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Hyperemesis Support

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LucindaE · 31/01/2014 13:58

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.

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starrynight123 · 13/03/2014 13:52

Thanks for the cheerleading chaffinch! Helping with the anxiety... which is increasing :-/ But the sunshine will help... plus I'll be taking my sick paraphernalia with me. I've a thing for black bags in my bag - have often wondered what a policeman would think if he stopped me and found a whole load of open black bin bags in my handbag(!)

living we are moving to my mum's house, so nowhere particularly interesting! But, it will help us save money that we just don't have and there is the huge bonus of getting lots of help with the baby when it arrives. It's my first baby and I've never been around babies, so all help will be gratefully received. We are doing the first bit of moving next Friday :-) But the full-on proper move will be in July when I start my maternity leave.

starrynight123 · 13/03/2014 13:54

Can I ask... when you guys feel really crap, nauseous, sick - the usual stuff - how do you persuade yourself to go out of your home? And, how do you cope with any anxiety that might be associated with the sickness when you go out?

Is it a case of making sure you are prepared (bags, sweets, water etc), or is there anything else that you do that helps?

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Meerka · 13/03/2014 15:56

oh lovely to hear champagnebubble congrats on your daughter! I hope you are both doing really well. After HG actually -having- the baby is not as bad as it could be, isnt it? :)

all the best to you both :)

living congrats on becoming a Trustee! nice.

starry at its worst, we just didnt go out. It wasn't possible. But when things really improved, or if we -had- to go eg to the gyne (husband had to take me, no way could I get there alone) then we took the Blue Bucket of Doom with a towel over the top. It looked dreadful but what else could we do.. at that stage when I needed to puke it was RIGHT NOW. No time for bag-hunting. Got several seconds' leeway now and I kind of know what will set it off so I avoid those things. At the in between stage, then bags were a possibility.

But I hated public puking and felt like hell wobbling on shakey legs so I just went out as little as possible. Husband shopped and did almost all things.

PunkStar · 13/03/2014 16:03

Same as Meerka
When it's bad I don't go out. I rarely left the house until recently. I would take a plastic bag, sparkling water and essential oils.
If I have really bad nausea I tend not to go out unless essential like an appointment.

starrynight123 · 13/03/2014 16:12

Thank you meerka and punkstar. I've actually just cancelled my Dr's appointment because I was just sick Sad I've asked to speak to her over the telephone instead at my appointment time.

I feel so bad because I had to cancel my last midwife appointment because I was feeling so sick too... so have scan and midwife appointments both next week instead.

So fed up of being so sick. But, I have to be thankful that this was the first time I've been sick in a couple of days. Small mercies, huh?!

starrynight123 · 13/03/2014 16:13

lol - meerka with 'bucket of doom' but I know what you mean!!!

Meerka · 13/03/2014 16:16

No, its not yoru fault, please if you can be gentle on yoruself and don't feel back.

You've got a really nasty illness. You can only do what you can do.

If you're not being sick quite so often, maybe it's a sign that things are improving a bit, maybe in a whle the nausea will lessen too .... hopefully.

I've developed a secret raspberry habit. We have an excellent veg shop nearby and on the occasions, once every 2 weeks or so now, that I go into the village I stop by and buy loads of raspberries which we can't afford cause they're so expensive.

Then I go home, eat them all and hide the cartons at teh bottom of the waste bin. Hope husband doesn't figure out what's going on.

Meerka · 13/03/2014 16:17

don't feed bad*

starrynight123 · 13/03/2014 16:23

meerka you've made me laugh twice in just a few minutes with the bucket of doom and the raspberry habit - thank you so much for making me feel better when I feel so low! Grin

You are right, I do need to be gentle with myself. I guess I'm so used to being an active, out and about person, and I've been much better with my anxiety/phobia in the last year or so... and then this hit completely out of the blue. It is taking me time to get to come to terms with it. But, I'll get there. Thank you!!

Meerka · 13/03/2014 16:40

for a third laugh .... www.damnyouautocorrect.com/category/best-of-dyac

was laughing so hard last night that I was sick again!

starrynight123 · 13/03/2014 16:47

I'm reading through them now - brilliant!!! I esp love 'santa' 'satan'!! Trying to stay calm and not laugh too much because I don't want to be sick again(!) Plus need to speak with my Dr in a few mins!! LOLOL!!

mrsb87 · 13/03/2014 17:12

I found it particularly difficult easing up, I really enjoy my job and I'm usually quite active. I've got 3 dogs who keep me busy! I didn't leave the house for 4 weeks apart from hospital visits and doctors appointments and I couldn't go alone, dh or his parents had to take me as I couldn't drive.

