Nausea making me utterly miserable

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I'm lucky enough to be pregnant again after a missed miscarriage earlier this year. The nausea is unbearable. I can't do anything apart from stay in bed. I feel completely miserable with this all day long feeling that no one else in my house gets. I have no happiness right now and just feel hopeless. I'm very grateful but I can't explain how sick I feel every second and how I can't even be a good mum to my children, I've never ever felt this sick. I believe I'm 7 weeks.

Get on to your gp tomorrow morning and see if you can try some anti-sickness medication?
Sorry you're feeling so rough

Go tomorrow for anti emetics

Speak to your GP, there is medication you can take that will help. I have found the first line they will prescribe cyclizine to work for me, it doesn’t work for everyone but there are other options if it doesn’t work for you. It doesn’t get rid of it completely but I can do a lot more than I could do without it.

Thank you - I didn't know I could take anything. I will call tomorrow. I can't go on like this.

Have a look at the Pregnancy Sickness Support website. You poor thing, it is absolutely brutal.

I really feel for you OP, I have struggled the same. There are lots of anti sickness medicines which are safe in pregnancy which your GP will be able to prescribe. I hope you find one that works for you. I tried a few and found promethazine was what worked best for me in the end. My doctor also gave me omeprazole which helped. Best of luck x

Hi OP how are you feeling now? Sending solidarity, I’ve been where you are and actually found out being anaemic was making me feel much worse than I realised. Maybe have a chat with your midwife too about iron tablets. Hope you get some relief soon 💐

It’s the absolute worst when it’s that bad. Do you have boys / girls already? I had two boys first and was fairly nauseous but not debilitating so … third time it was a girl, and it was like you are describing around 6-10 weeks … so so bad, couldn’t move without wanting to be sick. One week, I spent most of it in bed when kids were at school. Just lie down as much as you can. Diet Coke worked well for me; I know it has caffeine .. I got zero zero where possible.

It’s just the worst isn’t it. My brain also somehow seemed to convince me that this was now ‘normal’ I couldn’t ever remember not feeling like it.

Hour by hour and minute by minute- you’re one day further through today than you were yesterday.

It will end

Same here OP. 7 weeks pregnant and the nausea is horrible. I have 3 other children and a business to run too so I don't have time to be laying down all the time but it's all I can do to make it stop :(

Hi everyone. Got first midwife app this week. I honestly have never ever felt so low in my life. No one gets it and I have to just keep going to work and performing. I feel sick every single second unless I'm asleep which is such relief. On Sat I spent all day just weeping. I am drinking fizzy drinks and ice. I was violently sick on Friday night. I feel so awful. Thank you for your support as it honestly is a little light in what feels like a very dark time.

Oh I did get tablets but I've stopped taking them as I'm a bit worried about side effects and my eyes looked yellow.

I had to try a few different meds to find one that worked for me so if it's not working or the side effects are ridiculous (I was prescribed one where I slept all day and all night for a week before they changed it, at the time I was so glad not to be puking all the time I just accepted it!), ask again. I'm on Ondansatron now and it's been an absolute game changer.
I kept being told it was normal to be sick so didn't push for meds as much as I should have so I had a few absolutely miserable months.
I hope you manage to get sorted quickly.
Like someone else said, they prescribed Cyclizine first which was useless for me.

Actually I think they couldn't prescribe Ondansatron too soon in the pregnancy for some reason but there should be something that works for you. It's miserable 😖 I can sympathise!

You poor thing, it's completely debilitating. I had HG in my pregnancy, I had to take Cyclizine and Prochlorperazine together to stop the vomiting enough to drink water. I tried 3 different medications and in the end only the combination of the two actually worked enough, although I did feel nauseous still but definitely not as bad!! My heart goes out to you because it really is all consuming!

Go back to the GP and ask for something else. I went through 3 different tablets before I found one that helped. I was exactly the same as you from week 6 to 12. I’m now 15+4 and although I have nausea daily, I’ve stopped being sick (as of Wednesday) and the nausea is much less often and severe. It will end but you don’t have to put up with it until it naturally goes away. I was signed off of work for a month and I felt the same as you in regards to being a useless parent to my 2yo but you just have to get through it. I hope it ends soon for you.

I got through two pregnancies alternating ondansetron and metachloperamide (sp). Both were hell but I am Sat watching Doctor Who with them now and it's all just a memory.

I had HG with my last and it started like this. My advice is to get some meds asap- I had to try several before finding ones that helped. I also contacted the pregnancy sickness support charity and they paired me up with a peer mentor who was an absolute godsend on my darkest days. I hope you feel better soon x