Not vomiting just horrendous nausea. Tips on coping, please?

[economymode]

Pregnant with second child (son is 13 1/2 months) and suffering really badly from nausea. I think I'm around 7 weeks gone, so hopefully it'll ease off in the next month or so, but at the moment I'm finding it really hard to function. Weekends are better as my husband can look after our son.

I've tried metacloprimide, which didn't do anything. Was prescribed stemitol yesterday, which as yet has had no effect either. I can eat (but only a very limited diet), but find drinking really hard for some reason. Dr has said that unless I'm vomiting, they're limited as to what they can give me.

So, does anyone have any tips on getting through this? I know I could be a lot worse and I am feeling supremely sorry for myself.

Have tried seabands (travel sickness wrist bands), but all they did was make my hands really tender. Tried fresh air, tried eating small amounts every couple of hours, tried ginger (yuk)...I'm all out of ideas and quite frankly when I think of another month or so of this, I just cry.

I'm not expecting any miracle cures, but if anyone has anything that helped them, I'd love to hear it.

No ideas on how to stop it as I certainly never could, but I would say be a bit nicer to yourself, re not vomiting 'just' nausea/ others have it a lot worse etc. In my experience severe nausea on its own was much, much worse than actually throwing up. I had appalling nausea from 6/7 weeks, then throwing up kicked in at about 11/12 weeks and I have to say, compared to the wall-to-wall misery of nausea, starting throwing up was a massive relief!

Thanks, babbashouse. I just feel guilty complaining when I know that others on here have been hospitalised. But yes, I think being sick would come as a relief. I have either blocked out all memories of my first pregnancy or this is just much much worse.

Isn't it miserable. I found liquid hard to get down too, especially water which I normally drink copious amounts of.

In the end I drank very odd things that I normally never have.... Full fat milk with nesquik, pomegranate juice with tonic water, and the best of all, coconut water. I can't stand it now but it got me through a few weeks where I really couldn't manage anything else.

Also ice lollies might help hydrate you if you can manage them.

Hope it passes soon.

ice lollies are a good idea, thank you Jung... (like your name!). All I can manage at the mo is sips of water and squash. The thought of anything else makes me feel even more sick...

can you manage fizzy water, somehow I can stomach this over anything still hot or cold.

There's an iPhone app called nevasic, which didn't help me but horses for courses and all that,

And the natal hypnotherapy people do a sickness cd, which I haven't tried, but could help maybe.

i found fizzy drinks helped esp coke. I dont know wether to be happy or scared i rarely feel sick... im only 10 wks

I drank a lot of soda water which helped, and peppermint tea.

Poor you! I had this in the first trimester and wasn't sick once (not even during delivery ). I found that ice lollies helped.

I also found that most of what I thought was nausea was actually heartburn, which I suffered with until after DD was born. I started taking Gaviscon and then when that didn't work I was prescribed medication, which was bliss.

I'd never had heartburn before so didn't identify it, so I just thought I'd mention it. Hope it improves quickly!

I was like you Economymode, I wasn't sick, but felt very sick for much of each pregnancy. I know you don't feel like eating, but if you could try to eat something very plain and dry like toast, digestive biscuit, ginger biscuit, rich tea biscuit, or bread and butter it might help. That sort of thing used to work for me. I was very sensitive to smell and taste while pregnant and ate a lot of bland food. I also found fizzy drinks good, like lemonade.

I'm the same, at 11 weeks. No tips really except to give in and just eat and drink what you fancy. Orange juice and orange ice lollies for me. Also, it sounds bad, but have you tried making yourself sick? A couple of times I've downed a pint of water, been sick then felt loads better for the rest of the day.

Dorianos crackers helped me a lot.

If you are having difficulty drinking you arent that far off being hospitalised yourself. I was terribly nauseous with dd2 even though I was only sick a few times. I went to docs because I needed signing off work and was surprised to find she was quite worried about me! I couldnt eat anything apart from chipsticks for 3 weeks. Tbh nothing helped apart from the tablets from doctor (I was prescribed something starting with p, cant remember what).

Wow, thank you everyone .

