Anyone else feel utterly ill in pregnancy?

[beakysmum]

I am 8 weeks pregnant with DC3 and I just feel utterly ill. I feel dizzy, headachy, nauseous 24 /7, I sleep all night and 3 hours every day. I felt unwell with the other 2 pregnancies, but this is by far the worst and is affecting my ability to function at all. I stay at home and friends are taking DC1 to and from school and DC2 watches hours of tv or cuddles up in bed with me.

I'm not sure if this is morning sickness / hyperemesis or not, as I am not sick much.

The hyperemesis.org website suggests it probably is hyperemesis as it includes nausea and/or vomiting in the definition of hyperemesis.

I feel like I have bitten off more than I can chew and am feeling quite anxious and worried about it all getting worse over the next few weeks.

Just want to know I'm not alone and is there anything I can do?

See a GP?

If it's any consolation, I felt like shit at this stage too, both times. Nausea did let up in the middle of the day for me though. But the tiredness -- I could honestly have slept around the clock very, very easily.

I didn't take myself to the docs but yours sounds worse; you might want to try seeing them and ask if they can help. I know there is medication for hyperemesis.

Hang in there x

No your not alone love.
I could have written your post. My way of coping is taking it day by day, not stressing myself, allowing others to help.
Have you managed to speak to your doctor about the possibility of hyperemesis?
It will all be fine and hopefully in a couple of weeks you will be feeling brighter.
Good luck

oh sounds dreadful. I had a miserable time too, but not as bad as this.

Just wondering what sex your first two are, as have a theory that prob isn't one!!!

def see gp. I remember the allday sickness, and feeling like a zombie.

Petal, I was just the same and was hospitalised with hyperemisis.It sounds like you have hyperemisis. I didn;t throw up much, because I didn't eat much. When I did, it came back, so I just stopped eating. (for a couple of weeks I couldn't brush my teeth or have a shower without being sick either).

Fortunately (?????) it was my first (and only) baby, so I had no other DC to worry about. The hospitalisation was to put me on a drip to keep me hydrated. If you can keep hydrated, the you should be able to keep the worst side effects of hyperemeisis at bay. I lost a lot of weight, and got ketosis, which was very bad as I was not drinking. Also got a UTI which they treated with antibs that I didn;t know I was allergic and aggravated the nausea.

Try and stay hydrated. After I was home from hopsital, I found that sucking ice cubes and ice lollies - espcially lemon and/or lime ones - helped.

I stopped eating at 7 weeks, hopsitalised 8-14 weeks and back at work, feeling fine at 16 weeks. There's hope.

Thanks so much everyone. I just feel so alone. Everyone in RL has some morning sickness, but doesn't seem to get how ILL I am. I could cry a lot of the time.

I went to see a GP earlier in the week and he suggested I had labyrinthitis causing the inner ear dizziness. I really don't think so.
I phoned another doc again on Thurs and said I really couldn't cope and he prescribed prochlorperazine which is helping a very little.

I agree I'm not sick much cos I'm eating such a limited range of foods; mainly bread, cheese, a little cereal. They are the only things I can get to my lips without retching.

Imusthavechoc are you preg? when are you due?

Piratecat: I have one of each so far. Am begininng to wonder if this is twins though!

Bizarrly I did retch on showering with shampoo or using toothpaste last time, but not (so far!) this time. It's miserable.

The worst is that previuosly although I have felt better around 16 weeks, I don;t really feel right until after the baby is born, so I am finding it hard to keep positive

I am due Sept, so about the same as you?
I think the hydration comments are spot on, I have been drinking orange high juice by the gallon and I know it is hard but try and keep snacking on whatever you can tolerate.

So sorry to hear you are having a rough time - I felt exactly the same as you when I was 8 weeks pregnant. Just had to lie in bed and cry a lot. And in my case it was twins!!

You are not alone - lots of people have hyperemersis and it can be managed and for most people it does get easier once you get past 12-16 weeks. There are various anti-sickness medications so if the prochlorperazine doesn't work there are others.

Are you managing to stay hydrated? This really will help. Also eat very little and often to try and keep you blood sugar level steady. I had to eat dry cornflakes in the middle of the night sometimes. Also I found lucozade or ribena better to drink than water as the glucose helped keep blood sugar levels up.

It really is a crappy condition that I would not wish on my worst enemy, but hang on in there. You are not alone and it will get better.

I felt really awful at the beginning of my current pg, was back and forward to the GP who was reluctant to prescribe anything, finally got phenegan which seemed to help a bit. MW says my blood pressure is very low, which goes someway to explain feeling dizzy and nauseaus, extra salt seems to help a bit. For me it did get better after a few weeks, with my first pg like you toothpaste made me sick, and I had that right to the end, but this time I'm fine with that and feel much better now in the second trimester than I did at this stage with dd, dispite feeling much worse in the first trimester. Hang on in there, keep trying different things, keeping hydrated, rested, let people help. It won't be forever, though at the moment I know it feels like it will never end.

My first pg I felt really awful without actually being sick, and I found indigestion tablets helped after eating, was never without chewy rennies.

