briweekly - Echoing what antera23 & desoky01 said - Zantac is a lifesaver. I take one pill about 30-45 minutes before my first meal of the day, and another before dinner.
I have GERD, so I've been dealing with terrible heartburn since long before getting pregnant. I'll be honest in that Prilosec works much better than Zantac, but isn't really recommended for pregnancy until it's late in the third trimester, and even then, only if nothing else works. I was taking that previously, but had to stop as soon as I got my BFP.
ETA: Sleeping on your left side is also helpful! Studies have shown that laying on your right can make acid issues worse.
For whatever it's worth, allegedly apple cider vinegar may help with heartburn/acid reflux. (I realize how insane this sounds, but when you get to the "I'll try anything" phase, why not...) I can only speak to this anecdotally, once, but it did do the trick when I didn't have meds at home besides Tums, which wasn't doing a dang thing. The trick, of course, would be getting it down without wanting to die -- I put mine in a mug of warm water and an absolute s***load of honey and it wasn't unbearable. I'm not typically quite this crunchy (bring on the drugs!) but desperate times call for desperate measures and if there's a chance it might help, I figure I might as well share.
I'm mostly just SO TIRED. All I want to do is lie in bed and sleep but, work (ugh). Other than that, I've just had on and off nausea -- I'm only at about 7 weeks, so part of me is super paranoid something is going wrong. I think it's because my MS isn't super strong -- with my first, I have memories of just lying on the couch feeling carsick, but so far with this pregnancy, it's been much milder. I also could be misremebering the timeline and end up with massive MS tomorrow, so who knows... I saw my doctor last week and she said everything looked great, so not sure why I'm so paranoid!
@ki1244 please make sure you are using pasteurized apple cider vinegar! Sorry, I really hope that doesn't come off the wrong way - just trying to be helpful. It might just be that my mom freaks me out so much about stuff like that, but I feel like there are so many things I never thought about whether they were pasteurized or not. So now I'm that weird person in line who is like, "Is that pasteurized?" ha But i also realized the apple cider vinegar I have is unpasteurized.
For all those ladies who were having terrible MS, I *think* I might be turning a corner on my MS! My baby is measuring a teeny bit larger for my EDD, but I'm wondering if that means LO might be getting to a point of maturity where MS might wane. I'm still a bit nauseous, but nothing like before. And I'm even backing off on the Diclegis (down to only the morning and evening dosages). Maybe there is hope after all!
@chrssyms it is (please, I'm way too cheap for the fancy stuff!), but for apple cider vinegar, even unpasteurized is said to be fairly safe because of the acidity -- most harmful bacteria apparently can't make it there, and what's left is the good probiotic stuff. Pasteurized is safest if you go that route, but it's not quite like cheese or raw eggs and such. But yay for caution.
I was prescribed Reglan to try to combat the MS from hell. Let’s hope this is the magic cure? Since Zofran and Diclegis are basically sugar pills now and doing squat 😑 I threw up in front of my MFM at yesterday’s appontment and his face was priceless. You’d think he’d be immune to this stuff by now? 😂
I'm always soooo tired at about 5pm lol. I don't know if it's because i work full time, have 4 girls, basketball practices, eco club, girls scouts, and so on or if it's this pregnancy...ok it's probably both! Aside from being super tired I haven't had many more symptoms. Nausea hasn't been present this time as it was for my 4 girls so yeah!!!
@luckystar28 man, I hope it eases up soon for you. You have been through the ringer for weeks on end.
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I need to pick up some Zantac since it is working for some of you! When I realized the heartburn was also the cause of a lot of my nausea I have been feeling better. But I was just taking Pepcid and it doesn't work all the time depending on what I ate. Tums don't really even touch it, but they taste good so I still have one lol.
@die_frau weeks 7-9 were no joke for me. I'm nearing week 11 and the exhaustion is about 15% better, which is to say i can now stay awake until 9pm instead of 8pm previously. Hang in there.
@marijaa333 I am glad to hear you are feeling more rested. It gives me hope.
