There must be something to help sickness?

[justhayley]

Hiya I'm 11+6 & have felt sick morning till night and through the night everyday for 6 weeks, this week iv started to be sick when I smell anything that's not cornflakes.

Iv got loads of ginger products, and am wearing acupressure sickness bands, but nothings helping.

Anyone got any ideas? Will try ANYTHING. I have a 20 month old, OH is military and Only home weekends & I can't take much more of feeling like this

You need to get to the GP and get a prescription. Also, join the HG threads. It's vile, and they know how you feel (I was one of them!)

Try seeing your GP. I had it really bad last week and was struggling to keep anything down. my GP prescribed me anti sickness meds and I'm much better. Not totally gone but I can eat and function far better than this time last week!

i find lolly pops take away the sickness for about 5 minutes.other than that it is something you will have to put up with

I didn't find anything - I was the same as you for Months and eventually had food graded by bad it was to bring back up. I'm quite frankly amazed I ever managed to easy breakfast cereal again!

I drank water constantly and re placed tea and coffee with a ginger cordial and peppermint tea. I also developed a completely out of character craving for salt & vinegar crisps.

At least you know there will eventually be amnend to it, sorry I wasn't much help

I lived off swwets and choc as everything smelled horrible. Got a prescription for gp which reduced actualsicknessbut not the feeling sick. I think the smell sensitivity went gradually between 13 and 17 weeks for me.

I ate an awful lot of French Fancies

If anyone suggest ginger nut biscuits, buy a pack. Then ram them firmly up the suggester's back passage.

(Can you tell I've had HG 5 times?!)

On a more sensible note, YES, there are medications. Stemetil - did nothing for me, usually a GP's first prescription. Metaclopramide - works ok, unless / until you have severe HG, then there is the wonder drug whose name I forget (not been pg in 3 years and don't intend to be in future...) that they use as a last ditch effort, and that is the mutts nuts.

I had somethting beginning with O that you could only get on hospital prescription. If you're really sick, you should get down to the maternity unit if you can. They had to monitor me and then I got some decent drugs. Most of the drugs were shit.

Ooooh, GINGER! I was constantly until 10 minutes before birth, and people STILL say to me "did you not think of trying ginger biscuits" YES I DID YOU FUCKING MORON!

Sorry, I'm not normally so sweary, but HG and my pregnancy experience really brings it out in me. I actually associate ginger with nausea now...

Hello sorry you are suffering. Pop over to the hyperemesis thread where there is lots of support and advice. I ate McDonald's for three weeks!

The only thing I can suggest is that you try to find someone to help with your dc and try to get some sleep. The only cure that has ever worked at all for me is sleep - much as that is an irritating thing to say if there is no way you can get any.

I agree that anyone who mentions GINGER should be shot.

If there is anything you can fancy to eat/stand the sight of and keep down eat it as it will probably help.

Also have tried taking pregnancy supplement vitamins in both pregnancies and that seemed to help a bit eventually (i.e. not in the v early weeks but by about the stage you are now).

(although I should say re the ginger, I did enjoy them in second pregnancy, although they didn't actually help. In first pregnancy they made me feel worse.)

Ginger actually did help me quite a lot, but only stem ginger and ginger ale. Anything else was pretty useless and I agree that I got fed up with people touting it as a miracle cure I might not have heard about.

I found forcing myself to eat some form of carbs every two hours got me through the worst of it. I ate a lot of potato wedges for dinner and kept packets of mini cheddars in my bag for emergencies. Any thought of eating healthily went out the window. I just consumed whatever I thought I might be able to keep down. I put on absolutely no weight during the first trimester, and it seems to have had no detrimental effect on the bubba.

I will say that I really didn't want to take meds but if mine had gotten any worse and I had been unable to function, I would have seen a GP to ask about a prescription. Mine eventually faded between 17 and 18 weeks. Hope yours goes soon!

Its not necessarily something you "have to put up with" and I don't think thats a very helpful comment. There are lots of medications which your GP can give you which are safe. Different ones help different people - as you will see from the other posters above - so you may need to try a couple. Ondanesteron is the one the poster above is referring to I think. The best website for peer reviewed medical data is called uptodate (this is the one used by doctors - or at least those who know what they are doing) and they have an excellent section on the safety of various medications for pregnancy sickness. I took cyclizine and metaclopromide which helped enough to allow me to cope when I was expecting DC1 4 years ago, so never needed to upgrade to ondanesteron. I think Cyclizine is a good starting point. That plus eating regularly. Nothing makes you feel sicker than having an empty stomach, no matter how horrifying the thought of eating might seem. Good luck. As you will know as you already have a child, it is all worth it in the end, no matter how hard it is at the time.

here is the section from up to date about treating pregnancy sickness:

www.uptodate.com/contents/treatment-and-outcome-of-nausea-and-vomiting-of-pregnancy?source=search_result&search=morning+sickness&selectedTitle=1%7E46

sorry - i don't know how to make it into a link.

Agree with the fact that its NOT something you should put up with, if I'd been left to think like that I'd be currently in a mental hospital! There are various medications you can be given, they usually start with cyclizine then see how that goes...I am taking chlorpromazine which helps but I hate the side effects too.
speak to your gp asap OP and let them know that functioning day to day normally is impossible! Big hugs you have lots of sympathy from me I've been suffering since week 7 and im 18 weeks now and still vomit if I don't take my medication religiously.

I found starchy crisps like Hula hoops and McCoys helped settle my stomach. All ginger biscuits did was give me an aversion to ginger for the rest of pregnancy - just smelling them now makes me want to heave.

Another friend of mine swears by flat coke...

I survived with chupa chups lollies and not eating until 1pm. Didn't always work as i was all day sickness and I still can't eat noodles or even look at them the same way, but it got me through.

Thanks everyone.
I'm not being sick as much now but am still suffering with awful nausea everyday . I'm hating my diet of bread & cheese but everytime I attempt to add a new food into the mix it doesn't stay down so for now have to stick with it.
Can you get medication for nausea? Or just actually being sick lots?

I'm also very nauseous although not actually being sick and I've just started to take additional vitamin B6 today which is supposed to help. Fingers crossed as I'm actively dreading mealtimes now

Two tricks I found helpful: drinking sparkling water. All day long...
Swapping every possible product in the house for unscented stuff.

Oh, and toddler toothpaste made me gag slightly less.

Good luck!