u/WorryTraining228

I’m 8w4d this is my first pregnancy. I can very rarely keep food down. Like maybe once a week. But today I got IV fluids and it helped enough to where I could eat two French toast sticks (I’ll take what I can get lol) but now my stomach is SO uncomfortable that I almost feel like if I just threw it up it would be immediate relief. But I know i need to try to keep it down as long as I can. This happens any time I’m able to keep any food down. Anyone else experience this? Did you find something to help?

I am 8 weeks and this is my first pregnancy. I’m losing 3-5 pounds per week, I cant keep ANY food down, and I can maybe keep some liquid down here and there. I went to the ER for the third time this week two days ago. They gave me 5 bags of fluids. My ketones were >=160. They gave me IV zofran and Pepcid. I stayed overnight and through the night I did not throw up, only dry heaved. Come yesterday morning the APRN comes in and says that since I didn’t throw up for twelve hours I’m good to go. I told her I’m just going to end up back in the ER and she said “okay what do you want me to do, admit you? I can’t keep you your whole first trimester. Some people just get more morning sickness than others” and she told me to keep taking unisom and b6 (after I told her it does nothing) she said to take my phenergan suppositories and zofran sparingly and definitely not long term. So I get home and I’m okay for a few hours. Then I throw up and it doesn’t stop for the rest of the night. I woke up multiple times throwing up and then this morning I’m throwing up bile. What the hell am I supposed to do? I can’t work because of this, I feel like nobody is truly listening to me, and I. Am. So. Tired. Of throwing up. I’m starving ugh this sucks.

I’m a nanny for a family with 4 kids. My boss had HG with all of her pregnancies. When I started she was pregnant with her last child. She had a Picc line and nurses that came to her house multiple days per week to give her fluids, meds, etc. She ended up hospitalized 2 or 3 times and had a c-section around 36 weeks if I remember correctly. She owns a business and would work when she could but her business partner told her to do what she needs to do to take care of herself before worrying about work. I stayed late almost every day to make her kids dinner, help with them so she could rest, etc. she had an assistant who did all of the laundry and errands, and cleaners who came once a week. As well as friends and family who came to help.

Fast forward two years I am now 7.5 weeks pregnant and have been throwing up 15+ times a day since 6 weeks. I have gone to the ER twice for fluids. Last Friday I came into work and threw up (I had also thrown up all night Thursday night and was exhausted) then asked her what she had planned for the day, she said she didn’t have anything to do and I could go if needed. So I went home. Sunday night I went to the ER for fluids per midwife’s recommendation. I was there until about 2am so I took off Monday. Tuesday I came into work but threw up 4 times within an hour of waking up. My boss didn’t say a single word to me. Eventually I told her what was going on and she put my nanny kid in my car and told me to go get the suppositories that the ER doc sent in. I called my OB clinic and talked to the triage nurse who told me I needed to go back to the ER. So I brought my nanny kid home and gave him to his dad and went back to the ER.

Later that day she told me she could probably get me in with an OB sooner than I can get in with a midwife (hospital midwives) and I told her I don’t have insurance until June 1 so I can’t do that. She said “but you’re miserable” to which I responded “I can’t afford to pay for an OB visit out of pocket” and she said “but you can’t work either so something’s gotta give” My response was:

I don’t really know what to say to that. I can’t afford to pay for an OB visit out of pocket. I understand it’s frustrating working around me being sick but I can’t help it. I unfortunately will need you guys to work with me until I can figure something out with the women’s clinic. If you can’t accommodate that let me know. Otherwise, we can talk about how to move forward until I get into a routine with meds.

She did not respond. This morning I texted her and said “I’m going to be a few minutes late I haven’t been able to stop throwing up yet” and she said “I can figure something out if you aren’t able to come”

My first appointment is set for May 14. The meds I have right now are zofran (dissolvable) and phenergan (suppository). The suppository helps just enough to where I can kind of eat. The zofran doesn’t help at all. I am literally throwing up all day long I am at the most vulnerable point in my life I’ve ever been. All I do is cry and throw up. I even considered abortion for a child that is VERY wanted. I feel like a dead person walking. And now I have to worry about my job on top of it. This is hell.