2 Months And Very Sick-please Help!!!!

Sounds miserable!! I'm sorry I can't be of any help, i've never been pregnant!! Good luck and keep us all posted!

Never been preg myself, but i'm here for ya! Sounds awful. Do u have someone to take care of u and "baby" u????? Poor girl, hope u feel better soon.

Baby have you talked to your doc about it? What are you eating on reg basis?

I had the same prob and my doc put me on some med and b-6
but I have two small kids and my husband is away a lot in the navy, the med made me comatose (exaggeration, but not too far from the truth) so I couldn;tt ake it when I was alone, but it went away by like my 4th mon... I know you probably aren;t eating much of anything anyway because you are so tired of throwing up... Try to stick with like chicken broth or chicken noodle soup... Something that at least doesn;tt aste sooooo bad if you still throw up after eating it, and I still drink soda because it calms my stomach, but you should try drinking ginger ale, that really helped me a lot, if you don;t like the taste then try sprite instead... One thing I will tell you though, I was sick once during my 2nd preg with the flu and I got up in the middle of the night sooooo thirsty I just grabbed one of my husbands pepsi's out of the fridge and drank it, oh my god, throwing up dark soda when your tummy has nothing else in it to absorb it really sux, it hurts/burns... So if you do try the ginger ale or sprite ate least eat a couple crackers with it or a plain piece of bread or toast, okay? Hope this helps, I know it sux,

Sounds like a classic case of hyperemesis. This is my second pregnancy. With the first, I had morning sickness, threw up a lot, but it was manageable and only lasted the first trimester. This time, I developed hg around week 5, but it wasn't diagnosed until about week 10. I missed 5 weeks of work and lost 15 pounds in 3 weeks. I literally could not keep anything down, not even water, and had to go to the hospital numerous times for rehydration treatments. On top of that, I had major food aversions, and even the thought of a food (let alone sight or *gag* smell) that was on my "no" list was enough to have me barfing in sinks, ditches, flower beds, and hallways.

The standard way hg is diagnosed is by looking at the frequency and severity of your nausea and vomiting, and your weight loss since symptoms started. A loss of 5% or more of your pre-pregnancy weight is the best indicator that you have hg.

This is not typical morning sickness, although you'll hear the "soda cracker and flat ginger ale" remedy often enough to make you want to scream. Women die of hg. It can become so intolerable that some women elect to terminate their pregnancies either to preserve their own lives, or because they cannot bear the burden of hg symptoms. It needs to be treated properly, and there is no magic formula that works for everyone. I took zofran, which is an orally disintegrating (no pill to swallow, which is good because I would have just thrown it up anyway) anti-nausea drug given to chemotherapy patients to treat their nausea. It was a magic pill for me, because it allowed me to force myself to eat for the few months it took for my symptoms to subside. That works for a lot of women, but not for all. There are other anti-nausea medications out there. For some, there is no treatment that works to control their vomiting. They have to go on tubal feedings. Some women's entire digestive system shuts down and they have to be on intravenous feedings for months at a time.

I'm not telling you this to scare you, just to impress on you how important it is that you insist on adequate diagnosis and treatment of your condition. I suffered through my symptoms for weeks, even though I had been pregnant before and knew what "normal" morning sickness was like. My doctors and nurses just thought I was a whiner, and I got a lot of guilt trips in the hospital about how I wasn't thinking about my baby and just needed to suck it up. There are doctors out there who specialize in treating hg mothers. If your ob or midwife isn't being supportive or doesn't seem knowledgeable, I recommend you switch providers as soon as possible.

There is a website, http://www.Hyperemesis.Org, that has proven invaluable to me. When I first found the site and read the first page, I broke down in tears because it described what I was going through so accurately. It was the first time I realized I wasn't just being a wimp. There is a lot of information on the site, discussion forums for moms and other family members, and a doctor referral service, in case you need to change providers.

Good luck. I'll be thinking about you.

Thank you everyone.

Querida- i'm gonna check out that site cause that's pretty much how I feel. As for informing my doc--i have and he put me on meds- I missed all last week of work and am here today because I need the $$$$$-- x-mas is coming. I called my doc yesterday and no one called me back all day and no one has called me back yet today either. I am thinking of switching doc's because I am severely pissed off that no one called me back when I told them my symptoms. Anyhoo i'll keep you all posted and thanks again.

I am 13 weeks and 2 days pregnant and I am going through the same thing that you are right now. I feel for you . The doctor gave me some medicine it is called zofran it really helps me, maybe it can help you as well. I stay sick morning noon and night. You take this medicine by mouth every 12 hrs as needed. Good luck

Tazzy i'm on diclectin which is the only med recommmended by the obgyn's of north america--zofran is for nausea caused by chemo and surgery so thanks for the advice but.... I'll stick to the barfing for now-lol

Well that is what they gave me and it is working so I will stick to this. I would rather take this then barf all day and night lol also they can give you something call phenirgin. I think that was how it was spelled. Anyways good luck to you

Thanks and good luck to u too!!!!

Re: zofran

i'm not familiar with the drug you are taking (maybe different names are used in canada?), but zofran has actually been studied pretty extensively in pregnant women. It's not "proven safe," because you can't prove anything safe. But the us food and drug admin. Classifies it as "probably safe," which is the same classification given to acetaminophen (tylenol).

Motherrisk.Com has some links to studies that show a preliminary connection between some anti-nausea medicines taken in pregnancy and acid reflux in the newborn. I'm not sure which drugs they were studying, but I can tell you that even if I knew for 100% certain that the zofran would cause my baby to have acid reflux, I would still have taken it. As one enlightened er doctor told me, "having a drug-free pregnancy isn't going to do your baby any good if you're dead."

Well the other name is ondansetron hcl 4mg /zofran odt 4mg. Maybe that can help you guys research it. Since I started taking this medicine I feel alot better and my baby seems to be doing fine. I was just at the doctors today and they gave me a refill and the pharmasist says that it is perfectly fine to take while pregnant. So I wish you all good luck but I am not going to barf no more. I have to feed my baby some how and this seems to work.