I completely underestimated morning sickness!

[FreckleBee]

Oh my! Morning sickness is hard isn't it? I'm nauseous from the minute I waken to going to sleep and weakening up through the night feeling sick. Being sick about 3 times a day. Can hardly eat! I feel absolutely awful, like the worst hangover but everyday!
Last night I started taking pregnacare vitamins as recommended by a friend, I was previously just taking folic acid and a multi vit. Within 15 minutes I was being sick and this has continued this morning. Maybe a coincidence.
I'm off this week due to some bleeding but worried I don't cope back at work with this level of nausea.
I'm honestly going round the house like a salivating wreck. Completely underestimated how bad this is!

No one really tells you the truth about the horrible bits pregnancy, and even if they did you sort of brush it off when it's not happening to you. The nausea is pretty much debilitating. Sleep a lot, lower your expectations about what you're going to be 'up' for doing, and make sure that your partner 'gets' it too (he/she won't completely, but it's good to try and get them to understand).

Did you take the Pregnacare with food? I have to take it halfway through my evening meal otherwise I vom everywhere.

Get signed off and rest.

Also keep a close eye on your fluid intake and watch out of the signs of dehydration. Your severe morning sickness might get better, but it might tip over into hyperemesis and then you'll need medical treatment.

I should add: with hyperemesis, the earlier you catch it, the better, so don't be shy about going to the doc.

Im in my 7th week of 3rd pregnancy and constantly feel sick. I haven't actually vomited yet, thank god but sometimes I feel I wish I could just throw up and get it over and done with. With my last two pregancies I did actually vomit and got some temporary relief. Cooking and feeding a family is so difficult when your sense of smell is heightened. Today I tied a scarf around my nose so I could get in the kitchen to feed lunch to my little 2.5 year old. Feel overly tired in this pregnancy too. Just want to sleep but can't when theres 6 year old's homework to do, dinner to cook, baths etc. How do women survive!

I felt sick on pregnacare for the first part of my pregnancy. Even with food.

I took them later on, and was fine.

I would feel awkward going to GP if he just said "that's just morning sickness" as that's what others I've spoken to have been like.
I take my hat off to those of you with little ones to look after whilst pregnant - you're doing a fantastic job!
wonder your husband has it spot on as it is like having a sickness bug, for weeks on end, but still having to go about normal things.
I looked up hyperemesis and I'm not meeting the criteria as have managed to keep down some tomato soup today and urine isn't dark as been sipping water all day.
My husband is off to buy some travel bands - has anyone tried them for nausea?

If it's any consolation, I found the first trimester was harder than actually giving birth or looking after a baby.

I remember getting a stomach bug when DD was a baby and thinking how much less dreadful I was feeling then than I did during a normal working day when pregnant.

It does get better, eventually, but it's utterly horrible until it does.

oh it's utterly the pits, I found nothing helped at all. By the third trimester it was joined by heartburn and I was mainlining gaviscon. Almost every normal smell had me retching.

Some people say ditching the 3 meals for 5 or 6 tiny, less spaced out meals helps. Ginger or mint sweets helped a little.

Hope you can get some rest.

Pregnacare made me really sick. Was fine once I stopped taking them.

Travel band were great for me, really helped. Good luck.

Have you tried the Morning Well CD? No idea why, but it works. Made me feel well enough to eat something plain and really helped with going to sleep, too, as it made me feel less nauseous when lying down. It's even been assessed in an proper clinical trial, and proven to be effective.

Pregnacare made me vom every time. Try sanatogen in the pink boxes. Also take time off work. I didn't and wish I had.

I've not managed to keep a meal down today and didn't keep last nights food down either, so I'm now running on empty.
I'm so hoping this is because of the pregnacare and not how this is going to be for the next few weeks.
I have been managing ice lollies so at least some sugar getting in.
Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll look into the wellness CD and have bought more salty crackers, mints to suck and ginger biscuits tonight.
Didn't manage to get travel bands at tesco so will look for some tomorrow.
My mouth is full of a horribly sweet tasting saliva and everytime I swallow I feel sick.
This is the worst!

Please see your GP.

Yes, morning (or all day) sickness is not that unusual in pregnancy, but can be from very, very mild to very severe.
There are things you can do about it I will not mention ginger biscuits

See your GP, take a urine sample with you.

