Cyclizine?

[Marfs10]

Hello,

I am currently 7 weeks pregnant. Yesterday I was prescribed cyclizine 3 x daily to help treat nausea and vomiting (which has been debilitating!). I took my first dose last night but it completely knocked me out - I ended up sleeping for almost 14 hours, although I do think it has made me feel less nauseous.

I haven’t taken my dose this morning because I’m home alone with my toddler and can’t risk being that level of drowsy.

My questions: is this normal? Will the drowsiness subside? Should I be going back to gp and request something else?

Thank you

Hopeful bump

I was prescribed prochloperizine and it did take three-four days to get used to it, but I want functional without it. I found i was exhausted and very nauseated in the evenings anyway, so would take it, try to eat something and go straight to bed. I gradually around off around 14 weeks.

Unfortunately it does make you really drowsy and you have to pick between being knackered or nauseous. I have xonvea instead as cyclizine didn't work for me but side effects are exactly the same.

There is a support group, called something like Pregnancy Sickness. It may be more about hyperemesis, however they have a help line and can discuss the anti emetics.

DD has hyperemesis at the moment. She tried the 4 common antiemetics, which didn’t work for her and she ended up in hospital. She asked the consultant to prescribe her xonvea, the first line treatment per the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In some areas, GPs can prescribe xonvea; but here it’s a red drug, so only consultants can prescribe it.

It’s about £28 for a box of 20, and the dose is up to a maximum of 4 a day, depending on how much it takes to work. However, as three nights in hospital is over £1,000, that would pay for a lot of xonvea!

I was on it from 9-24 weeks and went back on again at 30 weeks.

The exhaustion is paralysing. I was sleeping so much it was hard to take the 3 tablets 8 hours apart.

I went down to 2 tablets at about 16 weeks and 2 has been more manageable for me. I still feel very nauseous but I don’t vomit. On 2 tablets I’m a bit of a zombie but I’m more functional than I am without.

I’m sorry to hear so many other people have been suffering, thank you for the replies.

It seems like a rubbish toss up between zombie or puking skeleton then. @BlueandWhitePorcelain did the Xonvea help your DD? And how did she know it was time to go to hospital? I’ve wondered this, I’m not really keeping fluids down so surely it’s going to go that way eventually but do I get referred or just take myself?

It made me very drowsy and didn’t do a huge amount for my nausea. Like you, I had a toddler to look after and didn’t feel safe taking it and looking after them. I found Ondansetron worked a lot better and had fewer side effects.

DD was so dehydrated, she couldn’t pass any urine. I think she was worried about kidney damage?

Before, she could eat some weetabix at breakfast, but apart from that, she could only eat one dinner a week. She said, she couldn’t bear the smell of food; and every food made her nauseous. If she pushed through it to eat, she’d be sick anyway.

Now, she can eat the weetabix, and about half her dinner, on three xonvea tablets a day.

I am only a lay person, but if you can’t keep liquids down, I’d go to A & E?

I sympathise with your sickness, I'm 13 weeks now and have 24/7 debilitating nausea, throwing up around 3-4 times a day. I was also prescribed that but I felt like I'd been drugged. I only took it for 3 days and then stopped. I have a two year old and like you couldn't risk not being able to take care of him. I think I felt worse being that tired somehow and did nothing for my sickness. I have just gone cold turkey and hoping it will pass although I know I am close to going back to GP for a different tablet 😢. I will say lucozade sport, diet coke (caffeine free) and lemonade have helped me a lot to keep fluids in.

ITA, I don’t think I had HG, but I did have all the time sickness with twins. I could only take Danish pastries and lemonade, most of the first trimester. The doctors told me they were better than nothing. I couldn’t eat the last 6 weeks either, because they said my stomach was so squashed by the pregnancy. I lost 2 stone during the pregnancy.

Nobody talked about anti emetics in those days.

I had to stop taking it because it knocked me out, too - I went back to the GP who wasn't sympathetic but said if I lived somewhere else he could prescribe me Xonvea which would fix it 🙄