Hyperemesis Support

[LucindaE]

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.
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just popping on to say i am in the middle of a 2 week hol abroad. doh. forgot to say!
hope all is well and i will catch up next week when back xx

Wow fee, brave or what! Hope you have a nice time xx

Poor Jen, I'd try something little and salty. It may help you feel a bit better xx

Everyone Mother hen is typing this with her hens feet in the library, I am so sorry,but my telpephone line is down and I don't have anythng so advanced as a laptop or a phone I can use. They tiell me it won't be back on till Tuesday, which makes six days!
Hugs to all. Jen Sorry you are having a foul relapse .My tellings off only amount to cluckings (no peckings),you teachers are so dedicated you always put yourself last.
MamaChang ( I hope I've got that right) Thanks so much for lovely message and coming back to encouage others.
INeed I didn't realise it took so long, either,that is so awful,y,surely in the future there should be a pill people take when their period is late, which does it so early that it's not traumatic?
Sorry everyone is suffering and it seems so endless,and as for the ignorance.
MeerkaI do hope you can get another source for the HG dope...I can't believe you will be told off for taking a medicine that is the first line of treatment in the US.
Ihope I get my telephone line back asap.
Lucinda
xx

Thanks Mother hen!

Jen - sounds awful. You poor thing. Could tiredness have triggered it? I know I a, being cushioned from overdoing it at the mo but when I am not its so much worse. I have been sleeping every afternoon for 2 to 4 hours.

Feeling envious of symptom free mums. We all better have bl**dy easy labours.

Jen I called in sick today too - so exhausted! Didn't feel too guilty as I got sent home yesterday, all the colour drained out of my face and I still look like a ghost! So it was pretty clear that I was not well. Tried to nap mid-afternoon but the knobber next door put his music on so loudly I could hear it through my earplugs!

However, I feel fraudulent on this thread as currently only suffering nausea and not vomiting. I'm sorry to read of everyone's suffering. Very glad to hear you have got medication Meerka.

Why is it worse at night?!? Feeling a bit fed up tonight and I know I don't have it as worse as some. I am wondering if I am eating too much now? I have put on weight according to scales and I am living off sweets and crisps. I eat nearly every hour and a half in the day because its the only thing I know to do that might lessen the nausea. Fortunately I only vom at night.

Totes I'm so much worse at night too. In the mornings i feel slightly normal for a couple of hours then it slowly gets worse through the afternoon and finally I'm usually sick in the evenings.
I went through a phase if only eating sweets and crisps, I've only the past 4 weeks been able to introduce new foods. Cakes are heaven!

Nights definitely worse here too, all starts to go downhill around 7pm.

I'm only suffering nausea as well, but it's bad enough. Don't think it makes any of us fraudulent.

The nausea is worse than the voming if you ask me. I didn't start puking till a good month after the nausea started. At least when I did, I felt like I had a few minutes relief afterwards. I honestly feel like this nausea is the most debilitating problem I've ever faced and I've been in and out of hospital for the past few years with my health. So NO ladies you are NOT frauds just because your not puking as much as some do. The nausea is hell to live with, or should I say to exist with as this is not living.

Yep, nights are worse. I ate some toast earlier and I am sitting very still on the sofa trying to keep it down but I know as soon as I go upstairs there will be retching at the very least. I was able to eat normally for a few weeks there and it was great! I really don't know what has brought this on as I have rested all day today and still feel like hell, so I am clearly not overtired today.

I am looking pregnant now, though, which is nice. And I can feel how firm my little bump is - feels so different from bellyfat.

Also have my 20 week scan on Monday morning - I really can't wait. Hoping everything is as it should be, but also dying to find out the gender. It will hopefully make things easier to plan if I know. I haven't bought any clothes or anything, and I am crocheting a soft grey blanket at the moment with my leftover cashmere yarn - very spoiled baby getting a cashmere blanket! But after Monday if it is a girl I can add some pink accents (I have no blue cashmere to add for a boy lol).

