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.

Sorry to not write properly as can't read up screen. Somehow water got onto my laptop and screen no longer wants to turn on! Hoping it's unfixable and then insurance will pay for a new one

Waving gently to all the new ladies on the thread. You will get lots of tlc and great advice here to help through these dark days.

Re heartburn and acid, I was in tears with this the other night. Dh got me Rennies but the taste is not good. Just coming up to 25 weeks and it's really getting bad.

jen so pleased it is going well :)

And chaffinch

I should add though if you can stomach them try out something like Rennies they did help.

livingzuid You poor thing, it's awful the heartburn was that bad. There is something you can get on prescription for it, but I have stupidly forgotten its name. I shouldn't have,but besides rinsing my teeth in the bicarbonate of soda solution, sometimes I drank a bit for the acidity - though I know it's not good, being so salty. That'd be good, about your Pc.
Mrsb I hope the improvement continues.
How is Everyone?
xx

Hi, dropping back in, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday with severe dehydration after some very bad days at weekend, I ended up being admitted due to significant weight loss in which I've lost nearly a 5th of my body weight and my bmi has dropped to 15! I'm being monitored very closely now!
I'm getting annoyed with friends telling me I've got to eat it's just morning sickness! Even sips of water weren't staying down! Think I'm finding it hard as I'm the first of friends to have a baby!
On the up 12weeks tomorrow and scan on Tuesday! :-)

livingzuid you need ranitidine on prescription. Wonderful stuff! It works for ages and has been used in pregnancy for yonks so v. v. safe. I took it the entire way through.

newlywed poor you. Are you still in hospital? A BMI of 15 is dreadful, were you already very slim to start with? I'm glad they are keeping a close eye now. Have you tried the 'food replacement' drinks (e.g. Ensure)? They prescribed them to me after my third admission in a fortnight and though they are not very nice and I did throw them up they definitely helped. They are v. easy to absorb and have loads of calories (especially the '4-cal ones' which I think you can only get in hospital) so even if you throw them up after a bit you have a chance of getting something first.

I came out of hospital last night, it was so nice to be back in my bed last night! I've tried those drinks but they just won't stay down but I'm very funny with what I can drink!
I am currently managing on very strong ribena, toast in the morning, sandwich at lunchtime and things like butter pasta or jacket potatoes with cheese. Throughout the day I'm eating a packet of biscuits, and a few plain crips!
When in hospital I put a kg back on just through being rehydrated.

Newlywed My goodness, lost one fifth of your body weight? BMI 15? I'm as horrified as Kalidasa I'm so sorry you've been suffering so horribly. It's been a while since we heard from you, I was wondering how you are. Did they refuse effective meds or was it a case of nothing working? Advise those friends to do a bit of research on Hyperemesis - and even with nasty MS you can't exactly eat the way they suggest, anyway!
Kalidasa Waves. That was the stuff, what a muddlehead I am!
xx

newlywed I'm glad you're out. I threw those drinks up too, to be honest just even thinking about them makes me remember the taste of throwing them up! (Not really looking forward to trying to face them again a second time round!) But they did make me feel a bit better when I had eaten (and retained) nothing for three weeks so was in a state of total starvation. It's great that you're managing to keep some bread and biscuits down. I also found bread was one of the first things I could sometimes retain. Especially v. soft bread like croissant. Oddly I found nutella was the safest thing to put on it. I had some success with peanut M&Ms as well. Weird!

Crikey newlywed, sounds like you've had a hell of a time of it. I'm sorry your friends havn't been supportive, get them a link to an info page and send it to them? I did that with a few people because as you say they just think its morning sickness and think you need to suck it up and get on with it.

I'm a little concerned about the effect this is having on my work, I text my manager this morning about booking a week off in July and considering I havn't seen her in over 3 weeks she didn't even ask how I was doing....hmm. not sure if I'm overreacting.

oh goodness newlywed how horrible. Are they monitoring you very closely?

I do hope things improve .. you do have meds?

kalidasa i am in awe of your courage.

hope you're feeling a bit better today living

Today I made a breakthrough!!
I was having my usual morning of vomiting profusely.
DH brought home some Original Lucozade and it seems to have helped.
Water wouldn't stay down, but Lucozade did!
Anyone else found something that helps ease the sickness?!

fizzy stuff rocks in general... work your way through the pop aisle in asda - dandelion & burdock? tonic water....lilt? so many

Newlywed!! holy cow. hope you're still managing to peck up what you can. your friends sound like typical non-understanders, ie.. we're just not eating because we're weird, or something...or can't deal with MS . the whole world must be educated!!!!!!!!!!!

Barbie's BMI would be 16.24!!

I have heard lucozade can be good Danni!

Thanks so much for the medicines info on here a few days back.

I tried coconut water (in my case ready flavoured with pineapple juice) but all different varieties available. Is specifically good for helping potassium and electrolyte levels. I found it v tolerable and quite tasty. Suffer with weak arms and v dizzy and think it's helped. Hope this helps others

Hi all!
I haven't posted for ages but been keeping tabs on how everyone is doing. Congratulations Jen!

