Does dry heaving give you temporary relief?

[Birchtree4]

First pregnancy and suffering from horrible nausea at 7 weeks. I have only vomited once however have come very close multiple times but forced myself to keep food down (which felt worse than the vomiting).

I just opened my fridge which triggered a dry heave and non productive crouch over the toilet, and I actually felt slightly better after it? Do you find dry heaving temporarily makes nausea better?

It really varied for me. Sometimes dry heaving helped, a lot of the time it didn't. Same with being sick - sometimes I'd be sick and feel fine after. Sometimes I'd feel just as awful after as before. I definitely found that getting it "out of the way" in the morning helped but I'd bet everyone's different. All of the recommended nibbling a cracker before you get out of bed just delayed the inevitable for me and left me heaving all day. As horrible as it was I would get up, drink half a glass of water (ingesting anything in any moderate quantity in the morning made me sick - water is less awful when it comes back) jump in the shower (moving about also made me sick) and then grab a bowl on the way out and curl up on the floor and be sick in that (much more pleasant than leaning over the loo and I got less abdominal pain curled up). That usually gave me a relatively nausea-free morning. The afternoon and evening were a write off no matter what I did. Honestly the nausea was so much worse than actually being sick - and I was retching so much that I was routinely bursting blood vessels on my face and neck. Honestly worried I'd somehow got meningitis when that happened the first time!

Sorry you're dealing with this - it's really rough. Hope you feel better.

No i have never found dry heaving made me feel been. If i ever dry heaved it usually just brought on a bought of actually vomiting. Although i would think it probably isnt the best for you to be constantly dry heaving. It musnt be physically good for you.

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Avoid the fridge, the freezer and the dishwasher ....and bin as much as possible! In fact just don't go in the kitchen and you will be fine! It's horrible. I'm not sure it makes me better but it has become an automatic reaction to any whiff from the kitchen! It should pass in a few weeks. It's not much fun.

The dry heaving gave me momentary instant relief for while I was heaving, but as soon as I stopped I felt sick again. But I find the same with actual vomiting.

As birdglasspen says, avoid smelly places if you can. I try to avoid the kitchen as much as humanly possible.

Hope the sickness subsides, I really empathise because it’s really debilitating!

For me only being sick made me feel better.
I would normally have 3/4 dry wretches randomly throughout the day and then again in bursts before I was about to be physically sick.

I found the opposite happened with me. I’d have to try my best not to heave when I smelt something etc. As soon as I heaved it would be game over and it would bring on actual vomit. Immediately after vomiting I felt better though!

Nope. I hate being physically sick and would rather just feel ill. Not been able to stop sickness once in this pregnancy so far, had no food in me just a green tea that set me off. I've been close several times but a nap usually helps me. I couldn't stand over the hob cooking food for a few weeks and swapped to easy leave in the oven stuff (hubby wasn't happy lol) but doing better with that now.
It'll get better once your hormones level out, until then do what you have to to get through it.

Thanks everyone, what a terrible business! Thanks for advice re. Avoiding the kitchen, managing to do so as much as possible.
Even smell of a lit candle is enough to set me off!