Comparing nausea/ losing friends
I’m on week 12 of HG, this is my 3rd HG pregnancy. I’ve been completely anti social and bed ridden for the most of my days. I’ve lost friends and it seems like most people think I’m just being dramatic about my “morning sickness” I’ve tried every nausea medication that is safe in pregnancy, my body is just so resistant to any anti nausea because of the severity. I get iv fluids a few times a week to stay afloat. Aside from nausea, I just feel so generally unwell. It’s so hard to function or even leave my bed.
I had my first outing to take my other kids to a park across the street from my house. I planned to sit in the quiet on the bench and let them play. I felt so ill, but I was determined to get some fresh air and try to be a normal human. A girl who I was close friends with happened to be at the park. We’ve grown farther apart because I’ve been so sick and barely even responding to texts. She went on to say how she was now close friends with another girl who is pregnant, and how this said friend is always going out with her even though she is nauseous… even went so far to say that she went to Disneyland with intense nausea and was riding rides/eating park food/ flying on the airplane and how tough she is. Her tone was so condescending. She told me this friend was “throwing up blood, but still tough to be doing normal life with some Zofran” this made me extremely irritated. With HG you could not pay me money to travel or eat park food, even socialize or leave the house. I’m lucky if I can keep down a sip of water, and walk into my kitchen. I could tell the tone was trying to make me feel weak and dumb for not doing normal things while I’ve had HG. It is just extremely frustrating that some people don’t get it, and now I’ve lost friends over it.