Continual sickness

[TwoShades1]

I have continual sickness. It’s 24/7. I’m basically living on paracetamol and anti nausea tablets. But they don’t really do much. It’s really impacting my day to day life and I can’t do much. If you were like this did it go away or last the whole pregnancy? I cry when I think about it lasting the whole nine months.

Might not give you much hope but mine lasted to about 25 weeks, absolutely ghastly.
I don't know many of my friends who had it as bad as me though so hopefully you'll be one of the lucky ones and it'll clear off!
Make sure your GP tries you on some different tablets, there are a few different kinds. None of them worked for me but I found morning sickness bands did help a bit

Ask for different sickness tablets to try. Just try and focus on the exciting bits, names, clothes, anything you like. Not sure what paracetamol are supposed to do though?

Mine lasted 4 months with my first. You will cope.I don't know if this will help but I was always told that pregnancy sickness meant you were having a healthy baby.I had 4 months sickness with first, less with second. My third pregnancy had no sickness and the baby died in utero at 5 months. Not much help perhaps, but it might make the nausea bearable. Just try to take it one day at a time. It often stops at 3 months.

Then paracetamol is for my continuous headache. I think it’s harder as well as whilst we were trying for baby, it hasn’t taken me long to get pregnant and I wasn’t overly desperate or particularly obsessed by having one. So I am quite often wondering why the fuck I’ve done this to myself?!

I really feel for you, I'm having constant nausea too and can only seem to tolerate rich tea biscuits. I'm really hoping it clears up by the standard 3 months but stories on here of it lasting way beyond that are worrying. I'm also getting regular headaches.

And like you, I'm also wondering what have I done! We weren't really trying, not desperate at all yet I fell pregnant very quickly.

I'm sure my advice is just going to be the same sort of stuff you've heard already but I just wanted to empathise with you, as these symptoms totally suck!

Mine went away about 25 weeks too, it’s hard going and at times it was enough to nearly make me regret my pregnancy.

However it does lift, my baby is 5 weeks now and worth every moment feeling like shit!
It all goes away when you have the baby anyway.

I used to eat about 3000 calories a day, I’m back to my normal 1000 now lol (not a typo, I’m such a small eater)

Mine calmed down a lot by 12/13 weeks. I remember thinking how am I going to get through the next few weeks. You have my sympathy it does get better.

I had it for six months and was taking medication which did only a little. Drinking icy water all day really helps with nausea.

I had it all through pretty much:

I had it very badly until 13 weeks (doctor signed me off work at 7 weeks and I just slept for 5 weeks and sipped water).

After that i still had it until about 25 weeks but I could eat raw vegetables and oranges so it became manageable.

After that i could eat cooked food yey and small and often. I still had some nausea but tbh it was ok.

It was gone completely within an hour of giving birth. I had the best sandwich and cup of tea of my life

I know it doesn't feel like it now but it was 100% worth it.

I had it up to 16 weeks, then it went away for three weeks and then came back again 🤨 but the nausea was coming and going throughout the day, not constant, so I wondered if something I was eating was causing it. I was having tea and toast for breakfast so I switched to cereal (without milk) and found the nausea didn't come on that morning, so I stayed off white bread, dairy and tea after that in case one of them is the culprit and I've been so much better!

I get it all the way through. It's a bastard. Switching around the type of medication made it more bearable for me though. Which drug are you on at the moment?

Hi :) I’m around 7 weeks and can totally empathise. I’ve had constant nausea this entire past week. Some days are better than others, but then I do too much and end up exhausted and paying for it the next day.

I’ve been off work this week (half term) but going back on Monday and getting quite anxious about how I’m going to cope.

Don't hesitate in going back to your doctor for different tablets if you're struggling. I was really bad from 5 weeks until 18 weeks, ended up being signed off work for 10 weeks after getting back from honeymoon (when it started 🙄). 23 weeks now and still being sick 1-3 every morning but that's a million times better than it was. There seems to be a good bit of medication doctors can offer, I had 3 different tablets although nothing really helped. Some of the stronger stuff can leave you constipated though.

Different foods/drinks seem to help different people but I found ice lollies and jelly really helped me, ice lollies for hydration if you can't keep liquids down and jelly tastes the same coming up as it does going down so it's not just as horrific if it doesn't stay down.

Check out the Hyperemesis thread, lots of lovely ladies on there with some great advice for coping with sickness and nausea. I really hope this gets better for you soon, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy!