Sickness/nausea support thread

[Wouldloveanother]

7w3d, all day nausea, vomiting on and off throughout the day and getting up in the night to vomit as well. I’m totally miserable and need somewhere to vent. Does anyone want to join me? ☹️

@Wouldloveanother unfortunately it didn’t stay good for long. I then managed barely any sleep and today is probably the worst I’ve felt yet.

I’m struggling so much. 😞

Welcome Charl. How is everyone this evening? I haven’t vomited today but feel so, so rough. And very down. There’s been a lot of tears today.

Sorry Ottilie didn’t see your post. I’m sorry, I know how awful you feel. It’s so hard. I’m having quite bad ‘why am I doing this’ thoughts which is awful.

Had a pretty rough weekend, especially through the night. Saturday night's nausea lasted right through until late Sunday afternoon which was a nightmare. Last night I took a packet of tea biscuits to bed and had a couple when the nausea woke me. Managed to get back to sleep and woke up feeling reasonably good compared to the last few mornings. Think I'll maybe take a couple of emergency biscuits to bed from now on so I'm not waking to an empty stomach if it's going to make a noticeable difference.

@Wouldloveanother same. I’m going to go for a scan at eight weeks (Friday this week) purely to ensure the pregnancy is viable and I’m not doing this for no reason. It feels awful to say.

Not awful, just human. I’ve had similar thoughts. I’m terrified this will last for another few months, I can’t even think about it.

I’ve just emailed my manager and told her I will be getting my GP to sign me off tomorrow. She’s lovely thankfully but I just cannot even think about work at the moment. I feel so stuck in these walls and so depressed right now.

That’s something, Ottilie - at least you can just focus on you for now. I also texted my manager to say it’s unlikely I will be in tomorrow and will need to carry on self certifying until I can be signed off on Thursday, unless something dramatically changes in the interim. I just started sobbing uncontrollably when DD asked me to read her a story and I was gagging too much to get the words out 😞 I actually feel a bit angry. Why do we as women always have to go through stuff like this??

I’m pretty angry. I can’t go on like this. I can’t sleep as I’m so queasy all the time. And I can’t eat much. This is so so bad. I feel like I need to be put to sleep and fed intravenously.

Another bad night; awake from 2-5am as I just couldn’t get comfortable enough to sleep. Feel like an elephant is sitting on my chest alongside the nausea. I think I’ve lost about 5lb already.

Anyone else feel colder than usual? Strangely I do... hope it's normal 🥴

Having a shocking day too. I'm on Cariban which is quite a strong anti sickness medicine and feel utterly awful still. I have moments of feeling ok but then the waves of sickness seem to fight through the medication and I'm back to square 1. I feel like I won't be able to do this - if this went past week 12 I won't be able to cope. Does anyone think to themselves 'what have I done' sorry for negative chat just so desperate sometimes I hate being bed bound and I've been so for 10 days straight. 😩

This is how I feel! Hell.

@Emsinmonaco2022 sorry you’re having a shit day as well 😞 re the 12 weeks thing, yes it terrifies me. I honestly don’t know how I will manage if it doesn’t ease off at some point in the next couple of months. It’s making me regret getting pregnant which is an awful thing to say. I wish somebody would put me to sleep and wake me up when it’s time to give birth. Can they switch your meds at all?

Literally how I feel. I'll ask the doctor tomorrow to see if there are other safe options. Have you considered medication? Sorry you're in same boat. I don't remember it being as hard with my first child - but I did have some pretty low points then.

I’ve made a phone appointment for tomorrow to discuss meds. I’ve held out as long as I can, because I’m on a bunch of other meds for pre existing health conditions, but I just can’t continue. I said to DH if I had a date when it would finish then at least I could work towards that, it’s the not knowing that’s so scary.

Completely agree. If it was definitely stopping at exactly the 12 week mark, we would all get on with it probably and just lock ourselves in a dark room until then. But who knows 😰 so stressful

13+3 here with first baby. The nausea is absolutely relentless. Reading threads like this help me, knowing I'm not alone in this. But my god I never thought growing a baby would be this tough 🤯

Hi Lauren. Sorry to hear you still feel sick at 13 weeks. It’s DC2 for me, first time round I had sickness but it tended to be a morning vomit then fine for the rest of the day. And the food aversions etc passed by about 10/11 weeks as far as I remember. It’s so hard. I wish I had advice, but all we can do is complain in solidarity with each other!

I am also a HG sufferer and after being prescribed all the usual stuff from my GP that didn't help, following a hospital visit I was put on steroids from 9 weeks by a Consultant and I haven't looked back. Awful side effects but I can live a life again! If you keep being hospitalised ask for them.

@IHaveBeenFallingFor30Minutes thank you. Can you say which? My fear is that because I’m not throwing up, no one will take me seriously. But 24 hour nausea is honestly worse. At least if I was vomiting I’d have some temporary relief.

@OttilieKnackered I was started on 40mg of Prednisolone just under 8 weeks ago and have reduced to 25mg a day now. I've had horrible water retention and I have had cravings for really unhealthy food but I would take the weight gain and the moon face over the horrendous nausea and vomiting any day. It is so incapacitating. I found the nausea was worse than the actual vomiting too!

It's really frustrating that women aren't offered this treatment. I had to ask for it and I was only aware because of the Pregnancy Sickness Support website. I asked about the side effects when it was prescribed and the doctor said baby will be fine but I will be the one to suffer (she was right with the water retention and bloating)! They use this medication for recurrent miscarriages as well.

Ahhhh I need this group 😭 I'm 13 weeks and still nauseous and totally food averted though it eased a bit at weeks 10 and 11. Agree with @laurenfeelingsick I just can't believe how hard this is. I just want to enjoy a meal again

I really feel for you. I don’t mind the vomiting, it relieves me of the nausea for about half an hour afterwards which is 100% worth it. Are you able to make yourself sick at all? 😬

The GP has prescribed me prochlorperazine. Has anyone got experience of taking this? I feel guilty as I’m quite risk averse in pregnancy and on multiple meds already for other things.

@handslikebirds hugs! Are you on any meds?

@Wouldloveanother yeah I've got cyclizine but it knocks me out. It takes 2 hours to kick in at which point I fall asleep and so the time I'm not feeling sick I'm asleep then once I wake up the sickness starts coming back! Prochloperazine didn't do anything for me. I should probably go back and ask for more meds, I'm just really hoping it passes around week 14 once I'm out the first trimester. If not I'll just get signed off work again and feel sorry for myself in bed but it's not ideal as I have a toddler to look after too