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.

Hi all. Sounds like a rough patch for everyone. Hugs all round.

I think I know why I felt so bad yesterday..brewing another cold. Got sore throat and think DS has too, plus he is teething with molars so having disturbed nights. DH is away until Monday. Not the best timing but then when is!?

Also, anyone else finding themselves very short tempered? I am really struggling to keep a lid on it!

And yes, tastes change daily. What I can face one day is off limits the next.

I definitely had trouble with being angry last week before it started to let up. I'm usually calm and nice, and I was snappy with my mum a lot. made me.feel really bad as she's helping me so much.

Sicknspan- my tastes change every few hours. I thinking what I can maybe eat in the morning and by afternoon I can't eat it.

Totes, I've actually become a but more laid back. Just because I can't be bothered due to feeling so tired and poorly. There have been moments of breakdown from time to time.

I'm really surprised with myself today. Felt yuk when woke up but really wanted to get some stuff done. So I've prepared a full on home cooked dinner for hubby this evening! I can't quite believe it. I've done slow cooked beef in red wine sauce with all the appropriate veg. This is the first time I've managed to cook since may. I used to love cooking and baking so I'm chuffed. I even went as far as making steak sandwiches with fried onions and mushrooms for lunch. The first real meat ive eaten in months. It was amazing!
I'm now exhausted and cosied up on the sofa with a blanket. Much nicer day than I've had lately :-)

I hope you all get a day like this soon. I kind of feel normal for a change xxx

totes i am the grumpiest cow around. really struggling to be patient with dcs.

sal i couldnt do that when well and healthy - am useless. so well done!

Ive been v headachy
hormones changing?

16+ 3

My god Sally that sounds amazing.

Today has just been long. That's all I have the energy to write!

Good going Sally!

Proud of myself. Have kept down 5 grapefruit segments and two apricot halves in juice, as well as two teaspoonfuls of tuna sweetcorn mayo sandwich filler. Yay me!

Have been prescribed some ondansetron suppositories instead of the meltlets. One per day,16mg. When do you think the best time to take them would be? As it's only once a day I am worried that it will start to wear off towards the 24 hours. First thing in the morning?

Hi all sorry to hear things are getting to people :( hardly surprising. It's so grim. I had a few good weeks between weeks 24 and 32 but now feeling almost constantly sick at 36 weeks :( so depressing. I'm on ranitidine for heart burn but spend all day belching, breaking wind and feeling sick. Sorry TMI! I know it's not its not long now (c section at 39 wks) but being back in nausea land is NOT nice. Funny some of you can eat cheese. Cheese on toast was one of the ONLY things I could eat for two months. Chins up off bathroom floor everyone. We can do this!

Vomiting in work - running to bathroom between classes - was the highlight of the day. I am still feeling nauseated now, although I am going to try to eat some dinner. I think there is nothing else for it but to go back on the meds, which sucks.

Hyper- hoping things pick up for you again, especially in this last leg of the journey xx

Jen- oh no! Sounds awful. Think you need meds and some sick leave xx

My dinner was lush, first time I've enjoyed veggies for months. Feeling yuk again now. It's the metal taste that's making me gag. Nothing works, it just gets worse the more I try to shift it.
Hoping for a better nights sleep after my busy day xxx

Sally the foul taste has also returned (sorry to be bearer of bad news!) different now as a very bitter taste like I gave eaten the pith of a lemon and only when I eat or drink. It's vile. May be indegestion related I think. Hope everyone has an ok day. I've woken up feeling queasy and stomach discomfort. Can't decide if this is hyperemesis or a bug. The fact that I can eat suggests the former :(

I found you all, after a few busy baby weeks. My little one is 12 weeks today. I've renamed myself skinny minnie because I'm breastfeeding still so seem to be losing the baby weight that I never put on . Also seem to be getting quite a few viruses as my reserves got so depleted I suppose so my Big Advice is to try to get vitamins in FTC if possible now and if not as soon as the HG subsides, even if its just when your babies arrive as it was for me.

Sending positive thoughts to you all, it's such a bloody horrible thing to have to go through but it is so worth it in the end. I'm now rewarded with face splitting smiles from my little one and its just lovely.

Keep on keeping on

Only just found this thread.... I'm 7+ 2 weeks pregnant with 2nd and excessive vomiting started at week 5, a whole week earlier than with ds. I am on meds which seemed to reduce the sickness to start with but this week has been really rough. I even cancelled an early scan yesterday as couldn't face leaving the house. Was throwing up till past 10pm last night and started again this morning. Mouth tastes of sour milk at the moment. This is miserable. Got a flu jab at 10.40 and not sure how I'm going to get dressed for it. DH just cheerfully reminded me that I've ONLY got 8 weeks left probably( sickness stopped at 16 weeks with ds) thanks for that, struggling to think how ill get through the next 8 hours...... So sorry for the long rant. Hope everyone has better day.

hi bezza. hang on there, one day at a time. I've managed to get to 14w being on the sofa all day every day, but now its starting to let up it's much easier to cope with. you can do it!

