Not coping with nausea!

[Onlymydogunderstandsme]

I am 8+2 today and I feel sooooo ill!! I just fell sick all day everyday, up until a few days ago eating made it ease but that's not now the case and when I think about eating it make me feel worse even though I am forcing myself to eat. I haven't actually been sick but contantly feel I may have to dash at any minute to be sick! I have my first midwife appointment tomorrow so will speak to her about it, when I spoke to her last week and said I had nausea she said that was a good sign ( I had a mc in early Septemeber) and I know that I should feel lucky i'm having strong symptoms but I just feel like crying!!! How likely is it that the midwife will be able to give me something for the nausea or is it only when you are actually being very sick? I don't normally like taking medication if I don't have to but I am really strugling!

I have just begun another thread related to this. I'm feeling your pain. I was prescribed medication during my last pregnancy for hyperemesis but probably left it to late. I can't remember the name of it but it was a tiny tablet which dissolved under your tongue which removed to need to swallow and keep it down (I couldn't even sip water without vomiting!). When you see the midwife mention how awful you're feeling and discuss options with her. It might be handy to get a prescription so that you have medication in the house in the event that your sickness gets worse, which is a possibility. (Sorry, not meaning to be negative)

Fingers crossed.

I have 24/7 nausea for 4 weeks now (10wks today). It's awful! I've not been able to go to work, sleep or do any sort of normal thing. I've only been sick a couple of times right at the start of it appearing and now am never sick it's just the feeling. I feel not so bad when I am eating but as soon as I finish it's worse than it was to begin with. I was prescribed cyclizine antiemetic tablets by a consultant at the early pregnancy unit and they didn't help at all. The only respite I find is lying down and getting in a comfortable position and not moving an inch. I miscarried last year too and it's all been very anxiety provoking. I felt better for a couple of days last week and panicked something was wrong. Just had a scan though and saw a heartbeat so finger crossed. It should ease off but just now you need to listen to your body and eat small and regular. Keep sipping fluids too. I find boiled sweets are good to take away any taste of food in my mouth, that can make me feel worse.

It is awful and I share your pain having had hyperemisis from week 5 right up until week 16 (17 weeks today) I can remember everyone telling me it would pass and I wanted to punch them because it was so awful. However the truth is it will pass or at least ease as time goes on and it is a good sign. I know this is rubbish advice when you are feeling rubbish but you will get through it x

I had exactly the same thing as you feeling sick but not actually that much sickness until later. I bought travel sickness bands which worked maybe just in my head but still worked all the same and DPs gran gave me a great tip - when you get up in the morning before you even move out of bed have half a glass of orange juice and 2 digestive biccys or dry crackers - i found that if i managed to stop it in the morning the rest of the day wasn't so bad.

For me empty tummy ment sickness and once the sickness set in i couldn't eat so then the sickness got worse :( over it now tho

I also used travel bands to great effect when nothing else would work.

I know just how you feel, am 12w today and still nauseous every day, all day, unless I have the pleasure of actually being sick as soon as I wake up. This is number 2 however and an improvement on the first DS as I was sick everyday for 6 months with him. I actually find it helps to be sick as soon as I wake up and then it seems like my body is happy with that and cuts me some slack during the day (not the best solution for everyone I know!).

Hope the midwife and some of the tips help but definitely try the travel bands xx

Thanks so much for the tips. I will speak to the midwife tomorrow and get some travel bands-although how I will disguise them at work so nobody guesses I don't know!! Fingers crossed something works!

i wore the travel bands at work and thought someone might guess but tbh no one paid a blind bit of attention. You could always come up with some hippy dippy pressure points mumbo jumbo they'll just think you've lost it.