Bleugh! MS is progressively getting worse, this week (7 weeks) has been yuk, no vomitting luckily but constant nausea - and night time / later in the day seems worse
Although this morning I feel like I really just want to have a big spew and and too scared to eat
What are your best remedies - I had no MS in my last pregnancy so have no idea
TIA
Last edited by MummyNaomi; December 17th, 2011 at 06:37 AM.
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I had constant nausea also with the occasional spew earlier on. I found I had to eat every half hour to an hour.... I ate alot of apples. Nothing made it totally go away though... Except time
Good luck hope you find something that works for you!
Forgot to add my ms was the same, constant nausea. I didn't want to eat because the thought made me yuck but I needed to. I ate a lot of mashed potato lol. the fruit tingles would help me not to dry retch before I could figure out what and how I was going to eat and force myself to eat it. I'd then feel a little better for half an hour or so afterwards.
I still get it if I go too long without eating. Hugs to you Hun. It's sucky.
Dantri - I've read the fruit tingles have bicard in them (for the tingle I guess) and that's what helps settle the tummy. I was getting them for a while but realised I could only eat the orange ones after a while and hated the waste lol
My morning sickness has been the same. I'm finding the buttered toast every few hours helps - never let yourself get hungry in between.
And honestly, the peppermint tea works a charm! I can be feeling so off and after 2 sips start to feel better. I'd never tried it before now.
Hey hun, mine is starting to ease. But I am the same as you, no vomiting just that gross feelin especially at night. Frozen Coke works for me, or ice blocks xx
sorry hun, but in my experience, you have to just keep trying different things, and making sure that you don't get dehydrated ...
sleep was the only consistent thing which helped (and I mean helped - it was less intense if I slept LOTS - as in 12+ hours at night - but I would still have nausea and some vomiting).
other things which helped for a while and then didn't:-
* watermelon
* mineral water with a quirt of lime juice
* just letting myself have a big spew in the morning, and then getting on with life ...
* zantac (on Dr's advice)
* very cold milk
* steamed rice with thin soy sauce
* steamed potatoes and green beans with a little butter
* lemon sherbert lollies
but it really sometimes was a matter of going to the shops, walking around until I saw something I thought I might be able to keep down ...
but I hate to say, I had m/s for 32 weeks when pg with DS, and I still have m/s this time ...
there are medicines you can get to help, but personally, they make me too drowsy to function.
eat before you get hungry - and eat stuff that is high in protein/low GI so that it takes a lot longer to "wear off" during the day. i ended up with alarms set in the early hours of the morning so i could eat essentially through the night and go back to sleep. Vaalia yogurt at 4.30 or thereabouts, cheese at 6.30, boiled egg (cooked the night before) at 8 or 9 when i could get out of bed.... then snacking all day, eating carbs when things got bad (potato wedges were my one thing i could always stomach).
i tried a bit of everything - the ginger morning sickness tablets worked for a while, but not long - they helped the nausea from the MS, but the ginger gave me heartburn, which was just as bad lol. ginger biscuits again helped for a while, but same deal. i got over ginger ale VERY quickly! peppermint was something that i went off very early in the pregnancy - i used to use minties all the time to control car sickness, but couldn't eat them while pregnant (and even now lol)
i read somewhere that people either need warm or cool to help control their MS. if it's "warm", it's the ginger based stuff, if it's the "cool", it's peppermint based. you'll need to experiment with what works for you.
much sympathy hun - that constant nausea is horrible isn't it?
Vegemite (for the B6) and Ginger beer worked for my first pregnancy.
This pregnancy, morning sickness remedy tea helped (ordered off a pregnancy website) and snacking on salty stuff every so often helped but didn't feel like Vegemite this time round. Ginger beers helped, but not as much.
Huge one of these My morning sickness (24/7 nausea but no spews) was bad with both pregnancies but worse this time.
My favourite thing was icy poles, mostly Callipos The icy cold sugar burst really helped. Bananas were really good too and so was full strength Coke I generally preferred sweet things but would randomly need savory snacks so salt and vinegar chips and BBQ Shapes really helped as well. I also ended up taking Maxolon (anti nausea/vomiting meds) a lot in this pregnancy which made a big difference. I reckon would have lived in the fetal position on the couch until 16 weeks without them!
Funnily enough, anything ginger flavoured made me feel worse both times so I won't recommend that!!
I hope you get relief soon xx
ETA: and yes, as BG said, eat before you're hungry. Once hunger sets in, it's much worse! I always went to bed with several snack for throughout the night (nuts, dried fruit, apple, bananas and salty crackers) and DH always bought me vegemite on toast as soon as I woke, before I moved, LOL! I would eat my toast then go to the loo each morning.
I got some travel sickness bands (weird little headband things with plastic lumps you put on your wrists, with the lump pressing into the inside of your wrist, where the veins show) - about $18 at the chemist, look a bit like tiny tennis sweat bands, but strangely help a little - just taking the edge off ...
And I *think* vitamin B pills help too ... I still would feel sick, but some days when I was just shocking, I would later realise I'd forgotten to take my vit B ...
Potatos Potatos - and more potatos! I also had the travel sickness bands for my wrists and in the end had to have some maxalon on hand to get through the really bad days.
Forcing myself to eat even though it was the last thing I wanted to do - once I had eaten I always felt better. Icy poles on the really bad days where I just couldn't stomach anything else.
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.
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
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.
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The icy cold sugar burst really helped. Bananas were really good too and so was full strength Coke
I generally preferred sweet things but would randomly need savory snacks so salt and vinegar chips and BBQ Shapes really helped as well. I also ended up taking Maxolon (anti nausea/vomiting meds) a lot in this pregnancy which made a big difference. I reckon would have lived in the fetal position on the couch until 16 weeks without them!
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