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.

Wow, thanks for the in depth reply! Really helpful and reassuring.

It's prochlorperazine

The National Guidelines for Clinical Excellence say that it's regularly prescribed: cks.nice.org.uk/nauseavomiting-in-pregnancy#!prescribinginfosub:9

"What advice should I give to women about prochlorperazine?

Reassure the woman that prochlorperazine is suitable for use in pregnancy"

several countries have a sort of ranking system for drugs used while preg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_category but prochlorperazine doesnt appear to be given one. Its used in many countries though for preg sickness.

this is a good page too: www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/help/treatments/

I've had too much time in bed sick and bored and reading up :)

Middleclass am just like you - terrible nausea butvery little vomiting . Am 14 weeks and had a month off work - I'm a teacher but unlike Jen I couldn't struggle on! Went back this week as I was improving but it was so exhausting it brought the nausea back in full force. Then, today (my day off, I'm part time) was woken at 4am by a puking DS! Bleary -eyed sleep deprivation led me to put my hand in the vomit and then coming downstairs to put his bedding in the washing machine the smell of the stew in the slow cooker was too much for me! I have to say, post-puke I had about five lovely minutes of freedom from nausea so that was nice! DS and I have spent all day cuddling in bed together feeling sorry for ourselves and I am not looking forward to work tomorrow!

Sorry to see people still struggling and hope everyone gets a break soon. I am in total agreement that this is my last pregnancy; I will never do this again! Just keep looking at my lovely scan pictures and reminding myself of the lovely baby wriggling around in there and hoping it gets better for us all andthat we'll be enjoying nausea-free newborn snuggles before we know it!

I can imagine a line of us advancing on the tube-tying clinics, newborn in one hand, sickbowl in the other, with terrifyingly ferocious glares, demanding to get our tubes tied NOW!

( feel very odd tonight, mild pregnancy insanity has struck)

I hope people don't mind me posting here. I am feeling really rubbish I am currently 8+6 and feeling awful. I can only eat very small amounts and then if I do I only have a 50% chance of keeping it down. It is the nausea which is really bringing me down though most smells are just too much for me and it often gets worse if I move. I saw my doctor at 7 weeks and she gave me cyclizine which helps a bit (I can now keep water down which I wasn't before the medication) but a combination of the pregnancy and the cyclizine are causing me to feel exhausted all the time.

I genuinely don't know what to do with myself a the moment. This is my first pregnancy that has got this far (previous early mc) and it is something that I want so much. But this is making me so miserable I genuinely don't know what to do with myself.

sorry for the moan and i know that lots if people have it worse :(

glad you found us!! Always here and happy to support each other.

Ah Randdom sorry to hear you're feeling so vile. There are lots of useful links smattered through the thread; and if you are near a chemist pop in nd get yourself some ketostix so you can monitor your own ketones, you wee on them and judge the colour they turn against a chart on the bottle.
If you are 3+ you need urgent medical help - call 101 for out of hours doctor and get an emerg appointment.

sipping/ use a straw for ice cold water, crunch ice, at the moment I can eat apples so I think a lot of moisture is coming from them!

nibbling biscuits/ sweets can help your ketones stay nice and low.
we're here for you X

Im glad the subject of sterilization has arisen I am seriously considering. Having a C-section anyway, so... need to research it though as Ive heard failure is possible and I can't deal with HG again.
this is my 3rd, and Im 35 so I hope they let me. I asked after ds2 when I was 30 and they refused saying I was too young; luckily as it turned out..

1 in 200 who have it done will go on to get pg

I think there is a simpler answer. Never Have Sex Again.

sex leads to preg leads to HG.

Sex bad.

also bad: peopel who say 'oh maybe HG is natures way of making sure you don't eat something that isnt right for your body'. yeah right, like eating and drinking nothing is good for you.

and hi randdom

I like the sound of that simple answer!!

nmeerka if someone dared say that to me I'd spit in their eye.

no sex. stick to handjobs / blowjobs / bumsex. actually no bumsex as a 3cm leak = HG again. Feck!

HA! that post sounds like I like bumsex.

NB - nope.

please, as you were!

ok darent laugh aloud. But inside you got me cracking up, chocchaff.

Your inner Evil Ghost bird is leading you astray!

meant to add I have no idea on the '3cm' thing. I have not measured myself. It is a guesstimate of the average.

choc dear, cage that ghostbirdie. You're just digging deeper!

def need a namechange mwah-hah-haaaaaah!!

Choc, I am blaming you on this evening's vomit fest...came just after reading your post!!

I am lol at the sex - bad talk! Unfortunately OH and I are rather fond of it... However, I did find that contraception worked for me. I am 34 and didn't get pregnant until I wanted to - I just had no idea I would be a HG sufferer.

I have had a tough few days. I have had some stress, both from work and my parents (can't really go into it) but it has made the nausea worse. Plus yesterday was a very very busy day, I had all this:

Work until 4
then to dr to find that my script for ondansetron was not ready and I had to wait for the dr to phone me to re-issue
home at 4.30
dr phoned at 5
drove to drs (which is beside my work) and picked up script
drove to the chemist (beside my parents house, 25 min from mine, as they carry ondansetron)
went to shop and bought food for dinner
back into town, stopping at post office on way
was 5 minutes from my door when my mum phoned with an emergency
dropped food into OH with instructions to cook it
drove to my parents' house to talk to my mother
left there at 8 to talk to my father (who was elsewhere)
finally got home at 9.15 to tell OH all about it
and get kept warm dinner
knackered but so wound up I could barely sleep

then work today which was full of hassles.

oh jenn you poor thing about time they helped you out hope you have more restful days ahead

Oh no Jen, poor you. Sounds like one of my days so I completely understand. Hope the family drama is sorted or getting there. I don't think there is anything worse than stress and exhaustion for HG.
Your a trooper for going to work tomorrow. Just think 3 more days and then hopefully some rest during half term xx

Another day of sickness here :-( wishing for a good day tomorrow xx

Jen that sounds like a horrendous day, at your parents not giving you dinner for being so late with yours!

Thought it was Tuesday but I'm wrong so only 2 more days Jen!!

One more day of school then on a course on Friday.... can't wait to get a break. Feeling sick tonight :(

hello all and newbies. please i reckon if sickness and or nausea is stopping you eating or drinking or having some quality of life this is the place to be.

hope everyone feels better soon and manages to rest.

bloody horrendous here ds2 up with a sick bug - vomiting all night every 15 mins - half hour. i feel like ive been hit by a truck and so so sick myself. but mainly i am very worried about him. its only been a couple of weeks since last bug and now im convinced its something else scary or sinister