from aurelia, commenting on cheek
Diclectin is perfectly safe and wonderful for preventing nausea. It saved me on more than one pregnancy.
aurelia says that in canada women are handed diclectin like pez. here down south, my own v. good dr l recommend extra b6 for my non-stop nausea; he was willing to give me a scrip (don’t know what for) if i felt desperate. constant morning sickness that got worse during the day somehow did not seem desperate enough to me. what is wrong with me?
obviously i have a thing or two to learn from those canadians about how to work the med system.
November 30, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Hi Carole,
If you go to Motherisk, at http://www.motherisk.org/index.jsp
You can get information on diclectin and on drugs for morning sickness in pregnancy. They have a forum and a helpline and have responses to US patients who have called.
A similar drug to diclectin was available years ago in the US, but things are slightly more litigious in your country and sadly many women have been left to suffer without it now. B6 and unisom are the exact same ingredients chemically, but are not time release like diclectin, so you would have to take it more often.
There is nothing wrong with you. We women have been made to feel like something is wrong with us if we don’t engage in some super human effort to be stoic.
Take care.
December 3, 2007 at 8:03 am
thanks aurelia! i’m happy to be able to go into my next bout of morning sickness (fingers crossed) with a little more knowledge.