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.

I totally agree chanpange to know you are not the only one really helps!

I am SO fed up with this heat. It really makes every thing feel worse.

I am a teacher too (teach children who have been excluded from school) and not sure how I am going to cope when term starts again. I took the last three weeks off as I was so sick.

I had a wee sleep there but woke up feeling just as grim.

hello all. i am back and home although back to hospital for 12 weeks scan today.... all well. 12+3 today.
champagne have you had yours yet??
so i actually feel bit better now. can eat and drink a bit. starting to have 3 small bland meals a day and keep them down and drink. have been home for a day and feel okay still. still have waves of feeling sick and sometimes a projectile vom if i eat something hg does not agree with... but feeling alot better on the whole. i am taking a rather large dose of ondansatron tho..... 16mg a day. but its working....

sally how are you doing??

Morning ladies

Becca- I also want it to be cold, snowing would be a plus. Think I would then be able to muster up the energy to go for a walk. Can't wait for winter! Ill have my windows wide open for the fresh cold air :-) my husband thinks I've lost the plot.

Champagne and Jen- I really do sympathise. Hopefully you will both be lucky and start to feel relief in a couple of weeks. Also hoping scans go well, it's really nice to see a fully formed baby. It did make things feel more real for me and not just about sickness.

Fee- I'm so glad your feeling a little better. I hate the hospital stays and usually have a new problem every time i leave the place.

I'm still not too good. Trying to keep up with the meds but its becoming difficult to keep them down. I'm sick now with no notice at all. However throwing up does bring a little relief for maybe 15 min now.
My sickness seems to be different from earlier on and varies greatly from one hour to the next. I'm going to discuss maybe a change in meds with the midwife at my next appointment. Even laughing makes me puke! I'm hoping to improve soon but at this point I'm not too sure it'll happen. Nearly 15 weeks now and it seems worse.

I'm also still suffering from all other symptoms, blocked sore nose. Boobs very sore, back is killing me, aches and pains in belly and oh yes still suffering with constipation, although the movicol helps I'm throwing it back up now.
Find out in Monday what type of infection I have and will be getting antibiotics. At least the eye infection has cleared up.

Had to try and pull myself together yesterday as it was time to clear out my locker at work. Was surprisingly emotional after 11 years service. However I will be glad it's over when I get my redundancy payment next month and start a new chapter in life.

Anyhow I'm back in bed again and amusing myself with a baby name book. It seems easier to find girl names to boys. My husband and I are from totally different backgrounds and we disagree with everything to do with baby names so far. I'm trying to respect both heritages but its very difficult when he's suggesting names suitable in a gangster film! Haha.

Oh yes, imagine lovely cold snow! I also think its because when I am sick I want to cuddle up on the sofa under a blanket and being warm just doesn't have the same cosy feeling.

I'm glad being sick is giving you relief Sally, I am a bit jealous though! Still, at least I get warning for being sick.

Good luck tomorrow champagne! I hope you get some relief now you've hit 12 weeks.

I will be 10 weeks on Tuesday. But even getting through til then seems like a hard slog.

Congratulation on your scan Fee! And congratulations on three meals a day, you are a hero!

I'm feeling very apprehensive as I'm off on holiday tonight. Took my first ondansatron yesterday and I felt very well all day. Haven't taken one today and I'm very poorly again, can't keep anything down etc. Going to beg for more ondansatron when I get home. It's baffling, without it I'm so ill and have no quality of life and can't look after my child, but there's something that fixes me in minutes that they hold back on?! If I was ill with something else that wouldn't happen.

Look after yourselves everyone and I'll see you all in a week. Thanks for the support over the last couple of weeks it's nice to have someone to talk to.

By the way I'm a teacher too - maybe there is a link between teaching an HG!

Feekerry I am so glad you got out - here's some that was a long stay - and that you feel the better for it, and are actually eating, and luxuries like that.Fingers crossed it keeps up. Lovely news about scan, I'm glad you've reached that landmark.
Jen Are you still in hospital ?
My goodness, teachers of kids with autism, one's who've been excluded- the thought of doing that with Hyperemesis doesn't bear thinking about. I remember seeing a series where a teacher lost control of a classroom and I thought 'That'd be me!' . I;d rather chair a union meeting any day.
RNJ How did you ever keep going?
Champagne I hope the sea air makes you feel a tiny bit better, anyway, and it isn't really hot.
Sally Poor you, hugs, this all sounds horrible, except the names fun. I'm a names geek. I love French names for boys, Emile (I can't put the symbol in on this website) and Reynaud, and Gaston...
Becca One thing, it's cool and rainy today.
Sorry if I've ignored anyone.
Pollidah I hope you saw my links?
Lucinda
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Littlemachine Cross posted- it's outrageous your quality of life is being neglected and besides, without it you might well have hospitalisation that could otherwise be avoided- so the expense thing doesn't make sense.Have you seen the link MOH left on her post a bit below, sorry you have to scroll down, I know it's sickening when you feel ill, about the new protocol for treatment by GP's of sufferers, it might be useful as ammunition when you get back. I do hope the meds work on holiday.
Lucinda
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Lucinda I do not even know. Weeks off, then blind defiance at the vile treatment I was getting. And creative vomiting, as you know! Very glad to not be going back to that school, though worried about getting a new job.