I am approaching week nine and I feel like I could pass out at 6pm every night. Too bad I work the next four nights until 1030PM
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@jmvander I was using Zantac but switched to gaviscon for heartburn instead. I guess it sits on top of your stomach juices to stop the heart burn and if you have reflux it goes up with it and coats your esophagus so you don’t get the painful burn. You don’t absorb it or anything. It seems to work just as good and it helps me when I throw up because I don’t get that awful burn afterwards. Thought I would suggest if the Zantac didn’t help
Is anyone else super thirsty? I literally cannot stop drinking water. I wake in the night numerous times and drink a huge glass of water. I normally don't drink a lot of water and I normally drink lots of coffee but in the past few days, I don't even feel like I want a coffee at all, but would attack someone to get to the water jug! 😂 Just wondering if anyone else out there is in the same boat?
I keep ice water with me constantly all day long. During yoga I stop so many times to drink that I'm surprised nobody in the class has said anything. Water is a must have.
@meatballs37 you are right in the thick of it! My advice is to take every chance you get to do as little as possible. I know they say exercise helps, and that's true, but after exercise, you have to rest/sleep/conserve energy. And going to work is plenty of exercise during those critical weeks in my book!!
@marijaa333 that gives me hope! I don't remember being this exhausted last time and it's a STRUGGLE to stay awake and energized.
@meatballs37 I feel your pain -- last night I passed out at 9pm with all the lights on, woke up at 7am and made my husband take our LO to play so I could sleep another hour and a half. I wish there was something that could be done about the exhaustion! The struggle is real
@luckystar28 oh no! Did Diclegis stop working for you?? It's been a lifesaver this past week for me. I'm ticking down the days until second tri but I still have a few weeks to go... I might cry if it stops working.
I wish I could pass out and sleep. No matter how much I want to sleep, because I’m utterly exhausted, I seem to toss and turn for hours. My Fitbit is logging me spending no more than 45min or so asleep at a time. Not restful at all. Does anyone else just have a constant sort of muscle ache around whole mid section? Not just lower abdominal/lower back.
I was up a lot last night too...just couldn't stay asleep. I've had something similar to the pain you're talking about, @011sammie017...I've been able to get it to relax a little with some deep breathing and psoas release stretches, but kinda nervous if I'll be able to do that down the road (I'm doing those releases on my back, and then turn over to my side to go back to sleep). Not sure if that's anything like what you're getting, but that muscle affects soooo much of your midsection that I figured it didn't hurt to start there and that's helped a ton.
@desoky01 perhaps it could be. It’s been a couple of days though. So uncomfortable. If it is I just wish it’d ‘be free’ because I’m starting to feel wimpy (Not helped by the constant nausea and unfortunately the flu thanks to all the germy teens at work)
I have not been able to sleep past 5 or 5:30am during the last week. The week before last, I was waking up between 3:30 and 4:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. By comparison, 5 or 5:30 is great.
Does anyones nausea get worse AFTER eating? Woke up this AM and was surprised how good I felt. I didn't eat right away, drank some tea and tinkered on my computer. Then had some food and now I'm feeling sick. UGH.
@wearyfuzzball yesterday I did. I woke up feeling pretty sick, but threw up and felt mostly fine. I ate a little after that to try to keep the nausea from coming back like that, but the more I ate, the worse I felt (and I really didn’t eat much). By the time I had eaten a tiny lunch, I felt worse than I have the entire time I’ve been sick.
@kjr9519 So frustrating. I'm so thankful I'm not vomiting, I have a lot of respect for you ladies dealing with that. Makes me feel like a big baby complaining about my sour stomach and constant gagging.
@wearyfuzzball quite honestly, I’m a big baby when it comes to ms too. Most of the time, I only vomit in the morning when my stomach is almost completely empty and it’s really not that bad. Recently I started vomiting in the evenings and decided that was too much and started taking unisom and B6 to stop it. So far it’s worked.
@kjr9519 I'm glad the unisom and b6 is working!!! I've also found, as hard as it is to stomach sometimes, drinking a lot of water helps. I try to take at least a little sip every few minutes.
@luckystar28 can you talk to your doctor about other options? My OB prescribed my Diclegis (did not work for me) and Phenergran (seems to be working better)
@wearyfuzzball yes sometimes my MS is worse after I eat. Which is opposite of what it had been! Just when I think I get a handle on it, it switches on me.
@luckystar28 I’m so sorry you’ve been having such a hard time with MS I wish those pills worked for you!
Oh man! This will be my second baby and I have been having these crazy hot flashes and cold sweats. I’ll be hot tearing off my clothes then freezing the next! Anyone experience this so early ?
