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iluvtom
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I am really suffering with terrible nausea and I am only 7 weeks pregnant. I tried gingerale, zofran, lollipops, water, cracker, bread, it is really bad, nothing helps..Any advice?? Thanks ladies.
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I had horrible morning (and afternoon and evening) sickness. The two things that helped me were watermelon and Tom Yum soup. If you are not familiar with Tom Yum soup it is a Thai soup that contains ginger and turmeric. It was one of the only things I could eat for two trimesters. I am lucky that there is an excellent Thai restaurant down the street.
I hope you feel better soon!
I forgot about sea bands. They really DO work. I only had moderate morning sickness (no actual puking, but feeling terrible all day). I wore long sleeves and sea bands from the middle of April to early June.
Ginger ale, crackers and nothing acidic were what I relied on during my 1st tri, but mine wasn't all that bad.
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Aww... Amy... I hope you get some relief.
I'm grateful that I didn't have morning sickness. Strangely, however, because I get sick at the drop of a hat usually.
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Like Amy, I ate tons of watermelon with my first when I could keep anything down (like sat with it in front of me and ate it with a spoon). I had really, really bad MS with him. At the time my doc recommended Vit B with Unisom, but there were conflicting reports if it was OK, so I wouldn't take it. I have since heard that it is fine - maybe ask your doc if he/she is OK with that.
With Maddie I ate a lot of picked ginger - I always eat it when we go out for sushi and so my DH bought me a jar of it, esp. since I was missing it because I couldn't have sushi - I could at least still have ginger!
Also, I was told rasberry tea leaves (like the twigs and leaves not the Celestial Seasoning stuff) helped. I didn't really believe it but was desperate and it did help - a lot! However I have also read recently that it can encourage contractions, but I don't know if that is only when you are close to delivering so definately check on that before you try it if you are interested. My son was fine - but I don't know if it's recommended now or not). When my MS with my first was at its worst ( I lost 30 pounds one month and it slowly tapered over the next 8 months until I didn't love in my 8th month and actually gained 1 pound a week in the last 4 weeks), that made it so I could keep some toast down. Rasberry tea also has vitamin K which helps you to clot and not hemorrhage, but could be a problem if you have too much clotting factors normally, then you would obviously want to avoid it.
I did finally get a Rx - it was a lovely suppository, but it helped also.
If you have an asian market around, you should be able to find the pickled ginger there, along with crystallized ginger and tea bags of ginger tea. As you can guess, ginger was very helpful for me. Good luck, and hope you find some relief soon.