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Hyperemesis Support

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LucindaE · 15/10/2013 19:53

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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Handbagsonnhold · 14/11/2013 14:19

Eggy....great news glad all went well

Hi SicknSpan been wondering how you are....yes had my scan on Tuesday and all well. I have also taken Lucindas tip and bought the barley sugars. The teeth brushing is a challenge I agree....if I carry on with these barley sugars I won't have any teeth left to worry about Wink

Meerka · 14/11/2013 14:29

Oh eggy that's great news. YOu must be so pleased! congrats :)

sick ... yessss to the saliva. God it's awful. I ahem have had to carry a spit-thing around, its so so disgusting but what you say, swallow and you end up even sicker. I will ask my wonderful friend in the UK to send me some barley sugars, thanks Lucinda.

No dignity in preg. None.

livingzuid · 14/11/2013 15:53

Yay eggy great news!

Vulture omg so true. I am going to ask my mum for barley sugars the British shops here don't sell any decent boiled sweets and it is non existent here otherwise.

I am braving dinner with a departing colleague tonight. I waver between feeling fine and feeling so nauseous with this horrendous taste. No Vomiting as yet though so I hope I hang on till I get home. I am ravenous always but then when it comes to eating I really have no idea what to have. I cried in the supermarket at lunch in despair. Had to leave a big group meeting yesterday with 100 people in 1 room why do people smell so bad?

Thank god for work freezer about to have 5th frozen capri-sun of the day. It really helps! If people didn't know I was pregnant before then they must guess now.

And yes links not sinks doh :)

Meerka · 14/11/2013 16:11

living try the ricola herbal boiled sweets, the AH has 'em. Im sure that barley twists are better, but until you can get some the herbal ones arent too bad.

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LucindaE · 14/11/2013 17:36

Eggy Really happy for you!
Meerka Sicknspan and Everyone I hope barley sugar helps people, particularly as a way of dealing with that disgusting saliva, but that's the thing about this, what is good for one seems like poison to another! I believe I am unusual in that I found Iron Bru really soothing. Meerka Yes, carrying round a private spitton - I think that's what they used to be called when men chewed tobacco - is just about the last straw.Then there was the Peeing while Puking, I was an expert at that. .
xx

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Bezzabelle · 14/11/2013 19:21

Ha, first thing on waking, I get up and have to decide what to do first- wee or throw up. Usually wee and retch for a bit in a piece of toilet roll as know nothing cones up for a little while....then it's all the excess saliva and then comes the bright yellow radioactive bile. Lovely!

Great news about the scan!

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LucindaE · 14/11/2013 20:27

Bezza You poor thing! Hugs.
xx

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livingzuid · 15/11/2013 06:48

Bezza I always try wee first. Last time I threw up first I had an accident :(

My dinner stayed down! My reward was a sleepless night feeling like I had a stone in my stomach! I was bad and skipped the tablet last night. I kind of want to reassure myself that I still have symptoms which is crazy but there you go. I feel a bit queasy but so far so good, dropped DH and dog off and showered, sitting in bed again for a bit before going into work. Thank god for Friday. I hope things will start to calm down symptom wise as I approach 12 weeks. But they are so comforting at the same time which is just odd!

Meerka I'll try the herbal ones. Going home at Christmas and I fully intend on stocking up! I know the ones you mean! I feel like I have chalk in my mouth. Those tablets do work but then I feel very acidic instead which I guess is better than having my head down the loo half the day. Are you still on the mend?

On a complete aside, I cried at Duran Duran on the radio and the sunrise earlier why....

Meerka · 15/11/2013 10:33

oh yes, way way better than 6 weeks ago thanks! have to be very careful not to overdo and also to make sure I eat little and often. But as long as I do both those I can stay up til 9 pm now (thank god, having to retreat to bed at 11am was godawful) and most of all i can sit on the sofa with my 5 1/5 year old and watch telly. Sounds a small thing but I think we all know how big it is after HG :)

Hope everyone's day isnt too bad.

sally how are you managing without the meds?

superlambanana · 15/11/2013 13:05

Good for you meerka Smile

I haven't been on for a bit as I seemed to be getting better, but it's worse again today. Haven't managed to keep anything down so far Sad So fed up!!

eggybrokenoff · 15/11/2013 15:10

my hg has been in a pattern lately. bearable, almost normal in am with nausea kicking in at 2ish and steadily getting worse til at 8pm i have to lie flat in bed or vomiting will begin in earnest. unless i ignore this need vomiting is largely controlled. still v restricted what i can face eating though and it is largely crap food i can face.

Handbagsonnhold · 15/11/2013 15:19

So fed up sickness/nausea worse than ever. On way back from picking dd up from nursery yesterday I was stuck in traffic on main road couldn't pull over....I was soooo sick all over myself....steering wheel etc. had to just throw clothes in bin.... 13wks now and it's getting worse I'm Absoultely fed up.
Sorry for moaning

eggybrokenoff · 15/11/2013 15:54

oh handbag that is grim you poor poor love x gentle hugs (as long as youve showered since?) x

Handbagsonnhold · 15/11/2013 16:14

Ah thanks eggy....had to strip off in hallway and then clean the main bits out of car in my dressing gown in the dark....just to grim for words.

