Constant nausea. Can I go off sick?

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Hello. Pregnant with my 3rd. I constantly feel nauseous, never ever sick but the nausea and dizzy feeling is 90% of the time and I'm finding it hard to function.
My job is very physical although only 8 hours a week but I'm really struggling and can't do my job 100%.

As this is my 3rd I'm pretty sure by 13 weeks I will be okay. As with my other 2 I was. I'm currently 8 weeks. Can I be signed off for 5 weeks? How do I go about this?

Thank you

Yes, just go to the GP. I was signed off for 3 weeks with my second pregnancy for the same reason. I was so nauseous I couldn't commute into my job and couldn't focus at all.

Yuck it’s just miserable and so debilitating. I’m self employed now so I didn’t have a choice in the first trimester of this pregnancy, but my previous role I was signed off for 2 weeks over the worst part. I was in the police and a lot of time was spent in a car with nowhere to vomit!

Yes you’d need to contact Gp. Ours lets you submit a sick note request via e-consult. They might only sign you off for a shorter period initially; then extend it

I found my all day nausea days harder than the days where I was sick all day. I had 5 weeks of barely being at work in July. I can WFH so managed to work on days where I had less nausea but more sickness

Thank you everyone. I got signed off today for a few weeks :)