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.
So many women on this thread have thought they couldn't get through this, but they did.

Saw this thread in active conversations and just popping in to wish all sufferers well, this must be an especially difficult time of year to be battling with hyperemesis

I was on the thread back in the spring, my beautiful baby girl was born in November an impressively health 8lb 9. Every time I have cuddles with her or see her big brothers face light up when he sees her it feels worth every bit of the awfulness of hyperemesis to have her here.

Best wishes to all of you and a big hello, happy christmas and thank you to Lucinda for all your support back then!

Thank you everyone for all of your advice and input. The GP was lovely yesterday and prescribed me something I could take. We went to several pharmacies and they didn't stock it so called asda who said they could get it for us that day. Got a call in the afternoon to say they were trying to get hold of the gp to query the dose and possibly the drug too, but hadn't managed to get hold of her, so no drugs yet . I've been prescribed promazine, it's principle use when you google it is as an antipsychotic ... But it's a sedative so who knows and 1 site I found said that it wasn't safe to use in 1st tri, so we'll see, although I did find a couple of references to it being used for morning sickness. Not sure I will get anything now before the hols, oh well.

I got some ketostix yesterday and by the end of the day by forcing myself to drink more I managed to get down to the nil reading, it was somewhere between ++ and +++ when I first checked.

iworry thank you for the drinking tips. I think volvic is the one for me at the mo. Yes, food is becoming a bit of an obsession!

meerka I hear you on the meat and sorry you're feeling so rough.

to everyone else feeling dreadful too. Hope you can all enjoy Christmas.

yeah, it's fine. look at the clinical guidelines : cks.nice.org.uk/nauseavomiting-in-pregnancy#!prescribinginfo

also: www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/help/treatments/

I havent got time to check atm but im fairly sure its also called prochlorperazine and it's a standard treatment. Not usually first line, but the doc clearly thought it was ok.

theres a LOT of ignorance of the best-practice clinical guidenlines, sounds like yoru doc is on the ball and your pharmacist is not.

so take it in confidence =)

Thanks meerka, prescription now changed to 10mg promethazine and hopefully can get some today.

oh right so it really was the wrong thing? heh, my little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Sorry, unknown pharmacist, that'll teach me to be dismissive (blush)

TiredfeetSo lovely of you to come back on to encourage people, thanks for kind words and at just the right time of year.
Iworry Lol, while I know exactly what you mean about different tastes of mineral water - the most expensive, unfortunately, perrier, tasted best to me - it makes me think of 'all water is equal, but some water is more equal than others...'
Choco So glad you've got some suitable meds and a sympathetic GP.
Meerka If your advice was mistaken for once, that is very unusual!
SO, I hope SicknSpan "Sally* Feekerry (can't be long now!) Totes MurderofGothis Chaffinch Livingzuid Jen Butterfly Howly Holly and Everyone has at least a bearable Christmas/Winter Solistice/Yuletide and doesn't suffer too much from smells sights of Christmas food and next Christmas, this will be a distant nightmare.
Sally and Jen I hope the pain isn't too bad, and the same for everyone else with SPD.
Meerka You are so right, more UnMumsNet-y hugs on offer for all who need them, or gentle pats...Hope nobody is hospitalised...
xx

Hey all! It's Christmas Eve! I know none of us are at our best but it is still Christmas!

I had my checkup at the docs yesterday. I got my whooping cough vaccination (and my arm feels very sore today, boo) and a referral to physio for the SPD, so I feel that was productive. Next checkup is at the hospital on 6th January.

But other than that I really just want to wish everyone here as merry a Christmas as possible under the circumstances. Try to enjoy time with loved ones if you can't manage the food, and look forward to a new year that brings new lives and joy. Big, fat, squishy hugs for everyone xxxx

Merry Christmas to everyone too

You are right Jen I feel a bit happier today knowing it's Christmas, even though it's not the Christmas I would want!

Glad you got your physio referral, sometimes you can feel a bit better knowing someone has listened and acted on your concerns.

Merry Christmas everyone. I've finally wrapped all the presents I miraculously purchased and the pile looks lovely.
Hope things stay stable for all and we all enjoy Christmas xxx

oh good news about the referral, jen :)

at least, at least, at least, next year won't be like this!!

lucinda as ever, thank you for being here and .

Punkstar Congratulations on wrapping them - I am so lazy I find that a chore in good health - and SliceofLime I hope feeling a bit better - and Jen So glad about your being listened to, and Meerka Thank you here's some for you and Everyone. You will have such nice Christmases next year! I hope nobody has had their power go down, on top of everything else...The rest of my message is a repetition of below...
xx

Hi all!
Sorry I don't have time right now to read the messages as am hosting this Xmas but wanted to wish everyone well and hope some lunch/ Christmas treats can be managed. My sickness has come back a bit (25 weeks) but hoping its temporary!

