Morning Sickness - please help! I am miserable and need to talk :(

[aimeeeleanor]

Hello

I am 9 weeks pregnant today and absolutely miserable. I have been nauseous since about 5&1/2 weeks with on & off vomiting

I have been prescribed Metoclopramide which seems to be stopping me vomiting as much but the nausea is unbearable. I cannot be out of bed for longer than 30 minutes without feeling like I am going to die

I am managing to eat small amounts & keep myself hydrated but I am so miserable that no matter what i do i feel nauseous & ill. I have so much phlegm too, a stuffy nose & a cough that is making me heave hourly

Has anybody else suffered? I just dont know what to do with myself it’s making me not want to be pregnant anymore. I feel so awful saying that but i just feel so incredibly low

Ps if any more of my female family members say to me ‘try ginger’ im going to scream!

I had that for all 3 of my pregnancies and nothing worked (although I did nibble on ginger biscuits and that helped a little). The only thing I did was carry sick bags around with me so that I could vomit wherever I was and somehow that made me a bit less inclined to vomit as I wasn't scared to just go with it! The nausea was dreadful though and I've no idea how I managed to do my job at the time.

I just kept telling myself it was a sign of a healthy pregnancy - not much comfort when you feel rotten morning, noon and night, but it was all I could really do.

Sorry, this probably isn't what you're looking for but it will pass eventually and you'll have your beautiful baby at the end of it (which will make you forget everything that went before!).

Good luck as it is rotten.

Also had this throughout my pregnancies OP, it's awfully miserable isn't it. I tried loads of stuff but nothing really helped.

It could be hyperemesis.

I had it with both my pregnancies, vomited for 9 months straight both times.

Nothing really helped, zofran/ondansatron eased the actual vomiting a little but the nausea was horrendous.

Regular trips to the ED for fluids helped a little too as I was unable to keep water down so was extremely dehydrated.

My only advice is if you find anything at all you’re able to keep down, just have it. With DD it was frozen coke, with DS it was chocolate milk and passion fruit (not together!)

Don’t be afraid to ask for help either!

Good luck x

I currently going through the same op, its horrible!! The only thing that settles the nausea for me is fresh chicken soup (been having the convent garden in a carton) as soon as that goes down my nausea stops for a while and I get a bit of a break.
The other thing which is helping is getting out of the house, even though I still feel sick I think having some distractions helps a massive amount. I definitely feel more sick when I'm at home.
Weirdly too, really strong ribena seems to make me feel better for a while 🤷‍♀️

I'm 37 weeks pregnant with DC4 and sympathise wholeheartedly. I've just been hugging the toilet as I vomit yet again and just felt momentarily so fed up and defeated with it all that I had a little sob.
Speak to your GP. You may have hyperemersis or, like me, have horrific acid reflux which makes you nauseous and unable to lie down without everything coming back up.
I know it's hard when you feel so ill, but get help and try to stay as upbeat as possible. Sipping Indian tonic water helps settle my stomach, and extra strong mints when I'm out and about. Hope you are feeling better soon.

Speak to your GP, explain how it is affecting your daily life and that you are unable to function, they might give you a different medication or different combination of meds.

been there done that, for me it was very very dead flat full fat coke, none of this sweetner stuff, that helped, plus my grandma said the sicker you are the better the baby will thrive (in you) they both did, boy and girl. i was as sick both times. and they are super healthy adults now.

I definitely hear you OP. I’m currently 14+3 and slowly starting to feel a little bit better. I haven’t got much advice but I felt guilty too like you said, I really didn’t find the first trimester enjoyable at all as I felt so rubbish. I felt quite low because how can you feel happy/excited when you feel so unwell every day. It really was about taking every single day as it came and trying to think of the end goal and this is what I wanted. I really hope you start to feel better soon. Listen to your body, eat and drink whatever you are able to, I enjoyed full sugar cold Fanta. And ice lollies. And if you need rest and time off work then take it. Also, for me it really was about eating little and often, it was such a struggle but if I left it too long without eating I’d feel absolutely awful.

Really hope you start feeling better soon - when you go for that first scan and see your baby on the screen it will all be worth it trust me, such an amazing feeling x

Awful.

Statistically 9weeks is the peak week for pregnancy sickness so unless you are one of the rare unlucky ones who has it throughout, you should be over the hill of it, although probably it will still be with you for another five or six weeks

Morning ladies
I don't really know how to work this properly bur iv been trying for almost a qyear and yesterday I was 9dpo and i got a faint line on a frer within the time frame and today I'm 10dpo.i dome another test and another faint line could this mean that I am pregnant??

Yes, this was me with my current and first pregnancy. It was absolutely awful and soul destroying. I'm 13 weeks today and have started feeling better for the past 3 weeks or so but prior to that it's been horrendous. I've been on medication since week 5 and like you it's had no effect on the nausea and I'd still vomit occasionally too. For any relief I had to just lie in bed, on my left side, completely still because any movement triggered the nausea. I completely feel for you, its absolutely awful. You can go back to your GP and ask for another medication to try if the current medication doesn't work for you. Hang in there, it dors get better 💐

I lost a stone while pregnant due to morning sickness. It did stop at 16 weeks and the rest of the pregnancy was much nicer. I found these sweets called preggie pops which really helped. And never let my tummy get empty. Good luck, it will pass x

Just awful OP. I found the nausea completely debilitating. I vomited every couple of days but it was actually a relief when I did, as I’d feel better for a brief period after. But the nausea was just relentless. I got really depressed and negative about the pregnancy. I avoided talking to people because they thought I should be feeling happy and couldn’t understand my doom. I’ve never felt so helpless and dark in my life before. And very inadequate as it seemed other pregnant women got through first trimester by eating little and often or finding something they could tolerate eating. There was literally nothing I could eat and I lost so much weight both times. I was very slim to start with so looking back at photos is a bit scary.

But it eased at 11 weeks, I did it twice and now have two beautiful children who I adore. Labour was a walk in the park compared to first trimester. You can do this.

Give the pregnancy sickness support charity a call, PSS. I've had two Hyperemesis pregnancies and was bed bound for 10 weeks (6-16) in this pregnancy and vomit most days. You can take lots of medication together. At my worst I was on cyclizine, ondansetron, stemetil and metoclopramide in one day. Had to take drugs every 2-3 hours to manage. Really feel for you. Hope you've got a lot of support and hope you've been signed off work!