17 weeks and still exhausted, nauseous, with crap appetite

malylentus

Hi everyone, all my girlfriends told me there’s this magical time in 2nd trimester when you have SO MUCH ENERGY. I’m 17 weeks almost 18 and I’m a legit zombie. I do work a lot but my baseline is workaholic. I just feel like a deflated balloon, energizer bunny running on 1/2 battery. That and my appetite sucks. Nothing looks appealing. I was a huge foodie pre-pregnancy and now I hate going into the grocery store. My nausea creeps up especially hard if I don’t eat/snack every 3-4 hours but it’s so hard since I round at a hospital and have no time most days/feel just blah and not hungry to eat that frequently. Any tips/tricks? I’m just dying of exhaustion. I thought I knew what it’s like to be tired when I worked nights and 24+hrs in a row but this is a whole other ball game. Desperate to have energy and an appetite again. 

kmiddy

No magical 2nd tri here either 

Zofran. I was like this the entire pregnancy with my daughter and I'll be 17wks Saturday and I swear the food aversiona have picked back up worse this week. Had a little break 13-16 weeks were if I was on top of my zofran every 8 hours I was OK but now even with im nauseous and I've taken a nap after work everyday this week. 

Hydration and snacking is the only advice, but even then..it still isn't easy. 

knottieed65871391e7c39f

Also a health care worker so I get snacking is hard. I did keep preggie pops in my pocket (I would get the ones with b6 in them) they are like a big sour candy that I could pop in if I didn't have time for a snack to curb nausea so I didn't puke on patients 🙃. I tried to take 25 mg of bc in the morning before shift, OB told me I could take it up to 3x/day for nausea. Definitely snacking helped too. 

knottie_knottie1

Have you gotten your iron levels checked and has your doctor put you on anything for the nausea? My doctor put me on both an iron supplement and B6