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.

meerka great post - it is so so so upsetting being useless especially for the dcs. and i find if i have the odd ok day and try and do stuff it floors me and i am really sick that evening and all the next day.

my dh isnt helping much at the moment - he means well but keeps nagging me to go back to gp to 'try something else' cos ondansetron isnt working as well as last pg. he wont have it that this is as good as it gets! he is being heroic doing everything for me though so i must cut him some slack

have you queried steroids, eggy ? if ondansatron ineffective; is that the next step?

I am having weird paranoia that my bump is shrinking or at least not in any way growing.
it feels smaller now than a couple weeks ago...

that was the next step for me, and it did make a difference eggy. prednisolone.

Meerka I so agree - excellent post, none of you should feel guilty,it is in no way your fault, you're doing as well as is huamanly possible.
I used to rinse out my mouth with a bicaronae of soda solution, very salty, but it seemed bearable and cleaned the teeth!
Handbags SicknSpan and Eggy Hugs. The nausea is very hard to bear. I think it's very hard for OH's to understand that it is very difficult to eliminate and varies between pregnancies too. Despite my luck with acupunture I had residual heartburn that sometimes made me vomit for the duration - but it could have been so much worse, I was really lucky compared to those who suffer throughout...
BezzaCongratulations on acupunture. I do so help it works for you.
SicknSpan That is so fascinating that the GP tried that - such a shame it didn't work too well for you. I do wonder if the placing of needles has to be so precise that it only works for some sessions?
Chaffinch So sorry you are suffering again, I do hope it's a bug.
Glad Tallyra is doing OK at the moment.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.
XX

Chaffinch I forgot to say, do mention it to GP just for reassurance, really.
xx

yeah, seeing consultant on weds

haven't been weighing myself so no idea really, maybe ive just got used to it? the next weeks are supposed to be accelerated growth?

19+3

The nausea is horrendous, isn't it? Just a constant horribleness. I am feeling really miserable today. The nausea has been bad, I haven't eaten that much and I probably haven't drunk enough. I could see myself just not eating at all again, which isn't the way to go as I will end up back in hospital. Added to that, the hormones are making me really weepy and sad. I feel like crying my eyes out and just want to curl in a ball and do nothing.

This has been a really tough week, between feeling so down and so sick. Plus work has been really busy, I can't tell if I am so sick because I have been overdoing it, or because it is just some kind of a surge.... we are supposed to be in a growth spurt right about now.

Hi all - I've just found this thread and wished I had had something similar for my first 2 pregnancies as suffered terribly with HG. I'm now 5 weeks pregnant and beginning to feel sick now but I think it's just MS than HG. The GP has given me Cyclizine to have at hand - does anyone know if I should wait to take it or start taking it in anticipation of what's to come?

I'm really scared to feel like I did with first 2 pregnancies.

aww jen you poor thing. you have probably totally overdone it. and it so crap feeling weepy and hormonal cos we cant curl up with a huge hot chocolate and a toblerone which for me at least is the normal way of tackling the blues. you will soon have finished work i think and you can spend christmas curled in a ball under a blanket watching old movies or whatever you like to do.

i dont really feel i need steroids. i have bad days but most days i can eat and drink, i often dont vomit and the nausea often holds off now til about midday. so i know its not too bad. i know dh just wants me well. i fear he is almost regretting going for no 3 and wishing he had said no. sometimes i too feel silly and greedy.

bezza hope the acupuncture helps ive never tried it myself but have heard good things.

meerka i hope you are feeling better

hope all others feeling not too bad and can manage to do something nice this weekend x

oh chaffinch re bump - no idea what dress size you were when you got pg but i lost lots of weight in first pg and i looked small. midwife kept measuring me and bump was always fine it was me that was shrinking!

Morning all.
Jen- you poor thing, I agree with eggy, reckon you have overdone it. Can you try and take it really easy this weekend? Know its depressing as want to do nice things but this is your body's way of telling you to stop.