At the very least speak to you midwife about it - they will want to know how bad it is for you.

Kate Middleton has cancelled engagements due to hyperemesis, and I am not saying that that is what you're dealing with, but just because it is 'just' morning sickness does not make it easier to bear or entirely harmless when it is bad.

doctor advised me to stop the pregnacare as it provoked vomiting regardless of time of day. i ended up on an anti-histamine from about 10 weeks right through to birth and the nausea never left. the meds helped but never completely stopped the nausea and vomiting. made me drowsy too so work was out of the question. roughest pregnancy i'd ever had, having gotten away with minimal problems with the first two.

It is AWFUL, I hope it passes soon xx

Pregnancy Sickness Support

Please see your GP. Or go to A&E. What you are experiencing is not "nothing", and can be treated to a greater or lesser extent.

I had hyperemisis in both pregnancies. It was hideous. You have my greatest sympathie. But please seek help. Lots of info on the link above.

"Sympathy". Grrr.

It's just so incredibly hard getting through the first trimester, far worse than you think it will be. And it kicks in so soon, I started feeling off on Christmas Eve at 5 weeks and by new year was vomiting. It stopped properly at the beginning of March, worst of it was the last week in Jan and early feb. They were the days of crawling up the stairs and having to stop in the middle crying as couldn't go on! My worst day was 8 vomits. I found incredibly bland white carbs were the only things that I could stomach (the thought of other foods would make me retch) and I think that is quite common so try white toast, noodles, rice cakes and any bland potatoes dish. I really craved bad food, the cheapest nastiest bread, value cheese and tomato pizza, takeaway chips. Things that weren't really food in my mind so I could stomach them iyswim?! Also the blander the food the easier the vomit, noodles come out identical to how they went in. DON'T EAT PESTO. Pesto vomit was the worst vomit ever (after orange juice). I wanted Very salty things and very lemony things (oh god I could only drying San Pellegrino Limonata lemonade, DH got me seven up once and I swear I cried as I just couldn't drink it). The body is clever and knows you can get by on the basic carbs and that you need salts and sugar. Don't bother with the Pregnacare, I also used to violently vomit within minutes of taking it and did so even when my sickness had technically stopped. So I didn't bother in the end, my iron was fine and I was pregnant over summer so I figured my vit D was fine. I second what MollyBdenum said, late pregnancy is pretty shit but that and having a newborn are still not as tough as the first tri for me. In fact having a 5 week old baby is a fucking doddle compared to pregnancy in my opinion so god yes give yourself a break and take some time off. Make work accommodate you when you are there as well, I had to have more breaks and eat more frequently, and be taken off certain tasks if I vomited (can't deal with public and children!) and cry in managers office. Pregnancy sickness isn't counted towards your sick day total either so go for it, I found just one or two days off in the bad weeks have me the strength to do the rest, sleeping from 8-8, many many baths (though not being able to have them hot in January was shit) helped too.

I'm seriously not going to have another child because of it, I can't guarantee it won't be as bad again and I can't see how I'll be able to do it with a toddler, so O know how bad it can get and you should give yourself all the care you need. Unfortunately there is a point where you have to learn to get on with some things as life can't stop for 3-4 months, just make sure you spend the majority resting! And I found anything gingery FOUL AND DID NOT HELP.

OP I was the same til 20wks this pregnancy 24hr nausea with some vomitting I ended up getting signed off work from week 13 for a month best thing I did was on anti sickness tablets from week 8.

Only meal I managed was eve meal when off sick was small meal n always made sure something decent

Thanks for everyone's advice. I know it's silly but kinda feel I don't want to go to GP with yet another pregnancy related woe. (Been bleeding over past week and a half and spoken to GP twice). I have an early scan today so all being well i will discuss it with the midwife if I get to see one.
Slept ok but woke really early with this sweet saliva again. Sweet as in totally gross tasting.
Cannot afford to take more time off work, been off for the past week. Worst thing is I'm a nurse so will be on feet and busy most of the time - yes I did just admit to being a nurse but too nervous to consult my GP :/
Thanks again for the comments, it does help to hear others experiences and advice x

Your sickness record can not count against you for pregnancy related conditions.