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 and Everyone who has given such invaluable support and advice on this and on previous threads.

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

Becca You poor thing, of course you aren't taking advantage of wor, meds or not. If you are still being sick they aren't working that well, anyway. I do so hope you went home - you shouldn't feel guilty, you need to be signed off, y ou can't battle on with this as others say, least of all in this heat, travelling, etc.
Littlepink Sorry you had to go into hospital and for four days, and that it hasn't helped the nausea. Some feel better for a bit, but as others say while the IV drugs often help the vomiting,they don't help the nausea so much, which is dismal. So sorry about desperate mood, I hope the psychiatrist can help but everyone regrets getting pregnant at the worst stage. Do feel free to moan as much as you like.
Feekerry Poor you, it didn't seem to do a lot for either in your case. How are those liquids staying down? I think a bath or shower is one of the things that seems to set so many people off- I had nice dirty hair and nice uncleaned teeth...
Slinky Lovely news, I hope scan went brilliantly, thanks so much for coming on to encourage othrers, and do keep us posted.
Sally The best of luck for the scan, I so hope it cheers you up a little. The eating sounds a very hopeful sign. Sorry work have been so foul, and have to say again that I am so glad you have complained.
Champagne Hugs. Are you still feeling totally awful?
I hope wavesandsmiles is still having contractions, and that RNJ isn't. When does term time end?
Natalie Glad you got meds. I so agree with others, do ask for different ones if they don't work, there are a lot. Recently there seem to be a lot of GP's prescribing the travel sickness meds and they often seem to make people more sleepy than anything.
Sorry if I've rudely overlooked anyone.
Lucinda
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Reebok Cross posted when I was tying out my long post below! Slow labour sounds tiresome. Hugs, and best of luck. Lovely to think of baby being with you, soon! I am so glad you did stop being sick eventually, but it was so nasty of that Hyperemesis to come sneaking back as it did.
Lucinda
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Thanks Lucinda. Hopefully won't be too long now but yes this slow labour is a nightmare especially in the heat. Glad to see you're doing a fantastic job supporting the ladies as always. X

Awesome news Reebok on the stopping sickness. Slow labour is rubbish, been there with my first. Hoping this one doesn't follow suit!

Thanks Lucinda - I am 3 days away from End of term (and job...) well, 2.5. Still sporadic contractions, but not as many. Trying to stay hydrated and rest as much as I can between classes.

Thinking of you littlepinkfizz and becca - littlepinkfizz I regretted it for a while. I had to keep reminding myself why I was doing this AGAIN. Took until post-20w to really feel like this was worth it. It does get easier. Finding the right meds (eventually) was a big boost.

Thanks to all of you for generally being ace and helping me stay afloat. Being understood helps a lot!

Thanks RNJ...how far along are you now? Are you also a teacher? I managed to keep going until 36 weeks when I started my mat leave...I was signed off for 2 months...I was forced back to work. Teaching is definitely not an easy job to deal with when you have HG. You're doing really well to keep going until the end of term.

Hi Reebok, I'm 33+4 and yes, a secondary MFL teacher. I had about 2 months off too, and was harrassed and bullied into coming back. Then found out my contract would not be renewed after all, so become jobless on my due date. It has been hellish... Severe SPD on top of the HG has made proper teaching nigh on impossible. 4 more contact hours... Then I am obliged to be in on Friday to help move classrooms...despite being on crutches. Joyous. Leave at lunch for consultant though.

My classroom is SE facing, so I'm having to force down 4-6l of fluid a day to stop my ketones skyrocketing... And DSs head is so bloody low that I can't pee properly! Have to try and rock him out the way!!!

Wow you sound like you've had a hellish pregnancy. Not long to go now. Hopefully HG will pass for you soon like it has for me and well done to keep going so long...and on crutches too! Sucks about the job and awful that you were also forced to go back. Some heads are absolute asses!

Thanks everyone - after 30 mins if lying on the disabled loo floor I gave up and came home. Think I'll have to phone the GP again tomorrow, as I'm not sure the drugs are working.

I'm so sorry to hear about your work issues RNJ - what awful way to treat you!

Champagne sorry you've had a bad day, I might join you in that club!

Slinky I am also glad to hear that it might end at 13 weeks and I might be able to get excited!!

I can but hope Reebok, but I was sick until 45 mins before delivery with my first. I can't let myself get too excited by the idea!!

And my line manager has been worse than the head. He's an arse of epic proportions.

Poor you Becca, I tried cyclizine, metoclompramide, promethazine, prochlorperazine and something else before getting ondansetron and getting less hideously ill! Hope you find something that helps soon.

Everyone else - take care in this heat. Thinking of you all.x

Evening all, scan went well and am 13 weeks today (not12+5 as epu scan showed). The pics are rubbish due to my womb tilting back, but it was wonderful to see the heartbeat and a little hand waving!

Becca can't believe you went to work that ill. You don't get any medald I'm afraid! Definitely go back to GP in the morning and ask for different pills, and to be signed off for a couple of weeks. I felt guilty when I did it at first, but you really do need to rest and look after yourself. Is this your first pg? My colleagues are cold, unfriendly arses, so the guilt subsided rapidly.

champagne evenings always seem worse for me. Try not to over-do it during the day, even if you are feeling a bit better then

RNJ You've had a truly rotten time of it. What use will you be moving furniture on Fri? Maybe it's a ruse, and it's really a surprise baby shower?! Whoops, there go the pigs in the air! Hope colleagues are at least nice on your last ever day there.

