Sooooo fed up with feeling sick

[GillL]

I know lots of women have it much worse than me as I've not actually been sick. But I am really fed up with feeling so awful. I know it's going to pass eventually as I had it with my first pg. It's really difficult at work especially being as far away from the loos as I could possibly be. It takes about a minute to walk to there at a normal pace and I have to remember to take my security pass with me or I can't get out of the office.

I'm not looking for sympathy, I just wanted to vent really.

Hi there, this could've been my thread, too ... I feel exactly the same, both physically and emotionally. However, I'm usually at home with DD, only teach two mornings a week and I keep thinking that it would be better if I was working more to take my mind off things...but as you say, that doesn't help either. Last two days weren't too bad physically, less heartburn and stomachache...could do with some more sunshine though . Hang in there, I hope it's comforting for you to know that there are more of us out there feeling exactly the same LOL! (bernie, 11+6)

I know it may not help much and you haven't asked for it but but you have my sympathy anyway. FWIW I think the first months of pregnancy are absolutely awful if you feel sick. I am a complete wimp when it comes to feeling nauseous. I would so much rather go through labour than have weeks of feeling and being sick all the time. I found it particularly difficult if I had to do anything at work that required real concentration.

It should pass soon though - hang on in there.

I sympathise, I had ms all day for the first 20 weeks. Felt very pissed off as everyone said - oh, that's just for the first 3 months, isn't it? In the end, seasickness wrist bands took the edge off it. If its any comfort, the pleasure of getting back to normal appetite is enormous!!! hang in there.

Thanks everyone. Where do they sell seasickness wristbands? Supermarket, Boots?

I can't wait to be able to eat properly again. In some ways I'm glad that I'm not going to put on any/much weight at the moment but I'm only eating half the amount of dinner than I normally do. Some energy would be nice too.

DH is being really good but still doesn't see why I shouldn't have to take my turn in getting up for dd in the night. It doesn't happen very often but he really resents being woken up.

Sea bands here and free postage and packaging on first order with code SW1ZZ200. Theer's also some hynotherapy CDs for morning sickness - worth a try!
I threw up 24 hours a day with my first, so huge sympathy - have you tried ginger beer - that realy helped - especially if you can find the "traditional" stuff that's got real ginger in it.

Hope you feel better soon!

Hi guys ? I?m 8 weeks gone and finding the constant nausea truly awful too. My question is does it always lead to vomiting? I haven?t been sick yet but am dreading the prospect? I was just wondering if anyone had morning sickness with just nausea and no vomiting? Really, really hoping it isn?t going to get any worse?

Hi Jenny,

I'm 8+1 and feel sick ALL the time although have only been physically sick once. Part of me actually wants to throw up because at least I will feel better afterwards (if only for a short while).

It's naff feeling constantly hungover without the alcoholic fun beforehand!

Fingers crossed it will go at 12 weeks.

That's exactly how I feel - like I'm at the end of a bad hangover, when all I want to do is go to bed! Urgh - awful.

I really dont want to be sick - am terrified of being ill on the bus on the way to work or something. Was just hoping someone would reassure me and say that lots of people just had nausea and no vomiting!! Wishful thinking I know...

Hope you feel better soon - I find the only way of coping is to eat little and often. (Grapes are my lifesaver!)

Little and often - that's what I am trying to do too.

It doesn't help that the guy who sits near me at work constantly seems to eat smelly food! It drives me mad although nobody else seems to notice the smell apart from me...

Do you have awful mood swings too? I find myself bursting into tears at the slightest thing nowadays. I seem to have had a sense of humour bypass too and get very irritated by the smallest thing. And I thought PMT was bad

You have my sympathies too. I threw up from the beginning of my 3 pregnancies until the day I delivered them. Spent forever in and out of hospital due to weight loss, I mean how many woman can say they weighed less in their last week of pregnancy than they did when they fell pregnant.

During my first pregnancy my dh used to follow me around and hold my hair out of the line of fire, by the third one he used to yell "do you need a bucket"

For all that I think actually vomitting is better than feeling nauseous all day.

