Vomiting after taking antiemetics?

[Plantlady10]

I'm struggling with keeping food down at the moment and was prescribed cyclizine yesterday. I've taken it twice today and vomited immediately afterwards. Now the thought of taking it makes me feel queasy. I'm really want to be able to keep food down but dont know what to do if the medicine wont stay down - any advic?

There are other anti emetics you can try go back to the gp lovely

Thank you I'll give them a call next week

It's not really that it's not working as such but that you can't keep it down from sounds of it - GP can prescribe one that dissolves under your tongue. Is there any drink other than water you can tolerate and try to swallow it with e.g. orange juice, coca cola?

When I started taking it I’d ’test’ myself sipping water over about a half hour period to check whether I thought I was going to keep it down. I still sometimes, at 19 weeks, take it in the morning and immediately reject it and have to take another but, having been on other anti emetics, this is the one that works for me. Hope you find a way/a medication that works for you.

I was similar OP, I took stemetil until about 20 weeks and it was very bitter and I found it quite hard, especially at the start, but honestly it was worth it. Most of the time it just made me retch heavily rather than actually vomit but if I did bring it up, I usually took another straight away and that one usually went down a lot better.
As much as I didn't love swallowing them, the antiemetics saved me!

I think cyclizine are the ones they try out first, but I didn't find them very effective. The ones I have found best were ondensatron wafers that dissolve under the tongue, but they're expensive, so they often don't get prescribed until other ones have been tried.

Disclaimer to the above, I didn't need them for pregnancy as wasn't too sick, it was for an illness before this where I had anti emetics for a couple of years. Ondensatron is also known as zofran and is prescribed for HG I believe. I ended up getting mine from a private GP

I use cyclizine as my car back up in my hg pregnancies, if I know it’s going to be a winding road or a meal will be delayed. I find it’s better at keeping things at bay a bit rather than stopping full blown vomiting once it’s started. They are also pretty big, bitter pills for an antiemetic!
Ondansetron, on the other hand, is a weeny pill that is very easy to take. Personally I prefer the pill to the strip as the strip takes a while to dissolve and that made me feel a bit vommy - though of course once it’s dissolved it won’t come back out!
When I had the uncontrollable vomiting in my first pregnancy (seemed like anything touching my stomach would just bounce back up again) I needed fluids and ondansetron iv in a&e to ‘reset my system’ then could get going with ondansetron tablets.

Basically, if you are vomiting in pregnancy and cyclizine isn’t helping you need to go back to your gp. May also be worth a call to the pregnancy sickness support helpline so that you can go armed with information.

Early pregnancy really is grim isn’t it, hopefully it will let up soon for you. Just a quick note - ondansetron is now not advised prior to 12 weeks of pregnancy due to a small chance of development issues. Having said that I’ve taken it for both my pregnancies early on as I was so sick and my children are both ok. There are a variety of first line antiemetic you can try and stronger ones if they don’t work for you.

Pregnancy sickness support is a good resource and they also have a number you can call for advice. There is also a hyperemesis thread on here which has loads of advice.

The same happened to me on cyclizine. In the end I was given both cyclizine and ondansetron which made a difference. Cyclizine is a first line treatment but there are other options if it's not working for you.

Sorry for not replying earlier - I feel like I'm not hg-level of sickness as there are moments I feel okayish (though still not wanting to eat) and I'm able to go to work. I'm 10 weeks so I think I'll give it a week or two and if it doesnt seem to be getting better then I'll contact GP again