Slinky Yeah... I thought that - I'll be useless. Will be taking iPhone speakers and having a party throwing out paperwork on my own I think!

And hahahaha... No. No baby shower. I doubt I'll even get a card!!! Overheard one colleague mention her relief that the 'pukey drama queen' was leaving. Because apparently 'morning sickness isn't that bad and doesn't last this long. Stupid cow just wants attention!'

If I finish Friday without assaulting someone, it'll be a miracle!

Trying to steel myself to go in today so I can say goodbye to my 10s, but been up vomiting for 2 hours. Sat in a sweaty heap on bathroom floor. Roll on 1300 Friday!

Morning ladies,

Like RNJ I have been up puking for 2 hours, so I am going to bite the bullet and get signed off for the rest of term. It's only 6 days and I'm sure they can cope without me!

This has definately been my worst morning so far, sick so quickly in succession that I nearly couldn't breathe. (Surely there is some sort of medal for that?!?!)

How is everyone else doing today?

Just wanted to say thank you so much to all the ladies in this thread. So great to be able to coke and not be stotic, as it really does help!

Just back from the GPs. Only signed off until Friday...

Apparently also have a UTI and this is probably the reason I am feeling "a bit under the weather"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt like throttling him. I have had a UTI before and yes, it does make me feel a bit ropey, but not vommiting up pints and pints of bile and everything I have eaten... Am I over reacting?

Glad you are feeling a bit better champagne!

Sympathies to all those with their heads down the loo this morning. This heat must make is so much worse. I can't beat the advice from Spright and others, Becca about how you shouldn't even think of working. RNJ that awful day when you were sick an unbelievable number of times was, I hope, the worst one ever? I don't know how people teach at all. It is absurd to expect you to move classroom stuff on with Hyperemesis, SPD,and in advanced pregnancy. What are they thinking of? Do they expect you to stick a broom up the place where the sun don't shine as well and sweep the floor? Excuse my coarseness, I am outraged...
Hyper Hugs and Sprite so glad scan went well. Pinkfizz With any luck it will ease at some point after 14 weeks, maybe earlier - it is only for the unlucky few it is as bad at the end as at the beginning - by fifteen weeks I only suffered from severe heartburn myself that sometimes made me vomit - I was really helped by Acupunture - but that is so expensive and its results seem so variable - it seems to last forever, but the torment will end.
Lucinda
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Champagne So glad you've got time off and an understanding doctor. That isn't sexism, only a tiny minority of male medics seem to have any understanding of this, and only a minority of OH's have, either, unfortunately...
Lucinda
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Poor you Becca Hope things improve.

Lucinda Ueah, it's not quiiiiiite as bad, but it was bad enough to make it come out of my nose, give me a nosebleed and a headache. And feel free to be coarse; I swore at my head of college today whilst explains why I will be sat down clearing cupboards and nothing else on Friday... And if they don't like it, they can, well... Go forth and multiply, shall we say?

I stupidly came in to say goodbye to my 10s. I am an idiot. Now cramping, and (tmi alert), my body appears to have gone into 'clear out' mode... Which after 6m of being chronically constipated is somewhere between relief and 'oh crap, am I going into preterm labour' Waiting for callback from midwives.

Thanks RNJ!

Champagne I have only seen male doctors, today's was the worst, he was very young too (probably the same age as me!!) so very unsympathetic. He even said: oh yes since Kate Middleton has HG every pregnant woman comes in worried about their morning sickness! It's very normal.

However, my boss has been brilliant, which is at least a blessing!

I am glad yours is good champagne, and I am now on cyclazine, which seems to have started taking the edge off. Still feel v sicky, but no vomming for several hours, and have kept a (dreaded) ikea ginger thin down!

Hi everyone, i have been taking the prescribed travel sickness pills but i'm still being sick a few times a day (although admittedly less than before), still have nausea and no energy and now i am so sleepy i literally can't keep my eyes open in the afternoon - is this the best i can hope for or perhaps a different tablet might work better? I haven't been at work for 3 days and am feeling some pressure to go back now but from my GP's attitude when i saw him last i doubt he will sign me off.

I can see from other people's responses that there really appears to be a lack of understanding as to how debilitating this is - as if we all just want to copy Kate Middleton?! If they really understood how awful this was i think women would be given the right medication and support rather than being made to feel like drama queens or that they're just trying to skive from work - i'd do anything to take this away and get back to my full-time 9am-6pm job!

Rant over!

Hope you're all battling through this heat x

And by lack of understanding i mean by the Doctors of course!

RNJ Oh, no, fingers crossed it's the heat that has cleared out your bowels, not prem labour. What does midwife say?
Becca Natale and Everyone I am always dismayed at the lack of understanding, in some ways the Kate Middleton thing has been a double edged sword and that remark about 'Everyone worrying their sickness is Hyperemesis' is just plain infuriating. Did he check you for dehydration at least?

PinkFizzHugs, I hope you feel a bit less awful today.
Lucinda
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No he didn't even check me for that even though i had cracked lips and a sore in my mouth which i understand are signs of dehydration! I think i'm going to have to go back and ask for a different doctor.

Same here Natale.