This Morning Sickness is KILLING me!

[MegBoz]

I'm 7.5 W today & over the past few days, I've felt dreadful! Haven't actually vomited, but often feel as though I could at any moment (to the point where I'm sitting in meetings at work looking around for a trash can just in case.)

I've tried the usual:

• eating small meals & not drinking lots of water with the meal
• ginger 'beer' (made with real ginger)
• oyster crackers & other simpler carbs that appeal to me (multi grain cheerios have been pretty good)

I'll also try sniffing fresh lemon slices.

I've been having headaches lately too. UGH! It wasn't this bad with DS. any other tips?

[akcowgirl]

I don't have any tips, but I am right there with you!!!

[MaerynPearl]

For some crackers and simple carbs work... for others, focusing on protein helps better...

Myself, nothing worked and I just had to put up with it (or go on a pill I was not willing to take)

[jessieb503]

oh girl, I feel your pain. I was SO sick from 6-15 weeks I thought I was going to die- but it will end eventually! I was wondering if I would ever like food again- and I have to tell you- at 22 weeks I LOVE food, lol.

Acupuncture can help. Do you lean towards being hot when you are nauseous or cold? If you are hot- stay away from ginger and drink peppermint tea- and vice versa.

Acupressure wrist bands can help http://www.biobands.com/ They helped me in one of my pregnancies but not the other.

Bubbly water helped me. Also, making sure you eat something small right before you go to bed and right when you wake up.

The headaches might be dehydration- I got severely dehydrated with my MS but you can only drink so much water, right?

The thing that helped me the most is to think positive. I KNOW it is SO HARD when you want to shoot yourself in the head but I just focused on the baby and how happy I was to be pregnant. I sat and put good energy towards my uterus and thought about holding the baby and it helped enormously.

Every day seems like a year, I know, but it will end eventually. Hang in there mama.

[Ellen Griswold]

The wrist bands worked for a while for me but then didn't seem to any longer. Sometimes (not always though) hard candy was helpful. I'm so sorry that you're sick.

[Banana731]

So feel your pain...

I have to second what Mae said. Straight carbs ruin me, I do better with protein. But nothing truly makes it better.

I have had slight help from B6 in the last few days, but it's still quite bad.
I can't even spend as much time on MDC as I usually do!

[m0xxie]

I'm just entering my second trimester now, and I have heaps and loads of sympathy for you! Like you, I got the nausea bad, starting at about 5 or 6 weeks, and I tried everything I could find (short of the drugs) to make myself feel better. For me, I just had to take it one day (and sometimes one hour) at a time, noticing the small changes and being grateful for every little break or breakthrough. I did (after many weeks) at last reach a kind of peace in submission to what was, a realization of my true strength and fortitude, and I felt a distinct shift in my attitude from, "I don't think I can go on another day like this!" to "Well, however long this lasts, I'm on this train until it stops."

One small but significant breakthrough for me was finding one food that I could eat that actually tasted good and stayed down with some reliability. For me that food was toasted whole wheat bread, dry, with a slice of low-fat cheddar cheese. I have no idea why that worked for me, but just finding that one thing that tasted good made a huge difference. Then, pretty soon, I found another thing (tomato soup with rice and Parmesan cheese), and then there were others (frozen fruit smoothies, pizza bagels, cheerios, baked beans) and by and by the second trimester beckoned, and now my food aversions are lifting and exotic things like Thai pumpkin curry, Schezwan tofu, and bbq brisket sliders are now on the menu.

What I want to say to you is, I know you can do it, hang in there, all this is worth it. Keep looking for your path through this, try everything that's safe to try and hang onto those things that make a difference for you. Celebrate the small victories, surround yourself with love and patience, and greet each new day as a fresh start with new possibilities. And someday, very soon, you too will be able to give this advice to the next person coming along this path. Much love you to!

[WifeofAnt]

I had to have protein with my carbs too. Peanut butter on my crackers, macaroni and cheese, ect.

[juliebird]

Oh, I feel your pain! I'm at 25 weeks in my fourth pregnancy and this was the best I've felt out of all of them.

The new thing I found was beans. I kid you not. SOmeone on these boards (don't remember who) posted a link to a website that made a fair argument that morning sickness is caused by too much bile- your liver just can't handle it. Legumes (beans, etc.) binds to the bile and eliminates it. So eating legumes whenever you feel sick makes you feel better. I lived on bean burritos for about 2 months. I made them up ahead of time with refried beans, a little cheddar cheese on whole wheat tortillas. Then whenever I felt sick, I popped them in the microwave for 1 minute.

