16 weeks and just started throwing up - is this normal?!

[blueberrypudding]

Hi all. First time mum and first time poster so please go easy on me!

Not sure if anyone knows anything about this but I've just reached 16 weeks and am suddenly being sick at regular intervals and can't keep anything down at all. Even dry toast and water makes me heave!

I was okay throughout the first trimester, the nausea was constant but seldom actually being sick. Suddenly I can't even go to work, it's that bad. I've lost lots of weight and am afraid that baby's going to be affected.

Really don't want to whinge but just wanted to know if I should be concerned at all. It just all seems really sudden and I don't see my midwife again till next week.

Does anyone have any advice?

I had no nausea or sickness at all in my first three months, and felt rather smug about it. Then, 16+6, I felt a little flutter when little one moved for the first time, and from that moment EVERYTHING I ate or drank reappeared. It was horrific, and so unexpected! The only thing I managed to keep down for days was sparkling water with elderflower cordial, nothing else. Saw a nurse practitioner who decided it must be due to a UTI, even though the urine test came back negative for everything. Rang midwife the next day, who wasn't impressed, and said if I was still the same in 24 hours that it was probably baby related and to get back in touch and they would prescribe something. Saw GP the day after, told him what MW had said, and he prescribed prochloraperazine which REALLY helped. I'd never heard of anyone suddenly getting sick like that, but my grandma said she'd heard of a few people over the years who have had the same thing once baby can be felt moving, or around that time.

Hiya
I have had "morning sickness" throughout entire pregnancy currently 36+5 but only in the evenings so I have managed to keep food down etc, but sounds like you are suffering from hyperemesis and need to see someone as some women get it so bad they need to be admitted and put on IV drip so they don't suffer dehydration.
Get yourself checked over and best of luck :)