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.

Sorry to hear bad days are being had and welcome Meerka. I had HG first time round but I honestly don't think I would be as bad this time if I wasn't on progesterone which slows everything in the digestive system down.

I had a dodgy evening but a better afternoon today. The mornings and evenings are worse somehow. I haven't been too regular with my metoclopramide which prob isn't helping, because I am sleeping in the same room as DS so can't set my alarm.

So I am adopting a strategy of two days of meds, one off. It was a suggestion from a nurse friend of mine who knows i am uncomfirtable with the drugs so we will see how it goes.

DS was up twice last night and in the end had 350ml of milk! He keeps waking at night and not settling until his belly is full despite us filling him to the gunnels with food in the day. Re-introduced supper before bed, after dinner, to see if that helps. We stopped it because I thought it might be giving him indigestion at night. You can't win!

Tell you what, we are saving a lot of money on food at the moment!

I hope everyone has better evenings. Sorry I don't have advice for you Meerka. You sound like you are doing the right thing now by increasing your calorie intake.

Jen, I am sure the doc would sign you off. I know teaching is said to be a vocation but no job is worth making yourself more sick for, even though you feel guilty about it!

Meerka Welcome, contratulations on your pregnancy, I am glad you have gone for it and after all, dr's are often wrong about people's fertility, not sure they are right about individuals' high chances of miscarriage in a late pregnancy. do get some Kesostix - you almost certainly don't need me to remind you of that - and as others say, pre emptive meds, as you had it before they should take you seriously, as MOG says. There's excellent advice on 00sites.google.com/site/pregnancysicknesssos/treatments/obtaining-treatment]] and everyone on here is really supportive.
MOG Glad you have a local supporter. Hope you still feel
(comparatively) OK? Not sure if steroids are taken once for all or are ongoing?
Jen Poor you, don't feel guilty, it is incredibly hard to keep going, and as a teacher, a nightmare. Do press for a sicknote. You may be able to go back in a few weeks. This just gets worse with exhaustion.
Tallyra Oh dear, poor you too. Which meds did you say you are on? Is there no actual puking?
Totes Of course, it is your decision about meds, and I don't want to but I am fairly sure that the effect of all of most of them is cummulative, and so a bit concerned about that advice. Do remember that the drugs are safe, they'd never recommend them for use in pregnancy otherwise.

Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.
Lucinda
xx

Meerka Trust me - link didn't come out.
sites.google.com/site/pregnancysicknesssos/treatments/obtaining-treatment
Lucinda
xx

I've got to take 30mg (6 pills!!) daily for now, and then once/if the nausea dies down the doctor will look at weaning me off them slowly. Plan is to not have me on them long term, but we shall see how my body reacts.

Met the midwife today,finally. Good news is that I saw her briefly in the last pregnancy, and she is lovely, so I am relieved. I should have the 12 week scan in 2 week as well. So the end of the first trimester is in sight!

lucinda I meant to say this to you yesterday, but thankyou for keeping this thread going. It was a great help in the first pregnancy, and has been wonderful this time too.

Hi all, wish I'd found this thread earlier. Had HG in my first pregnancy but was "lucky" in that I stopped being sick around 24 weeks. Currently 14 weeks with DC2 and so far have got away with just one hospital admission! I was on metoclopramide and cyclizine, but then the GP said there'd been a saftey alert on them when taking for more than 5 days so they won't give me any more and I'm just on cyclizine now "because it should get better now so you won't need anything else". Suffice to say it's not! The cyclizine alone is not cutting it.

They gave me IV ondansetron in hospital which, combined with the fluids and rest, worked really well.

My leather sofa is not in my good books.

Could you see another GP Hamwidge? Some of them can be real cunts about hyperemesis.

I Hamwidge. I got metoclopramide subscribed to me just this week and my GP didn't say anything about a safety alert. The first gp said no to metoclopramide so i saw another.

Is there someone else you can see?

Agree with MOG, some GPs do not get how awful you feel or take into account past history..ie sickness past the first trimester. Cyclazine did nothing for me either.

Had my booking in appointment today and slept all afternoon. I think metoclopramide wipes me out. Mum wants me to stop them on the basis that I seemed better yesterday on my day off them but I was puking this morn and feeling shitty.

Got a scan tomorrow to measure the baby again.

I hope you have had better days my fellow pukers x

Oh and DS has knackered my parents out! MIL is coming to help next week!

