Food poisoning while pregnant?

[ChloeLeighCorn]

Hi, this is going to be a bit TMI so don’t read this if you don’t want to read about sickness and bowel movements.

Hi so I wondered if anyone has had bug/food P.O. symptoms while pregnant.

I was woken up by excruciating stomach craps at 4:30am. I literally panicked it was premature labour for a second or two it was so painful.

You know that feeling when you have a stomach pain and you feel like you need to pass wind and normally you feel better when you do? It was like that only every time I did the pain got worse and worse until I had to jump up out of bed and all but run to the bathroom.

I just about made it and sat there for a full 10 minutes just having the worst diarrhoea I’ve ever had. It was constant pretty much the entire time and was literally the consistency of water.

Then about half way though I started being violently sick, bearing in mind I’ve consistently had morning sickness/nausea the entire pregnancy to the point that I’ve lost over 4 stone.

(I have a very high maternal BMI so Midwifes aren’t that concerned about the weight loss as long as baby growing well and baby is measuring great in fact a week or so ahead despite it being likely to have a small baby when obese) I had eaten nothing for hours and even then I had been sick every time I had eaten so there was nothing in my stomach apart from bile.

I’m not sure if it’s food poisoning or maybe a bug. If it’s food poisoning the only thing I can think of is we did have dominoes 2/3 days ago. If it’s a bug I’ve hardly left the house apart from midwife appointments so I don’t know where I would of got it from. Could it just be really bad pregnancy symptoms? Is this something I should see a doctor about or will it just pass on its own? Have you ever had something similar happen while pregnant and what did it turn out to be?

Thank you if you’ve made it this far. It’s tmi I know but I’m guessing most of us are used to it seen as a lot of the things that happen while pregnant are disgusting. 😂

[Betty4893]

Hi Chloe,

I feel your pain. I was exactly the same last Sunday. Started around 5am with vomiting, then the other end. If it makes you feel any better I was like that for around 12 hours, then started to feel better.

I couldn’t eat anything, and was struggling to keep water down.

Hopefully it’s just a 24 hour bug. There’s a lot going around in my area at the minute.

Hope you feel better soon xx