Jen, hope scan goes well, it is exciting!
I'm weaving a rug for the nursery as my mum wanted to crochet the blanket. After my rug im going to make a matching cross stitch for the wall. It helps the days pass a bit quicker. I also feel its a bit easier to plan now we know its a boy.

Fellow crocheters! I am knitting DS a jumper at the mo but it's taking an age because I don't feel like doing much. We have a busy weekend ahead. Slightly dreading it.

Totes I am exactly the same - have put on weight living off crisps and during day eat so frequently as otherwise I start retching and - tmi - get diarrhea. Then feel worse at night.

What is driving me mad at the moment is that I can constantly smell something bad but can't locate the source of it. I want to really thoroughly clean the house but can't get up the energy. Also have a horrible stale taste in my mouth all the time which is definitely making me feel sicker. I should get out for some fresh air but haven't washed my hair and look like absolute crap.

Good luck for the scan Jen and I hope you start to feel better soon.

Finitely suffering from surges too. Felt the best I have felt so far yesterday morning but felt rotten last night and this morning. I am hoping its a surge and not the start of a downwards spiral. Just want to stay in bed all day but got so much to do.

Well I didn't vomit yesterday, but I didn't eat much and what I did eat felt iffy, but I managed to keep it down. Hopefully it is just a surge and I'll be ok - work next week is a busy busy week and I want to survive it.

I do love to crochet! I bring my projects into work and do a little at lunchtime after I have inhaled my sandwich lol. I hopefully will have a selection of little blankets and things by the time the baby comes.

Wondering about Tallyra? I hope she is ok - she was reaching the difficult point from her past pregnancies .... have been thinking about her. Hope she checks in.

Need to indulge in a bit of self pity. Been in bed all day feeling like poo. I think I am disappointed that I have reached the magic 12 week mark and not seen an improvement. I know I wasn't better with DS by this time but I was still hoping. I wish we had hospitals especially for this- to take away the guilt of lying in bed at home not helping with childcare. I don't want to deal with the responsibility of running a household and cooking etc. I want to be able to lie in bed all day sleeping and round the clock care!

rant over.

I hope Tallyra is ok too.

Totes I keep thinking I just want to be admitted again, then I can just lie and bed, doze off occasionally, get food brought to me, and do nothing.

Exactly MOG. I keep making an appearance downstairs as feel guilty but I just can't handle it. I need to be horizontal.

me too :/ don't want to be lying bed (I don't!!) but need to

Hey, yesterday sucked but I am trying to eat little and often to see if that staves off the nausea. Not much more I can do, is there?

I hear you all with the guilt - you feel like such a loser just flopping about, sick and useless.

Yes, I have been up for about an hour so far today. Just dragged myself down for food and I am back up. Really missing spending quality time with DS. It's been six weeks of not seeing him much. Weirdly into oranges and bagels at the mo. At least not too unhealthy.

Purple vomming yesterday after bravely trying some innocent smoothie. I have leant my lesson there!!

Might need hand holding tomorrow when I am on my own with DS.

Totes I am so craving oranges! Last night I knew I would be sick if I didn't have one - made do with orange juice and now thinking of freezing some as orange ice sounds like exactly what I need.

I called my line manager today and explained my situation. I feel a lot better about how things will be managed for my classes and am going to see the doctor as soon as I can get an appointment to as I think it will make it easier all round if we all know I am off for a week or two and we can plan around it. Nausea has eased since speaking to her - must be the relief in stress.

Hope everyone is having the best Sunday possible in the circumstances!

HG is known to be worse with tiredness and stress, from everything I've read; British Medical Journal and national guidelines. They say Rest, Rest, Rest, and Get Meds Early. So it's not imagination and resting is just what you're supposed to do .... course, things dont always work out like that.

totes, so with you. Miss being able to be with my son so much