How to focus at work with constant waves of nausea?

[WombOfOnesOwn]

8w along. My second pregnancy is shaping up to be very much like my first, which means waking up to all-day, unrelenting feelings that I'm just about to vomit. I'm very good at "keeping everything down," so to speak, but I am fighting hard (breathing deep, swallowing frequently, doing everything to hold back the urge!) at least 2-3x every hour.

My OB has told me to try as hard as I can not to vomit, because it weakens the parts of the throat that close off from the stomach. And that's good, anyway, because in my first pregnancy, throwing up didn't make me feel any better, just more dehydrated.

I work in a fairly high-pressure, high-salary office job with work constantly coming in and always a bit too much to do. Normally I love my job and take it totally in stride, but right now I'm panicking at the idea of up to 12 more weeks like this (last time I had all-day "morning sickness" until week 20!).

I need your strategies and every idea you have in your arsenal, working moms! How do I keep looking like the consummate overachiever when I'm focusing on holding back vomit all day long?

Freezing cold water helps, though you do have to keep going to the loo that way.

Huge sympathies. I had HG in my first pregnancy, an awful boss and a high pressure job.

frankly, nothing worked for me. I was lucky in that I had my own office at the end of a corridor next to a loo.

Style it out? I found nothing helped stop it so I just went with it. Once I'd told people I was pregnant it was more 'scuse me a sec, I have to spew. ... right ok, so where we ?'

Yeah I may just have to be bold and proud, like "I'm pregnant, deal with it!"

I am currently chewing yet another ginger candy. Do you know what's really awful? Throwing up a stomachful of ginger and having it all come out your nose.

Pregnancy is so glamourous!

For me it was drinking lots of water, eating dry things such as mini bread sticks little and often, and getting a very early night every night so I never felt tired. I work in large open plan office in a corporate Hq and found it a struggle at times!
I'm now 16 weeks and word is out and a lot of people have said they never would have known. Three told me they thought I'd been looking very grey in the face for a while

I got to the point where the mere mention of ginger drove me into a murderous rage.

I'm a coach driver so being sick isn't always an option on motorways. I found the more tired I was the more sick I felt. Early nights and wake up extra early to give yourself time to come around. Wake up slowly and eat some dry crackers / biscuits. Don't force yourself to eat when you feel sick just eat when you dont.
Don't eat anything that could repeat like onions or having orange juice.
Mostly there's no set cure. Just take each day as it comes but tiredness does make it worse I found

Sipping fizzy mineral water ice cold took the edge ofd it. I was exactly same as you. Working through it deep breathing and swallowing to avoid bringing anything up. I'm 20 weeks and I did pretty well except when toothpaste caught back of my throat.

my morning sickness was just like yours: i didn't actually throw up but i felt like i had turned green at 6 weeks pregnant and was just in a constant state of 'almost' vomiting. i only threw up once, but i lost 10 pounds in my first trimester cause i didn't like the smell of food and didn't want to eat. the whole ginger, crackers, ale, toast, water thing did not help me at all.
what worked for me was a natural tea called no to morning sickness tea!

I'm afraid I can only offer a suggestion of ice cold water and dry crackers/rice cakes.

I was like you in that I wasn't vomiting but felt waves of nausea all day. I just kept my cold water and crackers in class to get through it.

Poor you! I was exactly the same in my first pregnancy and I'm about 5 weeks in now and absolutely dreading the sickness starting again. Im also super good at never spewing and can count the times I've vomited in my entire life on one hand!

Ginger and crackers etc never worked for me. I found having a little bit of protein (cheese and ham on a oatcake) and fizzy water was the only thing that somewhat calmed my insides enough so I could concentrate on my high pressure job. I broke protocol and ended up telling my colleagues at 10 weeks as they were a bit miffed why I was not my usual sunny self and kept sneaking off (to take deep breaths in the bathroom)

Super good luck for the next few months. It really is the pits isn't it?

Nothing worked to stop the sickness except medication. I spent a long time lay on my back in the toilet at work with my feet raised, working from a work tablet as I couldn't sit up at my desk. Like a pp, I just brazened it out when I had to run out of meetings to vomit, and after a while it wasn't even questioned - I was just brought up to speed when I came back in the room.

Oh god I remember that so vividly. You feel like it will never pass. As above, my most effective technique was a constant supply of dry Jacobs crackers in my desk drawer, & just nibbling a small corner very regularly through the day. I ate a lot of crackers - but not much else! Good luck.

I was much luckier than all you guys - but (for my mild nausea) I found sweets helped. Not mint or ginger, just anything I fancied. And dry crackers and ducking ice. I also wore one of those pressure point bands on the wrist.

Fizzy cola bottles. I don't know why, but they do help!

Iced water to sip and don't let yourself get too hungry just try and nibble biscuits or crackers. I know it's so hard you have my sympathy. I'm 18 weeks now and it's calmed down for me xx