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.

Your prof sounds amazing punk! that is how we should be treated, not by sending us away to get worse!

Well in my world, I'm now 22w and everything is still good, no sickness and I've been discharged from the clinic saying everything should go as normal now. I do have a chest infection with violent coughs that verge on throwing up but it's so far from the hg problems it's minor in relation to it. Keep going everyone, eat whatever you can and relies that it will all be worth is someday soon xxxcx

There needs to be UK guidelines for medical professionals to follow so everyone is getting the same level of care. There are - here It is just getting doctors to follow them :(

Your prof sounds a star. Barely able to stand? god, punk that is bad :( Really hope you turn a corner and get the improvement so many of us do.

Glad you feeling a bit better now - well, a lot better? - tallyra

20+3 weeks here, 19+4 to go. Evenings still miserable, i ought to go to bed in early evening but force myself to stay up becuase I'm so tired of the bedroom. On the good side, I sleep better than for years.

Just back from the hospital. Bp was a bit lower. Have discovered though that I have an infection. Just another thing to add to the list.
That would explain alot of the pain.
Walking through Costco earlier i experienced loads of really painful Braxton hicks. They are so much more frequent now and always hurt. I honestly think this baby is going to come earlier than expected. The docs and midwives have said all along that baby is measuring weeks ahead. I have a growth scan soon so we shall see!

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Meerka, I'd definitely get to bed earlier and make the most of the sleep while you can. You need as much rest as possible. Plus when I got to the 27/28 week mark it started to get really difficult to sleep at all despite feeling like I was going to pass out with tiredness constantly.
Now at 34 wks I rarely get any shut eye and its miserable.

Oh christ sally are the hospital treating the infection??? please say yes.

I will go to bed a bit earlier yes. Im lucky in that we put arrangements for child care in place as soon as we knew I was preg, given how it was last time, so in fact I don't have to do much childcare (much as I miss him :( ) and do actually nap each day. Not much choice about it actually - when little Lucky wants a nap, my eyelids close.

But I know I should go to bed earlier, you're right.

Please let us know about getting the infection treated. Uterine infectoins are ... scary.

Sorted with antibiotics and then hopefully it'll be plain sailing from now on!

Thank you for letting us know ... fingers very much crossed for you!

Oh sally hope the infection clears soon.

meerka get thee to bed early missus. I reckon I'll be hitting the hay after x-factor!

So today I've felt MUCH better which makes me think it was deffo a bug. However I think I over-ate at lunchtime and felt gross all evening. I really struggled at dinner time then dd filled her nappy so I had to toddle off for a few heaves. Thank god DH is here to take care of dirty nappies. Fingers crossed all the weekday ones will be when she's at nursery or her grandparents

The smell thing is ridiculous. I remember last time wretching at the smell of frozen bread in the freezer - wtf - that doesn't even register on my sniff-o-meter usually!!

After DD us in bed I'm sending him to the shop for jelly, boiled sweets, tinned fruit and lollies.

Happy sick-free Saturday night girls!

Oh and also I meant to ask do you test your own ketones?? If so, how? And if they are "bad" do you go to the docs??

And I've had a big chat with DH today and said I'm not being dramatic and just need him to step up and help me rather than tutting and rolling his eyes. I told him about ketones and said it could all get hairy and that seemed to put the fear of god in him to the trick and he's now being very attentive

glad to hear about your DH. maybe prod him to take a look at this site? www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/

with HG he'll be lucky if you manage anything.

crazy - I was going to say same as meerka show him some stuff online and make him see what it is really like.

I too have/had smell thing. last pg I was convinced there was a weird smell in the house. I had rugs washed, carpets cleaned, dog bathed in eucalyptus shampoo (to his disgust). still stank to me! this time when I get in shower and get wet initially its like all my skin smells of onion or something. weird.

I found that my, erm, bits smelled all rubbery before. Most unpleasant odd. Though DH reckoned nothing had changed. I feel like a fricking werewolf most of the time - sniffing the air like a right weirdo.

Sally
That sounds rotten. I hope everything gets under control soon and the anti-biotics help. At least the BP isn't high! I am so envious of you being at 34 weeks but then I appreciate how long you have been struggling for and another 4-8 weeks still seems like an eternity.

