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24 hour nausea

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Missbmcc · 02/06/2018 10:45

I'm a primary teacher suffering from severe nausea (I'm never sick) 24 hours a day and I'm nearly 18 weeks. My partner has been great but I really just losing all hope. I've tried many different forms of ginger, sour sweets, crackers, biscuits, travel sickness bands but nothing works, not even slightly. I'm trying to stay positive but it's been like this for 9 weeks now. I'm due back to work on Monday and absolutely dreading it. I know everyone is different but I find it so hard to see the other pregnant ladies in work 'glowing' and I just feel wretched. I have spent the whole half term in bed, managed to venture to the local shop where I had to sit on the pavement for 10 minutes to work up the courage to walk home. Should my next step be gp? Can they offer anything? Sorry, I know there is a lot of moaning in this post but I just can't see any light at the end of the tunnel at the moment. Thank you x

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Guineapiggiesmalls · 02/06/2018 10:50

Absolutely - get to your gp! They’ll be able to offer you a variety of things to help. Have a look on the hyperemesis support board too? You have my sympathy, I’ve had HG all pregnancy (40 weeks today), and have been on medication since week 9 when I finally hauled myself to the doctor in tears. I was the same as you - nothing touched the nausea/vomiting. Don’t keep suffering, they’ll be able to help!

Gennz18 · 03/06/2018 08:08

You need meds. Ask for ondansetron, it's made a huge difference for me. I'm 36 + 4 and still taking one pill first thing in the morning before I lift my head from the pillow - otherwise I vomit and am nauseous for the rest of the day.

Seriously don't try to power through it, especially given your job. HG is miserable.

sexnotgender · 03/06/2018 08:10

Get yourself to your GP! I couldn’t imagine trying to teach whilst feeling like that, don’t struggle through, there’s really no need.

jamoncrumpets · 03/06/2018 10:05

Go to your GP, deffo. They can even sign you off if necessary.

MeadowHay · 03/06/2018 11:37

I agree to see your GP but as someone who had HG for about 4 months and was a regular on the hyperemesis thread throughout that time, many of us found that medication did dramatically reduce the amount of times we were vomiting each day but unfortunately usually had no effect on the crippling nausea .

jamoncrumpets · 03/06/2018 11:40

I tried to teach with HG and extreme nausea. I couldn't manage it. I think I managed about 12 weeks, and then got signed off again. At the time it felt like major drama. Now I don't feel bad about it at all!

Gennz18 · 03/06/2018 11:57

jamoncrumpets you must be nearly there surely! I seem to remember you were a couple of weeks ahead of me. I still haven't got my ELCS date locked in but only two weeks to go hopefully. Can't come fast enough!!

greathat · 03/06/2018 12:01

Go to gp. Also a teacher here. I had to be signed off. Rest helped a lot! And sucking love heart/ refresher things plus Diet Coke for nausea. The drugs helped with vomiting but not really the nausea

greathat · 03/06/2018 12:06

There's a good Facebook group very supportive that helped me a lot. It's called hyperemesis graviardum and pregnancy sickness. Really supportive and lots of info on the medications you can try

userabcname · 03/06/2018 12:07

I was the same! See your GP and get signed off. The only thing that helped me was sleeping! So rest as much as possible. Mine started to ease at around 20weeks and by the end of pregnancy it had pretty much gone (to be replaced by the most horrific heartburn and acid reflux but still...). I never glowed in pregnancy, I was mainly a rather odd shade of grey/green!

jamoncrumpets · 03/06/2018 12:07

38 weeks Gennz!

jamoncrumpets · 03/06/2018 12:11

And still sick!

Gennz18 · 03/06/2018 12:17

Oh god you poor thing. I'm still taking meds but it's manageable, but the SPD is really ramping up. Desparate to get an CS date locked in so I have an end date!

A girl I work with was due a couple if days ahead of me and had her baby prematurely a couple of weeks ago - I'm ashamed to say my first reaction was jealousy baby is fine luckily!!

Rose1983 · 03/06/2018 16:02

Definitely see your GP. I tried everything and nothing worked, and I swear I would have hurt the next person who suggested to try ginger, as that just made me worse!

Some meds the GP prescribed didn't even help, but eventually ended up on a cocktail of ondansetron and metaclopromide which worked. It completely stopped the vomiting and limited the nausea enough for me to be able to go to work. The only downside I found was that ondansetron also made me horribly constipated, and I had to return to the GP to get them to prescribe laxatives It all seemed to settle a few weeks ago, probably around week 30, and I've managed without medication since, and I've finally been able to eat normally too. A lot of people suffer throughout the whole of their pregnancy, where some find it settles by around 20 weeks, so fingers crossed it won't last too long for you!

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