Ugh, sorry

[Wyl Staedtler]

Hello all :)

I know I owe posts and I'm going to try to hammer them out in the next day or two but please bear with me, this pregnancy business is tiring. I've been nautious the last few weeks and am losing weight (which at any other time would be great) and just generally feeling run down. Hopefully will be back at it in the next couple of days. :)

Also, does anyone know of anything to stop nausea? I've tried ginger and pepperment everything, herbal drops, famotidine, even those seasick patches that go behind your ears and nothing seems to work. If I don't put on some weight soon I'll have to go back on bedrest.

[Natia Telcontar]

Soda Crackers. They did wonders for me with my Morning Sickness. Probably without them I would have lost weight because they managed to settle my stomach enough so I could actually eat my meals. For about 7 weeks, I carried around a package of them with me, at home and at work.

[Khendon Sevon]

My mom always made me drink flat gingerale to help settle my stomach when I was sick. Dunno if it'll help.

[Park Kraken]

I have any number of solutions. But they probably aren't healthy for you. Like running down a street until you pass out.

[Razielle Alastor]

Morning sickness, yeah right.. more like morning noon and night sickness. I lost over 30 lbs with both of my kids. Wonder diet? Ha, yeah right, when it did stop I made up for it with mass amounts of cookies. ;) LOL

Anyways, my very best advice to you in this case is to keep a box of whatever cookies / crackers / snack food that goes down well for you next to your bed and when you wake up in the morning, before you even attempt to crawl out of bed to eat a handful or so. Then lay back and let it settle.

As far as sickness that hits you anyway, or even later in the day.. Walk. It doesn't sound like a great idea when you are ready to hang over the porcelain bowl, but if you can talk even a short slow walk it always helped me.

I'd also scrap the peppermint. Some people it does wonders for nausea. It personally has always made me worse. Tea - with liberal amounts of sugar is also a tummy must for me. :)

Good luck! :hug

[Lilaena De'Ville]

:( feel better! And check your PM box. :hug

[Wyl Staedtler]

I have any number of solutions. But they probably aren't healthy for you. Like running down a street until you pass out.

Is this how you make yourself feel better when you have the flu?

Seriously, I think it might be a bug or something because I just can't keep anything down. Well, that's a lie. Soda crackers in the early hours of the morning stay put and drinks are okay if they're taken slowly. But anything else? Forget about it. I'm going to the doctors tomorrow because I'm getting worried (and hungry).

Gosh I'll be so glad to not be pregnant. It's been interesting but also very gross.

[Park Kraken]

When I have the flu I normally just sleep it off. Last time I think I slept for 13 hours, then got up and messed around for 2 hours, then slept for 12 hours before it broke.

[Wyl Staedtler]

My new doctor is awesome. She told me that my old physician was an idiot and that after I'd produced ketones and had IV fluids I should have been monitered not put on bed rest. Now I'm on Compazine and have a little folder of information on hyperemesis gravidarum, which I've probably had all along. Also, we could do Reglan injections (which made me laugh since we give that to animals at the vet clinic nearly every day and were joking that I should take some), but they havn't really studied what the effects on babies are which makes me leery.