ms 24/7

Anyone have this all the time?

I just feel nauseous all the time with a bit of dry retching thrown in for good measure. I'm 9 wks and still so tired i just want to sleep all the time. I feel awful, eating a third of what I normally eat and have lost 3.5kg in the past five weeks. Nothing is fun anymore, I feel bad for saying this but not enjoying being pregnant so far at all.

My husband is getting fed up with me being like this but I'm not sure what else to do.

Anyone else feel this sh**?

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*hands up* I wasn't 24/7, but at times it really felt like it. Like you I lost weight - about 5 kg in 4 weeks and got the option of being admited to hospitalised to rehydrate etc. This had also happened with my first pregnancy so it didn't surprise me that much. One Dr I saw after a phone call to MMH one afternoon (not my normal one) was IMO useless. She kept telling me that I was nearly 14 week and should start feeling better soon, and seemed really reluctant to prescribe the anit-nausea tablets I was after. In the end she did, and then I went home to Mums for a week (turned into a fortnight) and she helped look after me and DS while I started to come right.

One thing she made me do was keep a diary of my symptoms and when I was taking the meds. It meant that if for any reason I needed to get hospitalised again all the information was there, eg how many times I had thrown up, when was the last time etc. Like Sally belly I had also tried a number of things and found that not a lot worked for me.

Good luck, I hope you start to feel a little better soon

I kind of had it - I had been waking in the night feeling sick and now I wear my seabands 24/7 (I started wearing them full time a week ago). Today is the first day I have had to be sick and I think its a combination of breakfast and a juice I had rather than anything else. I know people dont think they work but I do - when I have to take them off for a shower I feel like sh*t so put them back on quick smart. Maybe worth a try?

ETA: Your DH needs to just understand that its a really tough time for you - it DOES get better, I promise

Edited by CuriousG

9-10wks is suppose to be when the hormones are at their highest levels and the worst for MS hopefully you are like the majority of people and it goes away at 12 weeks i was one of the unfortunate and had MS from 6ish weeks 24/7 (sickness bands and anti nausea drugs) till 34-36ish weeks when i finally finished up work was soooooooo not pleasant

Oh yes I had that with my son, it was awful. I was sick right up until 12 weeks, then just felt seedy until 16 weeks.
I would feel nauseous all day and night and dry retch and gag a lot and I could hardly eat anything, I sucked on ice A LOT lol.

It sucks big time, but it does mean your baby is doing really well Just try and drink as much water as you can, and nibble all day long, a little and often and fluids are the best thing to keep you going.

ETA- As for your husband, he really needs to be more sympathetic about it, cos if men went through that, they would be "dying" and us women would never hear the end of it. I would just say "how would you feel being sick to your stomach every damn day". Gah men!

Edited by Sheza

You have my complete sympathies. For my few months I was sick constantly with morning sickness.

Firstly, take it seriously and if you are not coping, go see someone. The first time I went to a doctor I was told simply to put up with it but ended up going back a few weeks later after not keepeing anything down and was admitted to hospital straight away as I was so dehydrated. Getting that drip put in does help, and for some people it's just something you have to do every now and then.

I was also given maxalon which I took a couple of times when I couldn't keep down fluids for days, but generally tried to stay off them. I was put on two weeks bed rest from 11 - 13 weeks which I think helped

As for remedies, I tried homeopathic, sea bands, gingernuts, eating before i got out of bed, constant small meals, salt and vinegar chips... pretty much anything. It's hard to say what, if any of it did, but it was worth a shot.

Good news is I came right about 16/17 weeks (I'm now 20). I know how it can do your head in, my hubby used to get so upset/frustrated feeling like it was his fault I was so sick but hopefully you'll come right and be able to enjoy it soon... and then you will forget you were ever sick

I had really bad MS as well and ended up having to take quite of time off work to cope with it and during the weekend I just lay down on the couch for the entire weekend and couldn't keep anything down. Honestly for me it was the worst part of being pregnant- even worst than labour!!!!!!! 2 1/2 years down the track I still have bad memories of it.

I don't normally drink milk (can't stand the stuff) but the ONLY liquid I found i could keep down was rice milk- it was really weird, but it worked and at least I had something in my tummy. I also tried ginger tablets, the seabands- nothing worked, in the end I got my doc to prescribe some drugs and they were the best things ever!!!! next pregnancy as soon as the MS hits I will be off to the doc for these....

and don't worry it will pass (easier to say through when you aren't pregnant) and you will start to enjoy your pregnancy, and the end result is totally worth it

I was throwing up from about 3am to 11pm from 3 weeks til about 30 weeks (got to the point of just bringing up blood eeeuuuw ) then every morning til the day Jake was born and in hindsight I totally recommend the rehydration - worked wonders for me (though I was so sick that anything that helped was considered wonderful lol) and since the maxalon did jack my specialist put me on Zofran (Omeprazole?) which is apparently what they give chemo patients and wow it was fantastic! I went from not keeping anything down to only being sick in the morning and the nausea mostly disappeared. Next time I would totally be onto the rehydration part early since that made a suprising difference though I'd still hold off the hard drugs til after the first trimester if I could.