Hyperemesis Support

[LucindaE]

A new thread needed here already! Lovely Grumblin who started the second one, may be actually having that baby at this minute!

I hope this will be a source of support for present sufferers and ex sufferers alike and also worried family members.

I want particularly to mention my favourite feline FluffyWhiteKittens, who has been so invaluable a source of support on the old threads, and MOH, who has slaved to produce articles full of useful information and links to useful websites, LaTrucha, lovely CaramelloKoalaLover, Grumblin, NitNat, La, Lottie, Grandmagain, MaryLou, Cocoanuts and so many that I cannot name everyone for fear that the current sufferer may became annoyed at the long list...

Never worry about tmi or moaning. When suffering one has to discuss things that would make most people go weak at the knees and to have a good moan can help enormously with an illness where there is still a lot of ignorance and sometimes insensitive treatment.

It might help to remember - when you are at your worst - the words in that Eastern story.
'This Too Shall Pass.'

LucindaE
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Thanks ElliottsMummy - I have joined!!

Congratulations LA, welcome to the castle, come in, settle yourself and baby on comfy cushions. :)

LA Ah, wonderful! I am so happy for you!
Lillian Rose is a lovely name, what a case of synchronicity that we should have a new member called LilyRose...Here you are at the pink castle, isn't the view lovely? Eight pounds seven was my daughter's weight exactly. I'm glad it was quick, you deserved that for sure!
LucindaE
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LA huge congrats :) :) Beautiful name too and a lovely chunky weight. 10 weeks until I join you :)

Congratulations La So happy for you! Lovely name and glad everything went well!! Amazing that these babies are such great weights!!

Congratulations LA, always good to hear they can still be healthy little chubbers despite our near starvation!!

Congrats La, on your lovely baby and an ok labour, everyone on here deserves both of those things. Beautiful name, Rose was on our shortlist, if I'm daft enough to have another it might make the cut. Enjoy the feasting in the pink castle.

Hi all don't know if you remeber me but you helped me through my terrible pregnancy,just wanted to pop back and say thank you for all the support my lovely little boy is 18weeks and a little terror! I hope everyone is doing well and for those off you suffering it will get better or if notyou will have a lovely baby at the end! i espically want to thank LucindaE for being amazing.
Katy xx

KatyStar Thank you, it was a pleasure for me, and I am sure for everyone else to try and give support. Delighted baby is a lively menace! Another pink castle graduate!
Still delighted too about LA. Now NitNat waddles to the fore...
LucindaE
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Hello chaps.

I have not posted on this thread before.

I am 9 weeks pregnant with my 3rd baby. Had terrible morning sickness and vomiting last time so was expecting it this time, but nothing could have prepared me for this. I was soldiering on, but yesterday ended up in the Emergency room on a drip for dehydration, which brought home to me that I don't get a prize for being brave or coping. I live in the Middle East and temps are in the 40s, and I couldn't even keep water down. Was throwing up... god... just all the time.

The doctor was lovely. They gave me a whole bottle of anti-nausia stuff through my drip which stopped me vomiting. They rehydrated me. They sent me home with a week's supply of Navidoxine. I'm going back on Sunday for a scan.

The anti-vom medicine is strange. It hasn't really stopped me wanting to throw up - in fact I have moments where I want to more than anything - but it has sort of disabled my ability to vomit which means that I can actually keep stuff down! Had some soup when I got back from the hospital and realised it was the first proper thing I'd eaten for over a week. I also think I don't feel quite as nauseous.

Still knackered though

Am going to hang around on this thread for tips and support, and to get to know my fellow pukers.

I thought we had a graduates bit? It has disappeared

Nitnat: EDD 20/7/11
johnnyd1 (Luce): EDD 31/07/11
Theonlyhb2: EDD 16/08/11 First timer (eeek)
ElliottsMummy: EDD 25/9/11
Coconuts: EDD 01/10/11
AgBag: EDD 18/10/11
BikeRunSki: EDD 25/10/11
Littlewizz: EDD 6/11/11, Next scan 23/6/11
CakeForBreakfast: EDD 07/11/11 (subject to change)
Marylou: EDD 9/11/11, next scan 22/06/11
MotherofPearl: EDD 19/11/11
Eggy: EDD 30/11/11
LadyOTCM: EDD 01/12/11
poorlysicklou: EDD 02/12/11
Diddygirl: EDD 19/12/11
Bensgirl: EDD
Alias: EDD ??/12?11 , Dating scan: 25/06/11
m1nn1e: EDD ??/01/
Angel: 16/01/12
Louby86: EDD 17/02/12

Newbies add yourself :)