@wearyfuzzball and @antera23 there never seemed to be any pattern to my nausea. Sometimes I’d get sick after eating. Sometimes I got sick because I hadn’t eaten. Unfortunately, I’m not sure there’s any rhyme or reason to how MS works. I think that’s why you just have to kind of do what feels right in the moment. So if your mind/stomach tells you to eat peanut butter, eat peanut butter. All I can tell you ladies is that I’m almost at 11W and I think my MS is improving. I’ve at least gone from vomiting a couple times a day to just mild all-day nausea. It feels like such a massive improvement. Still not 100% but this has been way more manageable so I hope it gives you all hope that most likely it will get better soon. I was taking Diclegis, but I’ve slowly been ramping down my dosage to see if I really need it anymore. Actually I’m starting to wonder if it’s contributing to some of my nausea too. It’s hard to really know definitively. But good luck ladies and I think we will all get out of the worst of it soon!
@gmacisaac Yep! They’ve subsided for the time being, but I also had that issue with DS of and on. Mostly the hot flashes, but I run cold so maybe I just never noticed the cold dips.
Why can’t I just enjoy feeling better? Yesterday, pretty much all day long, I felt great. And instead of enjoying it and getting some stuff done, **TW I spent all day freaking out that I was losing the baby. END TW***. Then I woke up to go to work last night and was the sickest I’ve been so far. I was ALWAYS sick with DS so I still feel weird that this time, it comes and goes.
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Re: Symptoms of the Week - 11/5
I have GERD, so I've been dealing with terrible heartburn since long before getting pregnant. I'll be honest in that Prilosec works much better than Zantac, but isn't really recommended for pregnancy until it's late in the third trimester, and even then, only if nothing else works. I was taking that previously, but had to stop as soon as I got my BFP.
ETA: Sleeping on your left side is also helpful! Studies have shown that laying on your right can make acid issues worse.
(And for proof that I'm not completely insane, here's an article that says there may be something to it: https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/apple-cider-vinegar#bottom-line)
For all those ladies who were having terrible MS, I *think* I might be turning a corner on my MS! My baby is measuring a teeny bit larger for my EDD, but I'm wondering if that means LO might be getting to a point of maturity where MS might wane. I'm still a bit nauseous, but nothing like before. And I'm even backing off on the Diclegis (down to only the morning and evening dosages). Maybe there is hope after all!
DD: Aug '16
10/2017: Twins confirmed with TTTS at 22 weeks.
10/10/17 Twin B passed after in utero surgery
11/2/17 Twin A & B born
11/26/17: Twin A passed after 24 days fighting in the NICU
Benched 6 months
BFP: 6/28/18 MC:7/16/18 BO
BFP: 10/2/18 EDD 6/15/18
I am glad to hear you are feeling more rested. It gives me hope.
I am approaching week nine and I feel like I could pass out at 6pm every night. Too bad I work the next four nights until 1030PM
DD: Aug '16
10/2017: Twins confirmed with TTTS at 22 weeks.
10/10/17 Twin B passed after in utero surgery
11/2/17 Twin A & B born
11/26/17: Twin A passed after 24 days fighting in the NICU
Benched 6 months
BFP: 6/28/18 MC:7/16/18 BO
BFP: 10/2/18 EDD 6/15/18
because I don’t get that awful burn afterwards. Thought I would suggest if the Zantac didn’t help
@meatballs37 I feel your pain -- last night I passed out at 9pm with all the lights on, woke up at 7am and made my husband take our LO to play so I could sleep another hour and a half. I wish there was something that could be done about the exhaustion! The struggle is real
Does anyone else just have a constant sort of muscle ache around whole mid section? Not just lower abdominal/lower back.
@luckystar28 I’m so sorry you’ve been having such a hard time with MS
Why can’t I just enjoy feeling better? Yesterday, pretty much all day long, I felt great. And instead of enjoying it and getting some stuff done, **TW I spent all day freaking out that I was losing the baby. END TW***. Then I woke up to go to work last night and was the sickest I’ve been so far. I was ALWAYS sick with DS so I still feel weird that this time, it comes and goes.
Friends since 2008
Started dating: July 1st, 2013
Engaged: July 1st, 2014
Married: July 1st, 2016
R born: July 8th, 2017
N born: June 30th, 2019
Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022
(maybe I only ovulate in October XD)