Hyperemesis Support

[LucindaE]

We need a new thread.

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.

I used to include extracts from MOH's wonderful website
sites.google.com/site/pregnancysicknesssos/
but I think that makes this link less visible so am merely putting the link. The information on this site is invaluable for sufferers, with information about medications, coping strategies, hospital admissions, useful links, advice for family members, and much more.

I would like to thank MOH MOP Ovaltine bluebirdsunshine (I think she's changed her nickname) Fluffy, Horsey Kalidasa, Nannyl and Everyone who has given such invaluable support and advice on previous threads.

Remember when you are at your worst, 'This Too Shall Pass'. It really will.

RNJ being my first i think i feel i look more pregnant than people do in some case they just think I'm carrying extra weight lol. I actually started wearing maternity uniform so that people don't think I'm fat.
I bet you cant wait to be free of school

I'm feeling emotional now too, lost my dad in 1999 when I was 21 so he never met my husband or children. So sad. Especially as my step dad is a total idiot and shows NO interest in us. Been sick again today after nearly ten days puke free. Could weep. 18 weeks and still vomiting. This is worse than DS1 who I felt ok with by now. Hope everyone has had a better day.

Aww you poor thing i know its like false hope when you go so long without being ill. It just creeps up on you x

It does. Been feeling sicker and sicker last few days and now been sick. TMI but seem to have stopped digesting as it was something I ate at 11.30?! Odd.

Hahaha i have bah that before i was like what the i swear i chew my food x

Hyper Hugs, I lost my father early too, you feel cheated (sad).
Sorry everyone is having a bad time. Anyone can teach or work at all with this is a being very tough.
Loub Lol, I was not a tidy puker. how some people manage to hold on until they get to a loo is a mystery to me, too. I have mentioned my wardrobe incident and there were pavement and bin episodes (that was before they had covered bins in Ealing, where I then lived)...
waves and Everyone Cheering you all on.
Hope nobody has building ketones...
Lucinda
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Louh Being my second, I expected to look bigger, but having compared pics, I am significantly smaller this time! So very ready to be done - 25 school days to go, during which I have a couple of half days and a full day off for appointments. I WILL survive this.

Poor you hyperhelpmum, it's so tough. Thinking of you. I get that sometimes; I swear I chew better than that (when I eat solid food...)

I've managed to keep down a small salad with spinach and watercress this evening, for an hour so far. Iron! Yay! And a fortisip. That was grim. But it is done.

I've totally reverse cycled and am now sick as a dog first thing in the morning, have a less vile couple of hours late morning, then slowly spiral downwards into nausea-ville. Got the watering mouth and cold sweats starting up now, and taken my maximum dose of ondansetron today.

75% there...

LucindaE the worse time i have been sick was driving on the motorway and it just came like you say no time to get somewhere like a loo or roadside. I was sick outside mothercare and people were starring at me i was like what you think i want to be sick in front of you lol. we cant help it im just glad i have not been sick on a patient yet lol but i have come close

Urgh it's grim isn't it. Managed a bowl of cereal and off to bed. RNJ I am also much smaller than my first two. Have my weight written in a pregnancy book from then and I'm over a stone lighter and have had to buy size 6/8 maternity clothes as previous ones HUGE at 10/12. I have gained back some of my lost weight but given that I'm 18 weeks and bust gone from D to EE (I look ridiculous!) I think it's all water and mammary tissue!

I wish I was an E hyperhelpmum... I have expanded from an E or F cup to a staggering J cup. FML. And yet still so much lost weight. Dropped 3-4 clothes sizes now.

I'm in bed as I couldn't stay upright on ball. But cannot get comfortable; bad because my alarm goes in just under 7 hours.

Lucinda Hold it? Hahahahaha... Out of my classroom window (on 2nd floor), into my hubby's hat in car, several bins in work and in various carpals and laybys... Classy times.

I have vomited spectacularly too - now I take a little sick kit with me everywhere (sick bags and wipes). We went to Scotland for new year when I was around 8/9 weeks I think and my vomit sadly greeted several areas of the Highlands . Worst was when I was driving and vomited all over myself and then had to clean myself and the car, which of course made me sicker and sicker. Bleurgh,

I'm 34 weeks today. That means that in 3 weeks I reach full term, doesn't it? Then I can just count down days... Sounds weird, but now, having wanted this to be all over for so long, I now really hope that my little one arrives as late as possible so he can get as much weight on inside me as he is able. Scan in 3 days!