Well my day has been lovely, it was so nice to have my little niece here, she's completely adorable! I had my lunch cooked for me, kitchen cleaned and bathroom bleached. I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful sister in law. The hair went well too, we've got our design all sorted.
Still no vomiting! Peachy!

ChaffinchOfDoom · 13/03/2014 20:53

''secret raspberry habit'' now I am pining for lovely little raspberries meerka Grin

my spd has eased up, which is nice. wandered around the shops today with mum, tkmaxx is a wonder - the girls' dresses are fabulous, worth checking out if anyone needs bridesmaid-y type ones
have to declutter our room to fit the moses basket in, got so much crap it's not funny

livingzuid · 13/03/2014 21:00

Also late for partner pregnancy yoga class Blush I was completely convinced that it was 7.30 but it was 7.15!

It was great though, essentially just went in various positions for an hour and got massaged by dh Grin Also did this cool thing where my dh X put his hand on the bump and then waited for the baby to move over, then switched sides and she'd move over to where his hand was. So fun :)

meerka I know so expensive. Lovely fruit and veg man was selling a tiny punnet of strawberries for 5 euro!

ChaffinchOfDoom · 13/03/2014 21:12

crying at the DYAC link meerkat

dh grumpy with me - why are you laughing? / cricket being disturbed etc

Meerka · 14/03/2014 08:00

Good morning all.

just twigged, only ten days to go finch! thinking of ya :)

PunkStar · 14/03/2014 08:39

Meerka love how you are a secret raspberry eater. I'm a berry fan in general.

Oh yes doom soon be over for you...exciting!!!!

Damn, damn, damn. Major HG punishment for day out at work. Day two of recovery is not progressing well so far.

Champagne good to hear from someone who has made it to the other side. 81 days or so and I'll be joining you :-)

Hope there is respite for all this weekend....x

ChaffinchOfDoom · 14/03/2014 09:10

nah, 12 days Smile section is 26th

wonder how many minutes......?

Booboostoo · 14/03/2014 09:14

Champagne congratulations! Six months and I will be joining you (sigh!).

I make myself go out and on the whole it works well because there are things to distract me and take my mind off the nausea. The weather has been really good here so we've been having lunch outside which helps a lot with the smells.

PunkStar · 14/03/2014 09:15

Yeah Doom you wanna be first on the CS list, no hanging about until midday malarkey.

PunkStar · 14/03/2014 09:19

Got a midwife appointment in an hour. If it's the one that doesn't listen/tries to kick everyone out in 60 secs then I'm going to 1. Vomit 2. Start sobbing just to get my monies worth. I am HG bitter today. Not only that I've been exposed to someone with measles....gotta have a blood test 'cos of the 'roids.

mrsb87 · 14/03/2014 09:20

12 days isn't long at all! I bet you're super excited chaffinch.

Its my birthday on Sunday so dh and I are going down to my mum's for the weekend to be properly spoiled. She has also offered to do some food shopping for us bless her Smile.

punk I hope you recover quickly, nothing worse than having such a good day and then back to bad hg the next. Feet up for you today!

meerka damn you I want raspberries now! I have devoured a punnet if grapes in 2 days (with help from little Bethan!) And now I want raspberries!!

Meerka · 14/03/2014 09:36

oh dear sorry guys about the raspberries ... if it's any help, my husband will be telling me off a lot if he finds the empty punnets Blush.

finch even better, a definite endpoint ... and hey, it might always happen sooner :)

punkstar, good luck. Remember, aiming vomit is not a sin. Or at least maybe it is, but SO satisfying.

booboo yeah, outdoors is soooo much better. we have every window open we can atm.

Braxton Hicks are painless my arse. Or my belly. They weren't last time, they aren't this.

starrynight123 · 14/03/2014 10:48

Bleugh. Sickness returned yesterday... and was sick again this morning and still feel rotten. Grr!!!

Have a friend visiting this afternoon so need to somehow haul myself out of bed and do a little tidying - wish I didn't have to, but when living in a studio there's no where to hide anything (except the airing cupboard, and that's full)!