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.

MOH's wonderful website is full of useful information on this illness:
sites.google.com/site/pregnancysicknesssos/
Another invaluable website is:
www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/
If you need help in obtaining medication, this phone number is
brilliant:
024 7638 2020

I would like to thank 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.

Im on metoclopramide too, I did a bit of research and in very basic terms is passes the food through your stomach quicker so it doesn't get a chance tc come back the other way. Ive had tummy ache and queasiness since taking them but its a lot of improvement from what I was feeling like before.

Thanks everyone the christening went well. Luckily it wasn't til 11am so I was able to get my horrid morning out of the way first. I had a few iffy moments but managed to get through it. I even had a ham sandwich and a cheese sandwich after!

Starting to really dread the mornings now, I'm wondering if thats just how its going to be or should I go back to to doctors and try something else?

worry I get very restless on metoclompramide too. skin prickles too, but mainly its the restlessness.

Food going through faster has its good side. Being preg slows down digestion, so my gyne said, and you can (and in my case have) got very bloated intestines due to slow food processing.

Some meds take a little bit of getting used to ... if the upset tummy isnt too bad, how about waiting 24 hours and seeing how it goes? i cant imagine it would be dangerous for the baby unless you have rampaging diarrhoea.

mrsb Its worth mentioning to the doc next time you see him. Know exactly what you mean about dreading the next time the nausea usually hits ..

I think a lot of us dread each day coming, until the nausea begins to lift.

Hi all. It's been a while since I've been here but wanted to see how everyone is and ask a question. My lovely boy is now 5 months old and the relief of not feeling so bloody awful any more when he was born was so epic.

But the last few weeks I've been feeling really ropey.. not pg (only dtd once with condom and ebf and on depo injection) but I've been feeling that hideous greyness and indescribable bubble in my tummy. Could it just be exhaustion? my lo is not a sleeper! Any idea what else itcould be? Is such a distinctive sickness, unlike tummy bugs etc. ...

Thanks meerka and mrsb I'll give it a few more days and see how it goes. I definitely dread the nausea. It's just so relentless - when it hits it takes over. The nasty taste in my mouth is bothering me today too (I'm whiny today!)

fl0b0t I've heard of sickness lasting after giving birth but not so much about it returning but not much surprises me about the persistent ways HG can affect you. You're right it is distinctive - I felt sick way before I got a positive test and put it down to a chemical pg as I felt so definitely pg sick with negative tests. For peace of mind Poas? It would reassure you if nothing else but it does sound like you took lots of precautions!

hello fl0 .... real deep exhaustion can make you feel really ill yes and drain all the colour out of life. I found after the first HG preg, I would get brief bursts of the same sort of nausea if I was utterly exhausted but compared to the misery of permanent sickness during the preg I didnt mind mostly, though it did give me flashbacks now and then. If your whole system is drained from no sleep it really affects you so badly and can screw with your hormones quite a bit so it's not all that surprising if you get a touch of the nausea and vomitting again.

If you're dead certain you're not preg it could well be exhaustion. But maybe worth checking with the doc just in case? alos, is there any chance you could get a break for 2 or even 1 nights .. husband looking after parents, in laws or something? then you going to stay with a friend or even a hotel?

or a simple bug, Fl0 , there's lots of wintery bugs about. Hope you feel better soon.

Hi all

glad you managed to get through the christening mrsb I think the worry attached to getting through any sort of event can make hg even worse ime. I remember trying to organise my sister's hen night from my hospital bed! (I even managed to make some of it thanks to my sil who is a dr and the injections of cyclizine- although I drew the line at going to a nightclub! ;)

meerka you must feel amazing after managing to go swimming. It is so nice to regain a bit of normality!

f10 sorry you have been feeling rough. I don't really have any experience of such distinct symptoms after pg although have def felt horribly sick when exhausted. Hope it passes quickly.

iworry yes think metachl is to do with increasing digestive transit time. Unfortunately it didn't really help me so I am probably not much help!

Beautiful photo jen hope you are getting on well. Such a gorgeous reminder of why what we have all been/through/ going through is so worth it eventually xx

Hope everyone else is doing as 'ok' as you can xx

big hugs to all and waves frantically to lucindae who I keep forgetting xx

hehe yes it was amazing :) so encouraging. Paid for it later in upchucking, but worth it! was so pleased the chlorine smell didnt bring on the vomitting there and then and delighted that apparently, I've not lost as much condition as expected.

Result! I think I managed to swim once or twice- always a worry re upchucking in pool and having disgruntled fellow swimmers having to leave pool whilst decontaminated

Morning
Meerka thats awesome that you made it swimming and enjoyed it! Used to go swimming and a class before this and I'm really missing it. Cant wait to get back to some kind of normality.

Having a rubbish morning again. Sick twice despite not eating anything. Evenna few sips of water didn't stay down. Rang the doctor for an appointment but nothing til tomorrow.

meerka yay! That's so encouraging. And well done mrsb on the christening. All encouraging signs :)

Well last weekend I ran a market stall with dh! Saturday and Sunday I was so pleased. Granted Saturday I nearly vomited on the way home and was asleep by 8 but it was so nice to do something positive rather than battle nausea all day. 24 weeks now and counting down. I figured out I will be in my last trimester soon wow.

And I had a burger king yesterday but it wasn't nearly as good as I hoped. Maybe UK burger king is better - the onion rings are that's for sure! The mahoosive diet coke was awesome though. I forgot how it just stopped my nausea and sicky taste dead. Been trying to stay away from stuff like that.

How is everyone this Monday?