So, this may or may not work for you, but on the off chance it will i thought I'd share.

Hope you feel better soon!

[WifeofAnt]

Originally Posted by juliebird

Oh, I feel your pain! I'm at 25 weeks in my fourth pregnancy and this was the best I've felt out of all of them.

The new thing I found was beans. I kid you not. SOmeone on these boards (don't remember who) posted a link to a website that made a fair argument that morning sickness is caused by too much bile- your liver just can't handle it. Legumes (beans, etc.) binds to the bile and eliminates it. So eating legumes whenever you feel sick makes you feel better. I lived on bean burritos for about 2 months. I made them up ahead of time with refried beans, a little cheddar cheese on whole wheat tortillas. Then whenever I felt sick, I popped them in the microwave for 1 minute.

So, this may or may not work for you, but on the off chance it will i thought I'd share.

Hope you feel better soon!

Maybe this is why I craved bean and cheese burritos for the longest time.

[homemademom]

Originally Posted by juliebird

Oh, I feel your pain! I'm at 25 weeks in my fourth pregnancy and this was the best I've felt out of all of them.

The new thing I found was beans. I kid you not. SOmeone on these boards (don't remember who) posted a link to a website that made a fair argument that morning sickness is caused by too much bile- your liver just can't handle it. Legumes (beans, etc.) binds to the bile and eliminates it. So eating legumes whenever you feel sick makes you feel better. I lived on bean burritos for about 2 months. I made them up ahead of time with refried beans, a little cheddar cheese on whole wheat tortillas. Then whenever I felt sick, I popped them in the microwave for 1 minute.

So, this may or may not work for you, but on the off chance it will i thought I'd share.

Hope you feel better soon!

That is SO interesting! I have been so so sick, and beans are one of the only foods that I can tolerate!

[Ellen Griswold]

That really is interesting. With my second pregnancy one of the only things I could keep down for weeks was bean burritoes.

[Family4Christ]

That was me. Here's the link. It works when I do it. It's just getting anything to be appealing that's the problem. I need to bite the bullet and do "bean therapy."

[Strong Mama]

The bean theory didn't work for me... But if you have hyperemesis, you can't really eat period, much less beans. lol

I started getting sick at 4 weeks and now, at 9 weeks am much,much better. I still take phenergan and zofran once a day,but my 24/7 nausea is more like 12/7 now. I don't wake up sick anymore, and I can eat just about any food now. Hang in there, it will get better, I know how hard it is. And do not be afraid of medicine,if you need it, its safe and there for goodreason. It is more dangerous for you to be dehydrated then to take zofran.

[leahmn12]

I can sympathize with you. As thrilled as I am to be pregnant, I'm not enjoying the nausea. I'm also one for whom protein is better tolerated than carbs, although I find myself craving carbs, then paying for it later. I find room-temp lemon water good to sip on, and sour things are soothing, like plums and grapefruits. I ran into a chiropractor friend yesterday who recommended chewing on chewable calcium tabs. This does seem to work, at least temporarily. Fresh air works, and I must say that exercise works wonders. I had no nausea during my yoga and belly dance classes this week!
Hang it there!

[Nova0929]

I am soo there with you! I've tried everything posted on these forums, and sometimes things help but then stop helping. Wrist bands, ginger tea and ginger soda, sparkling mineral water, preggie pop drops, hot lemon tea every morning before eating.

For me, the only thing that makes me feel better is eating the carb/protein mix. And then I only feel good while eating them and for about 20 minutes later. But I am utterly terrified that I will gain weight as I did in my first pregnancy. Then, I started at 160 and went up to 210! Now, I started at 167 and am already gaining. Soooo scared.

I have to make sure I get out and walk up the hills behind my house for an hour every single morning. (I am giving myself a pep talk here.) Eat bean burritos with whole wheat tortillas and no cheese. No bagels though that calls to me like crazy! Whole wheat protein bread toast instead. Stop eating all that cereal, and if I do break down eat the high fiber one. More ginger soda. A shake with yogurt, banana, blueberries, and spinach as I can't get my greens in any other way. Kale sauteed in coconut oil with sea salt is still good for now. Try try try to eat fruit instead of so many carbs. Drink tons of water. Exercise and do yoga. I am failing in staying positive, but I have to keep trying that as well. I am a veggie but made waldorf salad with chicken last night and it was delicious, so I might have chicken for awhile till this lifts.

