As has been noted many times before, whomever named the nausea that sometimes accompanies early pregnancy “MORNING Sickness” clearly wasn’t a pregnant woman. For those of us unlucky enough to have it, it’s really more like “24-7 Sickness.” So far in this pregnancy, I have been sicker than in any of the others. I’ve even had a few days – like all last weekend – where all I wanted to do was lie in a warm bath or my bed. It’s a terrible combo of nausea mixed with debilitating fatigue, and it really takes everything I’ve got to get through my work days. I am very grateful that my employer allows me to work from home when I feel the need ( I am often more productive working remotely even when I feel just fine; fewer distractions for certain types of projects). If I feel really bad, I can work in my jammies from home, and run to my own bathroom to retch as often as I need to without drawing undue attention to myself from my coworkers.
Yesterday I felt so bad that I finally called my doctor and asked for something, anything to help with the nausea.I explained that if I didn’t get some relief soon, I could lose my job due to poor productivity, and then we would lose our house, and my children would go without shoes, and we would eventually all starve to death (yes, I was feeling a bit melodramatic and desperate after 24 hours straight of throwing up.) The nurse called in a prescription for generic Zofran, which I began taking last night.
So far, so good. The stuff really seems to do the trick. I have my fingers crossed that it keeps working as well as it has since last night, because I really can’t imagine how I will keep working, care for my other children AND feel as bad as I have been feeling without eventually dropping the ball somewhere in a major way.
I am grateful that my pharmacy had the generic kind, which only had a $10 copay because I had read horror stories online of women’s insurance denying them the Zofran for pregnancy nausea, and the women being forced to pay hundreds of dollars a month out of pocket to cover the stuff.If I hadn’t been able to get it cheap, I would not be able to buy it because we are on super austerity budget these days, between Christmas, my October medical bills, and now the costs we are anticipating for this pregnancy.
Keep your fingers crossed for me that the Zofran keeps doing its job. I know you don’t want to see my children hanging out on the street corner in the cold, wearing raggedy potato sacks and begging for loose change because their mother is so nauseated that she can’t earn a living…
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I also had to take Zofran when I was pregnant. It saved my sanity and my health. If not for Zofran I never would have stopped throwing up.
I’m glad it’s working! I didn’t have any nausea with my pregnancy, but I’ve never been as tired in my whole life as in my first trimester. Not even when my son was an infant.
Wish I’d known about this stuff when I was pregnant.
First of all…CONGRATULATIONS! I didn’t know you were expecting. I am 18 weeks myself and just came off of 12 weeks of non-stop nausea – OMG I thought I would just die. Didn’t have a thing with my daughter so this knocked me on my butt and took me by complete surprise. I was prescribed Zofran but it didn’t work at all for me, I developed a horrible headache and swollen glands, I finally found relief in dramamine – but had to fight off the drowsiness that came with it since my baby-girl is only 16 months and never stops! The pharma company my husband works for makes Zofran so it didn’t cost me anything…I saw on the receipt that the 12 – 4 mg pills prescribed to me cost $450.00 though! YIKES!
i am 36 weeks and still sick!! the beginning was the worst though, i literally stayed on the couch or in the bath tub as much as possible i was sooo sick and exhausted!!!
I loved Zofran for weeks when I was pregnant! But by week 13, I couldn’t keep even the pills down. I ended up on a Relgan pump in my leg until 29 weeks. Then, I wasn’t losing weight anymore and I could come off the meds. Fun times! I really, truly hope your Zofran keeps working for you and loving you and everything goes beautifully.
I LOVE Zofran. It was the most awesome drug ever invented. I’m glad you went on it because it works wonders, at least it did for me.
Zofran saved my job and my sanity and let me eat more than just water, watermelon and crackers (all I ate for the first 2 mos).