Medication for nausea, is this normal now?

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I’m currently battling through the first trimester for the third time in 15 months. As always I’m exhausted, overwhelmed with nausea 24/7, feeling weak and struggling to concentrate. Never actually vomit. When I was pregnant with my DS in 2018 I got the impression you’d have to fight tooth and nail to get medication and it would only be considered if you were vomiting all day long and practically about to expire.

These three pregnancies in quick succession (tfmr at 14 weeks, mc at 11 weeks, currently 8 weeks) have really impacted my body and the anxiety of another potential loss is quite high. The intense nausea is really affecting me mentally but for some reason I feel like taking medication will be frowned upon or it’s a cop out or it means I don’t care about the baby.

Increasingly I’m seeing people in pregnancy groups on medication for nausea and I guess I’m wondering is this more common now? Is it more established as a treatment and will my midwife/gp be difficult or judgy about it?

I’ve left a message with my midwife today asking to speak to her about this but I don’t think she works Mondays so might not hear back for a couple of days.

It’s your gp for this medication, your midwife can’t prescribe and in my experience had nothing to do with it. I did tell my first midwife with my eldest I was concerned about my weight loss (the medication I’d been taking wasn’t working, I later found some that worked ) and she said I was in the healthy range so it’s all normal. Thereby showing she couldn’t add or subtract as losing over a pound a day for the last week had me a pound over a bmi of 18 so pretty bloody obviously it’s not complex maths to work out I was about to bomb out of the healthy range.
good luck with it!

My midwife contacted my GP and arranged a prescription when I couldn’t get through a 10 minute phone call with her without stopping to be sick, and when she found out that I couldn’t eat anything other hula hoops and lucozade.

She was really helpful and was also able to arrange for me to have a different, more effective medication once I was past 12 weeks.

Unfortunately I think it depends on your midwife/GP.

Thank you both. Because I’m not actually vomiting I’m not sure what they will say. But I’m just finding it so debilitating. I didn’t hear back from the midwife so I rang my gp practice just now. The receptionist did a bit of back and forth with the doctor and just said ‘get some advice from the midwife’ so I’m guessing that was one of the non-sympathetic doctors. I’ve got a phone appt with the midwife tomorrow.

I hope you'll get medication and that it will make a difference.

"Morning" sickness is a horror. Back when I was having babies, there wasn't anything safe to take.

@mathanxiety thank you, that’s really kind x

Sympathetic midwife here, I would have no problems trying to get in touch with a GP for you. Why suffer if there's medication which can help?! There's a really useful website called BUMPS which lists anti-sickness medication and side effects. You can always use this information in your GP appointment to say you understand the risks/benefits and they are acceptable to you (if that's the case!)

Sorry the GP wasn't helpful earlier. I've had GP's tell women to suck it up 🤬 Thankfully in my pregnancy my GP was lovely and really helpful.

Hope you get sorted and feel better soon!

@PinkPrawns2 thank you that is so so helpful. I’m just so low from the losses we’ve been through and don’t have the resilience this time around. I will do my research before my chat with the midwife x

Constant nausea is awful op, you don't even get the momentary relief of being sick!

I had medication back in 2005 and 2011 for nausea in both pregnancies but I had to ask for it, it wasn't offered and, in 2005 I pretty much had to wait until I was 12 weeks as they wouldn't prescribe it before then.

In 2011 I asked at around 8 weeks and there were no hoops at all, blessed relief when it kicked in after a couple of tabs. Please just straight up ask the gp for it and I hope you're feeling better soon x

@heymammy thank you for understanding, I do feel shitty knowing lots of people have it much worse. Sorry you had to push so hard the first time x

Iv always found it depends on the GP
my first baby he was very no ur fine its normal carry on
so dint end up with help till 11 weeks and was emergency admitted for severe hydration
2nd time round i wasnr being aick but sed how bad i was forst baby and they got me sorted straight away
depends how badly ur affected and how ur gp sees ur symptoms
Mine weren't bothered first preg but that dint end well. Depends if ur losing weight
not drinking? Ketones in ur urine

I spoke to the midwife today. She spoke to the gp from yesterday and got me a prescription straight away. Apparently he said he was having a bad day yesterday 🙃 all sorted anyway. Thank you everyone 💛

Excellent! I really hope the meds help, and you can enjoy your pregnancy