Best Morning Sickness Remedies Please

[Bella29]

I agree with BG. I found my ms was worse if my blood sugar got low. Sometimes if I was desperate I would drink a sugary drink to pick it up again, but the subsequent drop after the sugar rush made it way worse! So I learnt to eat protein and low go regularly. BG's advice on list of foods is a great place to start. I also used the wrist bands with this pregnancy and stayed clear of anti nausea drugs and I think that helped. Plus I was taking really good nutritional support and I think that helped me.

Good luck babe! I know how miserable it makes us. Chin up, this too shall pass.

[~ Mylitta ~]

My ms sounds similar to yours Nay. Constant nausea and yuck feeling, but no vomiting. Unfortunately I found absolutely nothing that would help it, and I tried a LOT of things. I tried peppermint tea, ginger tea, ginger biscuits, ginger tablets, motion sickness tablets (the natural blackmores ones), eating more, eating less, crackers, fruit tingles, travel sickness bands, lollipops, icy poles... well you get the idea, lol.

One thing that always makes mine worse though is sugary foods. Yeah I know, fantastic for someone with a sweet tooth like mine *groan*. Even still if I eat something really sugary I get that icky feeling come back. Like this morning DH got me some maccas hotcakes for breakfast as a treat (which of course I smothered with the hotcake syrup), and then I paid for it for the next few hours, lol.

Oh, and I would feel worse if I waited too long to eat between meals as well.

I also tried maxolon tablets. I found that a lot of the time they made me feel worse. I think they work great if you have the type of ms with vomiting because it makes the food go through faster to lessen the chance of vomiting. But if you aren't vomiting anyway I found that because the food went through faster my tummy would be empty faster and the ms amped up a notch.

I hope you start to feel better soon! Oh, and how many people are telling you that you must be having a girl this time because you didn't have ms with DS but you do this time? Lol. My friend had the same thing (no ms first pregnancy with her DS, and bad ms with second baby), but she ended up with another gorgeous boy, hehe. And my ms was identical with both DS and DD

[surprised]

Hugs hun. It's a truly awful feeling.

I tried EVERYTHING under the sun (even prescription meds), but the only thing that worked in the end was an OTC sleeping tablet called Restavit. It wasn't a complete cure, but certainly improved things. Did make me a bit sleepy, but that was worth feeling better! I used to take 1/2 in the morning, 1/2 at about 2pm and 1 at bedtime. As I got better I cut the dose down to 1/4 of a tablet when I just was feeling a bit icky.

Call mothercare (or interstate equivalent) if you want to be sure about the safety. They were the ones who put me on to it.

HTH

[mummyKeira]

I tried EVERYTHING under the sun (even prescription meds), but the only thing that worked in the end was an OTC sleeping tablet called Restavit. It wasn't a complete cure, but certainly improved things. Did make me a bit sleepy, but that was worth feeling better! I used to take 1/2 in the morning, 1/2 at about 2pm and 1 at bedtime. As I got better I cut the dose down to 1/4 of a tablet when I just was feeling a bit icky.

My GP recommended Restavit as well. That with a B6 tablet. I think she mentioned to me that it's what helped her with her MS.

Other than that...
A salty cracker 5-10minutes before I get out of bed helped. (I never leave without a baggie of jatz - on the bus I sit and nibble on them)
Frozen raspberry/coke was one of the few 'fluids' I could keep down (and kept me out of hospital for dehydration).
Plain rice with mixed veggies was something else I could stomach.
Barley sugars or sour drops helped when I was trying to find something 'substantial' to eat.
Everything else just made me sick...

I found ginger (the ginger bears, tea, ale, tablets) made me feel sick, as did stemetil (an antinausea med I have used in the past - Cat C though so it was recommended when I wasn't keeping fluids down).

I am still a little nauseated now (I'm at 10 weeks now) but the vomiting has drastically reduced...

[Marley&Me]

Digging up this old thread because I am desperate. A day at work feels like an eternity because I just feel so nauseas. I'm sick of feeling sick. I was hoping to enjoy this pregnancy, but instead I am loathing it because i feel so unwell all day

Anyone have anything else to add?

[MummyNaomi]

I hope you start to feel better soon! Oh, and how many people are telling you that you must be having a girl this time because you didn't have ms with DS but you do this time? Lol. My friend had the same thing (no ms first pregnancy with her DS, and bad ms with second baby), but she ended up with another gorgeous boy, hehe. And my ms was identical with both DS and DD

yep, totally had that heaps already - cos your pregnancy symptoms are such a good indicator of what you are having - NOT!!
My SIL had two dramatically different pregnancies and had two beautiful girls so not reading ANYTHING into it at all - other than the fact that I feel crappy LOL

[melbel]

Blackmores morning sickness formula taken every 8 hours on the dot....plus anything ginger and regular small meals......