I hope everyone suffering from the Horrors of Hyperemesis will find this thread useful as a source of support and information.
There's no TMI on here - can't be by definition - and nobody should feel ashamed of moaning as much as they feel the need to.
MOH's wonderful website is full of useful information on this illness:
//sites.google.com/site/pregnancysicknesssos
Another invaluable website is:
//www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk
If you need help in obtaining medication, phone them on:
024 7638 2020
Lastly, the NICE guidelines on treatment are useful:
//cks.nice.org.uk/nauseavomiting-in-pregnancy
I would like to thank everyone who has given such invaluable support and advice on this and on previous threads.
It has been suggested that I add some practical tooth cleaning advice: a lot of sufferers find using a child's small toothbrush and strawberry toothpaste far less nauseating.
On my image of a pink castle: that is an image I use because when I was little, my family had a Snakes and Ladders board with an image on the last square of a pink castle in the clouds. As Hyperemesis is so like a grotesque version of Snakes and Ladders - eat a meal, go up a ladder, first thing in the morning bile run, down a snake - I have used the image of that pink castle on the last square of that Snakes and Ladders board as a metaphor for the happy end of Hyperemesis.
Remember when you are at your worst, 'This Too Shall Pass'. It really will.
So many women on this thread have thought they couldn't get through this, but they did.
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LucindaE · 17/04/2019 20:13
Welcome to the new thread everyone.
eallison Glad you had home leave! Ha Ha at your and others comments about unglamourous puking, farting and the rest of it. 
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cattaxi I so hope they get the results back asap.
beforeihit30 Congratulations on girl.
Waves to Bili Reastie and everyone.
eallison your day release sounds great. And your description of bodily effluence in pregnancy I’m afraid I am also one whose husband has been subjected to it all. I moved past farting and vomit long ago, it was pooing during labour with DC1 that really opened DH’s eyes 
but I’ve seen all sorts with him too through his gastro surgeries, caring for him after etc so we’re sort of even now I guess!
Hope you’re feeling better soon Reastie the normal feeling is what spurs me on, I keep thinking once this baby is born I’m going to be sore and exhausted at least for the early days and weeks but I won’t be sick and eventually it will all pass.
I am however going to have to lose a lot of weight once I’m back to relative normal! I’m developing my pregnancy chubbiness, face is getting rounder, and I’m eating okay (cyclizine has helped with that a lot since early days), but I move very little, so the sedentary life isn’t doing me many favours!
Wonderful, two pieces of the happiest news. cattaxi I am so delighted for you. I am sure they were the biggest worries by far. Ha, ha, about 'bodily functions no longer being sacred in your house'. 
You were very stoic!
DeadDoorPost And excellent news from you! Congratulations. Who is he working for, I think you said further back? Now you have more stability in options for housing.
Reastie That sounds like a migraine, surely? Possibly caused by hormones?
I am glad that beforeihit30 and Reastie arre eating, anyway. You have an excuse for some chubbiness.
I hope some of the current sufferers manage to take down more chocolate than in Mother Hen's recommended 'milk shakes (maybe soya)' spiel. Anyway, I can't eat much chocolate myself, as I find it a migraine trigger if I have more than a minimal amount...
Teddy yes I have that too! I’ve tried so many time to do exercise (exercised every day pre pg) or even just pottering round the house but the activity is a huge nausea trigger and I’m still struggling to find the balance. I want to do stuff so much but have to stop myself as I know it’ll make me feel dire but I hate sitting around but don’t have much of an option. Even things like sitting and using the sewing machine can be a trigger 
. And if I don’t eat constantly I get trapped in a vicious circle of nausea. Last pg I put on about 5 stone (estimated as I was too scared to weigh myself) and went up 2 dress sizes. And the ironic thing is I hated pretty much every mouthful of food the entire pg. I didn’t want to eat but I had to or else the nausea got more intense. This time I’m nearly up to 3 stone and have about 2 months to go. I’m aiming for a 1 stone reduction from last times weight gain which would be really good progress. I know it’s more than recommended and more than most people but I doubt anyone else wouldn’t be doing the same thing to protect themselves. If I didn’t eat constantly and did stuff despite the medicine the vomiting would be dire and I’d get into horrible issues with that. I always feel like a fraud on here gaining so much weight when so mnay people have the opposite problem which I’m sure must be really awful but knowing that others have the vomiting controlled with drugs which is also leading to weight gain issues is really reassuring as it’s a real mental issue for me. I became very depressed post dd due to my weight gain and it became a bit of an obsession of mine, to the point I dropped well over 100lbs and obsessively exercised and diet watched pre preg. I was scared of weight gain. Obviously I’m now looking at being a few stone heavier post pg which I’m struggling with mentally but I’m just trying to limit damage where possible and hope I can be more diligent in the first year at reintroducing physical activity.
Eal are they letting you have any time at home over Easter?
Dead i assume you get on well with your in-laws? I can’t imagine anything worse than living with mine! Interesting about floating in the pool helping the nausea. When I’m trying to sleep I often imagine myself on a hammock or floating in water (it’s part of some kind of sleep training I’m attempting that they teach soldiers to get to sleep easily when in combat but it hasn’t really worked for me yet) and imagining that always makes me feel more sick with the rocking motion!
Today I am attempting to clean and tidy the sitting room. It’s taken me all morning to do minimal. It would be so nice to have just one clean and tidy room. Not sure I’ll managed to complete the task but fx.
Reastie and Teddy that’s really reassuring for me as well. I know what you mean, where I feel like many women with hyperemesis are struggling with weight loss but here I am getting porky in my second pregnancy I gained more than my first, in the third tri because I had issue with false contractions and basically couldn’t really go anywhere or do much and was hungrier than earlier in pg, but that was just for the third tri. I do worry about just how large I might get this time around with being sedentary and more hungry from much earlier on in pregnancy! I’ll have about 8 months from birth to returning to work, so I’m conscious of trying to fit into at least some of my pre-pregnancy work clothes! But I’m hoping that without the nausea I can return to a much more normal way of eating for me, and being more able to move I will be out and about and being more active, and doing some exercise as well (once I’ve healed a bit, I learned the hard way trying to do too much after DC1 and loosened a stitch and got infected 
).
Weather is lovely and I have no plans! I suppose I should be grateful I’m currently able to sit in the kitchen and not just my bedroom saw GP yesterday who had lots of questions about my underlying condition (I’ve been having spikes in my blood work which is very unusual, so my medication is the highest it’s ever been and I’m seeing the consultant again soon), she thinks it might be making the sickness worse and I remembered reading about the connection. Plus the fact they’re checking for a UTI again (no symptoms, again, just trying to do all the right things) so that could also be making me feel worse. Well anyway, I feel like their optimism for my speedy recovery is diminishing and she’s signed me off for 5 more weeks! I’m glad I don’t have to think about it though for another month.
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avocadoo A migraine for a week? That is so horrible; I was threatened with admisson once - non pregnant - after having a migraine for five days. Poor you. Here's some .
Reastie and DeadDoorPost That is so intriguing about visualising floating as a sleep inducing technique. When I float, the noises seem to be louder with ears are underwater, oddly, and distorted, but it isn't unpleasant ...DeadDoorPost They sound such nice in-laws. [smile} Happy news about bike and swimming.
Teddyreddy and Reastie and befoeihit30) Hopefully breast feeding will burn up lots of calories?
beforeihit30 Mother Hen is very glad you have been signed off for five more weeks.
I hope everyone is coping on this beautiful day.
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