Friday, October 14, 2011

A Scandalous Whine

I am feeling awful, so very awful. I am so sick, so very sick. I am terribly dehydrated today and had my first breakdown and cry this morning over the morning sickness. I have literally had it. I want to feel better. I am desperate and if you know a secret that will stave this feeling off, PLEASE share! I am living off soups. I am thin and I am pale. My house is begging to be scrubbed. My kids are walking all over me because they can.  :( C'mon week 13!!! Gosh that feels so very far away; that's Thanksgiving:(

13 comments:

  1. Ick! Sorry you feel so rough. For me I was incredibly lucky and never experiences morning sickness with my 4 pregnancies. I started taking 25mb B6 tablets when I started TTC and took them daily into 14 weeks. It definitely worked for me. I would only feel slightly queasy if I got hungry.
    Idk if they would help you at this point but you could ask your Dr/midwife.

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  2. Oh sorry, I meant to say, I took 25mg B6 twice a day into week 14. I bought the 50mg tabs and broke them in half.

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  3. Morning sickness was rough for me through my 2nd trimester with all three of my pregnancies. Forcing myself to eat a combo of fat/protein/carbs in a single meal would help to settle my stomach- think a bagel with cream cheese and something like sausages or eggs. But nothing worked after 1:00 PM or so. Zantac, don't take prenatals in the morning (take them at night right before you fall asleep), drink a lot of whatever you can drink, try to keep something in your stomach, because an empty stomach churning just makes it worse.

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  4. We give all our hyperemesis patients Zofran. You could call your Doctor and ask. Depending on how dehydrated and weak you are, that might be an option.

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  5. Janis, I started following your blog when I "met" you in JM April 2009 PR. I had hyperemesis gravidarum with both of my boys and had a Zofran pump it was so bad. They had me drink gatorade and eat graham crackers or saltines because a completely empty stomach made it much worse. Hope the time flies by because it's worth it when the baby is here! If it gets really bad go see your doctor because Zofran helps!

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  6. Zofran was my life saver. It was the only thing that worked. Sleeping in helped but that was not always an option.

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  7. Thanks guys! I am on the b vitamins and yesterday was the first day I literally had that much trouble keeping anything down. Hopefully today is better! I admit I am too scared of Zofran though I have suffered through puking up to 10X a day with certain kids. Its like that other med that started with a D back in the day that our grandmas took and 30 years later they found out it made the kids unable to have their own kids or something like that. I wish it had been around a lil longer cuz Im totally chicken of it! :(

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  8. Try Rainbow Light Prenatals all the other brands made me sick as a dog. I feel for ya!!!!

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  9. Ughh-sorry. Mine didn't go away until week 16. Salty foods helped.

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  10. Yuck, today's shaping up to be just as fun as yesterday. Worse probably because all the kids are home from school. ughh

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  11. Chewy Lemon heads helped with my last pregnancy..Also I drank a lot of red rasberry leaf tea. My girlfriend used to suck on Lemons..so try anything lemony. But the Lemon heads really helped.

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  12. I read on some "mega family" blog (linked off your old site, actually, I think it might have been in a shoe?) that eating beans every day helps. She explained the reasoning for this but I don't remember. Maybe you can go to the site (if you remember which one I'm talking about - lol, I don't even really remember) and look in the archives?

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  13. I found that cereal with yogurt or toast with avacoda and a little bit of salt helped me through my first trimester when I felt like CRAP! and was suffering from major, major food aversion. Even though ALL food was disgusting to me for the first trimester, if I didn't eat something I felt even worse. Cereal and toast with avacado stayed down and kept most morning sickness away except for the headache. A small cup of coffee in the morning helped with the headache, surprisingly.

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