The horror! The horror! And other ills of feeling sick as a dog in early pregnancy.

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Just wanted to say that despite being so happy to be pregnant after a MMC last year, I am struggling massively to get to grips with early pregnancy nausea. It's with me all the time and plagues everything I try to do. Am losing the will to live and starting to get a bit down about it.
Afraid I sound ungrateful for this pregnancy. I am not. I am thanking my lucky stars for it - I only wish they would make the nausea a bit easier to stomach!

Please tell me you know how I feel and that this will pass soon (crosses fingers).

Oh, I know. It feels like you're being poisoned. And I had quite a bit of anxiety AS well as feeling likd I'd been run over by a bus, struck down with s horrible virus, and sick every day... Good luck, hope you feel better soon. You might soon be glowing and full if beans in your second trimester!

Don't feel bad. It is fine to be ecstatically pregnant and horrifically I'll at the same time! I am 9wks and feel shocking. Exhausted, sick all morning, nausea for the rest of the day, achy, tired, moany and generally pathetic! Having felt like this for Dd1 however I can promise it will be worth it and you will forget the terror!

It is horrible. I know how you feel. The only relief i had when i couldnt hold water down was a few days in hospital on an antisickness drip and getting the nutrients back in..

It does pass! Or at least ease. But now im overdue and feeling worse than ever. Its not an easy ride but these are the things us women have to go through eh.

Yes, we certainly do get all the joys. Thanks so much for the supportive messages. Nearly vomited on the street just now. Part of me wants to vomit if it means even temporary relief. Hey ho, at least I can still manage cheese toasties. Eight weeks down, only another 32ish left to go.

Ha! I feel your pain. When I was preg with DD I used to get off the bus every morning to vom in the street on my way to work. Nice. It became so normal I got used to it. What a relief when it passes though! I felt gradually better, then at 7 months (!)I realised I hadn't been sick for a week. Hope you start feeling better a lot sooner than that!

I'm now nearly 30 weeks and for the first 15 I felt like this 24/7

BUT can happily say it passed so although nothing I can say will make it seem any better as it one of the most awful things feeling so ill/tired all the time, it will pass and you will get to enjoy your pregnancy, bean is making sure you know they are there and apparently feeling like utter shite is a good sign and generally means good things..(something I learnt from
the August duebie thread)

I posted a couple of weeks ago about this. I went to the Dr and got anti-sickness pills. I'm so glad I did because the few times I've taken them it's made all the difference.

Trying to avoid taking any meds but I think you're right bigbong, they might just be the ticket. The visions of me finally losing it and decorating someone's front garden are a bit too much to take at the moment.

I feel your pain, I have been (and still am being) horrifically sick, but it is easing a bit at 12 weeks. Public vomiting is a matter of routine now! For me the worst thing is being expected to carry on completely as normal, when I have never felt so ill in my life, for so long. It is soul destroying. Please do go to the doctors. I did, and they gave me anti sickness meds, which didn't prove to be the magic cure I was praying for, but they did do enough that it became more bearable/manageable, which was enough for me. Like you, I really didn't want to be popping loads of pills so decided to put up with it at this level. Hope you feel better soon.

Does anyone know - do I need to take anything to the scan, or do I just show up?! Thanks

I hear your pain and it's comforting to read about other women going through the same thing (not in a masochistic way). I am about 8 weeks and every day is like a living hell. Not loads of vomming but 24 hours, crippling nausea. I try to take each day at a time but it is impossible not to see the whole long journey ahead as mine doesn't seem to end at 12 weeks.

You really don't have to suffer this much though. There are LOADS of meds that are safe to use in pregnancy and I've done a tonne of research into it. The reason they don't officially say they're for pregnancy is because the data's not backed up by scientific trials - for obvious reasons no one would carry out these sorts of trials on pregnant women.

Meds like Cyclizine (which my doctor prescribed me) are the first line of defence and have been used for years with no anecdotal or documented effects. If that doesn't work there's Zofran and various others depending on how ill you are. There's this expectation that you have to martyr yourself to the cause of pregnancy but you really don't. So if you're not coping, get help.