Well I'm not sure if its just a fluke but I feel a but brighter after acupuncture. I still woke up at 5am with intense nausea but I don't feel as wiped out as normal and thinking I may even get dressed today!! Got another session next week- she said she thought my kidneys and liver seemed out if sinc and my digestion is 'wiry' from listening to different pulse points.

HI boboli and everyone.

Boboli, start the meds early. Also try to get some vit B6, 10mg (any chemist should have it) becuase they seem to work together well. Its often standard to prescribe both.

bezza, hope the acu keeps helping!

Hope everyone else feels better soon too :( gawd this disease is hell.

I'm recovering slowly, managed to walk to school to see son's classwork yesterday, first time in weeks. Mentally still shaky, I thought the 1 in 2 (give or take) chance of miscarriage at my age was bad but the gyne made it clear that the risk to the baby during the infection was a very great deal higher than that indeed. God, we have been so so lucky. Its hit me like a ton of bricks cause I thought we were coming into clearer waters. But I can begin to see the end of the tunnel, at last.

The support here has meant so much. And thanks Lucinda, you know what for.

Hi all and welcome Boboli.

Meerka, glad you are gaining strength. It must be hard to process it all. I always feel like pregnancies are s o fragile. I can't even bring myself to plan ahead for baby 2 in case it all goes wrong.

Story to hear you are really suffering Jen. I definitely think there is something do the growth spurts and increase in sickness. I felt worse this morning and i figure there must be more hormones hanging around. I feel like things have got as good as they are going to get now sickness wise. I think I got to this stage with DS1 and didn't improve. Still,it's a helluva lot better thank the first trimester so I should be grateful.

yes, I feel the same now about pregnancies too totes.

thanks Meerka, have sent DH off to get the vit B6..

okay, good, hope that together they help. Its really good to start treatment early becuase it's more effective.

for info on meds, the site Lucinda quotes in the first post is really good, this is the meds page of it www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/help/treatments/

The other really good link is from the National Institue for Clinical Excellence, which all docs are supposed to know and follow. Yours sounds a lot more on the ball than many if he or she is prescribing cyclizine, but just for your info: cks.nice.org.uk/nauseavomiting-in-pregnancy#!prescribinginfosub

You said this is your third HG preg? you and eggy both. Brave, brave women!

im not sure if im brave or stoopid. no doubt if all goes well in a few months time i'll be weeping all over the sleep threads as hideous sleep deprivation hits and in a few years i'll be asking for money saving tips as three enormous boys eat me out of house and home!!

re meds def start early. my doc started me on ondanseteon before things got too awful and i have avoided hospital this time

thanks for those links, I will read. It feels like there is just so much more support out there since even 3 years ago when I had DD2 - perhaps it's the Duchess of Cambridge effect?! My GPs didn't want to know for first 2 pregnancies - I feel so angry thinking about it now.

I know, third HG pregnancy - the thing is, you just forget don't you?!...and the result at the end is all worth it. Great to see someone else in same boat Eggy!

boboli someone else is too - is it sick n span? i know you forget how awful it is and get sucked into the thought of a baby!

Hello all, Welcome Bobboli....I agree there seems to be a little more understanding from Gp's etc within last few years ....I was made to feel like the guilty minority last time for taking meds during first pregnancy. Glad times are changing.

Rubbish day....had to go out....take dd to a 3rd birthday party at a soft play centre. Oh my goodness thought the smell of fridge n dishwasher was enough to to send me over the edge but soft play UGhhhh! Feeling low today like I'm ridiculously to old to be doing this....just dreading if it doesn't start to go soon

Since changing meds certainly not as physically sick so I guess that's good.

Take care all x

Hi, am tentatively poking my head in as not sure whether I qualify... Been in bed for four days now with morning sickness (morning, ha!) which started about ten days ago. Not been sick too many times, although it has happened. It's like I've got horrendous motion sickness - slightest movement and I start retching. Think DH is getting fed up with it (ha!).

Stressing about the amount of work and housework that is piling up too

Welcome Super....although sad for you that you feeling so rough....hope you able to keep hydrated....I'm quite new to thread also, so glad Im here! I've found there are lots of lovely and very knowledgable ladies on here.

Hope you feeling better ASAP x