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.

So glad everything was ok with your scan living! Xx

Congratulations living!!!

Tallyra and Meerkaand Jen Hugs. It is too bad when it comes back again, like an unwelcome visitor. Jen Oh dear at the thought of ketones, how are the liquidsstaying down?
What I hate to say it, but when women are at their worst, even looking at a screen can set it off, as you say. Old fashioned books and magazines seem better than screens for reading, but magazines seem to smell so strong! Sometimes the lying down helps that a teeny bit.
IWorryAre you any better today?
SallyYou poor thing, the strange feeling sounds hopeful, I'm hoping for a quick relief for you over the weekend.
Chaffinch 'Turning the Titanic' I hope he meant the difficulty of the operation of turning, not the size of your bump ?
MurderofGoths Waves.
Livingzuid Still delighted at your news.
Apologies to anyone rudely ignored.
xx

SliceofLime Mother hen meant to ask when GP apointment to ask for meds?
xx

Liquids are staying down ok, Lucinda, it is just that when I feel so queasy I don't eat. Which I know is bad.

Living - good news on the scan and the girl! You get to talk names now!

Other than that, nothing to report from here. OH is off work today so it is nice to spend some time with him.

I don't know yet Lucinda, the trouble is that I'm staying with my parents so I'm a long way from my GP, so I don't know whether I should try and talk to him on the phone if I'm allowed (don't know if i need a proper appt) or whether I should try and see a GP here as a visiting patient. I'm also still not sure if meds will help as the others seemto be saying they don't help much with the nausea just the throwing up, and I'm doing on that score, it's been nearly a week now since the last time. It's the constant nausea that's my problem really, so I don't know what to do. Dither dither!

Hi all, can I re-join this thread please? I joined a couple of months ago, but our internet went down due to cable theft in our village and has only been restored a couple of days ago, so I have been out of touch with the outside world for ages!
I'm now 20+3 and we had out scan yesterday which despite my terror (due to previous losses) went really well and so far everything as good as can be, which was a huge relief. I cried, DH cried and then I was sick on the sonographer's shoes . The glamour of hg.
I still feel awful and have been signed off work until birth on the advice of both our consultant and GP, although I've managed to stay out of hospital for several weeks now .

StarsintheNightSky Welcome back - what an awful thing about being deprived of IT for s long due to that thieving. Really sorry you are still suffering, but maybe it will ease yet. So glad scan went well, hugs about other losses, were they late on, that's awful? What meds are you on?
Let's hope the medic can claim the shoes on insurance !
SliceofLIme That's a difficult one. I don't often recommend this, but I wonder - I know I was greatly helped by Acupunture - but it was so expensive, and how far it is effective varies from person to person. It helps most people a bit, but not usually as much as me - I arrived in an alarming state, was able to keep water down after treatment, eat the next day, so where there is mainly nausea, it might just do the trick, but as I say, it ate up my savings.
Jen Would a return to the salty or sweet stuff that so often seems to be the only bearable thing early on - nibbles of crisps,jelly etc be worth a try ? Feel free to tell me if I'm talking s*e!
Hugs to all.
xx

Lucinda thanks! It did get pretty tedious, particularly as it came at the stage when I could just start looking at screens again. Grrrrr! Thanks, I'm still trying to keep positive about it ending, and as my GP is fond of saying, it is a resolving condition at around 40 weeks. She had HG herself so has been absolutely brilliant.
I'm on metoclopramide for the time being as I'm either strongly allergic to the others or have very bad side effects from them, such as horrendous paranoia and anxiety to the point that I was hiding by the side of the bed shaking when DH was at work, and normally I'm pretty laid back. The last one left to try other than this is steroids, but the consultant doesn't want to try that as apparently they stand quite a high chance of worsening the other complications I have. Not sure if that's correct, but our GP seems to agree and she's normally very quick to argue with the consultant. It is bearable at the minute though, I think I'm just having another bad couple of weeks. About two weeks ago it seemed a bit better. I do worry about taking metoclopramide as it seems to be one of the least proven safe ones, but without it I'm in hospital, so I'm not really sure what to do.
Thanks, it was such a relief to see that he was ok (we found out he's a boy, although we were pretty sure anyway due to red cabbage and bicarb tests and I really wanted a son, which sounds like an awful thing to say as I would have been thrilled whatever). They were fairly early on, except one 2nd tri loss in July of last year, which was 2 days after our wedding day. Still, we're past the point of our latest loss, if that makes sense, so I'm trying hard to stay positive and not to over-analyse whilst being alert.

