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Coping with nausea

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shufflebum · 15/02/2011 16:12

Any tips? I can't remember it being this constant first time around. The only thing that seems to help is constantly eating but I'm going to be the size of a house before long. I'm only 7 weeks and starting to show already!
I've been eating some ginger gummy bears from Holland and Barratt which are rather nice but not actually helping, is there anything else that is good? I have to work tonight and am not looking forward to it, tired and pukey and have to make conversation and pretend like nothing is wrong!

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adamomma · 15/02/2011 16:44

Hi shufflebum

I'm afraid I can't offer much advice just sympathy. I'm a week ahead of you with my 2nd and I find that the only thing that makes it bearable is sitting perfectly still. Which, with a 2 year old to look after is not so easy. But having to go to work and have an ADULT conversion, I feel for you!

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that it goes away soon.

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shufflebum · 15/02/2011 16:57

I find if I'm busy I forget about it, but the second I stop and think about it bleurgh! DS has kept himself amused this afternoon bless him so I've just got on with jobs (and been on MN )

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citymonkey · 15/02/2011 17:04

I'm 9+3 with my first baby, and I also find the only time I feel less sick is when I am in the physical act of eating. I never actually feel like eating though, so I am not finding myself eating more (the opposite in fact), and the second I stop eating it is business as usual.

I have tried ginger cordial, ginger beer, ginger tea, travel bands (which am now wearing all day, though pretty hard to tell if they're doing any good), flat coke.. none of those have had any notable impact.

So grim.

I don't know if there is anything (aside from drugs) which actually can alleviate it. I am not actually being sick (though a lot of the time feel I am about to vom any second) so shouldn't really complain I guess. My sister vomited all the way through her pregnancy, was hospitalised three times (hyperemesis) - I cannot imagine what that must have been like...

pinkyblueish · 15/02/2011 17:08

Although ur all struggling, its so nice to see someone is in the same boat as me, cos when its just me and the toilet bowl at 5am until mid afternoon, i feel ever so lonely :o(

FluffyDonkey · 15/02/2011 17:28

I'm struggling too.

Am also tempted to tell work because I like being able to moan when I'm ill but I'm going to resist the temptation (5 weeks left until scan)

I find eating constantly works pretty well, except now I must have reached my limit because even the thought of food makes me queasy.

Have also put on weight but know it can't be the baby cos he's only about 5mm right now . Healthy food just doesn't work as well as junk!

nancerama · 15/02/2011 17:42

I found green crunchy things worked for me - apples and celery sticks. Bizarrely these are things I usually don't like AT ALL! Toothpaste on the other hand set me off, which made morning and night time fun.

Everyone is different, but constantly munching on something seemed to help me too. By 14 weeks the worst of it had passed. I hope this yucky feeling shifts for you soon.

citymonkey · 15/02/2011 18:38

Actually I've also found that I am eating A LOT more fruit than usual. I think it might be something to do with juciness? My mouth is always dry.

lolajane2009 · 15/02/2011 18:40

i am 10wks have morning sickness and found eating makes it worse and it gets worse the later in the day it gets. nice to find other people suffering though.

Crawling · 15/02/2011 18:45

I am on my 3rd and always get bad MS I find sitting with a window slightly open (and heating on in this weather if you are going to be having a window open).

Also try taking your prenatal vitamins before bed so it is absorbed overnight really helps.

flamegirl77 · 15/02/2011 21:37

Rich tea biscuits help me, they are so bland (in a good way) I can nibble away on them. I'm also avoiding cooking or other strong smells if I can - they set me off. Good luck and congratulations!

Yaya70 · 15/02/2011 21:39

Most of the time nothing helped for me, I'm afraid. But things that occasionally did help were crisps (strong flavours like salt and vinegar or smokey bacon) or sucking polo mints (spearmint) or other hard sweets. And bananas.

TransatlanticCityGirl · 15/02/2011 23:18

Not something you hear about that often, and not obvious, but a few things that helped me were:

Drinking plenty of water
Getting plenty of sleep (I was on min 9 hrs per night)

(really those things made a massive difference!!)

And of course your usual suggestions:
Ginger with everything
Eating lots of small portions, never have an empty stomach
Eating a cracker before you get out of bed in the morning and last thing before you fall asleep

Ivegotmrbitey · 16/02/2011 09:42

I am out the other side of MS, one day it just stopped! I just couldn't let myself get hungry. Even while being sick my husband would be making me toast and marmite and as soon as i took a bite it would stop. I carried ritz crackers in my handbag and ate them whenever I started to feel queasy and also kept them on the bedside table. If I ate them before drinking anything when I woke up that tended to settle me.

I also ate a huge number of boiled sweets, my dentist gave me some good advice yesterday about this; if you can't brush your teeth after sweets, or if you are over brushing them, eat some hard cheese afterwards. The cheese neutralises the acid in your mouth and protects your teeth. I am edilghted to have a carte blanche to tuck into cheddar!

