First pregnancy - terrible nausea - help!

[FlyOnTheWall89]

Hi all,

This is my first pregnancy and my nausea is relentless. Day and night. I've been up nibbling on things to try to settle it overnight but nothing is helping.

Any tips or medication I can buy? Thank you

Are you vomiting?

It should hopefully settle down. Things that helped me: oatcakes to nibble on, peppermint/peppermint tea, ginger tea.

Then if it gets so bad or you're vomiting loads speak to your doctor.

Motion sickness wristbands really helped me with nausea. You can buy them in most chemists or get them on Amazon. The only problem I found was they are quite visible so people may ask why you are wearing them and may lead to you having to tell people you’re pregnant before you’re ready.

If it turns into persistent vomiting go to your GP, I had HG and was prescribed cyclizine which helped (ish). When the HG tailed off eventually to just nausea in the mornings I found it helpful to have some Rich Tea biscuits beside the bed to nibble on, along with a glass of Ribena. You have my sympathies, the nausea is tough 😞

Oh you have my sympathies OP. Mine started as severe nausea and moved on to vomiting 6-7 a day. I spoke with the doctor and for prescribed anti sickness tablets. They worked better some days than others. Things that I found helped (some days nothing would help and I just needed to wait it out);

• Mash
• Potato waffles
• Original Hula Hoops
• hard boiled sweets
• Fizzy drinks
• Sickness bands
• McDonalds chips

Found that basically I could never get hungry, or I'd vomit. Except I got hungry really suddenly, so it was hard to control. Carry a can of something fizzy and snacks with you at all times! Lots of rest too, if I had a busy day one day, I'd be worse the next day.

Oh I remember having a bag of werthers originals beside the bed and would take one when I was nauseous during the night, would usually help ease it enough for me to fall asleep

I took Cyclizine for the first half of my pregnancy. It didn’t stop me from being horribly nauseous 24/7 but it did slightly take the edge off the nausea and it brought the vomiting down to once or twice a day and made it possible to eat a bit so that at least when I did vomit it wasn’t bitter-tasting bile any more. You’ll need to ask your GP for a prescription.

Another thing that temporarily lessened the nausea for me was taking walks in the countryside. Especially if I could walk through a pine forest and sniff the trees.

I had nausea, hardly any vomiting. First baby only for the first 14 weeks or so, second time for the whole 9 months. It was miserable but I don't think there was a medication option unless you're excessively vomiting which I wasn't.

I tried everything - I don't think much helped but there is a bit of a placebo effect /distraction at least. Ginger biscuits probably the best but snacking/eating in general was the only thing that helped, I put on lots of weight second time so watch out for that.

I also had acid reflux /heartburn I did eventually ask for omeprazole for that and wish I had done it sooner rather than trying to stick it out.

Thanks so much for all the suggestions.

I got some wrist bands from the pharmacy and some chewy ginger sweets. I've bought rich tea biscuits. I really have no appetite but I'm trying to force myself to eat little and often. I'll try all this before seeing a GP - I'm not vomiting (yet), but it's like I'm going to be sick any moment all the time.

Thanks again xx

Even if you’re not vomiting, if you’re struggling to cope with the nausea go and see a GP. Get on the meds now, because otherwise in a week from now you might be so sick that you are surviving on tiny sips of boiling hot water and you permanently have the taste of bile in your mouth and you get nosebleeds from vomiting so hard and the taste of the blood makes you even more sick. Sorry if TMI but I’ve been there and it’s not fun. For me it took a few days to chase down one of those elusive GPs and a few more days for the Cyclizine to start working and the wait was gruelling.

BTW in my experience ginger made the nausea worse.

Oh totally have my sympathy, that was me with all of mine!
I drank hot chocolate a lot, and carried round orange or lemon halves to sniff, because smells really set me off.
citrus squash was good to drink too.

One more piece of advice: bleach the toilets now. Make sure the toilet bowl doesn’t stink before things worsen and you start vomiting.

Meds from the GP 👍🏻