Living, congratulations! Lovely news.

No I mean like if I look at a bin lorry or think about some foods I am sick. It's so weird. My husband suggested rubs for tea and I was sick out of no where

RIBS!

LivingZuid
Glad the scan went well, congrats! Have mine on Monday, mostly excited but worried at the same time...

What
Ah yes up until around 14 weeks any visual stimulation/noise/ or chat about food made nausea worse. Even a comment on my FB page asking for restaurant recommendations made me vomit.... It's less insane now but more through time than anything helping it.

Really sorry that people are having relapses, HG really is a marathon and so bloody unpredictable. I'm pretty bored of the whole thing now and long to have my life back....

Sorry about the relapses too. I had a mini one that has just stuck around. just read the BBC article about the natural killer cells treatment for women who have recurrent miscarriages...the theory that their bodies go into overdrive and treat foetuses like a virus. One wonders if HG is our bodies going into overdrive about being poisoned.

what Before I got put on the right medication I couldn't even look in the direction of the kitchen, it's amazing how small a thing would set off the vomiting.

Murder what meds are you on? The ones I am on are called prochloraperazine maleate or something like that and they are working but I am still nowhere near normal. Scared to try something else though.

God this page is amazing. yes to vomit in mouth thinking about some restaurants.

A bin lorry drove past me yesterday and the reaction that my body had was almost frightening

I'm on Ondansetron and Prednisilone, I was still vomiting on all of the other pills. Ondansetron was the only one that stopped the vomiting, but the nausea didn't stop until they started me on the Prednisilone.

Stars That hiding by bed sounds truly awful - I have had metoclopramide not for Hyperemesis, but for the violent puking with my migraines - I find it makes the acidity worse so a double edged sword, but I am so glad it helps you. It does seem to help a lot of people. Hugs about loses, particularly a second tri one after your wedding day - couldn't be more upsetting. Tallyra On here had three miscarriages before this preg and I know Totes has had a couple, too. I found just one mmc really upsetting.

Punkstar The best of luck for your scan, I am sure you won't need it.
What and MurderofGoths You are so right about the sight of some things - the fridge , becomes a thing of dread...
I hope Sally has the baby before the end of the weekend, and I am sure she does, too, slightly.
Jen Meerka and everyone suffering a relapse - Chaffinch did you say one had hit? I hope you feel a bit better today.
Iworry How are things?
xx

Lucinda I loathed the fridge!

I'm on day two of the lower dose of steroids and, touch wood, I'm doing ok.

Thank you so much everyone. Still very overwhelmed. I spent literally all evening sobbing. There was the Voice Kids (Dutch version) with a little boy who sang Fix You so beautifully for his mum who died of stomach cancer and they played that at her funeral (pleased to say he got through!). I was inconsolable for about an hour, and as soon as my eyes dried then an advert for a charity saving animals came on and set me off again. I wouldn't let go of the dog for the rest of the night I thought I got off lightly on the hormones but oh my goodness this last week has been crazy!

I can't get over that it's a girl either, I was so sure it was a boy so goes to show how much I know! We have the names already but I am debating over 1 middle name compared to two. If it had been a boy we would have been sorted but the girl name we want + also wanting something from each side of the family is proving a challenge and I don't know if 2 middle names is ott. My brother has two so I don't know why I am in such a dither about it. Worrying over nothing hehehe.

stars how awful for you. I had to ask the sonographer to stop yesterday as she was right in my belly button and nausea was going out of control. Although my contract has ended I have been told not to work until after the pregnancy by every single one of my doctors (I have 3 different consultants for various illnesses) so we need to follow their advice and try and relax! Such lovely news on you having a boy :)

slice can you phone your GP and see what they say? A lot do phone appointments I think, or there may be a walk in clinic. There is one at my parents that I have used which saw patients out of area.

