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.

IWorry Oh no! You poor, poor thing. One loo betwen seven - I so agree you shouldn't have to socialise, and I so agree with Livingzuid that a talking to by a doctor might be just the thing - if only this happened as a matter of course. I suppose he wouldn't read any of the information about this -he's never had a stomach bug or a severe hangover? This is so unlucky...
Meerka Had to laugh about the winding tinsel round sick bowls idea -
. I think that might make unsympathetic visitors sit up and take notice!
I hope Everyone survived yesterday.

xx

I hope Everybodyis still alive after such a dismal Christmas and I hope nobody in hospital? Did anybody manage to have a halfway reasonable one?
xx

Hi all! Mine was lovely thank you. DS was thrilled to have the attention of both sets of grandparents and being busy helped to distract me from sickness. Horse looks like a hippo after all of the rain we have had. Feel very fortunate to not be flooded like Surrey.

How was yours Lucinda?

Please help. Very nauseous. Vomiting a lot. Feeling destroyed. I have an appointment with epau today for a reassurance scan re repeat miscarriages. Do you think thy will be able to help? What should I be looking for? Ketones have been between 2+ and 3+ for last few days but have had a big push overnight to nibble and sip as i felt so bad so for first time in about three days they were at zero this morning. In the past cyclizine and prochlorperizne (sp?) haven't worked. Ondansetron stops me vomiting but leaves me very nauseous. Any advice would be gratefully received.

IWorry
Having bad nausea is worse than vomiting I feel. I've had terrible nausea for the past couple of days too :-(
I had the same experience with ondansetron and no other anti-emetic gave any relief either.
Have you weighed yourself?
More than a 5% weight loss is an indication for further assessment as well as ketones.
I would definitely mention it on EPAU, if they have any concerns they will get one of the O&G Drs to see you.

Combinations of anti-emetics can help. In my last pregnancy I wasn't severe enough to require steroids and nothing helped, I felt really miserable and pretty stuck. Sometimes some iv fluids and anti-emetics can help settle things for a while though....
Prednisolone has been the only thing to give me any respite this time but I had lost a lot of weight with very little to spare...I've even got little ridges now along my nails called Beau's lines signifying a time of malnutrition :-(

I really hope you get assessed properly today with some further help, it's horrible in the first trimester and you have lots of empathy from me, hope today goes well with the scan too xx

Punkstar Excellent advice, can only echo it. In fact I didn't know that they used that level of weight loss as in indicator, it shows how negligent they were years ago.
Iworry Really sorry you feel so desperate, like Punkstar I do hope you got some help today. Those pesky ketones were high enough at times for an admission, then - congratulations on getting them down to zero, that must have taken willpower. As Punkstar says, so many women have to have a cocktail of medicines and I hope they try something as well. I hope scan was reassuring.
Totes Thanks it was largely vegetarian - DD has been vegetarian some time - no disgusting birds in birds anyway.
xx

sorry to hear you are so ill iworry :( it's horrendous ... I don't know if anything helps the nausea as punkstar says. Punk the nails sound worrying ... what do the doctors say?

I hope you can both find some respite ...

Hey all. Kind of a stressful holiday, but hopefully over now. I'm just tired and very sore. I'm shattered. Sorry to hear others are suffering.

Hello all, sounds like a mixed Christmas, I was ok on Christmas Day and managed to eat a prope turkey dinner - a Christmas miracle! - but downhill ever since. Feeling terrible today and been sick twice. I knew I shouldn't have tried the Christmas cake...

sally I hope your baby hangs on in there a bit longer!

And yes we will all have wonderful, vomit free Christmases next year...!

yes here's to Christmas next year!!

puked xmas and boxing mornings - bah humbug. have figured out though I don't puke on workdays because Im up that much earlier eating brekkie so morning vom = the going price for a lie in

fancy some tonic water but not got any dagnabbit.
hope all ok this eve

punkstar thank you fir your words, Lucinda and meerka too.

Hopefully being admitted tomorrow - my mums flying here in the morning to look after ds as dp doesn't feel he can cope on his own

Feeling utterly destroyed in so many ways.Sorry. am sure I'll perk up a bit soon...

ah bless you worry
everythings better when your mum's there
some fluids will really perk you up. Hope you feel better X

Evening all

Sorry everybody is suffering so bad. I'm not great but coping. It's moving day tomorrow! Been so full of busy I'm exhausted. Belly dropped and think baby is engaged. I'm going to have to make sure that the nursery is the first room that is put back together!

Having quite a bit if slimy discharge (sorry for tmi) wondering if this is my mucus plug or not. Quite nervous now and just hoping all is done before he comes.
Will keep you guys posted :-)

Hugs to all xxx

I do hope today goes ok sally and you survive without too much discomfort.

Iworry, thinking of you and hoping the hospital admissoin goes ok. Rehydration via iv really does help.

Nowhere near as bad as you two, but getting tired of being housebound. Not being able to go to the xmas meal was a bit dispiriting. Did at least manage to get some maternity trousers yesterday which are so so much more comfy than old outsize jeans.

