nearly 17 weeks and still sick sick sick

[allyco]

sorry if this subject has been done to death but...

at nearly seventeen weeks am still sick 24/7 and when not being sick got that awful "I'm going to be sick" feeling. If I get up in night for a wee it is there, at work, in the car, everywhere.

Got so down mentioned it to first the GP who said get husband to bring you cup of tea and buiscuit in morning before you get out of bed (like I would bother the doctor if that was an answer) and then the midwife who said drink MILKY DRINKS!!!!!

Aarggh. I can't cope. Also, does how sick you are have a bearing on the baby's sex? Any thoughts anyone?

Sorry to rant on. What a whinger

No belief whatsoever in baby sex thing. I wa svery sick for whole pregnancy with DD, and it turned out (by a process of elimination) that I am allergic to milk during pregnancy - I get a thumping headache, go queasy, and then throw up everywhere... so if I was having it full time, then I was sick 24/7 - this time I eliminated it from the beginning, and just had basic hormone induced sickness. I would highly recommend looking at your diet to see if you have a trigger like that.

HUge hugs

xxx

Hi, I was very lucky and was only sick the once with my 2 sons. I knew a friend who was sick all the way through her 3 pregnancies and she has 3 girls!

Sorry to hear you are feeling sick - its the worst feeling in the world!

Allycoo rant all you want hun i have 2ds and recently found out im pg again
with my first ds i had sickness just as you describe and if i wasnt being sick i felt it, dont know which one was worse to be honest but at nineteen weeks i woke up and thought hang on "i dont feel sick" and it was as simple as that after that i bloomed and god did i make up for four months of not eating my second ds i wasnt actually sick but felt it for about six months so personally i dont think the amount of sickness counts for the sex of the baby. HTH good luck xx

am at work and guess what - just been sick have even got old Asda ice cream box in the car so I can do it there in traffic!!

I think prople who've never sufferd just think it's a bit of a queasy-in-the-mornings feeling. Even in a lot of the magazines and books it's listed under pregnancy "niggles" or "minor complaints". Huh. xx

I know how ghastly this is. You have my total sympathy. I had this horrendously with twins. My sense of smell seemed to become so highly tuned so that lots of smells used to make me throw up too. I couldn't even go near the kitchen or food which was difficult because I had to feed my three year old. I'd slam her food down and run off and leave her to it.

Whenever I ventured out, which I used to limit - I'd be checking out suitable places to chuck up in! We had to go to a wedding - I felt like pure hell - little green face poking out under a hat. While they were doing the photos - which seemed to take forever - I had to rush back to the car and was sick in dd's little toyboxThe whole day was AWFUL.

I did find lemony/sharp citrus smells helped - I know that sounds weird. There are loads of books about this. I read one which at least had a few suggestions to try (the lemon smell was one). I also tried acupunture(no joy and expensive, but I was desperate) Seabands, and a tape called 'morning well' which was very odd music(er,nope!).

Make sure you don't become dehydrated. Could try some lucozade or sip an energy/sports drink if you can't face much food. Mine lifted eventually. It was like a switch turning off. People worry about pain in birth - for me that relentless nausea for months was worse and what I'll never forget.

Do hope you feel better soon

tinygang i comletley agree with the citrus thing. the only thing that could stave the sicknesss for a while was clementines the really sharp ones

not sick =ds
hideous sick like you = girl
had horrendous hyperemesis lived on pears and cup a tomato soup for months
it did ease up at 25 weeks, to abou8t three x day if I smelt garlic or fatty things (we lived above a chinese/ Indian takeaway and fish and chip shop was pure hell leaving front door.
I went to see homeopath who did help a little bit and wore the sea sickness bands which I never took off until I had her!

Can't help and I had only nausea but until 17 weeks. Lots and lots of sympathy, though.

Hi..was sick with dd til 28 weeks, and I mean 8-10 times a day sick, lost lots of weight etc. Am 18 weeks pregnant with no 2 (don't know sex...yet) and have desperately tried to keep on top of it as much as I can. Oat cakes have helped, having them in my handbag and FORCING myself to eat them every hour or so. Have felt better this time, have managed a few days without throwing up here and there. Also done 8 weddings this year, and vomited at nearly all of them, in the churchyard, at the reception, in the car....
Homeopathy has also helped...been on a concoction of different things, prescribed by a homeopath. I do feel for you..it is really rotten. And when people recommend ginger...!!

only been sick once more sincec last posted. Not bad for me. Agree with you TinyGang - give me labour any day over this never ending horribleness

So is it a girl then....?

I can sympathise completely, i was sick until after i had my son, almost everyday and still managed to out on 4 stone!.

I did hear something recently that was saying about boiling up pasta or rice and draining and drinking the water. Sound odd and dont know if it would work, the only other thing that worked for me was eating lots and lots of greasy food.