more needs to be done about pregnancy sickness and work attitudes to it tbh - so many of us are really suffering and its bloody miserable!

Hi all another sufferer here.

Sorry to hear others are also feeling dire.

Scorpette - they generally do fob you off the first few times you go to the GP. In my first pregnancy, I had burst blood vessels around and in my eyes from vomitting, and they told me it was a sign that baby was doing well! Bonkers. Go to another doctor and get some meds, you sound like you have hyperemesis. Did they test the ketones in your pee when you were there?

Puss - are you feeling a bit better now? I remember reading one of your posts a few weeks ago, and you were really suffering. How many weeks are you now? I'm being signed off work tomorrow too, even though I'm smack bang in the middle of a running a group, have important things to do blah blah. I just can't summon up the energy to give a shit. I hope you feel better soon.

I'm on my second HG pregnancy,I'm 8 weeks and am on cyclizine, which tbh is doing bog all apart from knocking me out.
I can barely manage to be around food let all eat any of it, so am living off calypos and fresh air. It's the sheer misery of waiting weeks upon weeks for it to pass, is what is getting to me. From the minute I open my eyes to when I go to sleep, I'm either vomiting or have the griping nausea. On my worse days I have thought about termination, or miscarriage I'm throughly ashamed to say. It's not that I do not want the baby,
but just want a normal life again. Much sympathy to all, and I hope we all feel better soon!

June - Am 16 weeks this wed so at the magic 4 months mark. Haven't felt too bad today and have managed some cooking but I think this is because I've rested all week. Not sure how I'll be when back at work and its full on when I am there...will have to wait and see Not getting a great deal of sympathy but again, I think that's because people expect you to have lost weight and when you haven't, they think you are just faking it to stay off of work

I really understand and appreciate how you feel as that is exactly how I was feeling - counting down the days to the magic 12 week mark and now its the 16 week mark...felt sick 24/7 and can remember waking in the night having to eat, put sea bands on and then try to go back to sleep..in desperation I would watch my portable DVD next to my bed (no sound, just subtitles) to try and take my mind off it and help me to fall back to sleep!

It has really put DH and I off of having another one

I know what you mean Puss this is my 2nd HG pg and I am NEVER EVER having another child and if (god forbid) I have a miscarriage with this pg then DS will be an only child. I can't do this again.

Unfortunately I seem to have some kind of gastric bug, so I'm not even sure how much is HG and how much is just illness. Hopefully it's largely a bug and I'll feel better.

I have found a pregnancy trained reflexologist who will treat in the first trimester without a Dr's note, am trying not to put all my hopes on her but I am willing to try anything at all now. Hopefully she can see me soon & I will start a new thread if it is at all helpful, fingers crossed.

mrsbigw I've had reflexology and it's really helped me with hormone issues in the past :) Had it a few times in first trimester and helped then and had it again a couple of weeks ago (at about 18 weeks) and the few days afterwards I actually felt nearly normal for the first time in months for a few days. I hope it works for you (I know it does for some but not others). One thing to bear in mind is I can feel a little worse the same day as treatment or the next day (only a little bit though) but after that it gets much better. Let us know how you get on.

Pah! Pah!

Was telling colleague in work today how much sickness had been getting me down - her response 'you should be grateful'...i.e grateful to be pregnant

Now, I am grateful to be pg...it took two years to concieve this little one and we were just starting the fertility testing route when I fell pregnant...I'm grateful every day for it

But comments like that make me

People just do not understand!!

thanks for the reassurance angels1 I have my 1st appointment on Saturday & I really can't wait.

Grr Pussin thats like telling someone with salmonella they should be grateful for the dinner they ate, or someone with a hangover to be grateful of the wine! Some people just don't get it that you can love the cause but not the effect.