Morning Sickness all day and work

[TobiGus]

I've been having "morning" sickness all day long. I'm 6 weeks pregnant and it started about a week ago. The worst part about it is it wakes me up in the night and is at its worst early in the morning about 5am and I usually vomit once between that time and 8am it improves around 11am but never goes away. Consequently I'm exhausted through lack of sleep. Am finding this such a lonely experience I don't want to tell family yet because it's too early only my partner knows and there's not any Midwife support at this stage I won't be seeing them for 2 weeks. I try to eat small amounts every hour to stave off the nausea. I've even heard things about taking vitamin B6 but not sure what's safe there. Am finding it debilitating I'm just happy I've got a week off work next week but I'm not sure if I'll be able to go back I struggled all week it might be time to speak to my manager. Is anyone else in the same position out there? It feels so isolating at times. no one tells you the reality of this the movies are so misleading!

I'm about 7+3 and feeling the same, it's awful it feels like a raging hangover every day.

Ginger is your friend. You can do this. And there's no rule that you can't tell people if you want to.

Ginger did bollock all for me! Unfortunately the first trimester is really really hard and, if you're unlucky like me, morning sickness can actually last the entire pregnancy. I told my mum and work by 8 weeks (in fact I had to be signed off as I was dehydrated from vomiting so much so work found out that way). If you want to tell people, then do! And I say this as someone who has also miscarried at 11 weeks. At no point in any pregnancy has keeping it all to myself and powering through with no support helped. If you don't want to tell others then don't, but don't feel that you mustn't. Of course you can! As for the sickness, if it gets to the point you can't keep down fluids then ring your GP as there is medication you can take. Other than that, rest and take it easy. Hope you feel better soon!

I feel your pain I really do!

It is so lonely and causes such a dark cloud over your lovely news, I found out I had hyperemesis which is constant sick and nausea that can last right up until you give birth but most people’s stop around 12-14 weeks. I did find that speaking on mums net and speaking to mums alike who had the same condition did help my mental state but if it’s still really bad in the next week or 2 speak to your doctor and ask for medication.

As much as I want to say the medication works a treat, it doesn’t, but it does help! So worth asking.

Hope it eases off and you can enjoy your news

All the best xx

Yeah I also agree with the above.

If you want to tell people then you should, I don’t understand the whole 12 weeks thing.
I know people say it’s so they know if baby is ok but honestly if the baby wasn’t ok then you would need support from friends and family. So I say if you want to let people in go for it xx

Thanks everyone I appreciate it makes me feel better xx

In contrast to above post, dont wait until you can't keep fluids down to ring your gp! Prevention is better than cure. I had nauseaand dry wretching all day long from week 5, I can relate. Call your gp and start some meds straight away!

Also if you need to take time away from work, only your boss will know why and anything pregnancy related doesn't count to an absence trigger. My boss was the first person to know at week 8 because I couldn't work at all.

I was this soldier & kept thinking that I had no choice but to suffer. I finally got a prescription from my doctor & 2 days in I can't believe how different I feel. Expensive but worth every penny imo as every day/hour/minute had been a struggle.

Get medicated before you end up in hospital... there's no prizes for extra suffering...I wish I'd gotten it sorted before I ended up on a drip

This was me, especially the early morning nausea, I was waking up between 4-5am feeling terrible and not really going to back to sleep. As PP have said, call the GP, there's no need to suffer like this. I was given cyclizine straight away with no arguments and that has made it livable, ginger did bugger all.

Call GP get it sorted. The earlier you get medication the greater its ability to work.

Eat little and often. I kept biscuits by the bed so i could eat before sitting up.. to avoiding instantly vomiting!

Grapefruit juice was the only thing that helped in my second pregnancy. A weird MN tip that saved my sanity!

I still ended up signed off sick and bedridden for 8 weeks, and then stayed on medication, constant snacking and grapefruit juice through to week 20 or so.

Don't soldier on, get to GP x