LittleMachine Don't suppose you're in my neck of the woods at all?

Bad morning here. But have had some fruit this afternoon and kept down plenty of ice. So surviving.

Having a horrendous time in school you say RNJ? Then I think we work at the same school never mind same neck of the woods! I'm in Liverpool and work just outside Liverpool.
Hoping to go back to a new job after next maternity leave. I'm desperately unhappy in my school, have an awful head and only just avoided special measures in ofsted.
It's very sad, I used to love my job.

Ah LittleMachine, rather a long way from me! My former school is in the middle of a notorious estate, has a referral unit, respite centre and a special college for those with certain issues...

Despite doctors notes etc, was threatened with a poor reference if I had further time off. Was told it was in my head and that I was being over dramatic. I took to getting photos of my dated-on-insertion cannulas and sending the pics in with my cover work! Oh yes, cover work from my hospital bed, with no resources, on my phone... And then got a verbal warning for not fulfilling my professional duties. FML.

The change in SLT was hellish. I feel your pain.

Dear god, RNJ, that is horrendous. Just unacceptable. And Little, that sounds pretty rotten too. I had a horrible experience in my last school, I was bullied by HOD, plus going through divorce, severe anxiety and depression and facing bankruptcy due to the divorce. I took time off and when I got back they had rearranged my timetable and reallocated all my exam classes and then used my new crappy timetable as evidence that I only taught juniors and the like, was therefore expendable, and made me redundant. I got my job in the special school for the following September and I have never been professionally happier. It is SUCH a difference - so hopefully your situations will turn around for you as well!

I haven't been sick since hospital but I am not eating a huge amount, although I think I am eating enough to keep the ketones away. I just feel so sick all the time that I can't bear a lot of food, and there is definitely a link between activity and sickness for me.

I am on antibiotics for a strep B infection, which will hopefully make me feel better once I finish the course. Can't help to be fighting infection as well as HG. Then I need to hit the probiotics hard as antibiotics give me thrush (of course) to the extent that any discharge smells of pure yeast. I swear I could make bread with it. Probably not a good idea.

SO just put chicken in the oven for his dinner and the smell made me puke.

You are so good jen DH in his own in this house. And I made him get me McDonald's chips (which are currently doing the tango in my stomach) as I thought they might stay down... We'll see.

Hi lucinda!

Just wanted to check in and let you know that after 9 days of being over due, on Thursday, I finally gave birth to a beautiful baby girl weighing an impressive 7lbs 11 ounces! I cannot believe she managed such a good birth weight despite the HG hell. Labour was awful as her heart rate decreased and I thought I was going to lose her but she is here and healthy and currently sleeping away as I type.

I am happy to say that the horrible nausea that carried on to the end alongside the metal mouth and constant phlegm were gone as soon as I delivered. Feeling so much better than I have in months! So ladies there is hope and life after HG can be good again.

I hope it's ok if I pop back on now and again to support the ladies suffering and give them advice and support.

Ps did nannyl and room give birth?

Reebok that's great news. Congratulations xxx

Congratulations reebok Well done on a good sized bub.

Glad you're feeling better. :)

Reebok I am delighted for you- congratulations on baby.[thanks[ I am so relieved all was well after all, what horrors about the heartbeat. I remember you never thought you would get through in those worst months but here you are, as promised - it passed like everything does and now you reap the reward.
I'd love for you to come back on, this is what this thread is for, mutual support. The problem is in today's world, with women doing two sorts of work, bringing up children and working outside the home, they don't often have the time, though they want to.
RNJ I am appalled. Surely this is contrary to sex discrimination legislation, as you are off by reason of a pregnancy related illness? It might be worth, if you can stand it, querying MOH's website ][https://sites.google.com/site/pregnancysicknesssos/employment-issues]] as they could have some good advice about combating this awful unfairness.
Hugs to all who have been treated so meanly by schools, Jen RNJ LittleMachine and Everyone.
Jen Poor you, that is horrible. It was the smell of my OH's boiling up chicken bones that set of the first puking for me. The smell of chicken is one of the worst when suffering, you are too brave. [green][green]
Champagne I wish I was working in HR - but sadly, my migraines are too frequent these days for me to work at all outside the home. Well, at least these days I can write full time , but I'm not well paid, to put it mildly! I used to work in admin in local government and was a union rep for years,hence my bolshie attitude!
Feekerry I hope still not too bad and Sally I hope you get some relief from these horrible ailments soon and Everyone.
Lucinda
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RNJ Naturally, that link didn't come out.
sites.google.com/site/pregnancysicknesssos/employment-issues
Reebok and Everyone as below.
Lucinda
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...and sorry Becca hugs too bad about chips doing the tango, but how well put!
Lucinda
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