Best wishes everyone xxx

merry Christmas lovely ladies, hope you all have a fun yet restful time xxx xxx xxx

totes = I had a crappy week 25! something hormonal must change. week 26 ok so far X

Happy Christmas everyone!

Not feeling festive - ketones are high so taking meds and hoping I can keep anything down. Sorry. Not meaning to spread my gloom...

What I wouldn't give for a piece of Christmas pud - or a slice of the Christmas cake I baked back in October? I want my cake

Evening all

Hope everybody is coping ok and have a nice few days. I just got back from my mums. She cooked us a roast dinner as we were at the new house cleaning etc all afternoon. I devoured the whole thing and felt ok.
Dads making us a nice cooked breakfast in the morning before a full day of painting and im actually looking forward to it.
Things seem to be coming together a bit now and I can't wait till next week when I finally get carpets and vinyl down in my new home :-)
Just hope baby doesn't make an unexpected arrival in the next few days cos I really feel stuff happening down there. I'm sure mega period pains means something!

Hugs to all and hope you can all enjoy some treats and good telly xxx

Chaffinch Some relief then, hope it continues!
Iworry Poor, poor you - I hope it isn't too bad today.
Totes and Everyone Sympathies and gentle pats on offer. This will be a bad memory next Christmas. Have as good a day as you can. That sounds like silly advice...Sally Perhaps baby will be a Christmas present,but I hope he delays a few days...
xx

Happy Christmas everyone!

Peace and cooperative hormones to all

Meerka

sally oooh loom forward to hearing about the next arrival on this thread :)

Merry Christmas all its been a relaxed one here. Rubbish nausea on and off all day but worse at night. And a horrid icky taste in my mouth that nothing gets rid of! Still, enjoyed some turkey and had a good excuse to dodge Xmas pudding. Just present opening then think I will head to bed! We were joking that this time next Christmas it will be so different with a six month old around. Exciting and makes it all worth it :)

Hope everyone managed a nice day!

Hiding in bedroom wishing I had sensibly invested in essential oils... DP went out and bought a massive turkey yesterday (a response to me refusing Christmas dinner I feel - he felt denied). He's now cooking the beast ready to take to MIL tomorrow. The house smells of cooking turkey. Hence the hiding and lamenting- I only have Corvonia oils - you know for colds? Surprisingly I can tolerate it. Terrible nausea all day. Tried a small plate of food at lunchtime and threw half of it up. Thats all I've eaten... I honestly have no idea how I'll get through tomorrow at MIL. No idea. The food smells. The noise. The one toilet for seven of us. BIL lives there too and he's a smoker. .. Trouble is, if I refuse to go, DP will insist DS stays home which will be crap as MIL and BIL want to see him and he'd miss out on a lot. Sorry. Whiny.

Wish it was wine-y.

And to whoever upthread said she was fed up with these DPs who aren't sympathetic re HG, I really agree. Forty eight hours of how I feel right now - thats all I need him to experience cos it would change his world view a lot. I've never known DP to ever vomit or feel nauseated - honestly! He just doesn't understand.

worry poor you. It's really not on to have to be dragged around when you just want to hide in bed.

My DH is good but sometimes he just doesn't understand the smallest thing will set me off. I've had to stand on the balcony before because he's stunk the whole flat out and even the bedroom whiffs. I don't think anyone understands unless they have been through it! My mum keeps tut tutting that I am not eating veg and I am being childish at my reaction to fish. Nonononono even the thought sends me to the toilet!

Feel better soon and if you need to stay at home tomorrow do. DS and family will survive one Christmas dinner apart. Your health is more important.

I am being dense I am sure but why won't you DP take your son tomorrow and give you a break?

Ah living, there you have it... Officially, DP will be cooking the dinner as I'm in no fit state and he won't be able to do it with three year old DS running around without anyone watching him. [hmmm]

I really wish they would go and leave me alone but I don't think it'll happen.

Mind you. Bearing in mind the smell of one turkey has me barricaded as far away as possible with olbas oil and wide open windows, I'm fairly certain I simply won't be able to stand it... I think I'll phone mil tonight...

But...but. ...but....two other adults around including a doting MIL.... I'm not going to disparage the art of cooking a good Xmas dinner but he sounds like he's done most of the work already and bunging the whole lot in the oven at the other end

Rest today. Sorry your unsympathetic DP is being useless. My DH got a talking to by my doctors that he had to look after me and allow me to rest as much as possible and he will have to do the night feeds when the baby is born. He already was being great but the words from the doctor were helpful to bring it home. Any chance your gp could have a word or your mw with him?