Auburegine Welcome, sorry you've had to join, but you'll get lots of support on here. I'm glad you get meds, but you must have been in a state, poor you... It must be tough in such temperatures; I don't know what drinks are available in your part of the world, Coke for sure, how do you find sips of flat coke? Nibbles of salty or potato based foods are sometimes the only thing women can stand. I am sorry to say I lived on coke and crisps for a while. Jelly, tinned fruit, ice lollies? Some 'lucky' (lol) women can manage milk shakes. I swore by Lucozade. I'm glad about the soup.
You are at the worst stage, it will almost certainly get a lot better over the next few weeks.
LucindaE
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Congratulations la what a beautiful name, lillian is just gorgeous. How are you feeling? knackered I bet. xxx

nitnat & luce eeeeeeeeeek!

welcome louby & aubergine got to go got finger fatigue as I'm typing 1 handed due to feeding DD. hope everyone is well enough to enjoy their weekend & a bit of food.

Hi gals (and guys!) Johnny himself back in here to haunt you!
Hope you're all okay and coping. Luce is 38 + 4 and is looking gorgeous considering although junior is being a little bugger! He is moving like some sort of slow motion steamroller although last night (read a bedtime story to him each night) he started moving like crazy during the story!!!!
Methinks Luce is going to give birth to a rugby player!
One question for you though - we were wondering if any of you have experienced when the baby's head starts to engage, can you tell? what are the symptoms? U/S has shown that baby is very healthy and his head is moving into position (as Luce has laready notified you prob) but at the mo, because he was transverse for months, his feet are still at an angle to the side.
Surely it can't be long before he starts to scrum down in there and start pushing towards getting a try over the touchline!!!!

I look forward to hearing from you and wish you all the best. No doubts I'll return sometime soon (prob to announce the birth of baby durham! :0

Aurburgine How are you today? Did you get my message below?Johnny Re: head engaging, I only had the one, but I think around now on it engages in readiness for birth?
Grumblin Lol, see below about Facebook, how are the nipples, what did you think of the ice idea for bruising? I think for brusising, though alternate warm and cold treatments is what my old Ciropractitioner (sp) used to recommend?
Coconuts Waves. You are moving up, anyway! How are you doing?
Waves to Fluffy and MoH.
LilyRose Louby Blissful Angel how are you all doing? Everyone.
LucindaE
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Johnny Forgot to add, it's nice you read him stories, for lots of O/H's they aren't believable until they are born. I'm so glad he's a lively baby, he's had quite an exciting time even in uterus. Cybre hugs to Luce.
LucindaE
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Welcome aubergine Lots of sympathies! I imagine the nausea and vomitting is even worse in hot temperatures and I'm sure you'll dehydrate even quicker. I would back up what Lucinda says - just sips of fluid regularly and I too found coke was one drink that stayed down. Normally I have a real sweet tooth but when I managed to eat it was the salty foods that helped - cheesy nachos, fish finger sandwiches and peanut butter on toast. Although that was much later than 9 weeks. I found things started to feel a bit better from around 14 weeks and I started to be able to drink smoothies and flavoured milk which help to put some calories back in. I had cyclizine as an anti emetic and although it eased the vomitting nothing helped to get rid of the nausea! And tiredness made it much worse so rest up as much as you can!

jonny not long now - very exciting. My babies never engaged until I went into labour! But I know some people say that when they do engage the bump feels a bit lower. Good luck!

Heh heh thanks girls. I wish you all the best. Luce is wanting her hair cut soon too! As long as she doesnt break those waters in the chair mid-cut!! x

Thank you for the welcome. Have been slow to reply as it's our weekend here and I have been taking advantage of husband home to entertain the children, and sleeping as much as I can. Bliss. Haven't slept so much since I was a teenager.

Am in the swing of the anti-vomit pills. It's a horrible feeling to desperately need to throw up but not be able to. Am doing lots of violent retching for nothing. Still, better than the mess I was in when I was admitted to the emergency room.

Am finding I can enjoy digestive biscuits. Other than that, food is not exactly a joy, but I stick to soup and pasta and cereal.

Off to the hospital tomorrow, hoping they'll scan.

Hi everyone,

Sorry I've not posted in a while, been lurking on my phone from the comfort of my bed!

Congratulations la what a beautiful name!

Welcome to all the new joiners!

Thank you LucindaE for always making sure we're ok! Makes me feel very supported!

I'm going to try going back to work on Monday after 3 weeks off! Had a shitty phone call from my boss today to say all his senior managers were off sick or abroad on annual leave so I better be back on Monday because I'm not really poorly am I, pregnancy is a condition not an illness. I quite quickly put him straight and told him if it got too much on Monday I'd be going home again and my dr would sign me off. When it boils down to it it turns out he's off next weekend for a wedding and his boss has told him he can't go if I'm not back in the business. If he wasn't such an arse I'd feel guilty! Oh and I'm not 12 weeks yet so only the managers at work know but he thought he would announce in the staff restaurant to everyone that I was off sick with an illness called pregnancy! Sorry....rant over!