I just want to be put to sleep for 8 weeks!

Bezzabelle - I said the same thing last night.

Lol! I asked my husband so many times if he could just knock me out for a few weeks! Sorry to hear about tough times everyone and congrats to wavesandsmiles! Those newborn days are so precious.

Sicknspan, I didn't take ondansetron so not sure how to advise but others on here should be able to help.

Bezzabelle - sounds horrendous. I was certainly like that in the first trimester. Didn't leave the house. Not easy though when you have a small one to consider too.

I took mine swimming this morning. Was a bit of a disaster - teacher didn't show and DS didn't really want to do anything other than run round the edge of the pool. and I ended up crying on the way home because to top it off I forgot to get a ticket, even though the parking is free, and got a £50 fine. I have a cold and couldn't sleep for it last night so I am blaming emotions on that.

I had garlic bread for dinner last night. Healthy.....

Just had a bowl of mash potato.....cannot wait to eat something other than beige food (bread, potato products and cereal) and jelly which is my staple diet at the moment!

Hi bezzebelle and everyone. sounds like a wave of bad days hit us all :(

Lovely to hear wavesandsmiles

sick, if you have regularly have good times of the day like mornings, what about taking the ondansetron about an hour before the sickness draws in again? then it'll be working when you get sick, and with any luck it'll wear off during your good time anyway. Or if youré steadily sick, maybe first thing in the morning so it wears off while you're asleep.

I'm getting a bit cheeky with my eating, as dry foods are not satisfying me at all!

Last night I had a mega NEED for a Domino's Hawaiian pizza. Yeah, I did it. Yeah, I threw some of it back up. But it was totally worth it.

Haha trying, that's exactly what I do!

Hey guys. Great to see waves and hear how good it is after all the pain! I took the meds again last night and feel a little better today. I think I will stick to half a dose and see how I get on.

I have been craving the most unhealthiest foods! Chips, KFC, pizza.... OH thinks it is hilarious as normally I like to cook healthyish meals and I haven't been cooking at all, just putting crap in the oven and devouring it or getting takeaway.

Jen, def stick with the meds till your safe!

I'm not really able to eat processed foods so takeaway is out for now. I am loving my veggies though. Soups especially. I've currently got a home made veg broth with shin of beef simmering for dinner this evening. Was ok with beef the other day so hoping its still safe tonight. So funny how excited I am about parsnip, carrot and swede :-)

that sounds good, Sally... just wish I had the energy to prepare stuff like that!

Welcome, Bezzabelle. Sorry you had such a bad night, glad you were able to eat something. My usual query, have you got kesostix to check for dehydration as you must have been dehydrated after all that? I hope the food counteracted it. How do you find jelly and ice lollies for helping with liquids? Was it peach squash everyone was drinking on here just a while ago?
Hyper So sorry you feel so awful, it's not at all fair, thank goodness you have only weeks to go. I hope you are on ML now? Never worry about tmi on here, that wind sounds awful but at least you can make others suffer too that way,aren't I mean. Lol about chins up from the bathroom floor!
Waves Lovely to hear from you, twelve weeks already, your awful sufferings seemed endless, sorry you are vulnerable to viruses, I suppose no surprise when you were ill for so long.
Jen That sounds awful. I am wondering if some people haven't got a bug as well as Hyperemesis, there is a dramatic puking one going about.
SicknSpan Ondanstron suppositories sound good - I do hope they give some relief. When do you suffer most, might be the best time to take them? That might sound like a silly question if it's throughout day and night.
Tallyra Totes You have every right to be snappy. I am sure mothers understand.
Trying Totes I know Totes had at least one mmc, and sorry, Trying did you say you 'd had one - I was very nervous because I had one only a month before conceiving, but all was fine. It's natural to be really nervous and have 'bad feelings'. Hugs.
Sally I am glad about physio, but it's bad they didn't check your urine, I don't care if they were busy! I so agree about veg soup being wonderful when recovering from this horror.
Champage Hello! Hope y ou are feeling Okay-ish?
Choc I so agree! Lol about a bottle swig of lactalouse, as if you were addicted to it...
Murder SPD, poor you, how grim.
Christmas Present A lovely person nominated me for a Christmas present, as I'm usually on here I'm guessing it was someone on here and I wanted to say, thank you, that is so sweet. Hugs.
Apologies to anyone rudely over looked.
Lucinda
xx