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LucindaE · 15/11/2013 17:18

Handbags and Sugarlambbanana Hugs form me too, you poor things.
Or maybe gentle cyber pats, and I hope Bezzabelle feels a bit better today. Glad Meerka is perking up, but I am worried that Sally hasn't posted, but I don't like to pester her.
xx

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LucindaE · 15/11/2013 17:21

EggyGlad things don't get bad till eight. Handbags You anyway should contratulate yourself on not crashing the car! Did you say OH was away - maybe too much to do is making it worse?
xx

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Meerka · 15/11/2013 17:57

oh gosh handbags how awful :(

Sally8655 · 15/11/2013 19:58

Hi

I'm just nipping on quickly to say im just about surviving but feeling vile. Can't really type much in between pukes :-( it's really bad right now.

Dh goes away tomorrow for the week so just hoping km going to manage. I have no idea how!

Consultant yesterday was helpful, I have lots of belly and hip support now, even crutches to help get around easier. They informed me that after baby is born at the high risk hospital they will transfer me to a midwife led unit nearer to home for a week to rest up. I'll have a private en suite room there and lots of support. My husband can visit 24/7 and stay overnight if needed. I'm really pleased I'm now getting lots of support from the docs as I was really worried about how I'd cope.

Feel the vom rising so have to go, lots of hugs to everybody and ill be back on to catch up as soon as I'm feeling a little better xxxx

Boboli · 15/11/2013 20:00

mine's gradually getting worse....I'm only 6 weeks + 4 and I'm having trouble eating anything past 6pm. I'm taking cyclizine 3 times a day - the HG kicked in around 7-8 weeks with my 2 previous pregnancies.
I think the thought of what's to come is freaking me out, am beginning to wonder what we were thinking to get here again.
I'm so busy at work and moving house next weekend. Have told my manager but not sure she really gets that it's not just ms. The next few weeks feel a bit bleak...
Sorry for indulgent post - hugs to everyone else feeling awful x

eggybrokenoff · 16/11/2013 06:52

oh sally you have all my sympathy. you have had the roughest time of it.

boboli maybe you could try printing out some stuff on hg and giving it to your boss. i sent some links on to colleagues with ds1 to explain what it was and peoples attitudes did change a bit

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LucindaE · 16/11/2013 08:26

Sally Thanks so much for coming on. I am so glad about the rest which will obviously be needed badly, but sorry that you have to use crutches, that is depressing, I know how Kalidasa hated it. Hope blood pressure is stablised?
Baboli Poor you- mother hen is a bit worried about your determination to keep working if it kicks in badly this time - though I hope it doesn't - it's often impossible. Can they give something stronger than cyclazine?
That is hardly a self indulgent post in the circumstances! Moan all you like, you have cause.
Oh dear, a lot of people suffering badly. I do hope Bezzabelle soon starts the day in a nicer way and that Handbags Eggy SicknSpan and Everyone feels a little better.

xx

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superlambanana · 16/11/2013 10:16

Can I just ask what everyone does about work? I've had a week and a half off, in for two days, then off for another two, and I hate being so unreliable. I keep having to cancel meetings and the work is just piling up ridiculously, which of course isn't making me feel any better! Plus I've no idea how long this will go on for, of course.

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LucindaE · 16/11/2013 10:24

superlambanana Welcome back, sorry to see below that things are bad again. The others will no doubt call in soon, and say how they manage, but I wanted to say that mother hen always worries about women with this forcing themselves in to work - it's hard enough with a part time job and understanding colleagues, hellish with a full time one and many if not most find that they have to get signed off for weeks because rest is the only thing that helps besides some meds. I wasn't in the position of having to worry as I'd just been made redundant - but I don't know how people manage to drag themselves in.
xx

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Meerka · 16/11/2013 12:33

sally thinking of you and wishing you the very best.

And superlam and eggy and boboli , i do hope things get easier.

Pantsonastick · 16/11/2013 14:32

Hello im new to all this sort of stuff and hope I'm in the right place.
Reading everybody's messages has really made me feel like im not alone and that I am suffering from something horrendous that no amount of ginger bloody biscuits is going to cure!
I am 8w3d and really struggling. Been nauseous all day and night since 5 weeks and started boffing at 6 weeks.
Doctor has given me cyclizine after making me feel lile shite about it. Telling me that shes from the days when you didn't get given anything and she still remembers the thalidomide tragedies. Thanks for that. Ended up in tears.
The cyclizine helps but im really struggling to eat and have lost weight.
I suffered when I was pregnant with my DD but I could still eat a bit. Much worse this time and struggle to find anything to eat.
Im sorry everybody else is suffering but its reassuring to know that its not just me!