I cant believe its been a year!!

[Robin'sBrood]

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I've never experienced bad morning sickness... can't imagine how yucky it must be.

 

[ebwy]

I can deal with actually being sick, no problem. It's the unending feeling sick but not bad enough to vomit that gets me down. That and the worry that it means my medications don't get a chance to work...

I asked about stopping it, but was told to eat something to stop the nausea... they don't like giving meds to stop it since the whole thalidomide fiasco years ago. So I'm eating bread... a lot!

 

[ebwy]

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can't take antihystmines, but I will ask about vit B! thanks

 

[KellyHM]

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I feel your pain on the morning sickness (more like all day). I've been eating PB&J for the last 6 weeks. My doctor gave me Zofran (generic is ondansetron) and it's fantastic. I still don't feel like eating a lot, but I'm at least able to go to work and function. You should look into it. It's a wonderful medication and is perfectly safe for pregnancy. There's no reason to be miserable.

 

[ebwy]

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I feel your pain on the morning sickness (more like all day). I've been eating PB&J for the last 6 weeks. My doctor gave me Zofran (generic is ondansetron) and it's fantastic. I still don't feel like eating a lot, but I'm at least able to go to work and function. You should look into it. It's a wonderful medication and is perfectly safe for pregnancy. There's no reason to be miserable.

as far as I can tell, UK doctors don't like prescribing anything at all for it, though I was told that if I lose too much weight they'll send me to hospital and put me on a drip!
I did manage to eat my dinner today (baked potato, ham, sweetcorn) so that's good.

 

[KellyHM]

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I feel your pain on the morning sickness (more like all day). I've been eating PB&J for the last 6 weeks. My doctor gave me Zofran (generic is ondansetron) and it's fantastic. I still don't feel like eating a lot, but I'm at least able to go to work and function. You should look into it. It's a wonderful medication and is perfectly safe for pregnancy. There's no reason to be miserable.

as far as I can tell, UK doctors don't like prescribing anything at all for it, though I was told that if I lose too much weight they'll send me to hospital and put me on a drip!
I did manage to eat my dinner today (baked potato, ham, sweetcorn) so that's good.

I didn't realize you were in the UK. I thought there was quite a difference in our doctors' opinions and I suppose that explains it! Glad you got to eat tonight. Hopefully that part will be over soon for both of us!

 

[agnes_day]

i think that the first 3 months are the hardest in pregnancy...you are exhausted and feel like you are going to puke all the time, its miserable!
i would rather go through labor than morning sickness anyday.

 

[gpamela3499]

The UK is different because years ago the doc prescribed a morning sickness drug that caused serious birth defects in the fetus in which many were born with no arms or legs. Don't take the prenatal vitamins on an empty stomach or in the morning. The best time is at lunch. I had that problem with one pregnancy and stopped taking the vitamins and the morning sickness went away.
I usually have big heartburn problems though.
The good news is that they say a lot of heartburn means a baby with a lot of hair. I wonder if there is an old wife's tale about morning sickness ....... like if you have morning sickness your baby will be a great student . That makes the pains and discomforts we mothers go through a little easier to bare. LOL

 

[ebwy]

yeah, they pretty much won't prescribe anything for morning-noon-and-night sickness since the birth defects caused by thalidomide in the 60's ( I think ). Google it, if you don't know about it. Pretty nasty stuff.

my problem isn't the prenatal stuff, it's the medication for my other conditions that I have to take every 12 hours. If I take it then throw up, I'm unmedicated again but can't take another because I don't know how much of it was absorbed before it was expelled. The doctor was unable to help.

I'm told that the more morning sickness we get, the less likely it is for us to miscarry according to statistics. Though no-one knows why.

 

[ninny]

I found that my prenatal pills were making me sick. I had to take them at in bed. Swallow and go to sleep. My doctor said i could take two little kid vitamins instead. I choked them down though. Maybe you could do some thing like that? Wintergreen and spearmint candy or gum have always helped calm my tummy down.