Is anyone in my shoes too?

Question

I am 7 weeks pregnant and can not keep anything down..i eat and drink and it will come right back up..im sick all day long!

Answer 1

Not now but I was twice! Let me give you some tips that helped me. This sounds stupid, but if you throw up first thing in the morning, it sort of clears it out and helps. Get up and right away chug a glass full of COLD water ( if it is really cold, you don't taste the yuck so much). Then throw up, of course. Don't fight it, just empty out. It will look yellow and bubbly and gross. That is OK. Try to eat small helpings often rather than meals. With one son I had to take prescription meds but I got by with Mylanta with the other one. At first, where you are now, really high sodium stuff was all I could keep down. I lived on Subway sub clubs with no dressing. High sodium is bad, but not eating is worse. And here is my big secret. Don't say it won't work until you try it. When you feel like you are getting woozy, get a Granny Smith Apple. You need it to be a really sour apple to work. Peel it and slice it really thin. Put salt on it, not super heavy but generously. Eat a few slices. Chew really well in case it doesn't work, but it helps about 60% - 75% of the time for most people I have told it to. Don't drink sodas, or not much anyway. And I couldn't take the calcium pills the doc put me on. I have a mild milk allergy and calcium made me chug...still does. Try skipping those one day and see if it helps. If at anytime during the day you just know youare going to throw up sooner or later, do the water thing and get it out, then do the apple thing. And I don't want to scare you, but I still had morning sickness (all day long) until I delivered both times. It happens that way sometimes, but you learn to manage it. Good luck.

Answer 2

I had that problem in the beginning of my pregnancy. For me, it got better in the second trimester (I could actually eat without feeling like I was going to throw up afterwards), but that's not always the case for everyone. Here are a few things that might help:

1. Eat small, frequent meals every two hours (even through the night, if you can do that).
2. Eat dry crackers or ginger biscuits before getting up.
3. Eat a high-carbohydrate diet: dry toast, honey, banana, baked potato, wholegrain breakfast cereals, steamed rice, and tofu.
4. Drink sweet juices or plain water in the morning.
5. Avoid strong smells, fatty foods, spicy foods. Some women cannot tolerate milk, eggs or meat.
6. Take vitamin B6 supplements, 50 milligrams, twice a day.
7. Try peppermint tea.
8. Try ginger tea: boil ginger root in water, strain and serve with honey.
9. Candied ginger may also help.

Also I bought these candies at a maternity clothing store called "Motherhood"...the candies are called "Preggie Pops" and they actually worked pretty well for me. Hope this helps you!

Congrats and good luck!

Answer 3

Isn't morning sickness fun? Most of the time it calms down by your 2nd trimester, unless you are me.... in which case it is unrelenting. Ginger ale took the edge off, so did sucking on ginger altoids. Zofran didn't really even work. I was pretty miserable, everything came right back up. Hopefully, yours will go away in a few weeks!

PS.... Another poster had mentioned puking first thing in the morning, I forgot how much that helped. Sounds weird, does the trick though.

Answer 4

Yes, I've been there an quickly approaching that point again. I had to drink those little bitty cans of coke and eat two saltine crackers before I ever let my feet touch the ground. The coke had to be room temperature and I ended up putting it on my nightstand the night before. I know it sounds weird, but it worked for me and it might for you, at this point just about anything is worth a shot! Good luck to yoU!

Answer 5

I completely sympathize with you. I'm 31 weeks now. But up until my 14th week I could not eat or drink anything. Mine was all day long as well. Just keep in mind that it should get better by your second trimester. Then you will be feeling better and you will be able to enjoy your pregnancy. It is quite amazing.
Good luck.

Answer 6

Maybe your doctor could prescribe something to help, most mothers go through this but only in the morning. If you are sick all day maybe you are not keeping down enough nutrients for you and your baby to both be healthy.

I recommend taking to a doctor now.

Answer 7

That is normal. AS long as you can keep your vitamin down, you're ok (at least for a little while). The problem is getting that vitamin down. Yuck! You could ask your Doc for a chewable vitamin. They also make liquid supplements, but I have not seen them in "pre-natal" form.

Try sucking a lemon, a lollipop, or peppermint gum. Chew on ginger root.

Also, eat SMALL things. One sip of water. One saltine. One bite of chicken. Keep it VERY small and it's more likely to stay down.

Answer 8

i'm 9 weeks pregnant now and starting to get over my all day sickness. one thing that i found really helped me was keeping some saltine crackers on my night stand and eating several very slowly before ever getting out of bed. i also learned that sipping ice water helped me. i thought that room temp water would be easier to keep down but that didn't work. sometimes that's all i could so all day was sip ice water and eat crackers. good luck!!

Answer 9

Yes I actually did that with my first pregnancy, and somewhat with this one except this one I was nauseous all day through up maybe once out of the day I felt so sick, now that I am 18 weeks I only throw up when I am hungry. If your sickness is really bad you can ask your doctor for something to help that, my cousin had severe nausea and throwing up which isn't good so her doctor gave her a medication to take with all four of her pregnancy's, ask you doc for something to help for the nausea if they are a good doctor they should have something to offer to help you through the day, good luck.

Answer 10

Been there,done that.When I was pregnant with my daughter,I had the same problem it lasted until I was 6 months along.At one point I got so dehydrated that they had to hospitalize me.But don't worry it is rare to be sick as long as I was.I wish there was some kind of advice I could give you but nothing worked for me!
Sorry!