1. "Have you tried ginger?"
(Or crackers, small meals, lemonade, prego pops, peppermint, sprite, motion sickness bracelets, acupuncture, etc.) I wanted to slap people who said this. I've tried it all. Do you really think I'd let myself get so sick and not try any of these?
2. "You look awful today."
(Or green, miserable, sick, etc.) This always hurt my feelings. I like looking nice. I love feeling pretty. And it was hard to do that when I couldn't stand the smell of makeup or hairspray, let alone stand long enough to do apply it properly without getting sick.
3. "At least it keeps the weight off."
No. This is so unhealthy and dangerous for you and your baby. So many things can happen, from your body aborting the baby to save itself to the umbilical cord collapsing from dehydration. And it is not fun at all. I'd rather pig out and get fat and happy pregnancies than 9 months of a miserable blur.
4. "It should go away by 14 weeks."
I remember people telling me this. They lied. Most women who have hyperemesis are sick past 14 weeks. Sometimes it gets better (I do better at about 20 weeks) but I am still nauseated and I still throw up until the day I deliver. Everyone is different.
5. "I got sick too. I only threw up once or twice."
Please don't talk to me until you are throwing up every 30 minutes and you start throwing up blood and pieces of the inner lining of your stomach.
6. "It's all in your head."
A man once said this. So when the man caught the stomach flu a few months later he was told the exact same thing.
