Intense sickness any tips

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Hi All, after 5 years of fertility treatment I finally got my BFP after a FET on 24th June. I am now so sick that even turning over in bed is making me vomit. It’s also all day and night. I’m so happy it’s worked but feel absolutely awful. Any tips?

www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/

I'll leave you this link. Congratulations on your pregnancy.

There is also a hyperemesis support thread running here with resources

Thank you I’ll take a look

Congratulations! And sorry you're feeling so poorly. I had medication from the doctor which helped a little (although didn't stop it entirely). Other things that helped were trying to eat little and often (even a bite or two of a plain biscuit), eat whatever you fancy (I didn't eat a single vegetable for months!) And try to get fluids into you - ice lollies are good. If you feel you're getting dehydrated you must contact the docs.

One other thing I found is that the pregnancy multivitamins made me feel worse - doctor suggested switching to just a separate vitamin d and folic acid tablets and that definitely helped.

I had extremely debilitating sickness that didn’t go until about 18 weeks really. What helped me was ginger tea, peppermint tea and ginger sweets (try gin gins) I found that chewing and sucking on the gin gins got my sugar levels up so peeled me up a bit and also distracted me from the nausea. Jacobs crackers by the bed and stay hydrated! Even if you ended up throwing it up you want to try and retain as much as possible as staying hydrated will make you feel better! I’ve also read that pregnancy vitamins can help curb the nausea and this makes sense because of lot of natural remedies for HG involve vitamin C and other vitamins. Try all of that!! It will eventually pass even thought it seems never ending at the time! Xxx

*perked not peeled lol

I had terrible nausea for a few weeks and the only things that helped were:

• lying on my left (something about stomach acid on empty stomach not going up. Could be BS but seemed to work).

• ice lollies, not chocolate but sorbet fruit ones that are frozen fruit juice. not orange only lemon or raspberry.

• Ice cold water but only through a straw.

Water made me very sick and more so tepid water. I'd end up throwing up whatever I'd managed to take down in other ways and it made me worse.

• a cold fan in the room. Even if I was cold, I'd wrap in a duvet but the cold air helped. Anytime I was warm it was worse.

• I could drink hot tea but only herbal, fruit lemon and ginger ect. Nothing with milk.

• I think someone above mentioned ginger sweets but I also found boiled sweets helped.

I know it's tempting to down a load of water but it made me feel sick so I tried to get it in in other ways.

Hope this helps xx