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Link between motion sickness and morning sickness?

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blueamber · 29/07/2013 08:28

Hi everyone, I read there might be a link between having motion/ car sickness and getting morning sickness in pregnancy. I would like to hear your experiences to see if this is true.

I'm ttc now, I get motion sickness and I'm just being really curious!

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BoohPear · 29/07/2013 08:30

I get motion sickness, always have. I only threw up once during my pregnancy and that was due to a migraine. I did have almost constant nausea though for the first trimester.

kelda · 29/07/2013 08:30

I've always thought this. Morning sickness feels very similar to motion sickness in my experience, and I've suffered badky from both.

SpanielFace · 29/07/2013 08:31

I get nausea from motion (rarely vomiting) and was exactly the same from 8-14 weeks pregnant. Imagine motion sickness that never goes away. Interesting to hear there's a link, I said at the time that it felt like motion sickness (rather than sickness when you're ill, if you see what I mean).

CreatureRetorts · 29/07/2013 08:33

I never had motion sickness until I got pregnant. Since having my babies, I suffer quite badly from it (but only on fast trains - am ok in cars).

My morning sickness could be kept at bay by eating certain foods. So if I had brown rice for dinner with a small amount of protein, I'd feel ok the next morning. I'd have protein for breakfast (usually eggs) then a small lunch with snacks in between I'd be ok. Also apples helped and never letting myself get hungry. If I strayed from those "rules" (eg white rice or pasta for dinner), I'd feel dreadful!

CreatureRetorts · 29/07/2013 08:34

(brown rice and eggs have a certain vitamin which may help with morning sickness I forget which. Supplements didn't agree with me).

MurderOfGoths · 29/07/2013 08:35

I get motion sickness and suffered from hyperemesis. The drives to hospital to deal with the hyperemesis were hell on earth. I always described the hyperemesis as feeling like a cross between motion sickness and when you've drunk too much.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 29/07/2013 08:36

I get motion sick on swings in the park!

No morning sickness for me, occasional extremely mild nausea which gave me the excuse to scoff ginger biscuits :)

froggiebabies · 29/07/2013 08:38

I've always suffered with motion sickness, on buses and on long car journeys. I had terrible morning sickness in both pregnancies. I had hyperemesis and ended up in hospital on a drip.

Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

AllSWornOut · 29/07/2013 08:39

I'm going to buck the trend and say I get motion sickness (used to get it very badly but tbf it has calmed down a bit over the last few years) but I didn't get morning sicknesses at all with pg1 and only very minor and short lasting bouts of nausea with pg2.

But it's interesting that there seems to be a link.

CPtart · 29/07/2013 08:39

I get motion sickness badly, literally vomit on certain modes of transport at times and also had bad morning ( all day sickness) too with both pregnancies.
I seem to be a very sticky person though. When drunk...yep, throw up then as well, and even feel nauseous if I mn for too long!

I always suspected there might be a link, a certain predisposition if you like. It's a horrid horrid feeling.

TunipTheVegedude · 29/07/2013 08:44

No link for me.

A year before dd was born I was in a yacht happily bouncing along in a force 5 or 6 with everyone except me on deck throwing up and me merrily frying bacon sandwiches in the galley.

3 kids, all with HG of varying degrees of awful.

ChickenLickenSticken · 29/07/2013 08:48

Yep - a link for me too.

And agree that thy two feel about the same.

BettyandDon · 29/07/2013 08:49

The first time I realised I was pg with DD2 was on a roundabout in the park when very quickly I got insanely dizzy and sick.

I've now had DD2 and can no longer go on roundabouts and such. I'm sure my sense of balance is shot too.

BettyandDon · 29/07/2013 08:50

I had extreme nausea but not sickness with both DDs. Only controllable with biscuitsSmile.

nextphase · 29/07/2013 09:13

Motion sickness here.
Didn't throw up in either pregnancy (til labour, then I spent the whole time hurling), and any mild nausea was controlable with food.

Artijoke · 29/07/2013 09:17

I get bad car sickness unless I'm the driver. I also had terrible nausea and some vomiting for the first 16-18 weeks of all three pregnancies.

MsFiremanSam · 29/07/2013 09:43

I get motion sickness quite badly and also suffered morning/all day sickness in both pregnancies, from 6-18 weeks. The feeling was exactly the same.

blueamber · 29/07/2013 11:10

Oh, it seems there is a link, although there are some exceptions. But I didn't know morning sickness actually feels the same as motion sickness!

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Kelly1814 · 29/07/2013 11:50

yes, i get terrible motion sickness, and had mronig sickness (no vomiting though)

any morning sickness was made ten times worse when in a car.

HumptyDumptyBumpty · 29/07/2013 14:54

Always had terrible motion sickness in cars/coaches/buses, never on planes, trains or boats. Now just getting over 14 weeks of horrid nausea on tube to work each morning - no vomming, thank god, but absolutely sure motion sickness is a contributory factor to feeling so rough, it was far far better at weekends when I didn't have to travel first thing.

LateBear · 29/07/2013 17:34

I get motion sickness; cars, buses, trains, boats, but had very little in the way of morning sickness, just some nausea from about week 6-7 but fine other than that. Having said that being pregnant has made my motion sickness worse!

bruffin · 29/07/2013 17:42

No link for me either really. I get awful motion sickness unless i sit in front of car but hardly any morning sickness. MS was a bit worse for dd than ds.

justaweeone · 29/07/2013 17:50

Never had morning sickness nor motion sickness
However I have a colleague who is receiving chemo for breast cancer and the chemo has caused severe sickness and she was told that if she had bad morning sickness(which she did with her 3 pregnancies )you had a higher chance of being sick with chemo.

RedRobin1 · 29/07/2013 21:12

I suffered from motion sickness - cars, trains, buses basically any mode of transport. Also sea sickness.
And also if I drank too much and felt nauseous it would all come back up. Always vomited with motion sickness.

Pregnancy is pretty much the same. Horrendous ms and still mild nausea at 17w! Can't wait to have my body back when this baby pops out.

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