D&V bug at 13 weeks

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I felt absolutely dreadful on Wednesday, shivers, incredibly bad nausea, then really really sick, with diarrhea all night and into Thursday. I am just over 13 weeks.

I'm fairly sure it's a bug rather than pregnancy-related sickness (though so far the dc and dh not got ill but there were bugs going round work and at the dc's nursery). I haven't felt so bad with the pregnancy nausea I've had, haven't actually been sick and not had that kind of watery diarrhea or shivers.

I'm feeling better now, slowly building back to eating normally. I'm exhuasted, obviously, and weak but that's to be expected. However, I have an incredibly uncomfortable feeling in my tummy and generally don't feel great. Could be normal recovery-after-a-bug or normal having-had-a-bug-in-pregnancy, I don't know. But it's making me wonder, should I see a gp or speak to someone? Would you?

It's my 3rd pregnancy so I'm fairly laid back about pregnancy niggles and aches & pains, etc. Just wondered if I'm being too laid back and if there are issues about having a tummy bug in pregnancy that I'm ignoring?

Noticed your thread falling down the page and didn't want it to go unanswered.

Out of pregnancy I avoid the GP surgery like the plague. While pregnant I'm there immediately. Taking a slight risk and putting it off when there is only you to think about is fine but the worry alone at ignoring it is not worth it, much better to be reassured.

However, since it is Saturday night and the out of hours service can be useless my first point of call would be NHS direct (0845 4647). If it is nothing to worry about they will tell you, if they can't tell you over the phone that its nothing then its worth a GP visit.

You're probably right and its nothing but wouldn't you feel better being reassured? I know 2 weeks ago MNers were fantastic at reassuring me when I was having bad stretching pains mixed with a pulled muscle. They made me less worried but my local delivery suite and my GP made me feel even better :)

Thank you! I probably shouldn't have posted on Saturday night.

Feeling better this morning actually but might ring NHS direct today then.

Did you phone NHS direct? Have the reassured you that everything is fine or instructed you to contact your GP?

I had horrible vomiting bug at about 13 weeks with DS. Couldn't keep anything down at all for about 48 hours.

I did phone nhs direct (was a bank holiday weekend, natch) and they said that the baby would be fine (which he was) it was just me who would suffer. They said if it carried on I should see my GP but it did stop. Was especially annoying as my morning sickness had just stopped

natch I had it last weekend (14wks): d & v, cramps, temperature and shivers, really nasty - I was crying for my mum!

I got exactly the same advice as noah and my symptoms stopped after about 6hrs, made sure I drank water regularly.

Hope you feel better soon. It's taken me a week to feel interested in food again.

Thank you for the feedback! I felt much better on Sunday so didn't phone but sounds like should be fine - I was sick once, felt rotten for that night (managed to sleep but waking with diarrhea) but fine since then.

Still not too keen on food though