Horrible nausea all afternoon and evening. Can't move from sofa. I had a nap and woke up feeling dreadful with a headache too. Have drunk lots of water and eaten. Does this a happen to anyone else?

Vile taste in mouth as well :(

Living, that sounds very familiar. The taste is horrible.

Lucinda I must have looked ridiculous, thank goodness nobody witnessed that! I agree about the acidity, but for me at the minute the trade-off seems to be worth it, hopefully it will stay that way. It's really good to hear you've taken it too, I don't know of anyone else who has been on it for any reason. Thanks, our 2nd tri los was an mmc and I found that extremely tough, and I'm really sorry to hear about your loss too. All losses are horrendous, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy but I never realised how frighteningly common it was until it happened to us.

living great news about you finding out about your little girl and your scan going well! Thanks! I'm very excited I agree about the resting, and I do notice that the hg gets much worse if I try to do anything. Urgh, the scans really do get the sickness going don't they? I think some of it is the worry beforehand too. Our sonographer was a really snotty little madam too which made me feel less bad about her shoes .
Sorry to hear you're feeling so rubbish today, if it's any comfort I often get really bad headaches after naps, they're sort of over and behind my eyes and my forehead. I have found that having a few very sugary drinks helps, either decaff tea with lots of sugar or lucozade or something like that. Hope you feel a bit better soon though.

Stars, I was on metaclopramide along with ondansetron for a good while, and it helped me. Wondering if I should take some now, actually.

I have had a rubbish day. I slept really badly last night, waking up at 4am gasping for peptac liquid and feeling like I might die, then having difficulty getting back to sleep, not to mention baby kicking me in the bladder.

I have been knackered all day, I ate a toasted pancake for breakfast, which came straight back up - immediately. So then I hardly ate anything, a few bites of chicken and rice (leftovers) and then some chips at dinnertime, which left me feeling kind of woozy and tired as well as sick. I did have some lucozade to ensure I was getting some calories into me.

Went to bed early but woke up hungry/sick, so I have had some toast and warm milk and I am waiting to see how they sit with me before I try going back to bed. And I am tired.

MurederofGoths Keeping my fingers crossed about the lower dose, I don't want to congratulate you too soonbut it seems very encouraging .
Jen You poor poor thing, this is too bad at this stage - thank goodness you aren't forcing yourself into work at least. Rest as much as you can. Lucozade seems an excellent idea.
Tallyra Hugs. Is that dismal relapse continuing? SliceofLime IWorry and What Meerka and everyone hugs.
Livngzuid That is awful - those sickening headaches, migraines, seem to be set off by hormonal surges or something.
Stars I had some humiliating Public Puking experiences - in bins (they didn't have covers where I lived then) etc. I'm so glad you punished the sonographer if she was like that, regard it as an act of karmic retribution! I know what you mean about sugary drinks - I often say - people must be sick of hearing it - how I swear by flat full sugar coke. Also - but I think SliceofLime had a bad experience with this - the juice of tinned fruit. I*m glad you can face tea sometimes - life without tea seems a bit empty...
xx

Hi all, still here and fully pregnant. In lots if pain, extremely breathless and as I'm stuck in bed again due to my M.E I'm having lots of pain in my legs and back.
Still having irregular contractions and cramps.
Rang the hospital this morning as I'm really not coping very well at all.
Feel like an idiot for asking to speak to the doctor on duty and breaking into full blown tears on the phone trying to explain my situation..
He really didnt seem bothered that I'm struggling to catch my breath and its really scary. Even the midwife that put me through to him sounded like she felt I was being a pest. I overheard her talking to him before she passed over the phone and it wasn't pleasant.
He basically said there was nothing he would do and it was up to my consultant, who I could probably see tomorrow. they are going to call me with an appointment apparently, as yet 2 hours later I'm still waiting for a call back.
Really fed up :-(