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Another morning sickness question
The other threads about morning sickness medications have got me
wondering. At what point do doctors treat morning sickness? I don't think that my MS is really bad enough to worry about, but everyone I talk to is surprised that I'm still having issues with it. I'm at about 16 weeks right now, and I am still throwing up about 5 times a week. I have whole days where I don't throw up at all, but also days where I get sick multiple times. Earlier on, I pretty much felt sea-sick all day long in addition to the hurling. Lately I feel pretty much normal in the middle of the day, but around dinner time and later I get that sea-sick feeling back. However, the sea-sickness and the throwing up aren't necessarily linked--I tend to throw up first thing in the morning more than any other time (and most of those are before I have a chance to eat anything). I've tried eating crackers right when I wake up, eating food right before bed, changing what I eat at different times, and nothing really helps. If I do manage to eat before I throw up in the morning, it's almost worse--I think I prefer the mostly dry heaves :P I'm not losing weight (mostly probably because I don't manage to actually throw up food that often), and have actually put on about 7 pounds so far. Several friends have suggested that I should ask my doctor about it (these are some of the same friends who either never puked at all or only 1 or 2 times their whole pregnancies). Is this really something that should be treated, or am I normal and should just be dealing with it for now? --Elit #1 due 9/20/2004 |
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Another morning sickness question
Elitsirk wrote in message om... The other threads about morning sickness medications have got me wondering. At what point do doctors treat morning sickness? I don't think that my MS is really bad enough to worry about, but everyone I talk to is surprised that I'm still having issues with it. I'm at about 16 weeks right now, and I am still throwing up about 5 times a week. I have whole days where I don't throw up at all, but also days where I get sick multiple times. Earlier on, I pretty much felt sea-sick all day long in addition to the hurling. Lately I feel pretty much normal in the middle of the day, but around dinner time and later I get that sea-sick feeling back. However, the sea-sickness and the throwing up aren't necessarily linked--I tend to throw up first thing in the morning more than any other time (and most of those are before I have a chance to eat anything). I've tried eating crackers right when I wake up, eating food right before bed, changing what I eat at different times, and nothing really helps. If I do manage to eat before I throw up in the morning, it's almost worse--I think I prefer the mostly dry heaves :P I'm not losing weight (mostly probably because I don't manage to actually throw up food that often), and have actually put on about 7 pounds so far. Several friends have suggested that I should ask my doctor about it (these are some of the same friends who either never puked at all or only 1 or 2 times their whole pregnancies). Is this really something that should be treated, or am I normal and should just be dealing with it for now? To me you sound pretty mild-I was feeling sick 24/7 for weeks 5-27 (#1) and 4-21 (#2) with both during that time I was being sick more often than once a day. After those times I was still sick for the rest of pregnancy, (until about 2hrs after delivery) but would have good patches where I didn't feel as though I wasn't about to be sick. And, I'll add, I was nowhere near needing help (other than sympathy!) from the dr. If you haven't lost weight (I had lost at 20 weeks) then I wouldn't think a dr. would worry at all. I think you sound normal to me. The good news being that most people ms seems to clear between 16-18 weeks. The bad news is that it doesn't always and you don't know whether you'll be one of those :-( Mention it at your next appointment, (if it's still going on) but I don't think you'll get much help. If you're not keeping anything down at any stage then you do need help. Debbie |
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Another morning sickness question
"Elitsirk" wrote in message om... The other threads about morning sickness medications have got me wondering. At what point do doctors treat morning sickness? I don't think that my MS is really bad enough to worry about, but everyone I talk to is surprised that I'm still having issues with it. I'm at about 16 weeks right now My doctors started dealing with mine right away, as soon as I mentioned it- they gave me tips and suggested Vitamin B6 and the wrist bands, and had me try Zantac to try to reduce stomach acid to see if that helped. When all of that, and I was still sick for much of the time (not just in little instances that would go away), the doctors prescribed phenergan, Phernergan did not take away the nausea OR help with vomiting at all so I was still pretty early along when they gave me Zofran. I think they gave me Zofran at 10-12 weeks, because I kept telling them my nausea was constant and longlasting and causing me not to eat. I did lose significant weight but not enough to worry the doctors. My doctors told me that they normally like to start treating morning sickness with Zofran when vomiting is still an issue after the first trimester or is so constant within the first trimester. They also told me they choose Zofran to prevent vomiting, that it doesn't help much if your problem is only nausea feeling and not vomiting too. I complained of still feeling sick on Zofran, but was vomiting a lot less....and they basically told me not to expect Zofran to necessarily stop the nausea...just the nausea that led to vomiting. Good luck-- I feel for you. I was nauseous and throwing up really bad unless I stayed on Zofran constantly until I was at 20 weeks! And it wasn't a miracle help, it just helped a little. And now I am 33 weeks and feel yucky m/s a lot now too, it's back-- but it is shortlasting, and the difference is I am not nauseous for long periods of time, feel better after I do throw up, and can usually even eat normally an hour or two after throwing up! So its better even though it's frequent. Jill |
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