I had exactly the same with pregnancies 2 and 3. I finally went to GP and got some anti nausea medication when 4-5 weeks into pregnancy 3 and IT WORKED!!!! I did research -the tablets are perfectly safe and prescribed all the time in pregnancy .... just cannot remember the name of them now .... but definitiely go to your GP and ask for help. I was so glad I did, and felt like a new woman within a day or two.
Good luck!

I don't feel as bad as you and I have only had MS for a week so far but I completely sympathise with you, especially this:

'The worst is that previuosly although I have felt better around 16 weeks, I don;t really feel right until after the baby is born, so I am finding it hard to keep positive'

Last time it eased of at around 14/15 weeks but was still always there in the background. I was miserable during my last PG and this MS is starting to make me feel a bit depressed, I'm worried about getting through the day at work, eating is the only thing that seems to help but there, like you, a limited range to what I can eat. And it is different every day. On top of everything it is making my food shop really expensive . Not sure how I'm going to get through another 8 or so weeks of this.

I seem to be better when I am doing stuff, i.e. distracted, rather than at work when I am sat at a desk with not much else to think about.

I am also trying with varying success sickness bands, lemon juice in water and fizzy haribo.

Hi all. Another rough 24 hours; I went to a friends for lunch yesterday, (just bead and cheese as I asked!) then I slept for 3 hours in the afternoon and all night 10pm to midday today. Another late afternoon sleep and have just woken up again.

I think I am keeping hydrated, I am making a big effort there! Can't do plain water at all, but weak Ribena/ squash, flat coke and cold milk seem OK.

Will go back to a different GP tomorrow or Tues. Do you think it sounds like labyrinthitis ir morning sickness? Or hyperemesis?

Hello
just wanted to say as others have that you are definately not alone!
I am now 11 weeks pregnant and have been feeling ill for 6 weeks.
Feel nauseaous all day long but it gradually builds up throughout the day so that byt eh time DS and Dp need their meal I am literally shaking and crying with anxiety at having to face the food preparation.
Dp doing the best he can but is already working too hard and has taken on lots of extra 'jobs'. My family are surviving on rubbish and it makes me feel so guilty!
Have been signed off sick for last 2 weeks as lierally cannot face work. Am now depressed (got really bad antenatal depression with DS too and went a bit 'odd '. Either want to cry or am crying all damn day long, everything, anything and nothing sets me off!
Like another poster has said my sense of smell ois so yyper acute that my house smell disgusting to me (it is clean so its not that it deserves it!) and my own body smell wants to make me heave. I shower twice a bloody day!

Oh I could go on......... I so hyope we all feel better soon.....

Yes. I've felt shit from week 5 and I'm now nearly 17 weeks and quite frankly am bored to the tits of it.

I was completely non functioning with ds2... i used to lock all the doors ad turn the tv on for the kids and pass out for most of the day.

I was headachey, nauseus, vomiting if i ate, utterly drained and really didn't function well for the first 4/5 months.

It got a bit better then but it was still the worst pregnancy of the three from start to finish.

ds2 is lovely though

I am so glad I found this thread! It is good to know that I am not the only person feeling like shit! I am nearly 15 weeks pregnant with my second child and I have never felt this ill in my life. I have constant nausea (which started at 6 weeks and has not improved at all)and some days I just can;t seem to eat anything without vomiting. I also feel completely drained, exhausted and totally fed up of feeling like this! I did not feel this bad with dd1 (I had terrible nausea again but this went away completely at 12 weeks).
My GP has talked about anti sickness tablets but I am a bit unsure about taking them. Has anyone else tried them...??

theabear I gave up a month ago and went to the docs and demanded tablets, he's given me a seasickness drug (proven safe for pregnant women) called Emesafene - the active ingredient is: Meclizine Hydrochloride. Even so he doesn't want me taking them daily so I try and get to 2pm without taking one... if it's bad I take one.

Theabear, yes, I took Stematil with DC2 and it helped a little. Didn't hurt baby at all that I can see!

I am now taking prochlorperazine (week 9) and it is definitely helping, though I have taken it for several days before I can say it is working. It helps, but I still feel rubbish. I so identify with Santabring that my house smells (it donesn't, I'm very clean!) and that my bedding smells (I change it every 3 days at the moment!).

Also the crying; I am very emotional, edgy and feeling very fed up. I had PND after both children and I can feel myself heading towards it again already. I don't know if it's a part of the hyperemesis or whether anyone would feel depressed / tearful if they had been as ill as us for as long as us.

I feel so frustrated so few people understand just how bad it is and how ILL you feel, more ill than ever in your life before...

Some more sympathy and sobs of recognition here. I am 12 weeks-ish (can't concentrate for long enoigh to keep track) with DC3 and I feel like shit. Utter shit some days. The nausea is easing a bit, but comes back in the afternoon, and feels all tied in with the supersense-smell that makes everything smell slightly of Toni home perm lotion, esp. when combined with the crushing tiredness.

I don't think I have hyperemesis, just pregnant and looking after a 3.6yo and 23mo during our crappy, crappy, dark, miserable winter. I began to think I was depressed, but I feel better on the rare occasions I get enough sleep and/or get some time off from the house and kids.

I too am glad I found this thread. They do say misery loves company .

Am reassured that other people's dcs are also watching lots of tv and living on quick, easy meals. I do feel guilty about the amount of shouting I do some days though.