And again, don't let yourself get tired. I would always puke if I stayed awake past eleven o'clock.

Hope you feel better soon, the only other thing I can say is that it has stopped I feel superhuman and more healthy than I have felt in my life!

MrsCLH · 16/02/2011 10:05

Oh man I am feeling all your pain! I am seriously unproductive at work, I can't concentrate cos I feel too sick, its really worrying :-(

Eating helps though like everyone else has said. When I am actually eating it goes, 5 mins later its back! Am 8 weeks and think I have gained about 5 pounds already, am trying not to go near the scales to be honest!

Couldn't agree more about the sleep thing, its ten times worse for me when I'm tired.

megansmummy1 · 16/02/2011 15:44

could have written each of these myself so its obviously normal, but god its hard. i barely suffered at all with DD but this time, its from the second i wake til i fall asleep and nothing seems to help, put on so much weight that i am in maternnity wear at 8 weeks!
not connected the tiredness thing before, will be in bed by 9 tonight lol

BuzzingNW3 · 16/02/2011 17:21

i'm 14 weeks now and up until about10 weeks i had terrible nausea.
I found Ginger beer (non alcoholic of course) really helped.
The one that was best was an organic one from the local deli it was REALLY strong tasting and must have had a lot more ginger in than the shwepps, for example. I found it really did the trick and lasted a good part if the day.
Good luck, it's so unpleasant but mine went so hopefully yours will do soon xxx

hazelnutlatte · 16/02/2011 18:45

Another tip (learned the hard way by me this morning) is to eat things that don't taste too bad on the way back up! Lucozade and plain crackers seem to work well - cheese and onion crisps do not!
Once I've actually been sick I do feel a lot better - although my daily lunchtime vomiting sessions can't be doing me much good.
I'm 8 weeks - someone tell me this won't go on for much longer please.

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shufflebum · 16/02/2011 20:13

Glad to know I'm not alone but sorry to hear so many of us are suffering. I've not actually been sick and don't think that I will be I just feel queasy all the time.
Today I've just grazed constantly and tried to keep it healthy and that's been a bit better but have just guzzled a bag of percy pigs as was craving junk!

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GroovyRach · 16/02/2011 20:32

i was starting to feel like i was alone with this! last few days have been awful. sick atleast twice in the morning and not feeling at all normal till 2pm in the afternoon! the other morning i got up an hour earlier for work than normal as i knew i would be sick a few times while getting ready. add to that a 40 minute car journey to work which was just awful! i did however get a great sleep last night and i woke up this morning feeling fine. was waiting for it to hit me! i did start to get hungry and knew if i didnt eat the feeling would come so i had toast and scrambled egg. i dont know what i done differently today but i hope it keeps up! i dont think i could get through months of this! happy thoughts to all x

Tamashii · 16/02/2011 21:08

Hi from the October bus FluffyDonkey crawlin !

I totally feel for you all too. I have been SO sick it hurts. I remember suffering really awful morning sickness with DS but I can't remember when it started, how much of the day it took up and if/when it went away to a great extent.

I am 8 weeks now too so I have a feeling it will be like this for the next 4 weeks anyway. 14 weeks is actually ringing a bell for me too for some reason.

Sorry I have no good advice but it is nice to know you're not alone in this isn't it?

bug9 · 20/02/2011 13:05

Hi all.

I know exactly how you feel.
All in all I have lost 1st 7pounds with the sickness. it was all day and i couldnt keep anything at all down. it started at 6 weeks and has literally only this week started to slow down (week 14)

I found that putting my mind on anything else made is atleast 50% better. if you really start to think about it, the sickness is exsasibated..( if thats how you spell it)

I found milk was quite good, especially after actually throwing up, much better than water. ginger did NOTHING for me at all.. but twinings fruit tea.. the strawberry and mango one, was a godsend!!

Atleast rumor has it that the sicker you are the healthier the baby.. fingers crossed and congratulations!!

LittleMissSnowShine · 20/02/2011 13:36

I had horrific hyperemesis from week 8 to about week 16. I could hardly keep anything down and I was basically stuck in bed for a lot of the time because I'd end up fainting or having to run off to throw up every time I went out. So you have all my sympathies, shufflebum!!

The only things that really worked for me were various kinds of very very cold juice drinks (Capri sun was a big fav!), these anti nausea pastels I bought online in various sour fruit flavours and cyclazine valoid tablets I got from my GP. In my experience they do stop you feeling sick or throwing up...but they do it by knocking you out so you're asleep a lot so only use these if you really need em

It does pass eventually and my DS was an extremely healthy 8lbs 8oz, 57cm long, alive and kicking baby so maybe it's true the sicker you are the healthier the baby :)

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