Been out at my grandma's this afternoon, forcing smiles when really I just wanted to curl up and feel sorry for myself. Feeling a bit better now, but not a lot.

I do find that eating something plain helps, but then I think I'll just end up eating all the time and balloon in size.

I've also just got some fizzy elderflower, which I'm sipping at. Still not drinking as much as I should be so will give the ice lolly idea a try.

brettgirl, my gp was ok, but basically said that if I'm not vomiting then there's nothing to worry about. The surgery isn't known for being overly helpful.

Stemitol doesn't seem to be having an effect yet so am doubting it will.

Primrose123, I've tried to be sick, but just dry-heave, which just makes me feel worse.

I know this will pass eventually, but it's worse than I remembered.

Thanks again - will pick out all the tips and give them a try.

The thing I find hardest is coping with my son during the week.

My parents live 25 miles away and have their hands full with my 94-year old grandmother and her sister who has dementia-issues. The in-laws live 60 miles away.

My husband is great when he's here at the weekends, but the thought of the week ahead fills me with dread. I haven't told anyone about the pregnancy in real life, just in case. So I kind of feel like I'm on my own during the week.

Well for these difficult few weeks, can you park your ds in front of a film like Nemo or something so that you can rest?

Tis hardly a crime and the first trimester is hideous.

I've just started to see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding all-day nausea so I can really sympathise!! Now at 13 weeks it seems to have cleared up, so I keep my fingers crossed for all of you girls still feeling terrible that you'll also feel better soon!

I found making a cold banana smoothie for breakfast went down well. Then I drank really cold bottled water (Volvic) for the rest of the day. Sometimes, 7up was really delicious, sometimes fizzy water was better. Orangina also went down nicely a couple of times. It's been so weird for me to drink only really cold drinks as I'm such a teapot! But that's the first trimestre for you!

It's my second time and it's just as awful as I remembered it, if not worse! Goodluck with getting through this challenging time, just keep reminding yourself that it hopefully won't last!

Oh - OP! I could have written your post! Am 8 weeks pregnant and have 12.5 month old DS. I hate having a sweet taste in my mouth but conversely find fruit helpful. Only problem is it's nice when I eat it and then the sweet aftertaste makes me feel awful.. With DS I loved fizzy drinks and bread & butter but this time round they turn my stomach. Tiny sips of iced water is all I can manage - and never before mid-morning! Also eating constantly which does nothing for the self-esteem. Had a baby-bell today and that helped so will be stocking up on them. Hope it eases for you soon.

I had nausea on all my 5 babies. The only thing that helped me was acupuncture on the 4th baby. Truely was brilliant. All arranged through my midwife. Had the same treatment on my 5th child also. It worked for me. Incidentally my eldest daughter has had acupuncture in her last pregnancy because of severe migraine. Also worked for her. Definitely worth a try.

I had acupuncture and it did nothing but everyone is different.

I felt hideous yesterday and what worked for me were sasparilla (sp?) boiled sweets. They came from a proper sweet shop and have a strong, old fashioned flavour. They really helped.

Hi- newbie here- 1st post. I'm 22 weeks and had all the nausea up until about 13 weeks. I ate like a horse and was worried that my appetite would never calm down and I would end up the size of a house. As the nausea passed, my appetite calmed down and now I'm actually craving fruit and good stuff. For the first 13 wks I lived on chips, burgers and mcchicken sandwiches. And fizzy Pop. My advice is go with whatever gets you through this vile time- it will (hopefully) pass and you'll soon be feeling better.

I was the same and usual vicious circle of the more hungry you are, the more sick you feel, but less able you are to eat. I found cold organic semi-skimmed milk was my saviour - could get some down, then eat something and get a temporary relief. I drank gallons of the stuff and also the made up strawberry milkshakes for a while too (yuck). Hope you find something that helps.

I liked ice lollies cos the rehydrate you.tbh when it was really bad the only relief I got was through sleep so I napped whenever I could. When my sickness got a lot better but was still there I found it helpful to have toast pretty soon after getting up

Don't, for gawd sake, make yourself sick, however rotten you feel. Once my sickness abated, i could only eat plain things (plain pasta, white bread) but found ice irresistible.