So sick I can't eat... and it's getting worse

[Arimeh]

There are a couple of previous threads about this
Might want to go to the doc to get the prescription for the drugs to help you with the vomiting - I can only suggest dry crackers and a cup of tea to get your blood sugar levels up in the morning before hopping out of bed. Apparently that helps. And dry crackers - preferably salty ones. I think I put all this in another thread

Good luck. It won't last forever. Chin up!!!

[manna]

sorry if I repeated a question that gets always asked. I tried reading back the last 6 pages of questions but didn't really find anything ... :ms:

[Arimeh]

Thats ok. I'm not cluey enough to figure out how to put the link to the previous link on here. Sorry I can't help you more!!!!

[Alan]

I agree, dry crackers before you get out of bed. You can also try ginger biscuits again befor you get out of bed. If this does not help then you should go see a doctor who can give you drugs to help. Don't worry too much about not feeding your baby, this will not happen. Your body can go without food for quite a few days without it being a problem.

[saslia]

I found that sea sickness bands helped me, didn't make it go away but made it not so bad.

[Matryoshka]

Oh hun i really sympathise, i suffered constant vomitting until 12 weeks. One thing helped me immensely: about 4 almonds (plain not salted) every hour or so. I would even eat these through the night as i would wake up to vomit. I bought the organic ones.

The other thing depending on if you can stomach it, real fruit juice icey poles to keep your fluids up.

Stay strong and know that it does pass!

[dee73]

Had this with both pregnancies... Maxalon took the edge off, but not really. Found I could eat cheese twisties of all things, and sometimes orange jelly. Water with a lemon squeezed in was ok, but not any other fluids. Frosty fruits sometimes worked too.

Accupuncture worked for 48 hours at a time, so I would have a treatment if I was going out somewhere so I could at least enjoy myself for one day. It gets too expensive to have it too often though.

Just look forward to 2nd trimester as it usually goes away then. Monie went at 12 weeks 1st preg and at 14 weeks this time. It's not fun, but don't worry about harming your baby, it will take what it needs from your reserves.

[STARRYSKY]

HI, I can so sympathise! I am going thru the same thing at the moment.
I was very bad last week, had to have 2 days off work and basically sat in bed with a bucket, not nice.
I found these blackmores morning sickness tablets which contain vit b6 and ginger, I have found these extremely helpful, as this will be my second day (if I make it!!) without gagging. but, the only downfall I have found with these is that you need to eat first otherwise they just come straight back up! and they taste foul!!
bundaberg ginger beer was good, but I threw it up a bit too often and I cant even look at it now, watermelon is good too, I also stocked up on icypoles and find these really good.
I am now having just a low level constant queasy feeling, occasionally getting worse but then I know I need to eat, AGAIN!
I hope you feel better soon, I know how much it sucks.

[Tish]

You can also try ginger biscuits again befor you get out of bed.

OMG! Ginger biscuits! That's pure brilliance. I've been eating crackers and taking ginger tabs, but never put 2 and 2 together. I love ginger snaps! Ooooh and gingerbread men too.....

Thanks

Tish
xx

[mrscricket]

Tish - you may already be doing this but take a pregnancy multi vitamin as well, like Elevit or the Blackmores one. At least that way if you can't eat (i lived on salt and vinegar chips for months), your bubs will be getting something from the vitamin.

[Tish]

Thanks em I am on elevit (sometimes I think this makes the MS even worse!). I am hopeful the MS will go soon - it hasn't been too bad, but it's weird to not want to eat. Eating was like a hobby before LOL. Anyway, any excuse for ginger snaps in the morning!!

Cheers,
Tish
xx

[Georgi]

MANNA I posted a similar thread to yours in the Pregnancy in the First Trimester section. That's where you'll find the few other posts about this too.

I also had terrible MS from 5.5 wks & still have it now. I went through about 1.5 weeks where it was bearable but it's now back to being really awful. It's so hard to see the road at the end of the tunnell & nothing really does help. I found that things helped only for a very very short period. Maxalon will help stop the vomitting, but as someone else mentioned here it doesn't stop the nausea, it just takes the edge off it. I have now found that the more I eat, the more I can eat. I was finding it hard to eat anything, but that passed. The thought of having food still haunts me but once I actually start eating it's ok. It did take me a few weeks to get to this point though.

Check out the other threads, try all the things people say, & hope you get some relief for at least a short period of time. It's so awful, but unfortunately there's not alot you can do about it.