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Yay cat xx
Sounds like you are doing everything you can to help yourself. I always used to split my dose too.
This may not be helpful to you at all, but I found that my HG was more managable with 2nd and 3rd as I wasn't working in paid employment. The drive to train station followed by train trip was a shocker for me. Sometimes I would push myself to get to the train station, only to then vomit in the car and again on the train station, and at that point I would turn around and go home. I ended up taking about 6 weeks leave from work, I know not an option for everyone but we were able to manage financially. Avoiding motion was key for me, including not unstacking the dishwasher, not turning my head too much etc.
Anyway, many hugs to you and yay for a better day!
Driving to and from work is becoming am issue - that short drive has me vomiting :( this afternoon it's all bile there is nothing left...
My work is literally 5-10mins down the road. This is ridiculous my morning sickness has never been so bad before.
Ugh, today has been a bad day. :-( going back to sleep at least then I don't vomit.
I totally feel your pain. I had HG for 20 weeks this time, and even on zofran there were days I would literally throw up all morning and just go back to bed cause the day was impossible.
I truly feel for you - I could barely look after myself, let alone DD and partner.
Do whatever it is you need to, just to get through the day.
I'm 33 weeks now and still struggle to eat much at all and still feel nauseous most days, but haven't throw up much since about week 24.
I still live on salad biscuits and orange juice, the two things I can stomach most days.
And I tried every single trick in the book and not a thing worked (except the zofran was the most helpful thing. Gotta love paying that kind of money for almost 6 months!)
I haven't been able to keep anything down :-(
Even on the zofran I'm vomiting... All day :-(
I remember days where I'd be sitting on the edge of the bath, throwing up in the toilet with a zofran tablet in my hand but couldn't stop throwing up long enough to get the zofran in.
It really sucks. Sending you love x
My doctor has increased my medications...
Zofran - morning and night
Maxalon - morning, afternoon and night.
In hopes that I can stay out of hospital...
I hope it helps, love.
It's so hard :comfort:
Sounds like you're having a rough start.
Hope the meds improve things. I'm allergic to maxalon & couldn't afford zofran, so never got to try it!
Congrats on your news :)
Hope it eases a little for you x
You poor thing, i remember this well :( even just thinking about food was enough to make me sick, its awful! Nothing works but i found eating belvita breakfast biscuits before getting up helped a little (at least there is something to throw up when you stand up :() and hydralite ice poles. Other than that i have no suggestions, i hope it eases for you soon! Big hugs xxxxxxxxx
Hi Cat,
This is Danie from the April due date thread..
Gosh I am so sorry you are having such a horrible time with all day sickness..
Maybe its worth taking a sick day from work so you can give the acupuncture a go?
I have the next week of work on doctors advice so will give it a go
Great! Take it easy and let us know how you go.
Hey Cat, just be aware that after the acupuncture you can feel absolute crap. I tired it at 19 weeks for the same thing, and she didn't give me any aftercare advice at all. I only just managed to get myself back to work which was 2 mins up the road, then felt so sick and unwell I literally couldn't have driven home. I had to have a 2 hour sleep at work before I could function.
Having said that, it did coincide with my " all day absolute hell sickness" easing the next week, but I don't know if it was from the acupuncture or not.
Just make sure you have a bottle of water with you, and are prepared incase you feel crap afterwards. if there is anyone that can pick you up maybe arrange that.
I really hope it helps though!
I found accupunture fantastic during pregnancy, the other thing I highly recommend is a good cranial osteo, they will help with the nausea, it must be someone who does cranial.
I thought I was getting better, didn't vomit all day yesterday, I even got up and vacuumed a room...
It didn't last - this morning I can't move vomiting, blaaaa...
Haven't called the acupuncturist yet - got scared off that I could feel worse...
Bugger!
Have you had acupuncture before? Everyone's experiences can be different.. After I have it, I do feel a bit spacey, just like after a massage, but my general feeling is usually improved.. It might be great for you, or might not, but maybe worth a go? It could be your life saver!
There is another acupressure point/s I was told about.. If you find your sternum, press into the space just below it, where it becomes soft.. then move your finger in a straight line town towards the belly button, pressing slowly all the way.. that one works for me when I get a bit nauseas and funny in my belly...
ooh i hope this passes for you soon Cat... good luck!
Gonna sit in here and have a little cry...
Feeling so awful :(
Hugs Cat. Thank you for giving me perspective - even feeling bad, you still inspire others.
:-( this baby is kicking my butt...
I've just had a week off work. Was starting to feel a little better, gone from throwing up everything to only 1-3 times a day. And keeping some food down.
Today I am back to feeling terrible :-( kept food in at work just felt nauseated amd started to get a bad headache, have thrown up a few times since I've been Home - headache isn't getting any better and I feel so sick :-(
I'm sorry for complaining so much just not dealing with it all too well
I felt like all I did was whinge and complain for the first 20 weeks.
I literally had no joy in my life and everyone was so excited about the whole baby thing except me - cause I was just SO miserably sick 24/7.
I would wake up in the morning and just wish it was bed time again cause getting through a day was so bloody hard.
I totally understand you x
So I'm trying a new medication... Restavit - it's a sleeping pill but known for its effects to stop nausea and vomiting. I'm going to try it on the weekend,
I don't want to alarm you, but my doctor suggested Restavit when I had bad morning sickness and the pharmacist asked me what I wanted it for. When I mentioned morning sickeness he almost fell over. He said I should definitely not take it whilst pregnant.