Sickness is AWFUL!!!

Def try wearing sea bands for sickness too tho sounds like you might need medication! They will def help a bit tho

I feel your pain..... Sitting with my packet of ginger nuts at work now. Im 9w. Yesterday i was in bed all day and vommed 6 times. I am eating very little but keeping fluids down i also feel dizzy and weak and now have tinnitus plus keep bursting into tears. Dragged myself into work and keep fighting the urge to vom over customers. Btw this is my fourth..... So it just goes to show it does pass/ u forget eventually how shit it is!!!!

Right, you've all convinced me - think it's time to call on my doctor and see what magic cures he can conjure. Your posts made me laugh so much - there is something darkly comic about this grimness isn't there!
We should all get together and write a book of comfort for all women going through this. Stick that in your cheery face Yummy Mummy guide!

I have been quite lucky, I think, in that I haven't been sick, but feel almost permantly like I am going to be. I keep reminding myself it is a good sign, but what I find the hardest is putting on a face at work, when all I want to do is curl up under my desk with a bucket and a pillow. I am 10 wks and counting down to the 12 wk scan so at least I can go public. But it is all still very exciting.

Hey OP, sending sympathy in your direction. The first trimester sucks. Massively. I was sick up to three times a day (so nowhere near as bad as some people) and felt like I was going to barf the rest of the time and it lasted for ages...

But you know how people say they sort of forget some of the pain of childbirth? I think something similar happens around early pregnancy roughness... I went around in awe of mothers who'd had more than one child because I honestly felt like 'who in the hell would go through this twice' but by the time I hit 18-20 weeks and things got a bit easier, I had forgotten the worst of it.

Am now 32 weeks and not enjoying pregnancy so much for other reasons (ie tired and want to hit fast-forward) but honestly, this too shall pass. Also - there's a weird pregnancy timewarp - the first 12-14 weeks takes at least 6 months, the middle trimester is sort of real time, and the third trimester goes by in a flash. A week feels like a day at the moment (tho sometimes vice versa when stuck at work and knackered lol!).

Keep smiling and take care of yourself.

Thanks so much everyone - you've all cheered me up. Very much looking forward to getting through this hideous stage and forgetting all about it and focusing on other happier things.

Particularly bad vomiting spell this morning which has left me with a burning throat. Tried drinking water but I throw it up again. Any suggestions how to relieve the pain?

I was exactly the same as you & the first few months were absolutely awful. I honestly didn't think I'd be able to do the rest of the pregnancy so did end up at the gp for done anti sickness drugs.

As others have said they don't make it completely go away but make things a bit more bareable. Mine started to ease off at 11/12 weeks thankfully & now at 39 weeks and ready to pop.

For the burning throat the only thing that worked for me was gaviscon extra (the pink bottle). I'm still swigging in it now for the heartburn & has become my new best friend

I hope you start to feel a bit better soon

Natural yoghurt? Did you get medication in the end?

Tried to get the medication but the doctor's surgery reluctant to prescribe anything as I've had a bad reaction to cyclozine (sp?) and am a high risk pregnancy. Will try yoghurt too. God this is awful. Just keep hoping all this sickness is a good sign that the bean is here to stay!

Reading this thread has made me feel so much better. I've never felt so awful...this is my 6th but i have always been able to carry on as normal- not this time!

Wish you well& i really hope you start to feel better soon.

Thank you Shelley, glad to be of some use. It's always nice to find like minded sufferers. The thought of going through this six times makes me feel woozy. I'm trachled after nine weeks of this one. It must be hundred times harder feeling like this and also having to look after little ones too!
Hope you feel a bit better today.

Nice to read I'm not alone! 11 weeks and felt nauseous all day s

Oops! Since week 6.. Feel better when I eat so eating little and often. Felt great for 2 days at week 10 then come back again! Not being sick but feel like of i could I'd feel better. Dry retching isn't a good look!
Smells get to me too.. We finally got a new carpet in our living room and since I've become pregnant I absolutely hate the smell..!!