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.

i am also on the beige carbs spectrum with occassional forays into ice cream. i just cant face normal butritious food. chips seem to be the only guaranteed safe food at the mo.
so sorry it is so crap for everyone. mine has settled into a pattern of not too bad in am, but even with extra ondansetron doses the nausea builds in the afternoon and am often sick in evening. if i have managed a rest in the day i am sometimes not as bad in pm but usually it is sickness and being unable to face dinner. so depressing grazing on shite all day then being unable to eat whatever dh has cooked.

This ondansetron seems popular on here, my gp prescribed promethazine.....anyone else on these or tried them? They seem to be glorified sleeping tablets as just totally knock me out- I take one at night and they have stopped the 3am vomiting but then sickness starts at 7am and I suffer all day. Thinking about going back and asking for something else??

It's weird how all different for food tastes whilst suffering- I'm totally off veggies and the thought of soup makes me gag! Oven chips, mash potato and bagels are all I want. Struggle with liquid until the evening so probably am dehydrated most of the day Lucinda. Can't wait to feel better and go out for a lovely meal and actually look forward to eating rather than doing it to survive! God, I'm whiny today, sorry guys will try better when having a good day!

hi bezza - you sound like me. the mere thought of soup makes me retch. i am all dry carbs - ryveta, toast, dry cereal. fruit and veg comes straight back up.
i miss food so much. eating with family and friends, enjoy a takeaway, cooking a nice meal. its tough

Just wanted to pop on and cheer on all those suffering from HG at the minute. I couldn't have got through my last pg without this thread. Lucinda and all the other people's support was amazing, and suggestions at what to nibble on were always brill when I was all out of inspiration.
I'll def take a sec to extra appreciate the fact I don't heave when someone in our house opens the fridge door.
So happy to see Lucinda that you've been nominated for a Christmas present
Hope everybody has a period of respite from the dreaded hg, however brief, soon.

I want to be glowing!! Instead I look pale, gaunt and a mess- haven't straightened my hair or put on make up for 2 weeks and have had to cancel everything in my diary for weeks including all my ds's play dates. I feel I am letting my work down by not being there and leaving my colleagues to deal with my caseload. I'm an emotional wreck today and although have lots of lovely friends, none of them have been through this and don't really understand and keep referring to it as morning sickness- grrrrh! Keep looking at my ds and think its all worth it in the end.

Bezza, there's a sort of hierarchy of meds.

cyclizine or promethazine, plus vit B6 are the first line of defense. they often seem to be prescribed together. Metaclopramide is the second. that\s definitely a sleepy-making one, I think promethazine makes you sleepy too. These have all been pretty heavily studied and are reckoned to be fine.

Top of the pile is ondansetron. Doctors leave it for the last line of defense becuase 1) its expensive 2) it bungs you up terribly 3) its actually very powerful (its main use is as an anti sickness drug in chemotherapy), and well, doctors like to give as little as poss when you're pregnant. There are a coupel of other drugs used too.

This link is good about meds: www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/help/treatments/

in fact that website generally is good and the organisation excellent. They have a number you can ring and leave a message on and they will get back to you, the doctor is very experienced in dealing with HG.

Thanks meerka, I'm so glad I found this thread. I do worry about meds and how safe they are to baby. I would hate to think I was doing any damage to baby just because I can't cope with throwing up 20 times a day!

Hello bezza. There's no "just" about throwing up 20 times a day. It's potentially dangerous. A lovely Dr recently said that as no meds are officially authorised in pregnancy, but lots widely accepted and prescribed, we just need to make sure that the benefits to mums quality of life outweigh the risks. Throwing up that often is no life for for you. Can you see if your Dr will prescribe something else?

its also dangerous to your health and therefore the health of the baby. if you wind up dangerously dehydrated there is a risk to the pregnancy. it is def weighing up the risks and benefits. fwiw i took ondansetron for 9 months last time and my almost two year old is fine. of course there may be long term consequences no one knows about but we both emerged from the pregnancy healthy and that was better than what woukd have happened without drugs x

Quite right eggy. Both my boys (8 and 5) were ondansetron babies from about 6wks. This third one looking like it will be too.

Thanks guys, reassuring. It is nerve wracking though when you read the leaflet! It's only been 8 times today- bonus!! Just eating more mash potato!

gah we went to farmers market today and my mean dh and parents are sat around scoffing unpasturised runny cheese and liver pate. i am sat with a dry cracker. boo

LucindaE You utterly deserve it my darling You look after us so well!

Murder of Banshees Why, thanks, that is so sweet of you. Hope you are still slightly better rather than worse? Oh dear everyone is suffering rather badly at the moment, too.
Caramel Lovely to hear from you, and thanks so much for stopping by to encourage and your kind words!
Looks about anxiously, waving a kesotik...
Lucinda
xx

Seem to have caught a little break from the nausea, still not great in the evenings, but nothing like how it has been. Even a weeks break is appreciated right now.

Unfortunately the SPD is definitely here already, so moving around is getting painful, but I'd take the pain over the nausea any day, even without painkillers!

MOG I'm glad the nausea is giving you a well deserved break. I've heard that SPD can be so painful, there' s another hormonal connection, isn't there? There was a woman on this thread who had to crawl upstairs or get OH to carry her. Sounds very romantic, but not when she felt .
Lucinda
xx

Oh yes, I did crawling up the stair last time around. Only way to manage it. I'm really hoping we get moved after Xmas, being out of the flat would make life much easier.

mine's been hideous last 3 days in particular for no rhyme or reason

ondansatron lulls me, I forget to take it then feel utterly sick when I remember, so rush to take it - is the fear of puking making me too reliant on it?

For those of you who are signed off from work, can I ask how long for? I'm half way through my 4 week sick note and thinking I'm going to need longer but have the worst guilt about it.....

bezza, I've been off since week 5 and I'm 14 now. hoping to go back after half term.

Tallyra- have your work been understanding about it then?

i am a sahm currently but with ds1 i had weeks and weeks and weeks off. my work were incredibly good about it

Hey all. I am not well at all. I drank some diet coke earlier and the acid feeling at the back of my throat has been horrendous all evening. I feel awful now, so queasy I can't eat again. I have eaten enough today to keep the ketones at bay for a while, but I don't think I can survive on one dose of meds a day, which I had hoped I could do.

I feel so disappointed, I was doing so well and I thought I was kind of past this. But I just feel so ill and tired, it isn't fair. I have one more week of work then half term, but if I don't get the meds sorted by Monday I don't know if I will be in.

Lucinda, I can't think of anyone who deserves a Christmas present more than you, you are such a help on here. It wasn't me because, frankly, I didn't know Mumsnet did that, lol.

Everyone else, it sucks that we are all suffering. I suppose the only tiny consolation is that every week brings us one week closer to reward and relief with baby... even though we may get respite in between (or be lulled into a false sense of security by drugs like I was), we know that the end of the road is day by day getting closer.

I am at 23+1 today.