Morning sickness - can dr presribe anything

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I know GPs are reluctant to presribe drugs for morning sickness but I have really severe nausea, all day every day and am finding it really difficult to cope at the moment. With my previous pregnancies, I had nausea & vomiting to weeks 16/14 - I can't imagine feeling like this for another 6 weeks (am just past the 8w mark with a twin pregnancy). Is there anything the dr can prescribe? If not, I won't waste time making an apt but if so, I'll go along and ask. Thanks!

i still take anti-sickness tablets now Peachy(for something else) and I have been so worried in case I ever get pg again that I will do some harm. I am so.All that worrying for nothing!!!!

I meant to say I'm taking bucastem!!

Hearing all your stories I really do feel like a hypochondriac ... I wouldn't go so far as to say I have HG but I have never ever felt this bad. I have made an apt with my GP for Wednesday so will see how I go then ... hope to goodness she gives me something as it's going to be a long haul if she doesn't. Thanks again everyone.

Don't be silly Changeofname,the worst bit about being sick is the feeling before hand,so you've every right to feel awful. I know you don't feel like facing it but have you tried eating something like a rich tea biscuit when you start urging? Leave a couple by your bed for first thing in the morning. If you are getting food to stay down try and eat little and often,it used to make me feel so much better once I started to eat,it's just the first few mouthfuls that are difficult.

They are one and the same!
I'm on Buccal atm and they are prochlorperazine
which is the proper name for both those tablets!

As for feeling like a hypochondriac, so did I until I posted ehre and everyone told me to go to the gp armed with the HG info, he didnt so much as bat an eyelid and say 'well yes, probably , after all it is just severe morning sickness, lets get you something for it!' Amazing how much a GP can make you feel that you are/are not just being an attention seeker!

Just to confirm that yes buccastem and stemetil are the same drug, prochlorperazine,and the beauty of buccastem is that you don't have to swallow it for it to work! Absolute nonsense about the instant miscarriage! I must say I gulped a bit when I saw that Zofran had been prescribed -never used it for that indication-but would be perfectly willing to take advice on it if a patient needed it. So changeofname if your own GP baulks ask her to find out more info from the Obstetrician-could save an admission for you!
Best of luck!

Neverenoughpumpkins i think the main indicator for zofran is supposed to be if a termination is the alternative- lots of GP's use the drug info on that page I linked to earlier (it was formulated with the help of a specialist Obs, not just us volunteers LOL!)

Also iirc zofran is generally prescribed by actual obs, rather than at the GP stage- so for a woman who ahs been on a drip or kept in for stemetil jabs, most women are in and out in a few days but some remain in for months or even almost all of their rpeganancy

Thanks Peachy! Will store that info away and the link to the website also!
I'm sure eyebrows would be raised if I doled out Zofran willy-nilly, though might score brownie points with our Community Midwife!

We even have to pay for our pots for our irine tests now (only proper ones acceptable ), if they're that worried about spending on that can only imagine how carefully they watch the medication bills!

Hi all ... saw my most sympathetic GP this morning who thought I might be too early in preg to take something without risk but she suggested that she call my consultant with the result that I have cyclyzine to take when things are really bad. I'm so glad I went to see her so thank you all for your advice.

Oops and blew my cover!!

I'm so glad she was so helpful

Millie1 I'm glad you have a good result.

Peachy-you pay for urine pots?????? Who do you pay? the surgery? And how much???

48p to the chemist next door!

I know- as someone who once had Eclampsia and therefore had daily tests, I can only be grateful they didn't bring that in earlier. ALthough am wondering if tis to offset Welsh free prescriptions thing- sadly it seems some people are making appointments to insist on ridiculous items for free (such as aspirin, 19p a pack in Asda) which just takes the mick and will eventually ruin what is a great scheme.

I agree Peachy-it is such a waste of appointments and seems a little churlish when supermarket meds are so cheap!

And the cost of course could well spiral out of control as at the moment if you pay for your prescriptions it is cheaper to buy many items OTC.

Agree, would ahte to see it collpase though as just in my own family I ahve gone without, and DH has too, medications such as antibitoics when funds have been tight. I imagine quite a lot of people do, tbh. Especially if, as is the case with a lot of places not that far from here, the cost also invovles a bus trip the the GP just to get the prescription because your village is miles from anywhere.