Poor you

Hi all, i sympathise with all of you. It's almost funny really, because a month or so ago I was writing exactly the same post! I too was constantly nauseous, but was never actually sick, and felt like I had a constant hangover, or carsickness. The worst thing I found wasn't so much the sickness but the eating. I could only eat very specific things when I felt sick, and those things were unpredictable, and if I didn't get to eat them with about 10 minutes of realising what I wanted I would feel even worse. What this meant is that we had to go shopping every day and what we bought was usually convenience food and micro meals because I couldn't cook and needed food quickly.
The good news is it stopped at about 14 weeks. I'm not 17+3 and the only problems I have now are in the morning I need to eat quite a lot (2 bowls of cereal, then a snack of some kind when I get into work) and I can't make my packed lunch in the morning because it makes me feel sick. And I am fine as long as I eat regularly and don't get hungry. I can also eat pretty much as I did before, also sadly I still can't really eat bran flakes, usually my breakfast staple.
It should pass, but it does make you ever so miserable and people didn't suffer from morning sickness usually enjoy pregnancy much more (which brings on the whole guilt thing). Just eat WHATEVER you need to.

I'm now 13 weeks pg and the nausea is started to abate - not gone completely but I haven't got that constant "oooh am I going to be sick" feeling anymore, just feel a little queasy! I have been sick a few times in this pregnancy but no, nausea doesn't always lead to vomiting. That said, it can provide a little (temporary) relief.

You have my sympathy (and empathy!) - if you do a search you'll probably find loads of posts by me complaining of feeling vile - if it helps at all, complain away! You're among friends

Thanks guys - the sympathy really does help, as well as the thought that it might actually go away in a few weeks... that 12 week milestone can't come quickly enough!

I find as long as I'm sitting reasonably still I can bear it - it's just moving around or walking to the bus etc when it just becomes dreadful. And I dont know about you, but my gag reflex is super sensitive - the slightest thing can make me wretch. Horrid.

MrsTom - I'm also really emotional. I'm not the weepy sort, but now I find myself crying at everything. Not too grumpy - but just feel really blue and a bit down about everything. It comes and goes though. Why dont they tell you all this before you get pregnant?!

Ohhhh I think we have a lot more suprises to come that they don't tell you before you are pregnant!

i am in my first week of feeling really sick and finding it almost impossible to cope. 24 hour nausea, no vomiting. i am totally irrationally phobic about being sick especially in public. i've had to work from home most of the week as i just can't deal with feeling like this at work. i know i will get to the end of it but whether work, r-ship, dignity will be intact god knows. haribo sours are a magic bullet though.

Hope you are all feeling better soon.

Just in case it doesn't all go away by the magical 12 week stage, you are not alone. I am 14+5 and have been sick three times so far this week, although not today (yipee). Hopefully I am now over the worst of it.

I've found this cd helped with the nausea \link{http://www.morningwell.co.uk/}

The nausea was definitely worst b4 12 wks. Now I just have bouts of sickness rather than constantly feeling it. Don't worry if you can't eat much, or can only eat certain things. Apparently the baby takes what it needs from you before you get anything, so he/she will be fine.

have you tried mints, that strangely helped with me, as well as leaving my breath minty fresh!!!!

I was the same as bumperlicious having to eat ever such specific things straight away that changed all the time. Also found mints helped. And lucozade has been absolutely brilliant although in limited doses or the caffeine makes me breathless and anxious! Am 26+4 now and have been 1 whole week without being sick!! Yay! However it has been much easier to cope with over last couple months. Between 10 and 13 weeks was awful. I did go to my dr though who prescribed me tablets which really helped for a few weeks and it wasn't because i was being so sick that i was in danger of dehydration it was just that i felt so ill all the time and was so utterly miserable. So if you really have had enough id go see your dr.

with my DS i was being sick from 7 weeks till anout 16 weeks, mostly all day. doc wouldn't give me any tablets though as he drilled in that there's a chance of harming the baby and so made me feel bad for asking.
thank god with this preg i was sick just a few times at beginning but strangely the smell of bread made me sick!!??

My dr was very relaxed about it all, said theres much less concern these days about possible ill effects for the baby. I was under the impression it had been avoided because of the whole drug companies not wanting to say its safe for fear of being sued and obviously not being able to actively test things on pg women rather than there actually being evidence of any problems.