Joanna,
I took ginger for this past pregnancy, from week 3 (before i Knew I was pregnant, due to nausea already starting, until about week 6,when I started having trouble keeping oral meds down.)
I took up to 1000 mgs a day, but usually ginger 350 mgs 2 times a day. It worked great in the beginning, for more "normal" ms, but once HG set in, it gave me terrible heart burn, and really didnt help too much (more aggrevated, b/c of the heartburn).
I feel like there wasnt much I didnt try this last time... zofran, steriods, phenergan, bendryl, ginger, b6, unisom, 24 hour hydration, meclizine, sea bands.... sadly nothing worked well enough to keep my head out of a bucket and vomting even for PART of the day
This time I lost nearly 20 pounds in 2 1/2 weeks.
I am currently looking into chinese herbal meds, as my neighbor is a Dr in this field. I am hoping he can come up with some ideas on balacing my horomones and helping my liver function properly.
Truthfully, I think a large portion of my HG problems are from my liver not being able to handle all of my mega strong horomones. I had a lot of pain in that area this past pregnancy also.
Have you looked into Milk Thistle and/or Dandeion Root? (both help liver function). They will be a major part of my new and improved protocol to TTC again. This time I am not being so optimistic, with my head in the cloud that it will be better.
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