Meerka
Prof RT has given me my sanity. The first thing he said to me was
'HG is a horrible horrible condition, truly terrible ' just that alone made me feel better, the fact he understood it's really shitty.

Good work on sorting childcare....I was so not prepared but got it sorted in the end. Hope you get more rest soon :-) glad you're getting some daytime nap time.

Tallyra
Brilliant news. I am remaining positive I will be in your position in a number of weeks.

Lucinda
I love that you have created this sanctuary....we are not alone. Although in 'the dark days' I felt too unwell to consider 'chat' online. I must have significantly improved in comparison :-) Sometimes you don't realise until you reflect back on the fact you lived in your pit for a month and only left to vomit. I frequent many house rooms these days, progress!

CT
Hehehe that made me chuckle.

I went in the bath t'other day (it's not a daily occurrence) and even looking at the clear water made me dry heave....I think this is because I can't drink still water. Weirdly this is because as it has no smell, I can smell the inside of the glass.
This is our super power ladies frickin' ridiculous sense of smell. Not the one I'd choose tbh.

yep I still have to try really hard to open the freezer because of the smell of ''freezer'' and the feel of cold wet icy bread. BOAK!!

Thursday - in chemist ask them for ketostix - about £3-£4 for a big tin. little paper sticks. you wee on one end. the darker purple = the more dehydrated you are.
If you are 3+ or more call for an emergency docs appointmet at your out of hours/ get emerg apt with normal doc

I also feel like a werewolf :-) due to my hairiness and overall sweatiness and fast growing eyebrows

Know the hairy feeling...
I have facial hair! Since the steroids, I've grown man side burns. OH denied their presence but I think he's being polite. Worse because I'm v pale and my hair is a shade lighter than black.

Hugs to all, Punkstar I am so glad this thread is helpful, it's awful you were so alone for that month, looking at a pc screen can make it worse when really bad. Meerka Do get some much needed rest, great links as always, and Tallyra I am so glad you feel so much better, it's lovely to hear that,your sufferings were horrible. Sally I do hope infection clears up soon, that's horrible, and CrazyThursdayYou can buy kesostix from a chemists (or online, but that might take longer) and as Chaffinch says, the instructions are very easy to follow, you just pee on them (if you become really dehydrated, of course, that is not easy) and see what colour they go and match it up to the chart and if it's 3* ketones you should go to AandE for admission for IV.
Re: smell I thought my OH stank of roast pork. I used to hold a lavender sachet to my nose in bed. I'm afraid he wasn't allowed near my parts to pass an opinion on them (though I noticed, as I said below, that they were blue!)
xx

Hi all!

On the bath front, weirdly when I was unable to drink water I actually fancied drinking bath water. Wtf was going on there!?

Been up with DS every night for the last week....again I repeat ..wtf is going on there??

He has a full- blown cold now so has an excuse tonight.

Had a scan today. It's deffo a girl! The secretary remembered me from week 7 when I stumbled through the door, clung onto the desk and employed some deep breathing to stop myself from vomming everywhere!

Hugs and vomm free vibes to all!

bleurgh. ate another dinner last night and threw up violently at 5am after feeling pants all night. maybe my system isnt ready. worried i am ill though. or have somehow managed to get food poisoning.

Just popped in to say, off to hospital again, Braxton hicks and bleeding. Maybe he is going to make an appearance early like we thought!

Xxx

Oh gosh sally! will be thinking of you!!

totes congratulatoins on your little girl ... that's lovely!

eggy take it easy today ... do your taste buds give you any idea of what you'd like to eat? (or at least, give you an idea can faintly endure the thought of eating) Maybe a bit of that would help rather than a full dinner

Sally Goodness, I will be thinking of you, like everyone.
Eggy Oh no, a virus would be nasty, but so would a relapse. I hope it's a minor glitch.
Totes You made an impression on the secretary, then . I knew someone with Hyperemesis who staggered into her son's school office and was sick all over the pc, so that it stopped working. Well, you have to laugh...
Hope Everyone is OK today.

bleurgh sick again and feel awful - like its a bug

sal hope its good news soon