Sorry I haven't posted in while I'm still trying to tell myself its morning sickness and to just deal with it.
Had a telephone call with an unsympathetic gp yesterday who said if the cyclazine isn't working then nothing will and I would only get more help if I was royalty. I got very stroppy back and explained how I hadn't kept anything including water down in 24 hours and was falling apart. He has given me different meds but said he doubts they will work.
Yesterday was a bad day I was so sick at work that I managed to get splash back in my hair and had to wash a section of it in the sink.
Still relying on Ice pops to get me through and today no sick so far but horrible nausea. Just glad I'm keeping something down and have taken one of the new pills.
Hope everyone is as well as they can be

What a cheek of your GP! Sorry you are having a shit time. What pills are you on now?

after 2 days of utter shite vomming here there and everywhere have gone cold turkey off maxalon just to see what happens.

don't think it can be worse than what it's been on the meds.

had a low point today. screw you, hyperem.

What is with all these shit GPs???

I have been given promethazine teoclate and still feel like shit

When will I enjoy food again. When will I cook and in fact when willt first and last thought of the day not be I feel sick arghh

oh bunny.
it's so vile. It is a depressive condition so seek help if you find yourself too low for too long

Im just focussing on 9 weeks done already - that is a major chunk of time
and when food tastes good again - how dreamy it will be to eat! Ive warned dh I will be getting really fat when I BF as food will be yummy

it makes me wonder how much of my daily joy is focussed on food - the anticipation, prep, and the eating. Now I have none of that. just a massive panicky void of what can I keep down and what fluids do I need...

cross the days off a calendar, you'll probably feel improved to some extent by week 16 as that's when the hormone levels drop off a lot, apparently, and if not, you will feel better at week 36 when you can go on mat. leave! and you will be perfect after labour. and the hospital food will taste divine.

Sorry Choc and no idea Bunny! I haven't heard of that one.

Choc - and maybe someone else knows...do we start to get immune to the meds after a while? Was the Maxalon working before for you?

Screw you hyperem indeed! I was dreading sitting in a waiting room full of happy, blooming pregnant ladies today but fortunately no one else was there. I would have wanted to poke them in the eyes otherwise.

I think so as day 3 for me on any meds has little or no effect
I fecking give up with it all. will do without drugs, and go into hosp if need be. actually fancy a rest in hosp. how crazy am I sounding.

you sound really frustrated choc and I'm so sorry. I have yet to try and get the go to re-prescribe ondansetron, that will be next week. I'm not actually throwing up but the retching sessions are painful and rid me of precious fluids.

Hello everyone, and sorry to hear that so many of you are having such a truly awful time at the moment. As the days go by and my strength returns it reminds me how much hyperemesis completely wiped me out. I was sort of fortunate in that I ended up entirely bypassing the GPs as I was in hospital either admitted or as day patient for IVs every day almost from 14 weeks when it was recognised that I wasn't getting better. So the consultant took over prescribing the meds and for a few months I had exclusively IV medication which really did help a bit. It may be worth arming yourself with printed info on the medication available and taking it to the GP?

I am so, so happy that my little one arrived safely, but still a bit a lot sad that I won't ever experience a happy, blooming pregnancy as so many people do. I know I should feel lucky that I was able to get pg and now have 3 DCs, (no HG with DS1, HG but not severe - only 2 or 3 admissions with DD and, nearly 8 years later, horrific HG with DS2), but I do feel a bit, well, like I missed out. And there is no way I could risk another.

Sorry for being a bit 'me', promise to be back as a hand to hold soon, I think it is just hitting me, now, at 5 weeks on from giving birth, just how utterly awful the entire pregnancy was.

Hey all, 16 weeks today and it was a good day! I was actually.. gasp... hungry and even ate a KFC! I wonder if it will last - but I am not giving up on the meds just yet.

Hugs to all suffering, hang on in there.

Hi wavesandsmiles I totally understand. This is a miracle child and I am overjoyed but I wanted to enjoy being pregnant but so far it's been full of sickness/bleeding and exhaustion. I feel bad for moaning but I feel downright rotten.

I hope it eases as I don't think i can go on much longer like this its torture.

Those of you that get it all the way through are tough cookies

waves I know what you mean, I felt robbed too when DS was born. More so now with DC2 as I know I wont ever get that idyllic, happy pregnancy. It is hard, but maybe in time we'll be so far from it that we almost forget.

bunny You are basically on a travel sickness med, I was prescribed that, it has a picture of a plane on the cover

If you are feeling that bad that you are worried you can't go on then you need to insist on seeing the GP again (or a better one!) and ask for something stronger. I went back to my GP in floods of tears begging for an abortion and she put me on Ondansetron and steroids and I feel a hell of a lot better. There is more that can be done for you, don't let them bullshit you.

I've already got an appointment for Monday with a female gp in case it doesn't work.
Just feel so down with it all and I want to be happy