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I know it feels terrible. Had pretty similar experience and it got worse by week 10 and I tired to keep away from meds but had to start taking diclegis starting week 13 as I was throwing up and starting to lose a lot of weight. I didn't feel like eating anything at all and that's what really made me feel like taking med and doing well is better than being miserable. Hang in there
Smaller meals/grazing all day helped me. I rarely ever ate a complete meal. I also constantly had a box of Cheerios with me. I woke up and would eat a handful before getting out of bed. Also getting a different prenatal. I wasn’t able to stomach one until the 2nd trimester, but the ones I tried during the first made me so so sick. Taking the prenatal at night helped a lot as well
^this. My doctor told me that the iron in prenatals can be really harsh on the stomach and recommended I try a gummy without iron and it really helped. I switched back to the ones with Iron once I was feeling less sick and baby is perfectly healthy and good 🙌
Hey! First…. sending hugs. I have so much empathy for “morning sickness” (I hate this term so much considering that sounds like a blessing compared to what women actually endure).
My two cents— I see a couple things thrown out above. HG is a clinical diagnoses that really indicates to a medical professional that you are struggling to the point where it’s detrimental to your health and likely babies health. I say this, because I vomited for months, relentlessly, in all three of my pregnancies and felt almost offended that I didn’t get the HG diagnoses but randomly other women that did not have it as severe as me got it. I think some doctors are more loose to use the term, and for whatever reason that bothered me because I was really struggling and I felt like without the diagnoses I wasn’t taken seriously. I now realize that they didn’t NOT believe how badly I was struggling, your body and baby can just endure A LOT before it will impact the health. Anyway— my recommendations:
1. As others suggested, ask for… DEMAND medication. I did not find Unisom and B6 worked as well as the prescription. Dicliogis/Bonjesta work okay… but I found Zofran was needed. It really helped. Ask for it. I would consider it life changing. My first pregnancy I stopped trying to get Bonjesta approved by insurance because I was already at week 16 and thought the throwing up would go away. It didn’t until about week 28.
2. Outside of the meds… there’s only two other things doctors can really do… give you an IV to help with fluids and/or a feeding tube to help you keep on weight.
3. Be unapologetically selfish about what you need during this time. Need to cancel all social plans? do it. Need to explore leave at work? contact your dr asap and begin the convo. Need to sip on apple juice for 20 weeks straight, rock on. Be kind, give yourself grace, it’s truly awful.
4. Have you tried ginger? I’m just kidding. People mean well when they suggest it, but that’s always an indication to me they had no idea how bad the situation was.
5. I was so miserable, but there’s some funny HG instagram accounts Id suggest. Sometimes finding humor in how pathetic my situation was gave me a spirit boost. They’ll post funny reels and sometimes helpful tips.
Hang in there ❤️
First tri is awful!! I had to go to the ER and was diagnosed with HG after I spent weeks throwing up multiple times a day. It does feel impossible to see the light at the end of the tunnel, BUT… hopefully you have a similar experience as me, where once second tri rolled around, first tri was a distant memory that truly didn’t seem that bad! I made a joke to my husband that I could easily go through that again and he looked at me, horrified, because my rose colored glasses were not being worn by him as well 😂
Hang in there! It will get better!
Oh, that’s a shame! I don’t get groggy at all from diclegis. Maybe I did at first but that quickly wore off? I was always tired weeks 7-11 or so, regardless of if I took the meds lol so who knows.
I was taking 4/day (2x/night, 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon) at the peak of it all but am back to only 2x/night now at week 19
Are you taking anything for your symptoms? I am not throwing up, but have bad nausea and taking 25 mg B6 3x per day + 25 mg unisom at night has drastically improved my symptoms (per my dr’s recommendation). Your doctor can also prescribe something like Zofran which is safe during pregnancy. The book Expecting Better by Emily Oster has a good chapter on nausea and what remedies work/don’t work in pregnancy, what’s safe. In the book she says rule of thumb for HG is vomiting 3+ times per day.
So glad you found something that’s helping!
Currently going through the same at 8+2, it’s like a light switch went off and the morning sickness got worse. Dry heaving, gagging and nothing comes up. Even happens on an empty stomach. If I feel the urge, I drink a little bit of water, suck on a preggie pop and hope for the best 😭🥺.
Right now I can only keep down congee - try that for meals