In other news, digestives have stopped being my staple diet! Strawberries are my new favourite! Oh and cherries that have been in the freezer!!!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Louby I cannot believe that boss! . He should at least try and find out what 'Hyeremesisi is, and what sort of treatment of confidential information is that? Like so many, doesn't sound like he can function as a manager at all...It is terrible that women are still having to contend with this sort of ignorance. Well, I'm glad about the fruit, that is nice and healthy.
Aubergine Hello again, glad to hear from you. Soup, pasta and cereal sounds not too bad for so early on, what sort of liquids can you face? The retching sounds horrible, poor you. It really hurts, too. I just had a memory of myself early on going about carrying a bowl because of non-stop retching at one stage, how grotesque...
Johnny Best wishes to Luce.
LucindaE
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Remembered messages to AubergineLoubyand Johnny as usaul forgot one. Lottie It's nice to hear from you. How is baby and how old? The Pink Castle is beginning to fill up with babies...
LucindaE
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Hello everyone- sorry Ihavent posted for a day or two been resting up at my mums house with the children as dh has been working long hours , mums been helping entertain the girls for me. Went back to gp he has given me some nutrasip vitamin drinks [anyone else had them?]they have helped give me a bit more energy as appetite is 0 , Im not dehydrated though as my ketone strips arrived and have tested (thanks Lucinda) why dont gps give them out? Im going for scan next week Thursday and am worried as I have felt so low and poorly, and am hopeing all is well with bubba - lots of waves to everyone , and have a good weekend , whats left of it now

Hobbles into Pink Castle, clutching baby Matilda Rose Barker, born Thursday 21.7.11 at 17:55, 7lb 3oz.

The maddest birth story ....a case of so near and yet so far!

NB Baby has been OP (back to back) for ages. Was assured that 95% turn before or during labour. Last birth was a 26 hour marathon, augmented labour, early epidural ending in ventouse. This time wanted waterbirth with just gas and air.

Awoke 6:30am with painful contractions every 8 mins. Told DH, who asked ?shall I go to work then? ?By 8:30am I was passing out with every contraction and then throwing up when I came round. DS freaked out and ran to hide in another room; we managed to get another mum to take him to school as I didn't want to be left alone. Rang the hospital. Triage midwife suggested the passing out was because I was breathing too fast! I suggested it was the pain and my low blood pressure

Arrived at hospital 10am. Had gas and air and threw up a cup of tea. At 11am examined and found to be 6cm dilated. Gobsmacked. Baby still OP but said to be turning and coming down. By 12 was fully dilated just on gas and air. Hurrah! So far so good. Midwives started preparing for delivery. Started pushing, many strange cowlike noises made but to no avail. Baby then found to be transverse. Cue Registrar recommending Syntocinon to increase contractions and me demanding an epidural despite being fully dilated!. Excellent epidural meant I could feel pressure to push but had no pain. However, it produced violent shivering, freaking out husband, but no the staff! Had an hour of Syntocinon, then spent another hour of pushing. Baby direct OP again. Nothing moving. Baby?s heartbeat started to dip. At 16:00 was sent to theatre and prepped for trial of ventouse and, failing that, EMCS. Loads of people in theatre. I kept my eyes closed as I didn?t want to know how much I should have been panicking.

A might tug of war commenced but nothing moved until they gave an episiotomy. I immediately felt things shift and she was born with one more push. Then they said ?that was the nicest forceps delivery we?ve ever done?. FORCEPS! No one said anything about forceps I said! Then had PPH of 500ml and was stitched back up.

Anyway, she?s here now and gorgeous. She has a tongue tie so we?re breastfeeding with a shield until it can be sorted but she?s feeding well, in fact most of the hours in the day!

CONGRATS TO LA and Lillian Rose too!

aubergine know what you mean, at start on meds I felt so sick I wanted to vom just to stop feeling sick. Fortunately it was only bad for a week or so then gradually got better. I was taking buccastem on its own initially, then after two weeks and vomiting getting worse I took ondansetron as well. I found that ondansetron stopped the vomiting, but I still needed to take buccastem to help take the edge off the nausea. You might need to take more than one medication. I'm not sure what they'll have where you are, I suppose the meds names will be different. What you're on now sounds like diclectin that they have in Canada. I think it's the only antiemetic medicine in the world that's actually licenced for use in pregnancy. Everything they give us in the UK isn't licenced which is why it's such a pain trying to find a doctor who'll prescribe it. Have you looked at the website www.pregnancysicknesssos.co.uk There might be some info there that can help if you don't get any better, or heaven forbid, get worse. good luck keeping cool and keeping hydrated, at least here we don't have super hot temperatures to contend with - this 'summer' 25 degrees would be cause for celebration.