Restavit was recommended to me also, and I knew a few people who have taken it when pregnant for morning sickness, one of them was a midwife who was pregnant at the time and taking it.
I dot handle anything that makes me drowsy so I stuck to the zofran though
Hmmm, wonder why the pharmacist was all no no about it. I could have used some relief! lol:
No idea Tasha? Its a bit strange isn't it. Although it's not the first lot of conflicting advice I've heard about medications during pregnancy. Maybe it's quite new, I'd never heard of it before.
Restavit was recommended to me with my first bubs, never really helped a great deal, but nothing usually does in my body!
So it's an excellent sleeping tablet... After taking it within an 30mins I was fast asleep... Didn't spew while I was asleep but still feel crap. Definitely not one I can take on a work day.
Just when I thought it was starting to settle. The last few days have been killer. I feel so sick and nauseated. I'm over vomiting and feeling so ill.
Trying to get up to go to work, but moving makes it worse ;(
Cries...
Have you tried the Elevit morning sickness tablets? A friends DD had awful m/s with her first and it was beginning to happen again with this one and she has started taking these twice a day and she reckons they work! I don't know, I haven't heard of them before! Hugs Cat, hope it starts to get better for you soon xxx
Huuuuuge hugs. It's so hard xx
And yeah, the sleeping pills don't help, in my experience (though I get some have good results).
Restavit wasn't something recommended to me, but Pramin and Maxalon both had that effect on me - severe drowsiness.
So I'd have my alarm go off at 4.30, to eat something and take the tablet, and then be zonked completely out for a couple of hours, then force myself to get up, dressed, and on the train, and then sleep the whole way there, and then be groggy for the first couple of hours at work ... I'd be awake properly by 9.30 or so - but generally would be back to being nauseous soon after - and the drugs were less and less effective every day ... getting to the point that I'd be jolted out of my drowsiness by the morning sickness returning - and the period of time they reduced the nausea by reduced day by day, to the point that they didn't work after a week anyway.
I was devastated!
I really hope you get some relief soon - but worst case scenario, it will be gone when the baby arrives. Not a fun prospect, but fingers crossed, a couple of days after that, you will be so blissed out that you won't care. :comfort:
Yeah I have tried the elevit morning sickness. But it still hasn't worked.
Nothing is helping, work was hell today.
Everything sucks :(
Maybe it's time to try acupuncture?
Or even a chiro who specializes in pregnancy is meant to be able to help with morning (all day) sickness
Hun, I've been where you are. My pregnancy with DD literally almost killed me, my kidneys were struggling and I physically couldn't open my eyes, move, sit up, I often couldn't muster anything to move from the toilet once I threw up, I stayed there for 9 hours until DH found me after work :-( I took leave for the entire pregnancy. My second pregnancy was similar but I medicated far earlier. The nausea was always there but the vomiting became less severe, with maybe 6 times a day by 20 weeks.
Restavit is prescribed regularly for women with HG it can have great effects. I have never used it though.:
If your head is aching, you are obviously dehydrated. I don't want to be pushy but if you can get some IV fluid into you in the ED or even the Dr's surgery it will help in getting to a 'base line' for your body.
Zofran can ease vomiting and nausea (more vomiting) but it needs to be started before your brain over rides its ability to work. It may never stop the vomiting but it 'should' alleviate it to a certain degree. Its job is to push the contents of your stomach into your bowel in an attempt to stop you spewing. Yes, there is nothing there but it can help take the edge of the nausea too. If only slightly so you can move. If you do not start the medication early enough you will be unlikely to get it to override the brains ability to stop throwing up.
Taking Zofran at the same time each day ALL the time seems to have more effect than taking it as you feel sick. Depending on your dose rate as to how you can take it. With DS I was on 3 x 8mg/ day, I took it for the entire duration and was sick until 2 days after birth. DD (my first baby) eased at 38.5 weeks but I stopped medication at 20 weeks because I was sick of paying money and throwing up 12 times a day still.
I hope it eases for you soon. It can be very traumatic and lonely :hug:
ETA: I think it may be an idea to consider that it is in fact HG and not bad morning sickness. They are two VERY different things :hug:
I heartily second this :hug::
My Dr is calling it HG.
Ive made it to work today thrown up my breakfast. Struggling to stay until they end of the day. Sp tired habe no energy and feel so sick :-(
:( you poor thing xxx
I'm now 19weeks... Almost half way yay!
I thought since I haven't vomited for a week apart from a little bit at work the other day, I will try today without taking my odansatron... Feeling so very sick :( no vomiting but so nauseated.
oh Cat xx
I really feel for you. when i was pg with DD3 it was just the pits. i swore to never go through it again...and i never ever thought i would say that about pregnancy (i was always loving the whole pregancy journey prior to that).
the only thing i could do was to choke down mushrooms (for the protein) and an egg a day. and when the nausea abated a little, i would try a small amount of cheese (usually parmesan or sometimes cheddar). i did find the protein helped at least with the energy and was less likely to have a full on 'hurl your guts up' reaction.
I also never ever, not once took off my seabands. seriously within minutes of those babies being pried off, i was retching and began the task of putting them back on again lol.
:hug: it sucks. it really really does...still hoping that it passes super soon for you xx