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

Lastly, the NICE guidelines on treatment are useful:
cks.nice.org.uk/nauseavomiting-in-pregnancy#!prescribinginfosub

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.

Meerka Aagh! My goodness, how did you do that? Thank goodness you're both all right.
Lottie That's so infuriating; is there any way of seeing the doctor who wrote it into y our notes?
mrsb87 Sorry - forgot your date had changed .
petitlapin How are you now?
Waves to all anxiously.
xx

The doc who wrote it in is a locum so can't see her again but just sobbed on DH for a while so he's going to take me to doc tomorrow to try and see someone else.

It's just so frustrating!

Oh ffs oklahoma! What a load of tosh. Go back and refuse to see that doctor again.
My doc wasn't keen on giving me a repeat prescription after I was given it at the hospital for the same reason. I insisted it was the only thing stopping me from getting so dehydrated and ending up on a drip again and he gave in.

Okla Really sorry, typed 'Lottie'! This sort of thing is really upsetting.
You will get some good advice about obtaining effective meds from the 024 7638 2020, but you do have to wait for them to phone back, which I hope will be in time for your appointment...
Probably cross posted...
xx

Thanks guys, sanity restored.

Not sure what I would do without this thread!!

Meerka how on earth did you manage to electrocute yourself?!?

misunderstanding tbh.

the electic points were off in the bedroom ive been working on and I thought that husband had wrapped them all safely in electrical tape, so that I dindt need to turn -all- the electrics off on that circuit (it's an eccentrically large circuit due to the previous owners rewiring weirdly, he ran a tattoo business from home) and reset lots of clocks. some of them were wrapped, but one hidden one wasn't.

He'd thought I'd turn all the electrics off at the mains if I was working anywhere near the sockets. I just brushed past the hidden and unwrapped one.

I've promised not to do anymore work anywhere near them til the sockets are plugged back ....

Went to scan and consultant appointment yesterday morning as planned.

Scan booked was the wrong one- needed growth scan, given presentation scan instead with squinty annoying midwife (remember "who told you you should test your own urine?" woman?) Instead of trained sonographer. Nice to know baby is breech but "healthy size" with no measurements does not dampen the anxiety of 32 weeks of hg and poor nutrition!

Consultant was yet another new face who said yes to ondansetron then didn't prescribe it. She has also helpfully suggested that vomiting at 32 weeks "isn't hyperemesis" but instead now I have apparently "vomiting ?cause". (Surely ?cause is hcg-emitting parasite baby I am harbouring?!)

Ketones were surprisingly high - 3+ at appointment after a few days of minimal vomiting so they kept me in for 2 bags of fluid. The midwives on the ward are starting to recognise me and are joking I should keep a bed there. They are lovely but I still wish I could stay away.

Feeling OK today, apart from nasty snot-monster cold the inconsiderate mother in law gave me. Saying that I didn't feel dehydrated yesterday either.

meerka what on earth were you doing with mains electricity?! So glad everything is OK!

finch eep excitement still!

okla DH sounds lovely. Good luck getting the meds!

Ah the cross-post...

Poor you Meerka and Okla both situations sound utterly frustrating and horrible!

okla can you print a copy of the NICE guidelines and go and see a different GP. Put a complaint into the practice manager about 'you'll just have to get on with it GP' that's just not true! Terrible advice!

I have bookmarked the page on my phone so will brandish it if required.

i am just afraid that the room wont be done in time and atm I can't get into the baby's room where our older son is still sleeping and the mess is really doing my head in, tripping over stuff cause we have nowhere else to put it and I'm scared of hurting the Bump :s and i admit im tired of being preg ... of feelign sick. and hormones are going crazy too, keep being tearful and ratty which just isnt like me, well, the tearful bit anyway.

Just want it to be over now, over successfully with a small baby boy to cuddle and and to be able to pay our older son more attention and .. and ....

yeah, hormones and the stress of a messy house!

Big hug Meerka is DH around to look after you

Gentle hugs meerka. Not far now

thanks .... sorry, jsut all over the place atm.

But all day I've kept wondering how finch is! :)

Survived work again! Two days of zombiedom await but is worth it!

Okla
What tosh! I've said this before but if this was any other condition no doctor would leave you without treatment if you had constant nausea and persistent vomiting. Glad OH is going with you. If the GP is unsure what combinations to try or scared to use ondansetron then they should be speaking to obstetrics for some telephone advice.

Eeek Meerka CCU!!!! Electrocuting yourself, madness!!! Not a very predictable thing to happen mind. Glad you are okay :-)

Petit
Bizarre, what a strange obstetrician to think HG can't last until term. Sorry you're having a tough time. I'm having a couple of good days per week with no vomiting but then I think I overdo it and the vomiting returns. The food aversions and nausea are pretty much 24/7 though :-( don't think I've gained any weight for a month, at least I'm not losing it though...

Oooh MrsB congrats on the work! Well done, glad it went well.

Sorry had loads of thread to catch up on so a holler to those I've missed.

Thanks punk, glad to hear you're having an enjoyable couple of days at work.
I'm having a shocking evening, dh didn't come home til late so that cocked up my dinner time slot. When I did eventually manage to eat it almost instantly got vommed. Been shivering and really nauseous since. Sorry for the and winge.

don't be sorry that's why this thread is here. Found the same, eating/drinking later was jsut not an option. Eat when you can and early or else you end up going without :(

Hope you can escape into sleep shortly

yuk. up early for a physio appt and had a random bile run at half 5 as dh got up for work. haven't had one of them for ages!

I'm really worried here. baby might be breech so I have a scan later today.

Meerka take care and stay away from the electrics!!!

Shocking stories about poor care...

best of luck Tally ... there';s still time to go for the baby to get his head down ...

Oooh good luck tally, I can't think of anything worse than someone touching me and pulling me about!

I hope you're going to loiwk after yourself today meerka!

I hope everyone else has a good day!

definitely going to take it easier. Promised husband not to go near a wire!! I am allowed to start painting the radiator which is one of the last two jobs ( the other is tiny and easy) so once this is done it's very nearly it.

Hope everyone is okay this morning and petit is out of hospital again ..

Urgh can't stop crying this morning. Bloody hormones. Seeing a different doc today to try and get ondansetron - need to save the tears for her!

I'm sorry you are feeling rotten okla but don't be afraid of letting it all out in the doctors, shocking them into action may be extreme, but it'll probably work!

Yeh that was DHs view too!