Welcome brandy and that sounds well worth a moan, no need to apologise! Have you spoken with your GP yet? I think all of us are on some kind of antiemetic medication, but there are different brands and also different combinations you can take. The earlier you start treatment the more effective it can be. Plus it’s important to get it more under control, to avoid needing hospitalisation, getting dehydrated etc. If you can give yourself plenty of rest, it can be hard sometimes especially if you’re normally busy but most people find being active (even very gently) can make the sickness much worse. If you’re working, get signed off to give yourself some time.
Hi Melly you poor thing. Lucinda has a great list of trusted liquids that people can often tolerate (can’t remember all of them but full fat Coke which is flat and the juice or syrup from tinned fruit is in there, although can’t remember if it’s juice or syrup!). Personally I’ve gone with things like nibbling on crackers when I’m rough, fruit tea is working for me too at the moment. I’m on cyclizine and the first week on it really knocked me out and I still felt rough, but the group here encouraged me to see it through st least a week, and since then I’ve felt much better. I still get nausea, I still get bad days, but the vomiting is few and far between for me (maybe once or twice in a week), and retching is just occasional (eg if I try to do too much, or if I enter my kitchen because that place is currently my kryptonite!).
You both might find over time that there is a bit of a pattern to it, although it’s not exactly predictable. For me, the mornings tend to be worse, and I can only have bland and easy to eat food before 1pm - but at least I can eat that, without being sick. I usually have one day in the week where symptoms are lighter, and this tends to be mid-late week (Wed-Fri). I’m 12 weeks and hoping as I slowly move further that it might lighten up more. I can’t do much, but, I can withstand this much better than before I was on medication. I’ve been off work for 6 weeks and will only go back once I’m ready, every time I try to push myself activity-wise I get very ill (it’s taken me a while to get that into my head but better late than never!).