Struggling with nausea and low mood at 7 weeks pregnant

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Just wanted to vent really. I’m 7 weeks pregnant and really mentally struggling with just how rubbish I feel all the time. I’ve had pretty relentless nausea since 4.5 weeks and have absolutely zero energy, which is making even the most basic task feel pretty impossible. I feel like I’m failing at work, failing at being a good mum to my 18 month old, and I’m definitely not being a good wife right now as my husband is having to do absolutely everything! I am just finding it so hard to stay positive - I don’t enjoy eating, I can’t exercise, I can’t relax with a glass of wine and a hot bath, I don’t want to see anyone and socialise, and to be honest I don’t even feel that excited about being pregnant again - I try and think about the baby at the end of all of this and I just feel weirdly numb and disconnected. It’s not that this baby isn’t wanted at all, but I am just finding the nausea and fatigue so all consuming that it is really difficult to focus on anything other than how awful I feel- literally all I can think about is how to keep the waves of nausea at bay. I was at an Easter party yesterday and trying to hold conversation with family and it was like I just couldn’t think or feel through the fog! I didn’t feel great in the first trimester with my son, but I don’t remember feeling this low - my symptoms came on much more gradually and much later in my first trimester and so I think were just generally much more manageable. I’m just really not sure how I’m going to cope with potentially another 5+ weeks of this.

There is anti nausea tablets that you can get on prescription that work really well. Try get an apt once the long weekend is over as they helped me immensely.

Oh wow this was me a few weeks ago! Have two young children and now 11 weeks pregnant. Never committed but the nausea , heartburn and extreme fatigue almost did me in. It’s turning the corner now at for last few days thankfully. But it was truly awful and I did feel I was letting my other kids down - lots of tv out of necessity, basic dinner etc. Hang in there it will get better. Just do what you need to do. I did find anti sickness tablets from gp helped a bit, they prescribed them just for nausea. And rennies!

@Chocolateaddict999 @potentialdogowner can you remember the name of the ones that helped you? I called the GP on Friday and explained how rubbish I was feeling and they have given me a prescription for cyclizine - I haven’t tried it yet though as I’ve been with family and I’ve heard that the tablets can absolutely knock you out, and I am a bit worried about being a drowsy zombie when looking after my son. I’m going to try Rennie’s too as I wonder how much of no nausea could be indigestion - I haven’t actually been sick yet, but honestly I just feel like an absolute shell of a person - the hormones are just making me not feel like myself at all.

I took Xonvea you take 2 before bed and if the nausea is still bad you can take 1 in the morning.

I had proclorperazine it’s a tablet you dissolve under top lip and you just take it as and when. Hope the cyclising helps. Totally resonate with feeling like a shell of a person, sorry you’re having such a hard time!

I can’t relate to the nausea as bad as you’ve obviously got it but I can totally relate to the low mood. I am pregnant with my second and have a 14 month old. I don’t remember the low mood first time round but wow this time I spent the early days feeling every negative emotion under the sun. I was irritable, sad, lethargic, no motivation, had no patience with my son/husband, the pregnancy ahead of me felt like the longest road. However I’m 10.5 weeks now and I feel like a different person. I think those hormones are so powerful. Hang in there, pregnancy is a rollercoaster and things will improve. Also the advice from others about treating the sickness is spot on x

@Sarah268 thanks for sharing - can totally relate to feeling so so negative about everything (and towards everyone!) The rational part of my brain (or what’s left of it) knows that it’s just raging hormones and it will pass, but it’s so hard to keep positive when you’re in the middle of the first trimester fog. The last couple of days of sunshine have helped, but god this is really hard!

Sorry to hear what is going on with everyone! I’ve been the same this third pregnancy, previous two were okay, mild symptoms but this one is relentless, pretty much sick from 4.5weeks, just after our holiday which was lucky. I had Xonvea, it helped me through but it also had equal share of side effects which was very difficult. I had no life for about 2-3 months, only just starting to feel okay ish at 18 weeks, even then I don’t feel like leaving the house. Try to take one day a time, and hoping for the best next day. Take some meds as it helps even if it’s sometimes it’s just psychological effect that they are helping! I hope you do find ways to manage it. And don’t be too hard on yourself, pregnancy can be very hard. Good husband are good but men don’t have to experience what we go through!