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    Does anything help with pregnancy nausea?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    The one food I did find that helped my m/s a little was coke slurpees. I lived off slurpees during my pregnancies. My first trimesters I ate fruit loops, slurpees and toast. That's about all I could keep down. I remember sitting on my stairs crying to my DH that I was SO HUNGRY but if I ate anything, I'd just throw it back up.

     

    What's a slurpee?

     

    I hear you about coca cola. I'm embarrased to say that the only fluid I have been able to drink and keep inside for the past 23 weeks is coca cola :blushing: . I'm not so much hungry as I'm thirsty, but some days even looking at a glass is making me want to cry. I'm 28 weeks now and starting to feel a little bit better, so maybe...maybe this time it will not be as bad as my third pregnancy.

    Does anything help with pregnancy nausea?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I have to agree with LarlaB.......ZOFRAN is one of the best things that was ever invented. I've always had 24/7 nausea with both my children up until the day of delivery. With my second Zofran was available. I took it every 4 hours around the clock. I was able to continue to work as an RN 12 hour shifts in a busy ED. I tried to keep snacks handy, but sometimes there just wasn't time.

     

    Oh ladies, you are making met so envious! I always have severe nausea and vomiting up until delivery, but I can't get Zofran here. They do not prescribe it as it is considered way too risky, unless you are one of the most severe cases and need constant hospitalization. I'm not that ill, so I'm out of luck.

     

    Before I got pregnant this time, I specifically went to my doctor to discuss medication....her solution was to not get pregnant anymore...'you already have three kids and enough is enough' :001_huh:.

    Bad headache does not = migraine

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    I've also recently discovered that red wine is a major trigger for me, it goes red wine=migraine. The quantity of wine is directly related to the length and strength of the migraine. I've always wondered why my winters were filled with headaches.

     

    Keptwoman, if red whine is a trigger for you, you might want to find out if cheese is too. From what I've heard they contain something similar that can be a trigger. I never drink red whine, but cheese (and chocolate) are major triggers for me. BTW, I'm trying to be helpful, but if cheese is your favorite food and you can't live without it, feel free to ignore me ;).

    Bad headache does not = migraine

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    Fellow sufferer here- my favorite headache book (Heal Your Headaches) written by a neurologist says that all headaches are migraines but there are different degrees of pain and symptoms.

     

    To the OP, I totally get what you are saying. If you can still walk, talk, take care of your kids.....you are not having a migraine, just a (bad) headache. I have frequent headaches and the occasional migraine.

     

    But imagine my surprise when I mentioned my 'headaches' to a neurologist, while talking about an unrelated problem, and he treated me like I was an idiot for not knowing that those headaches were migraines. Apparently he used some checklist and with a headache at only one side of your head, with nausea and light sensitivity, and some other things I have forgotten...it is a migraine :001_huh:. Never knew that. So maybe there is something to calling a strong headache a migraine. Still I differentiate between the two, because I feel it blurs the line too much and prevents the people who really suffer from getting support.

    advanced ESL

    in Bilingual Education Board

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    Part of the reason it took me so long to understand these mistakes, is that I rarely if ever speak English. The only English I encounter is written English, and I do not vocalise when I read. If I did, I 'would of' figured it out much sooner :D.

     

    Regarding spelling: I think I'm a decent speller and I have never had any type of phonics instruction. I have never really understood why native English speakers need that so much, I can't possibly have learned the spelling of every word apart, or have I? :confused:

     

    (Sorry for the hijack.)

    Do/will you teach the metric system?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I'm having the opposite problem. We are in the length&weight chapters of Singapore 2A and my dd is not at all interested in learning to use feet, inch, oz, lb. Usually my regular sales trick 'all the children in Aaaameeeeriiiicaaa :D learn this as well' works very well.....but not now :001_huh: and I have to admit I'm not very interested as well. But reading that you all are learning metric, it is only fair if we learn the US system as well. Maybe next week...or month :lol:.

    I See Sam Books...question

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I only went as far as set 4 with my dd. She didn't like the way that the main characters of the stories changed from animals to people for most of the stories in set 4. She didn't want to continue with the series after people showed up.

     

    Exactly the same situation here:001_huh:

    The Yahoo group is very helpful, so you might want to ask there.

    advanced ESL

    in Bilingual Education Board

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    Especially hard when it's mistakes that one sees made everyday (like the pluralizing with commas, misuse of their/there/they're and it's/its, and so on). Some of these mistakes I think are LESS common among those who learned English as a second.

     

    Definitely! It took me sooooo long to even understand why people would make mistakes with their/there/they're. For me there is in the list of where/here/this/that and their belongs to mine/our/his/etc. And with a bad accent (mine) the words don't even sound alike :-)

    The same with the popular 'I would of'......of? Of??? :-)

    I was just told by a math teacher

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I don't know. You may be being too hasty. I had a young woman at the check-out try to work out what 10% of $110 was the other day, and I really think she would have benefited from a group approach. Maybe if you're a student of "new maths" you will need those other workers to help you solve problems. One worker only has so many fingers and toes. :glare:

     

    :lol::lol::lol:

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