Still can't do much with our lovely little 5 year old and that really gets to me. Carry on carrying oh huh

meerka I know how you feel about not doing much with your older child - I had a little cry yesterday about feeling like a rubbish mum to DD ATM but lovely dh and my mum reminded me that she's happily playing with her dad, gps, aunts and uncles and always gets a cuddle with me when she wants one so not to worry, and I'm sure the same is true for your little one. Btw how far along are you? I'm going to need to dig out the maternity clothes soon and only 8+5!

iworry thinking of you - glad your mum can help out, hope they can give you something in hospital that helps.

Does anyone else have a real problem with the smell of people? Specifically - your dh?! My poor husband normally smells lovely, and it's not a bo smell or anything, but to me he now just smells really really strongly and it's horrible! I feel terrible because I had to tell him and I can hardly hug him or anything. This happened in my last pregnancy too but I'm sure it's worse this time. Please tell me it's not just me!

22 weeks and 3 days now, 17 and 4 1/2 to go. And the Bump is big. I was getting afraid that if I went out, my jeans were going to, ahem, drop to the floor and leave my buttocks on show. But I just could -not- get to the shops before now. So considerable embarassment is saved, plus I got to go out, even if I paid for it later.

YES abut the smells. Now things have improved it's not quite so bad but yes. The poor man could hardly come in the bedroom at its worst. Certainly had to sit at the end of the bed, not the top. Somebody said that even their little daughter was triggering the nose-reflex, which is really sad. An adult can understand, a kid can't :( The smell, the vile mouth-taste and the excess saliva are unlovely little bonuses to HG :( All three seem to happen quite often to people with HG.

Thank you! Our whole bedroom has the horrible smell - and when he gets into bed at night I have to turn away / put duvet over my face to breathe... It makes me heave! That would be terrible if LO had the same effect for me men are the worst, can't sit next to a man, reeetch...

Ps Hurrah for being over halfway there woohoo!

Only 32 weeks to go here...

Husband and I sleep in separate rooms atm because of just that reason. The smell used to wake me up and yep, it was time for the bucket.

and yes, thank god it's at this stage. it still seems an awful long way to go but little Lucky and I have come a long way already through the grim days.

are you marking off the days on a calendar?

Iworry Really sorry about hospital admission and I do so hope the IV makes you feel a lot better and that they work out some effective meds - I'm afraid it wouldn't be Christmas on this thread without one unlucky sufferer being admitted or needing to be - but next year you will be the lucky ones, eating Christmas dinner with a baby. So glad your mother is on her way. Do keep us updated if you can.
SliceofLime and Meerka I so agree about the smell of OH's - truly puke making, mine stank of roast pork, I couldn't bear it - I would be right across the other side of the bed with a lavender satchet pressed to my
nose - he got the general idea.
SliceofLimeGood about Christmas dinner - sorry about Christmas cake - Meerka Lol about jeans dropping! That would have been spectacular! Sorry you feel bad, so glad you are over halfway. Don't be guilty about LO - mother hen has seen on these threads how resilient they are - and soon enough he'll have a sibling and that's priceless. From my daughter's point of view I wish I had gone for it again.
Sally Never TMI on here -I wonder if that was the mucus plug? I hope baby delays just a bit longer...
ChaffinchAh, that Bile Run is vile - oh dear, that sounds like bad poetry - lol about 'Bah humbug'!
Jen Have a good rest. You are now officially allowed to become huge bellied and apathetic...
Everyone Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.
xx

Oh Lucinda, I am most definitely big bellied and totally pathetic. Starting to realise how little time I have left before it all happens, and making lists of things I need to do before then (like wash all the baby clothes).

I bought non-bio washing powder - I can just use that for my washing as well, can't I? Or do I need to run a tandem service here?

Heading on Wednesday for my spa night with my mum (it is her 60th) and really looking forward to that. Other than that, I shall be working through my list and panicking about everything, and reading lots on my kindle from various prone positions to avoid further groin strain.

I'm at 33 weeks now - can't believe how close I am to the end!

Also, I understand that the OH smell thing is totally natural. When you are ttc (because your body is always ttc even if you are not), you are attracted to the smell of those whose DNA is different to your own, to ensure a good healthy child. But when you become pregnant, you are repulsed by that very same smell (as you don't need him any more, lol) and more attracted (normally) to those who share your DNA (like your other children) to prepare you to bond with your child. All very feral...

Oh! is that what it is :)

chuckles poor husband. YOu bastard, you made me this fucking sick. YOU REPULSE ME!

Yup totally with you all re smelly OH. When he comes to stay at my Da's house, we set up a camp bed for him to sleep in, he's not smelly but it's other people's breath full stop, can't have someone breathing on me through the night, ooo and would be way too hot. Even the smell of The Little Boy made me vom Christmas morn, he was a bit snotty and sticky to look at though...

During the Dark Days even walking back into the bedroom where I'd been sleeping would make me vomit because I could smell that I'd been breathing in there all night!! Crazy shit this HG.

17 weeks now, seeing obs next week....not really sure anything special will happen but I suppose The Prof is only looking after me and not the wee bab. Prob get a growth scan or something further down the line?

I got some mat clothes t'other day but ordered all on line (ASOS....free returns!) so could try on in comfort of own home, however mostly just sticking with PJs at the mo :-)