Coping strategies for morning sickness please!

[Cornberry]

I am hoping for encouragement and reassurance from women who have been through morning sickness and come out the other side. I'm 11/12 weeks and I feel like my crippling morning sickness is simply getting worse. I feel like I'm at the end of my tether and don't know what to do. I'm starting to worry that it's starting to affect me psychologically as well. I've been in bed for over a month, I am unable to do anything except lie here, I feel completely alone and isolated, despite the fact that my boyfriend looks after me incredibly well. But I am alone at home for 12 hours a dayand can't sleep at night because of the sickness. I woke up this morning paralysed by backpain which I think was due to tension in my sleep. For weeks I have not been able to sleep for more than two hours at a time and I feel like I just can't take any more. I would be grateful for some coping strategies or suggestions for how to get through this. I just feel like I can't handle this anymore. I'm terrified this will continue for weeks or months and I just don't know what to do.

That sounds really debilitating. Have you seen your GP or MW about it? They can give meds for this now.

Do seek help.

GP can prescribe Anti sickness pills, don't suffer through this when you don't have to. Be very firm with them about how severe it is. If you can't keep down anything at all you need to be seen as an emergency as you could have hyperemesis. I hope you can get some medical help.

I've been prescribed meds but I haven't used them much as they take the edge off but make me feel more exhausted and lately really unwell :(

I was like you for my first pg - it is truly horrible. the isolation is the worst. I left the house only to go to the GP to get my sick note renewed fortnightly. It did get better and by about 17 weeks I was virtually clear.
Second time round I demanded meds from the GP. They did make me very drowsy but virtually stopped the sickness and constant nausea. I did have to take them constantly though - not just off and on, so that might be part of the problem. there are different ones available though so go back to the GP and ask for another variety.

YY, go back to GP and ask for different medication. There are loads of different ones. There is a lovely hyperemesis support thread on MN, too, with lots of links on the OP.

Thanks. I don't have a problem with relentless vomiting though. Mostly only sick once a day. It's the nausea and general illness that's unberable. I'm finding it very difficult to swallow much food. I was wondering if anyone else who has had this found it went around 12 weeks or if this level of MS means it's likely to continue..?

I had nausea and vomiting up until 16 weeks. Anti sickness tablets didn't work for me but worth trying different ones. Things that did help for me were:
Can of full fat coke every morning ( not great for the diet but worked wonders in giving me a couple of hours sickness relief!)
Sipping water
Eating bland food like plain toast for breakfast, cup a soup, mashed potato for tea etc
Travel sickness bands helped to take the dizziness away
Boiled sweets and some mints helped
Eating little and often
Complete bed rest, I took about 8 weeks off work and stayed in bed for that time, any kind of movement or stress made it worse
Took regular visits to gp to get check ups.
I remember telling myself it wouldn't last forever and In the meantime tried to do things to focus on positive aspects so I would sit in bed and makes lists for when felt well enough of things to get and to do. Sometimes just pre occupying my mind a little away from thinking of the nausea would help. Hope you feel better soon, hang on in there because it will get better x