Morning sickness "mostly in mind"

[expatkat]

Check out this nonsense

What crap.

So when I was throwing up 11 times in one day I was imagining taht me sickness was severe?

Utter claptrap, I was throwing up before I even knew I was pregnant.

Me too, Furball. I went to GP to find out why I was having GI troubles, mainly vomitting. Never occurred to me I might be preg.

Have to say I'm not riled by this, because in my own mind I know these researchers are wrong, and I believe that someday morning sickness will be taken more seriously.

(Also the reporting could be exaggerated; I'd like to see the actual study.)

.....and me, mine was more rethching that actual sickness but thought I had a terminal illness, didn't consider that I could be pregnant!!

I bet they'd be a different result to this study if men had the babies. In fact, there wouldn't be a study because there would be a cure for morning sickness by now!!!

Same goes for periods and PMT!!!

BR

and tampons would be free!!

this is truly insulting. the only reality is that it should be called 'morning' sickness since most of us vomit all day long during the first trimesterd.

BOLLOCKS.

I was so tired before I realised I was up duff that most of my friends were incredibly worried about me. In the mind, huh.

Ok, well I am nearly 7 weeks pregnant and longing to feel it (lost two pregnancies very early on earlier this year). It's just possible that the nausea I think I'm experiencing at the moment is in my mind. HOWEVER this is not the case for so many women! A friend of mine had hyperemesis gravidarum (very bad pregnancy sickness)- she had a real struggle, there's no way she can have brought that on herself.

Didn't one of the Brontes die of acute morning sickness?

Didn't you know, it was all in her head. . . :0

can never get that one right - here it is again

Death by roasting on a slow turning spit over a raging fire is too good for these reseachers! How dare they!!

I haven't had a day of sickness with my 2nd pregnancy but my first pregnancy was a different story and I regularily and spectularly vomited!

hmmmmm so the fact i was vomiting from day one right up untill i gave birth, lost 2 stone, still weighed less than b4 i was pregant after i gave birth, that was all in my mind. if i ever have another baby i think i'll go and sit on some researchers doorstep and vomit on their front door each time. all in the mind indeed!!!

What a load of crap ... I am only just beginning to feel human again and I am 19 weeks ....
Just let me at 'em!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

These scientists are all me ARSE.They also need a good kick up it.
I have never heard such a load of crap in all my life.They must think we actually enjoy wretching and throwing up if we are imagining it.
I bet they got a nice whopping grant for that one.

Instead of researching this sort of crap, they should be researching other important things in life like cures for C which sadly Beetroot is facing with her friend and mentor.Also into a cure for my son and others on this forum with special needs children.

Utter nonsense isn't it? I woke up one morning at about 5 weeks feeling sick, and then spent the next 3 months being physically sick throughout the day - morning, noon and night.

Of course it's nonsense - but I do think the reporting has not been entirely fair. One version I read went into more detail about what they meant - suggesting that mothers describe their symptoms as "severe" when in medical terms they are perhaps only "moderate". However, describing it as "all in the mind" is so far off the mark as to be laughable.

Another case of the media misreporting science!

What the researchers actually said was not that MS is made up, but that the perception of it's severity is often exagerated. I can fully believe many women dash to doctor because they are concerned that even their mild retching will harm the baby. What the journalist put down as a headline was (effectively) "MS is made up". What journalist should have put down was "MS may not be as bad as you think it is" but that's too many long words for your average hack to spell properly.

Those of us who have truly severe MS are too ill to even drag ourselves to the GP, of course, which probably distorts the statistics.