'Motion sickness' in pregnancy

[Martonbird]

Hiya - I have been searching on the net about this, but I have actually not been sick at all. This just seems to manifest itself in a really bad headache when really fast-moving images on the telly, for example. If I see anything like this, I just have to look away or it gets really bad. I even felt like this when I was bouncing my son's yellow football, or sometimes even when I move my head too quickly. I am fine driving, but I have not been a passenger in a car recently.

I do not normally suffer from motion sickness (but I was really sick once at the cinema, out of the blue, embarrassingly, watching Cloverfield - that was I think an extreme version of what I seem to be suffering from now!)

I am 13 weeks pregnant, and I just wanted to know whether anyone has had anything similar, and did they manage to remedy it at all? (or did it just go?)

I had something similar and annoyingly I did get it while I was driving, which was tough seeing as I have an hours commute to work and that is a tricky journey to make with your eyes closed !! I can happily say that it passed at around 12 weeks and hasn't returned (yet), I'm 20+2 today. I didn't find a remedy unfortunately.

Fingers crossed yours goes soon too.

If not, is there any chnce you could have an ear infection? I only ask as I had something that made me feel very similar a lot of years ago and it turned out to be an inner ear infection... just a shot in the dark!

Thanks for that - actually, that was kind of at the back of my mind, as my mum (completely randomly, and definitely not pregnant!) has had something like that recently... Maybe it is worth checking out.

Good luck with yours! :-)