Oh mrsb :( I take my pills last thing at night and when I was at my height it seemed to keep me going most of the day. I had the option of taking another one first thing in the morning as well if needed and I did that when I was working. The good thing at night is they a) kept the worse of the sickness and nausea away so I could sleep and b) I didnt puke them up the next morning. Something to discuss with your Gp?

Oh and I have hospital again today more tests. Get my liver results which hopefully will be back to normal. Yawn. Tired! Going to shower then head back to bed until I need to get up

Yea thanks living, I will mention it to them tomorrow when I go in. I've tried a few different techniques, taking meds last thing, taking meds at 6.30am, 6am and 4.30am (not the same day obvs!!)to give them chance to work and nothing has worked. I wake up every morning feeling like I've been spun on a roundabout at the park all night. By about 12/1ish I start feeling more human again and can start eating.

And meerka my belly button is still in but definitely much more shallow! I'm hoping it stays that way. Have a few stretch marks too :( no amount of moisturising seems to have prevented that. It could be worse though.

Fingers crossed your test results come back ok livingzuid x

Thanks mrsb I hope so I just I'm on antihistamine based and B6 medicine and don't know what the equivalent is in the UK. So perhaps there is an option of increasing your dosage but don't know. Are you able to keep food and drink down in the afternoon?

meerka I like swimming too. On the not so awful days I can manage half an hour before the nausea kicks in. I'm so glad the chlorine smell doesn't seem to be a trigger.

living Ooh, living on the edge- showering on a leave-the-house day! I'm still finding showering a particularly traumatic trigger. Post-mix diet coke is a massive hit here too. Not the bottles, nor the cans, only the stuff out of the machines. I swear that's what's keeping me out of hospital on bad days!
Also, good luck with the tests today.

mrsb I dread mornings too. So much so that I lie in bed for them whenever possible. If I delay getting up till the afternoon I vomit less, and sometimes avoid the morning bile run.

Considering asking the consultant for some ondansetron next week, but not sure as i'm managing OK with the metoclopramide when itvstays down, it's just the horrid nausea. Any downsides of ondansetron ladies?

oh gl with the tests living ... and wow at managing the market stall all day :)

mrsb i hope the doc can help tomorrow, give you something else that might help more

Keep looking at the pic of Jen's baby ... so lovely

petit I think others here took it for longer than I did, so they know more. The main downside I know of is awful constipation, some people ended up taking movicol ( a gentle but effective laxative). But it was worth it to reduce the N + V.

I ddint take it for long, but tbh found that nothing helped much with the nausea :( But it's worth trying!

Hi everyone

I was on here a few weeks ago as I'd been throwing up about 6 times a day, and had been prescribed cyclizine. I managed to survive without taking any (having been advised by a pharmacist to avoid if at all possible, and backed up by my fear of reacting to medication which I've done in the past). Anyway, I am still throwing up 1-3 times a day, but I had been prescribed vitamin D tablets as my levels are very very low, and after taking one I ended up vomiting 6 times that day again. Is anyone else finding vitamins make them worse?
I'm now 14+3 and suffering from nipple shocks! I'm not sure what's worse...that or the vomming!!

Me too petit isn't it strange, tap diet coke only. In fact I'm going to treat myself to one this afternoon after the doctors!

Ive heard of bad reactoins to some vitamins, im afraid cant quite remember if vit D is one of them .. but it sounds like you need it.

Im afraid pharmacists and many doctors trot out the party line about no meds but if you actually look at the studies, and they are mostly free on the net, there is no adverse outcome to taking the recommended meds. If you've had a severe reaction to one med, then yes ones like that shoudl be avoided but that wasnt the case for you and cyclizine was it?

I do note that pharmacists and many doctors tend to forget that dehydration is bad for the foetus and so is high levels of the stress hormone cortisol. A more balanced, rational approach that takes into account the actual person they are treating would be lovely.

Anyway, more importantly, have you got Ketostix to check your dehydratoin levels? those -are- really important. If your vit levels are low, that's kind of worrying too, have they tested for them all? it might be worth askign for a full vitamin levels check, if they do such a thing

Petit
I didn't get on with ondansetron, the constipation was horrendous and seemed to make the nausea worse, however I had no other real problems with it. Once I'm off pred I'll probably use it if I'm having a vomit day but it didn't help the nausea at all while I was taking it. I do think it's worth trying though, it's the best anti-emetic I've used.

Flob0t Lovely to hear from you, I remember you well, you kept on working somehow and even using public transport, though fainting sometimes...I've never come across this, as others say, it can linger a bit after birth, but I 've never heard of it going altogether and then returning unless the women is pregnant again, but in your case, surely that's unlikely using all that birth control? Really sorry you feel so bad. What Meerka says about exhaustion with a sleepless baby sounds like an excellent suggestion, I had a sleepless one - I used to feel tearful at times - I wonder if it's worth enquiring of your health visitor about sleep clinics? I think you can train a baby to sleep from six months, so if you booked a place now, you could at least look forward to that. They may have changed the technique since so long ago when I used one.
Interesting, Livingzuid and Others about diet coke, it was full sugar coke for me - and flat - trust me to be awkward.
All these swimmers here -very energetic and brave too.
mrsB87Sorry you're having such a bad morning, good idea to see doctor about new meds. I wonder if using up energy might have made things worse? It's so unfair, but even attempting to do normal things like attending the christening can exhaust you. and really feel for you and petitelapinparticularly about the bile run.
Iworry How is the stomach today? (silly question, but I mean about the aching).
Chaffinch You must be on the home waddle now, as a 'home run' doesn't exactly seem an appropriate term.
elizabeth'smum Waves back (grin). It's lovely to have you, don't worry about mother hen.
Apologies to anyone overlooked.
xx