Others are coming close like me. 6.5 weeks to go! Not had an interrupted night for a month now with DS which is worrying me a lot! He is 22 months now so we decided to try a duvet but he just kept waking up and now he has a cold so I am hoping on e that is done he will settle back to normal. We have abandoned the duvet too! Still, I am well used to getting up in the night.

Sickness at a steady level. Just want to have my baby safe and healthy in my arms now and be able to taste things normally!

Good luck pukers x

JustDanni Welcome, I found Lucozade good too, some find it too acid.
Also, IronBru, again, others found it awful - and as others say, fizzy unhealthy stuff generally, and even the juice of tinned fruit, not fizzy,but incredibly sweet. Some say soda water.
PickofthePops Hello, so glad this thread has helped you - I hadn't heard of the oocoanut stuff, interesting. Hope you feel better?
Totes Tallyra and Chaffinchand SliceofLime Punkstar Meerka and LivingzuidAll fairly far along -who is the next to come to Pink Castle at the end of this awful experience- as in my old Snakes and Ladders game when I was a kid at the end of the board? Hyperemesis canbe like a horrible board game- an outing! move forward two spaces, bad day, unsympathetic friends, move back three...
xx

newly my goodness hope you are better now. How scary for you.

25 weeks today for me. 15 to go I can't wait! And despite copious amounts of moisturiser stretch marks have appeared :( Acid has subsided somewhat thank goodness. Just dreadful insomnia and last night my chest felt so squished. I could breath fine but couldn't which makes no sense but anyway all good today.

Going to see some friends quickly this afternoon and one was lecturing me on my diet and what I should or shouldn't do. She means well but I was nearly at the end of my patience when I was told I didn't have good doctors and they didn't know what they were talking about with regard my sickness (I have had wonderful care contrary to poor meerka's experience here)! I should just drink more water apparently. And she has never been pregnant but had six friends who have so is an expert.

Wish me luck keeping calm today, smiling through the nausea why do people make so free with such completely useless advice to pregnant women????

Oh and justdanni diet coke is my miracle drink. Tap only though so try a Mcdonald drive through so you can avoid the smell. Lucozade came back up for me.

jencongratulations on the birth of your baby!! So wonderful!!

kalidasa I am in awe of what you went through and that you are going through it again is pretty extraordinary. From the bottom of my heart I wish you the courage and strength to cope with it.

living hurray for 25wks!! I'm 16wks on Monday :-)

Has anyone tried caffeine free diet coke? The caffeine in regular diet coke was driving me nuts by making me more anxious and jittery (I don't need more anxiety/panic attacks in my life!!) and I remembered that my granddad used to have caffeine-free coke. I got some in my online shop today and so far so good! I also got a whole load of sweeties, ate too many of them and felt ill :-( Stupid me.

After my stressful and pretty exhausting (mentally and physically) day on Tuesday when I went to work for the grand total of about an hour and a half, I've been feeling completely rotten. As sick as usual but a lot more nauseous. I was feeling slightly better last weekend and that's what helped persuade me to pop into work. But, since then... I feel as miserable and ill as before. I'm so tired of the ups and downs with this. It has really taken most of the shine off the pregnancy for me and I know that I'm not even as bad as a lot of others here on this thread.

I've been at home, on sick leave from work for the last 6 wks (about to be 7wks next week) and although I work from home to keep me occupied, I'm exhausted with feeling like this - the sickness/nausea and also the related heightened anxiety and panic for which I can't take anything to take the edge off. I've been doing some needlework and knitting which helps, and watching endless programs on tv. I feel as though I'm vegetating and slowly losing my mind.

Lucinda I think you were right about the desensitisation. I am now able to not just wait to start being sick while lying/sitting in bed, but when I know I'm going to be ill, I can (slowly) move to the newspaper to be ill. For me, this is a massive, massive step. Admittedly, I still sob every time I'm sick and my eyes are an achy, red mess - I'm very attractive right now!!! - and I'm still anxious about it. But, it's a tiny step forward and I suppose it has to be something to be thankful for.

pickofthepops snap with the coconut water!!! I find it really helps too!! I also tried freezing small cartons of it and squishing the carton so I got a lovely slurpy-type of drink :-) yum, yum, yum - I love coconut water!

must have a look for this coconut water... sounds nice

big SLAP to ''friends'' who know more about puking that you do. Daft bint she sounded

find out my C-section date on Wednesday. about ruddy time! I will be 35 weeks then!

chaffinch can I ask about your C-section? Is HG an additional reason for a C-section? I ask because I've been termed a 'high risk pregnancy' because of my liver (nafld), a large fibroid partly obstructing my cervix and my anxiety/panic problems. Based on this, the sonographer said it was likely a C-section would be recommended for me. But, I'm seeing a Dr on Tuesday about my liver and he might (hopefully) tell me more.

don't think Hg is a reason in itself to have a c-s
unless it leads to other complications

Im having a cs due to horrid time vbirthing my dd1. needed a 2hr op immediately after, and they ballsed that up meaning needed a further op 10 days post natal... with fun 3rd degree tear...

had a c-s with ds, and all was straightforward, hoping for more of that with this ds too fingers crossed bloody hard

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

How awful about your first birth... but glad the c-s was straightforward with your second baby and, my fingers and toes are crossed that it will be straightforward again with your third!!