Feeling a pathetic wimp about sickness and food aversions

[mrsgboring]

Please can someone reassure/advise me. I know that many many people have worse sickness than me but already I feel like I cannot cope.

I'm 7 weeks today (by my dates 8 weeks by LMP) and feel revolting. I feel sick nearly all the time, have just started retching occasionally but not been sick yet. However I do have an aversion to almost all known foods which I find fairly crippling.

I've had two pregnancies before - first was my DD who was unfortunately stillborn. I was very ill with her, and had a complete aversion to liquids which almost landed me in hospital. However, I was never sick more than twice a day and apparently it wasn't ever bad enough to qualify as hyperemesis. It went on till 24 weeks. With my DS I was sick and had food aversions but nowhere near as badly. However, I didn't really appreciate this much at the time as it was so traumatic going through a pregnancy after loss.

So, this is the first time I have had to look after a child and be pregnant and I'm feeling every bit as bad as in the equivalent stage with my DD. I was signed off work for 3 weeks with DD and was fairly incapacitated. This time round, I won't be able to rest (am a SAHM and not really anyone who can help that much with DS) and I can't eat sweets because DS wants them too. He's spent lots of time watching telly already and I'm scared it will get worse.

I've tried sea bands, morningwell tapes (both ineffective). Ginger and peppermint make me heave.

The most debilitating thing for me right now is, I am really struggling to eat any food at the moment - the only things I can remotely face eating are lollipops, chocolate, highly sweetened breakfast cereal and crisps. Sometimes I can eat meat.

Does anyone else who is suffering with not particularly spectacular nausea find that they are totally unable to function and how the hell will I cope? Do you think a GP would countenance prescribing anti-nausea drugs despite the fact my sickness isn't medically that severe yet? Is this the route I should go down?

How many weeks are you Malva? I'm twelve and haven't eaten an evening meal since week 7....getting a bit concerned that I'm never going to get my appetite back..

I'm in week 8 at the moment. I couldn't even think about food without feeling hideously sick but since my injection I've been able to eat...small amounts and only specific things but it's such a massive improvement. To be honest I think it was the B12 that's done it rather than moving my folic acid.

If you're 12 weeks Cosmogirl then I really hope you're on that magical cusp when you slowly slowly start to feel normal again. Have you spoken to your Dr/Midwife about it? They usually just tell you it's normal which is so annoying.

I remember from my last pregnancy that when you do get your appetite back your stomach is so squashed up there's hardly any room for food. Typical!

...thought I was four weeks at the start of this thread, had a bit of a shock when my Dr did my dates properly for me. Feel like a right idiot! I couldn't understand why I was feeling so ill so early...duh.

I really found drinking cold water helped. At 24 weeks my digestive system still isn't what it was (getting heartburn now!) but I don't feel sick any more.
xx

I feel exactly the same food aversions and nausea. Mine hasn't been consistent though and was worst at 7 weeks, then gradually eased - but has now come back with nobs on at 10+4. I went to the docs today (about something unrelated) and mentioned it - she offered to sign me off work, and suggested ginger (which makes me feel sick). I'm just so hoping that it eases soon - it's a bit depressing to read how many people had this throughout. I might give travel sickness bands a go, because actually mine is very like travel sickness. I meant to, but then it seemed to get a bit better so didn't bother.

We aren't being pathetic though, I feel utterly shit.

Has anyone who's been sick experienced a furry tongue, coated with white stuff that gets all dry and sore? Mine was really bad in week 9 and 10 when I was sick every hour but its clearing slowly (I'm 15 weeks tomorrow).

I now eat constantly and that seems to keep the nausea at bay. It has definately got better. I did have acupuncture and tried the EFT tapping technique last night. For info go to: www.end-morning-sickness.com/

Anyone else had the furry tongue?

PS I felt awful when it was really bad and just said to husband "I can't continue" but of course you can't get off the rollercoaster! I hope it will get better for all of us.

Kiwi - I've lost count of the number of times I've said to DH 'I can't do this' 'have we made a huge mistake?' 'life was so much better before this happened etc..' Terrible things to say I guess, but when you are in the grips of severe MS, nothing seems to matter apart from when you will wake up feeling well and able to eat food again...

Re: the white furry tongue thing, I have had this for several weeks. I think it is due to dehydration. The whiter and drier it is the more dehydrated you are I think. Don't quote me on that tho!

Glad that you are feeling a bit of relief now at 15 weeks. I am nearly 13 and to be honest don't feel like it's getting any better. As much as I don't want to, I am seeing the GP on Monday about meds - just can't function normally. Can't clean, cook, socialise, eat, get through a full days work, have sex...do any of the normal things people do..