MS question(s)

[PepperPottsJ]

My apologies if this is silly... but am I better off continuing to try to breathe through this shit and calm down, or just puke and get it over with.

[icedtea]

Not silly. I always desperately wanted to throw up, but couldn't seem to. Most people told me it didn't help :\

So my unhelpful advice is, whatever you feel like in the moment because I don't think it makes a huge difference. Good luck! If it's bad, ask your doctor about diclegis—I wouldn't have made it through first tri (or part of second) without it.

[PepperPottsJ]

Jan 11, 2017 20:30:34 GMT -5 icedtea said:

Not silly. I always desperately wanted to throw up, but couldn't seem to. Most people told me it didn't help :\

So my unhelpful advice is, whatever you feel like in the moment because I don't think it makes a huge difference. Good luck! If it's bad, ask your doctor about diclegis—I wouldn't have made it through first tri (or part of second) without it.

Luckily their website states b6 25mg 3x per day and 1/2 of a unisom

Ugh this is worse than a drunk to throw up or not

[PepperPottsJ]

And thank you icedtea!

[easilyunamused]

PepperPottsJ, sometimes I would just throw up and feel better. But not always. Have you tried ginger chews or something of the sort? Saltine crackers helped me as well, but I didn't MS too bad. It came and it went day to day.

[PepperPottsJ]

easilyunamused I left them at work along with my celestial seasonings tension tamer tea

[hpnegirl]

It never found one to be better than the other :/ it was all whatever I felt was necessary at the moment.

If it gets unbearable, call and ask for something. Dicelgis didn't do anything for me. I did Zantac for a while before finally being moved to Zofran. There's no reason to suffer in this day and age if it becomes too much

[icedtea]

PepperPottsJ, this is completely random, but pop tarts used to help me, if you happen to have any. I got the nature's whatever version, but I'm sure the normal kind works too.

[akraus2015]

I always just threw up and got it over with.

Other things that helped:
-I'm still taking half a unisom and a B6 every night before bed.
- Eat something, constantly.
- Keep crackers and other snacks in your bag, car, desk, nightstand.
- Try and stay as hydrated as possible.

[onesweetworld]

I breathe through it. Getting sick is not an answer for me. Staying full helped me with MS.

[onesweetworld]

Also sending you my favorite ginger candy now.

[silvermelody]

My nausea was never...productive. It was just nausea. Once I realized that eating through it didn't make me puke, that was a turning point. But some women can't help it or think it's easier to just get it over with.

[Evelyn3]

I never ended up throwing up, but felt nauseous for the majority of the day

Eating small snacks almost constantly made me feel way better.

I do not feel that for me, throwing up would have helped.

[kartish]

At times throwing up helped, but mostly I just breathed through it and that was much preferable. Sometimes throwing up was unavoidable but if I could sit down and breathe in some ginger oil that usually helped a lot.

[ladytiffany24]

Jan 11, 2017 23:41:35 GMT -5 Evelyn3 said:

I never ended up throwing up, but felt nauseous for the majority of the day

Eating small snacks almost constantly made me feel way better.

I do not feel that for me, throwing up would have helped.

+1 to this as this was the case for me.

With that being said, staying hydrated and eating constantly seemed to help with the nausea. And apple jolly ranchers.

[moutonrouge]

I only breathed through it if I couldn't puke logistically (e.g., walking down the street). Otherwise, I went and at least spit in the toilet/sink. I threw up plenty of times, but sometimes I just got nausea with the mouth sweats (this is what we called it in college) and spitting then rinsing my mouth made me feel better eventually.

[teachermomtobe]

+eleventy to Unisom/B6

Also: eating constantly (high protein), drinking through a straw because drinking large sips of water made me want to vomit, eating cheerios in bed before getting up in the morning (DH wanted to kill me but whateves), telling myself that the Preggie Pop Drops were magic and would make me feel better (eh worked okay), taking Zantac to help with my acid reflux which presented more as nausea than heartburn.

Finally, I moved really slow in the morning. My routine for work went from 45 minutes to almost 2 hours but it helped. I'd eat a little, relax, eat a little, relax, get ready a little, eat, finish getting ready, eat.

I only threw up twice and both were related to pill taking.

[loves2shop4shoes]

I never much MS during my first trimester. From the beginning of my second trimester on (and I'm 36+6 now), I have MS daily.

For me, I have to let myself gag (if not puke) it out. Trying to hold it in only makes it worse.