Diet and Health FAQ

Tagged As: Morning Sickness Pills

Question:
This may seem like a strange connection -- but is there any connection between bad morning sickness and having just come off the pill? I am asking becuase I have had 3 weeks (so far) of all day, total, painful morning sickness. My husband and I were wondering if it was possible that the reason the hormones are hitting me so hard is that I was on the pill for 3 years (I went off it 4 months before I got pregnant) and that after all that time with very regular hormones the change is hard on my body.

Answer:
I got pregnant twice right off the pill and never seemed to suffer because of it. The first time I was on the pill for 18 months and then off two months and this time on the pill five months and then off again for three (I thought I would have really thrown my body for a loop, but it seems to be just fine.). This present pregnancy made me think the pill was responsible for making me sick, and then I started eating and it cleared right up. And my mother wasn't on the pill before she conceived me and I made her sick; of course, all her four children did. I'm not sure exactly how far along you are, but a lot of women get over their morning sickness at about 12 weeks. My morning sickness lasted for 7 months and landed me in the emergency room three times for dehydration. I guess every woman is different. Let me add to this that I was on the pill for 15 years, came off it and got pregnant a month later, and I've had hardly any sickness at all (thank G-d). I doubt there is a connection. I doubt there's a connection. I was off the pill for nearly 2 years before I got pregnant and I've had really, really bad morning sickness. I'm starting to get frustrated because everyone said it would start to ease up in the second trimester. Here I am, cruising towards week 15 and it looks like my prayers to the porcelain god are here to stay for a while. Although personal situations vary, there seems to be a connection. A Scandinavian researcher Ann Jarnfelt, found that 90% of women who couldn't tolerate birth control pills because of nausea as a side effect also had nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. That's a fairly small subset of the population, though, and she didn't attempt to draw a correlation the other way.