STILL feeling dreadful- 16 weeks pregnant

[iamelectrogirl]

Hello so...
From 6 weeks until 12 weeks I was throwing up at least twice a day, I lost over a stone and some days I physically couldn't get out of bed, I felt that weak and awful.
However, even though I'm not as sick anymore, I still feel pretty dreadful and unable to function properly. I'm frantically job searching but I've come to realise that if I got a job, I might not be able to do it. I feel constantly faint, achey, sick most of the time and I'm still finding it impossible to eat properly- I STILL haven't gained any weight.
Does anyone else still feel like this? What can I do to feel better?

I'm 19 weeks and still sometimes feel a bit shit. It is better than it was though, sometimes I don't quite notice because feeling crap is crap... but it is better. I made myself write down how I felt for a week or two and could see improvement, that made me feel a lot better.

I can't tell from your post if you have a partner? I found cooking really tricky, seeing things all assembled made me feel weird. I got my partner to do a lot of the cooking and that really helped. I found healthy comfort food works best - things that are too fatty give me horrid heart burn but things like potatoes and pasta are good. Plus, small meals before I get really hungry are better than waiting. Perhaps if you're on your own this pregnancy you could try cooking food in batches so you don't have to face it every day?

Also making sure I had a walk before dinner really helps - I don't smell the cooking and it makes me more hungry.

I'm still about 3kg lower than my conception weight, I wouldn't worry to much about losing weight unless you were underweight to start with. I certainly have extra padding a growing fetus can use!

I'm 19 weeks and have only just started to feel normal again.
I was prescribed some anti-sickness/nausea tablets when i was about 16 weeks because I felt like I had put up with it for long enough, only took them on really bad days.
Fresh air made me feel better. It was an effort to feel well enough to get ready to go out but once i did i felt better.
I think I've found that i need to eat little and often. Literally last thing at night before i go to sleep. If I wake up with a completely empty stomach I feel absolutely awful.
Hope you feel better soon.

Poor you. I wasn't as bad ... I threw up every morning from 8 weeks til 16 + 2. I'm 16+5 today and touch wood, I think I've turned a corner! Dry heaving for the last couple of mornings but not vomming, and no heaving today AND last night I even managed to eat red meat for dinner for the first time in 12 weeks (I felt high on iron, it was awesome).

Hopefully you'll be feeling better soon, but can you go to your doctor & get some medication for the nausea?

I threw up at least four times a day until I was twenty weeks. THEN it like a switch had been flipped, and overnight the sickness went.

It will improve.

I felt shocking until 9 weeks (sickness, headaches and exhaustion), rubbish until 18 weeks, felt okay at 20, felt almost normal at 22. It's got steadily easier since 9 weeks. 26 weeks now and definitely in a much better place, though still not 100%, but feel sooooo much better. I actually feel this is the bit where I bloom and I have days now when I am enjoying being pregnant - something I never thought would be possible!! I swore this would be the only time I ever get pregnant it was so awful for so long.
Take your vitamins, eat iron rich foods if you can, drink plenty of fluids. I was borderline anaemic, but told by my midwife that my bloods were fine - but I do think this possibly had something to do with it. I'm eating red meat everyday now, and taking my daily pregnacare as don't want to risk going back to sheer exhaustion and misery.
Everyone's different. I hope you feel better soon though.