I feel worse when i eat

I feel more nausea when i eat then when my stomach is empty... All i feel when its empty is a more intense hunger pains. I know digestion is slowed down now but everything i eat seems to sit right at the top of my stomach and doesnt move for hours.

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I hope you start feeling better. All I can eat are small amounts of carbs because the thought of meat makes me feel sick. Lemons and italian ices have been my friend.

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I lived on crackers for the first 12 weeks!

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I felt the same way in my first trimester. I didn't want to eat and when I did, it would feel worse and I would usually get sick and not be able to keep the food down anyway.

Just keep drinking LOTS of water and try crackers or peanuts (usually the only things I could tolerate).

It will eventually pass.

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What are you eating? Eat teeny tiny meals every hour or two, and easy to digest things, avoid meat if you can.

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what kind of things are you eating? In the beginning those intense hunger pains for me were bad but I also couldnt really eat too much. Goldfish, graham crackers, and Mrs. Fields semi sweet chocolate chip cookies and ginger ale were life savers for me.

Feel good!

I feel worse when i eat

I hope you start feeling better! Monday when it was really bad for me I just kept sipping ginger ale and eating animal crackers. I find the dryer the carb (I have to toast a bagel or it makes it worse) the easier it is on my stomach.

Can you take Zofran?

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Bagels make me feel like garbage. Lately its half a banana at a time, thats my main staple. Hang in there, "its a good thing"

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I feel the same way! On some days I'm either queasy or starving and nothing in the middle. I feel so hungry, so I eat, but then eating makes me nauseous.

Here's what I've found helps...
- eat small meals/snacks often.

- Keep portion sizes SMALL. Like half of what you used to eat in a meal pre-pregnancy

- NO sugar, especially candy/cake. While it sounds good it ALWAYS makes me nauseous no matter how little I eat.

- veggies/salads usually make me more nauseous, not always. it's a gamble.

- carbs help but in small quantities!

- drink water, small amounts of juice or lemonade. Bubbles don't help...seltzer makes me burby and ginger ale has the sugar from the above point.

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all i could stomach was a very small portion of carbs.

but for some strange reason a hamburger and small fries from mcdonalds always worked.

feel better mama

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I was like that for 2 weeks and lost 2 pounds cause I could barely eat... this week I am eating much better.

I could only get down a few saltines at and it seemed like it made it worse... gingerale was the only drink I could handle but it made me really gassy too. Hopefully this feeling won't last long.

Oh... and I started taking prenatals last thursday with 50mg of B-6 and its helped with all the nausea issues alot! still queasy and bad at night, but a huge improvement.

Feel better

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Right now the only thing making me feel better is soups. I could not hold anything down yesterday. I am dying for an iced cold glass of iced tea, but even iced tea nad ginger ale make me sick.
Thanks god today so far is a better yesterday. I only got sick twice.

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I feel the same way...I am nauseous all the time but when I eat it's even worse. I have been living on soup, rice cakes, and crackers. Drinking also makes me more nauseous so I have been sipping water.

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I know the feeling.. Hang in there, it will get much better.

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ANG!!
Im so happy to hear you are pregnant! You do recognize my name, and yeah im a jerk because I wont tell you until Im openly telling people, but im a 2010 bride!

congrats~

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Posted by MRsFaTThead

all i could stomach was a very small portion of carbs.

but for some strange reason a hamburger and small fries from mcdonalds always worked.

feel better mama

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Posted by newmomma

ANG!!
Im so happy to hear you are pregnant! You do recognize my name, and yeah im a jerk because I wont tell you until Im openly telling people, but im a 2010 bride!

congrats~

JERK!!!

I feel worse when i eat

all i ate the entire first trimester was pasta with butter and french bread pizza. i never had morning sickness but those two things were the only things i didnt have aversions too.
the second tri was better

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I am dealing with the same situation. I wasn't sure what was going on but I knew every time I ate I felt like I just got over the stomach bug. I just started taking tums and is making the situation much better not getting rid of it but much more tolerable.

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i know exactly how u feel

i have had food aversions since day 1

nothing appeals to me,and esp in the beginning everything made me sick and today i cannot even look at meat

at 18 weeks i will say it is getting better,not puking as much

my best advice is to just eat what u can when u can and if u feel sick do not eat bc for me it made it worse