Stopping Xonvea

I’m currently 24 weeks and suffer with emetephobia (fear of being sick) so the first trimester was a bit of a nervy one for me 😂 but I’m now looking at tapering off Xonvea as I don’t want to go cold turkey when I give birth, and I’m quite hesitant.

Has anyone got any experience on how they came off their sickness medication and when? 🙏

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I’m starting to try stop my xonvea now too, I was taking the max dose so 2 on a night and 1 in the morning then 1 at lunch. I have stopped my lunch time 1 for the past week now, then I’m going to try stop my morning one in another week and see how I get on. I haven’t been sick but there has been some periods of nausea, but nothing compared to how I was before. I was throwing up even on the 4 tablets a day at one point

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Personal experience only, not medical advice - I was incredibly ill in the first trimester (twins 🙃) and with much pushing was prescribed xonvea. I still had breakthrough sickness on it, although it helped enormously, so also introduced occasional ondansetron once safe. Of course everyone is different, but my experience was that I sort of *knew* when I could stop taking it - I still had some nausea and sensitivity whilst on it so once that started easing around 16.5 weeks (again, twins 🙃), I felt it was safe to begin tapering. That said, since I went down to one tablet a day and began trialling skipping my evening dose, I have had one instance of random and surprising nausea and vomiting during week 19. I know emetophobia can be incredibly distressing so it depends how risk tolerant you feel about it and the advice of your doctor really. Hope you figure out what works for you! ❤️

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Following as I’m the same week as you and also wanting to wean off them! I have been diagnosed with HG both pregnancies and last pregnancy nothing worked for me, but xonvea has been my saving grace this time round! I know I need to wean off at some point but also scared that if I do, the sickness will start again when the physical symptoms of pregnancy are at there worst!

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Has anyone got any experience on how they came off their sickness medication and when? 🙏

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