New Hyperemesis Support thread founded by the lovely LucindaE

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As the old thread is nearly full here it is time a brand new thread is born. All we need now is a new vomit face emoticon MN towers!

We are a bunch of past, present and future HG sufferers (along with worried spouses, family and friends) who use this thread to support, listen and discuss the dreaded pregnancy illness that is HG (hyperemesis gravidarum).

There are no limits on how much moaning posters can do nor can anyone's symptoms or experiences be tmi.

The old thread has been a great support to many of us and we hope this new thread carries on the great work started by old thread founder and HG guru LucindaE. She still maintains, supports and clucks around the thread daily even though her own experience of HG is thankfully over.

So with no further incoherent rambling from me on with the new thread eh?

Hi buff I'm a clinical nurse specialist (though in cardiology not pregnancy!!). Looking up prochlorperazine in my trusty drug book - it can be used to treat people who have psychotic illness such as scizophrenia or anxiety. It works by blocking the dopamine receptors in the brain which regulates mood and behavior. Dopamine receptors are also responsible for controlling nausea and vomitting and so can be an effective anti emetic. A side effect mentioned is increased anxiety or agitation but any side effect reported has to be mentioned in the information - if you look at all drugs there are some potential scary side effects!! My ward based experience is all in acute and critical care areas and I've given out prochlorperazine frequently and never seen an adverse side effect! Hope this helps to reassure you a bit but like the others have said go and speak to a GP or MW - there are loads of alternatives. I had cyclizine which helped with the vomitting but the nausea was persistant. In fact the nausea has never really gone it just got much more manageable after 20 weeks! Its worse when I'm tired. Don't try and struggle on at work - I had 10 weeks off and got great support from my occupational health department and when I went back to work they recommended a phased return. I eventually got back to my full hours and am now 37 weeks and still working!

fluffy and moonbell - my eldest son (2nd child) has the same problems with his teeth!! I too was told it could be antibiotic related!! I didn't have HG in that pregnancy!

OK I hope thickhead Lucinda has finally done it - now watch me mess it up I hope, everyone, that you will join me on here as this thread is perilously close to running out...

LucindaE
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I dont think your linky works Lucinda

New thread here

My goodness, so sorry, as if you don't have enough to put up with...It doesn't seem to work...I am so ashamed...It worked the other way round..I'll try and fix it...How on earth do people get these links to work???

LucindaE

You seem to have just put here (minus the spaces) without the URL before the 'here'

The link to this thread on the new thread doesn't work either.

Would you like me to correct it incase any newcomers want to have a read?

Everyone re; link ignore my blatherings...Cocoanuts below seems to have created a link that works to the new thread [slinks off shamefacedly]

LucindaE
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Am just about to C&P MOH's script and also our most recent list onto new thread. Unless any one has any objections?

Cocoanuts Thank you, yes please! So sorry about that, I will never live that down...Terrible at IT, and it shows...
Is it all working now thanks to Cocoanuts?

LucindaE
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Ok, have corrected links, and puts the script by MOH in and also updated the list and tidied list up. Hopefully soon, grumbling will be a graduate and someone else can move to the top of the list.

So everyone, scuttle over to the new shiny thread here

Hi Buff (have you got Buff Orpingtons? I love them!)

Another teacher here. I have been signed off since 9 weeks - Dec 1st. I tried to go back at around 18 weeks but didn't even make it to the classroom before the exhaustion/anxiety set in (we had moved to a brand new school and I didn't know where my room was or what was in it, plus they had done a crap phased return which involved working full time for the first three days! Doh!).
The Head told me to go home and referred me back to Occ Health who I had seen once before. the Occ Health lady couldn't believe I'd tried to go back to work, especially when I said I'd suffered from postnatal depression after last pregnancy, so she recommended I stay off work for the rest of the pregnancy due to the exhaustion/risk of stress leading to PND. Have had no hassle whatsoever from school. They claim back 90% of supply costs and prefer to know long term what's happening, rather than living from sick note to sick note, as it were. Looking back I would not have coped in school as even though I'm only vomiting once a week now, there has been such a legacy of exhaustion that I can only manange one "normal human" day before having a day of rest.
Hope this helps you feel less guilty!

Hi all, my DH and I are planning to TTC towards the end of this year. I had a pregnancy 9 years ago, but did not continue with the pregnancy after 9 weeks. My circumstances were very different to now, and I was not with my DH. BUT, I did suffer with HG whilst waiting and was hospitalised. The whole thing has freaked me out as I know that it will most likely happen again, and so I really would love some advise on how to prevent things from getting so bad next time, and whether there is anything I can do to get the right help from the very start? I assume visit GP as soon as I know that I am PG and tell them about my history?

I am also extremely worried about work, I need to save as much money as possible before the birth, and worry about being on sick leave. I have been with my company for many years so am entitled to the maximum 8 weeks Company sick pay - but from what I have read, I could suffer for much longer than this.

At this happy time when I am so ready, it feels a shame to already know that I have this to deal with. I remember reading somewhere about drop in centers where you can go to regularly hydrate without having to go to A&E, can't find any info on it now - has anyone else heard of anything like this.

Apologies if I get the etiquette wrong - I've never posted on one of these sites before but I'm getting desperate.

I had HG last pregnancy which was quite poorly managed. Now I am pregnant again (13 weeks) and as sick as before. Cyclizine didn't help, so I got stemetil last week. Had a great couple of days where I felt almost human again, but it has gradually come back until I now feel as bad as I did before, despite the stemetil. I don't want to make a fuss with my GP, but I'm getting to the stage where I don't think I can face 6 more months of this.....

Has anyone else had a similar experience with stemetil? Or am I going mad?

seapie you're not going mad, I had the same experience with buccastem, the variant of stemetil that dissolves under your lip. It was great to start with but the effect gradually wore off - after about two weeks. I'd advise going back to your GP and making a huge fuss until you get some proper management. I got ondansetron which was brilliant and i took the buccstem with it, the ondansetron controlled the vomming but the buccastem still helped take the edge off the nausea. If your GP is at a loss as to how to properly manage HG, s/he should refer you to an obstetrician - lets be honest that's what GPs are for, they treat you till they're out of their depth then refer you on, that's what's supposed to happen isn't it?

Have a look as well at www.pregnancysicknesssos.co.uk. Its a new site for HG sufferers written by women on this forum. There's advice on medications and research papers on how to do proper management of HG.

Hi everyone if you haven't looked at www.pregnancysicknesssos.co.uk for a week or so, I've done some updating. I've added a research section and put some research paper listings and abstracts. I've tweaked a few other bits and pieces too. If anyone's got time, have a quick look and let me know if it's ok, or if there are any gremlins lurking. Of course this is a also a shameless attempt to up my visit numbers on Google Analytics...

Should anyone come across this, we're still going strong on www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1238825-Hyperemesis-Support?pg=29. Oh, let that link work, you can see below what an idiot I am about technology...
LucindaE
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Just updating - and practising (sp?) my links. Should any current sufferers come across this - we're still going strong on: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1238825-Hyperemesis-Support. There's lots of information on MOH's website www.pregnancysicknesssos.co.uk
Come and join us.
Lucinda
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Everyone another new thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1313856-Hyperemesis-Support is now running, the previous one being full up...Come and join us...

Lucinda
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