In addition to being scared about the weight gain, I am also terrified that I won't be able to finish my dissertation before baby #2 arrives. I'm having a hard time not feeling scared and sad right now, and frustrated at the timing.

But I do know that if this goes as last one did, the 24/7 feel-like-I'm-having-chemotherapy nausea and fatigue will lift around week 14.

Hugs!

[dmpmercury]

I remember those days all to well. It stinks. I tried all the tips and had minor relief but nothing took it away completely. I did prefer the accupressure bands to the seabands but it only helped a little and didn't take it away completely. I took B6 and unisom with my second pregancy and it also helped a little but did not take it away completely. It didn't do anything for my 3rd pregnancy but make me tired so I didn't take it. With my second pregnancy I did get sick like once a day and the other I didn't puke that much but it lasted all day long. It felt like eternity at the time but it does pass. Both times I felt better around 14 weeks. With my second it lingered until 22 weeks and with my third it went away a little sooner.

[hollytheteacher]

I'm so sorry! And not to scare you, but i'm at 13 weeks and STILL feeling awful Actually, yesterday and today i've felt okayish. But the few days before that it seemed that my m/s ramped up again...and i do remember 7 though 9 weeks being pretty yucky.

[BellaClaudia]

the only thing that worked for me was to obey the body..
It was bad.. really really bad at first..

I just learned that I could not be around anything that was being
cooked.. any smell of food would make me puke..

futthermore I just could not eat anything hot that would release
any smell

so I only ate cold things especially sandwiches worked okay

small and always small at the time


I figured out that my body just decided what to keep down and what not
as it knew better then me I figured that many things were not "apprecaited"
by the system and identified as "not acceptable" and had been returned to
the feeder

therefore I was just not eating untill I really felt hungry and then again
only cold sandwiches.. very simple.. slice of bread, one slice of letuce
and one slice of organic cooked ham and not even top slice of bread
just open faced sandwich european style. on square bread.. prefferebly
multigrain organic.

watermelon was sitting well as food, drink and all that.. it is loaded with
iron and other vitamins and it cleans the toxins from the body so it was
accepted so to speak..

other then that I could not cook.. I had my mom over some time and I had to
sit upstairs with doors taped around! window wide open.. literarly as she was cooking for the family and I could only go downstairs once all the smell was gone.

no restaurant going.. I would not stand any smell.
look of the food would do this sometimes too when I was not hungry
or just ate..

other than that I do belive that this is some sort of self-defense system
and it knows what it is doing. I think that some substances in food
might be not needed for the baby and harmful so it just rejects them.

I think that going to the prehistoric time and thinking what the human race used to eat for the last million yeasr as opposed to the last 7000 when we actually have a crops.. eat milk, cheese and all this stuff might be an answer..

first humans and for that matter most humans through the history of 1 mill years with the exception of those last even ... 10 000 years (which is a blink)

used to eat: meat, meat... meat.. as they were mostly hunters
and then they would find some berries.. and some more berries and
such

there was NO farming, NO veggies.. NO Dairy consumption etc..
so most likley we are designed that way

You might want to try and see what happen if you will focus on
meat and berries .. technically all one needs as meat has all carbs
and berries all vitamins and minerals..

I think that body is having problem with our modern (the last 2000 years
diet.. as we use and abuse:

eggs.. nuts.. grains.. and those are highly packed in genetic material for new beings.. plants and animals and they might conflict with new baby growing inside..

then add to it cheese.. milk.. all this stuff is packed with hormons

add the crabs, shelfish.. that stuff is just super strong and alergycausing substance even in healthy people.. stay careful with it best away..


It is of course just my theory and I am not a doctor but this is interesting non the less..

Otherwise if you are not skinny and drink plenty of water when and however possible you should be fine as this will pass and technically your body has
enough fat tissue to support the baby even if you will eat minimum..
as long as you eat somethign and drink something regularly.. as in.. whenever possible..

It is a pity that you can't stay at home and rest more as your body must be exhosted.. aside from the fact of not being able to eat..

I quit my job as I was too weak to work and I choose the baby well being
and mine over work as I just could not manage.. it was that bad.. really bad..
but my bed rest and taking it easy helped to sail safely.

[Twinklefae]

It got bad enough for me that I went on drugs. But, being in Canada, my options are different than yours. Diclectin has long been studied in pregnancy.