Hello ladies, I have a little question and not sure if posting in the right place...... (I used to be SMK84, waving to Lucinda and anyone else who helped me before). DS1 is 4 and DS2 1, and I cannot stop thinking about a third baby ! With DS1 I had manageable sickness until about 12 weeks, with DS2 hyperemesis until 16 weeks (thank God it stopped, and my thoughts are with anyone who is suffering now !), although I was never hospitalised I was off work for nearly 3 months. So I doubt there are any certainties, but is there a chance I won't be as bad next time? Could it be worse? Does hyperemesis get progressively worse each pregnancy? Thank you.

u2rmysunshine I remember you well - I kept calling you the baby milk formula name, what's it SMA - lovely to hear from you, I so admire anyone who goes for this twice, let alone three times. I wish I could say for sure from what I've seen that it gets better or doesn't get worse, but it just seems so variable. MaryLou242 who I think was around when you were expected to suffer horribly, but it was a lot better. That was true of Nannyrl who was desperate at one time, but it went off very quickly for her. I'm always puzzled by some who get it in some pregnancies and not others..Whatever you decide, we're always here and I do hope you won't need us, though I love to hear from old friends .
Hyper Poor you, hugs, what a disappointment the puking starting. I had that with pasta and cooked cheese particularly, disgusting beyond belief to vomit. Never worry about tmi on here, no such thing. I think it is because the stomach isn't working the food just stays put not digesting, it's horrible. I think Metroplocramide is meant to help with that problem, though I may be wrong.
Louh and Everyone. The Public Puking is dismal - and the lack of sympathy. Not many people say, 'Are you all right?' they just stare, maybe even thinking one is drunk or something, though in your case the fact that you were outside Mothercare should have been sufficient explanation.
RNJ Keeping fingers crossed for you until end of term. I had to laugh about OH's hat - someone else on here hit her OH's shoes,which gave me an idea about how to treat unsympathetic people and medics.
Congratulations on Fortisip and on the water cress particularly, that is extremel healthy.
wavesandsmiles and Others Those driving experiences sound nightmarish. Good luck for scan and it is brave of you to wish to keep baby inside in these circumstances.
Apologies to anyone rudely ignored.
Lucinda
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U2 I am on baby number 3. Baby number one, bad HG til around 18 weeks but fine after that, baby number 2 felt sick but didnt vomit and felt fine by 14 weeks. This one- hideous, awful, worst ever. Violently sick and hospitalised despite 3 lots of anti sickness meds, literally bed bound until week 13. Still puking until 10 days ago. Now have SPD and have started vomiting again and I'm 18 weeks. No predicting it as felt so much better last time. I'm still glad I'm having a third but it's very very tough on other two and I will NEVER do this again.

Ps I feel dreadful (weeps loudly and emotionally!)

Hyper Poor you, hugs. You are being very brave. I'm so hoping it lifts soon for you.
Hope Everyrone is managing today.
Lucinda
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Thanks all for being so supportive. I've really needed it. Just come home early to find DH did nothing this morning and the kitchen looks like a bomb site - I walked in and was promptly sick at the smell of his dinner from last night. FML.

No food today. Bad times. And much eye rolling and tutting from colleagues. Just what I needed!

And to top it off, SDP is now destroying me. I cried in a class today as I tried to step across to write on the board.

RN you sound like me. All really getting on top of me now. DH unsympathetic and distant. Out every night with one thing or another. No effort to spend time with me and although he is helping out he still expects a hell of a lot from me and I get little thanks. Maybe I'm just an over emotional bag? On a plus side, not feeling as sick today and managed to sleep for an hr at lunch whilst DC2 watched a DVD. Another day done.

Oh, no, you poor things! Gentle pats on offer.
Lucinda
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I'm getting down in the dumps too! Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired

I had high hopes for today, as my sister has toddler ds for us. I wanted to tidy and clean the house, do some ironing and start packing for holiday. I did nothing. nothing ! I have zero energy and spent most of the day sleeping.

Just want to feel like me again.

Oh so jealous. That's what I need! A day to sleep! Sorry you didn't get mUch done though slinky

Sorry, didn't mean to rub it in! I don't know how you lot look after kids, go to work and just get on with life in general whilst feeling so ill...and I'm not physically being sick anymore?!

I think I'm just a big, fat wimp

Did anyone get their energy back after the 1st trimester?

Slinky I think the nausea and tiredness is as bad as the physical vomiting. To be fair, I think that those who got energy back/saw improvements, tend to leave this thread, so the only ones in second/third trimesters still here are those of us who are super unlucky, and still being ill

Just don't want you to panic and think it will be like this throughout....for most people it really isn't, so hope you get some comfort from that.

Thank you, realised after I'd posted that question that it was one I probably didn't want to know the answer to.

Hope everyone has 'good' days today.

slinky I also think that the nausea is as bad. when I'd stopped being sick (second trimester plus medication) people were like "at least you're not being sick any more".... classic of people not understanding.

I got lots more energy in second trimester and this helped me considerably with the nausea. I still get it in the evenings and have good and bad days. Today is an awful day as I lost my sickness tablets last night. Managed to go to bed and wake up without worrying about it but have spent the morning grey faced and trying not to vomit. I found them just now (thank god) and took one, so now trying even harder not to vom as I want it in my system .I forget how well the work until I forget to take one.

I must must must go to the drs now to order repeat prescription, but feel too awful. /me forces myself off the sofa.

thank you all for being here so I can have my little moan, other people don't understand :(