Extreme lack of energy first trimester - please tell me this will end!!!

[kittyz]

Hi all

As the title says, 11 weeks pregnant.
So unbelievably exhausted all the time. House is a mess, can barely get up to use the bathroom let alone clean up the house. Have missed work as also have nausea and vomiting - can sense my boss is fed up with me phoning in sick.
And ... I'm also doing a masters, and have had to get extensions on all my work ...

Please tell me that the second trimester will be better...

Sorry about the moan, just need to vent! Not sure if my partner fully understands the level of tiredness!!

Thanks for reading

Pregnancy tiredness is just a whole new level of tiredness. It’s insane. However, it does improve. I’m now 15 weeks along in my second pregnancy and really feel I’ve turned a corned in the last few weeks with my energy levels. Hope you start to feel better soon, it really does improve.

Mine went away at 13 weeks

It is so debilitating isn't it!? It really gets you down :( It will get better though! I am in week 12 and although tired, I have so so much more energy than I did 2 weeks ago!

I was exactly the same, OP. Mine improved around 14/15 weeks but I still get super tired in the evenings (currently 23 weeks). I'm in bed by 9pm most nights.

I find 2-4pm is my most tired/low energy part of the day - at the weekends I'll often take a nap then.

So, still get tired but dont have that groggy feeling all day.

It does get better. I found even at the end when I was massive and uncomfortable, it wasn't as bad as the utter exhaustion and nausea of the first trimester. Mine improved gradually around weeks 12 to 14. I was still tired but in a manageable way.

Yes it does ease.

I remember saying one evening I’m tired, and my husband said me too and I could have ripped his head off. It’s beyond being a bit sleepy it’s pure exhaustion. I would frequently cancel plans with friends after work because I couldn’t move from the sofa.

For me it became easier around 14weeks

I was knackered during the first trimester but there are pics of me skipping trudging up and down cliff paths from my second trimester, on four or five mile walks. Second trimester was the best one for me, the nausea subsided, my hair was all shiny and nice, I had a nice neat bump and nice little kicks. Enjoy it before you hit the beaches whale with ginormous piles trimester (seriously though, tell your midwife if you get constipated, I did not and suffered for it. There are things you can safely take!)

Do your best op, this too shall pass.

Thanks so much for all the support guys.

I'm so tired at the moment, and reading through these I've now got tears in my eyes - oh, must add emotional wreck to the mix too!

I will wait with bated breath for this torture to end. Have so much respect for those of you who did this more than once!!!

Thanks again for the messages - I really needed it today xxx

It goes away! I was also extremely fatigued and at week 12 it was like something had lifted and all was well again! Now I'm 15 weeks pregnant and feeling like my old self, so don't worry, should be over soon!

It will end, I was like a puking zombie for 12 weeks. First trimester was the worst by far for me.

First trimester exhaustion and sickness is the worst thing I've ever experienced... it's so difficult when no amount of rest or anything will help with it, and it just keeps going on and on for weeks and weeks... I was the same as you, house was a total mess, couldn't stand up half the time, couldn't go in the kitchen at all, lost my appetite completely, and was just sleeping all the time when I wasn't at work to be honest. Worst few months of my life.

But, second trimester was a breeze!! I felt so much better, almost normal actually! House has never looked tidier to be honest haha! Get whatever you can done during this time, because now I'm in 3rd trimester, the tiredness is coming back. Although it's no where near as bad as first trimester (yet)!

Just hang in there anyway, you'll feel better soon! :)

Just wanted to add that I felt so ill and tired that I was in almost in tears half the time, and thought several times that I don't want to be pregnant anymore... just want you to know it's normal to feel like this and it's definitely a difficult time. But you'll get through it!

It will get better! For me it was around 14/15 weeks. And if it’s any help, first trimester exhaustion is worse than anything else including the huge waddling bit at the end or having a newborn. It was like wading through treacle, nothing compares.

It’s also a well known phenomenon so tell your partner to read up and be more supportive. I got home from work, slept, ate the dinner DH had cooked, slept again. That’s how it should be and if you live together there’s no reason for your house to be a tip, he should be doing it. Your boss wants to wind his neck in too, you’re growing a human being, can’t help being sick, and are protected by hard won legislation protecting pregnant women.

I'm 10+4 and I can't cope. I feel so guilty. My house is a state my toddler spends his days stood in the bathroom doorway crying 'mummy ok'as I vomit. I'm reliant on my MIL. Pregnancy is really fucking hard work.

2nd trimester I felt normal again, actually very energetic! Third trimester up until about 31/2 weeks I was fine, then I got ill with flu and have stayed quite tired since (now 36 weeks). I think most people find themselves feeling normal from about 15 weeks to closer to the end.

Mine improved around 12 weeks, but like other posters I still get very tired in the evenings and am usually in bed by 9. On the weekends I have afternoon naps, wish I could every day!

I'm 19 weeks tomorrow any only just started feeling human again the oast couple of weeks. I never could have expected the levels of exhaustion in the first trimester! Getting home from work at 5 and sleeping until 6 then next morning and still be knackered! Doesn't help now but it will pass, hang in there :)

I'm nearly 10 weeks and I feel like I've been hit by a bus. I'm a runner but haven't run in a fortnight. My husband has run twice without me now and I feel so left out.