Does fatty food make your MS worse?

[naturalmummy]

I’m 10 wks pg and suffer from 24/7 miserable nausea/gagging/food aversion to practically everything. With DS, it lasted for 20 weeks.
I’ve posted in my DDC and have read a lot of your suggestions for helping to improve or bear it. Currently I’m getting acupuncture once/week and think it *may be* helping to take me from a consistent 9/10 (on a scale where 9 is dizzy, hot spits and 10 is hugging the porcelain), to a somewhat functioning 7-8. I have been able to eat a little more, but some days are still very tough.
So I have read in several places (internet, MDC, books) that I should avoid fatty foods, which makes sense to me intellectually b/c of the affect it has on bile production, which theoretically could increase the MS symptoms, however, in reality – all I can stomach most of the time are fatty, sometimes fried foods. Nothing else will "fill me up". I usually eat cereal for the first half of the day until my stomach just won't have it anymore and I need to get something of substance in there. (This is very hard for me physically and mentally – I am a holistic nutritionist who NEVER eats fried food or even takeout, but that’s what I live on these days).

So my question is, to those of you with MS, does fatty food exacerbate your symptoms or not? If I am actually making myself worse everytime I eat a pizza or fries, I really need to reevaluate and try to determine WHAT I possibly can eat day in and day out. It’s a struggle from meal to meal.
Thanks!

[WifeofAnt]

High calorie food without the grease factor made me feel better. Macaroni and cheese, Grilled ham and cheese, the dark meat on chicken, bread and butter, all made me feel better. Hamburger wasn't even edible. Fried chicken was good (especially chicken legs) and fries were okay if they were salted well enough. I'm pretty sure I could eat pizza too.

[pumpkin]

When I was pg I had horrible morning sickness. I was sick daily until the end. The only days I felt relatively good were when I managed to eat a steak drenched in butter the night before. Add in a baked potato with tons of butter, sour cream, and cheese.
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[lach]

When I was pregnant with DD, the only thing I could eat was fried dough from one of the carts in the park, for about 2 months. I was so embarrassed when I saw people I recognized as seeing me out there every day, cramming one (or maybe two ) big wheels of fried dough into my face.

After my fried dough phase, I couldn't get enough apples. I was eating about 10 a day. Talk about a 180!

I think it probably depends on the pregnancy. I never had any m/s with my past two pregnancies, so I personally can't compare.

[lillymonster]

My midwife pushed the protein for morning sickness, but I could not stomach it at all. Made me feel worse. Fat made me feel so much better. I started eating fast food after 4 years because it was the only thing I could keep down.

I lived on take out (sometimes still do) and we stopped going out to eat years ago.

At 24 weeks though it's gotten much better, so I think it must be fat that is needed for something. But I basically lived off pizza, pasta, macaroni and cheese and french fries. The only meat I could eat was chicken nuggets from fast food. Last night I had a salad and soup for dinner, so it gets better.

[katroshka]

Ugh, YES!

[Evergreen]

Yep. Me too. Well with #1 all I could eat was cucumbers and Sara Lee pound cake. With #2 all I could eat was McDonalds chicken nuggests, french fries and a coke. Guess which pregnancy I gained over half my body weight?

[IdentityCrisisMama]

For me it's sugary things that are making me sick. In fact, I can have simple carbs *only* in combination with some fat. You are not alone.