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.

No joy. I cried and begged and everything

oh no! I can't believe they would do that! you poor thunk okla xxxx

Okla You poor thing, I'm indignant. Though it would have been awful fo you, it would have served that GP right to be vomited on. Can you phone the 024 7638 2020 number and a retired but very symapthetic doctor will ring back and give good advice? They've helped a few on here get effective meds. As mrsb87 says, it's the only way of keeping you from becoming dehydrated and needing emergency admissions, and surely that's more expensive?
petitlapin I can't believe that consultant! I'm lost for words! What meds are you on at the moment? It's too bad having to keep going in for fluids.
Lottie mrsb87 and Boobootsto* How are things?
Meerka Mother hen is still flapping and clucking wildly about that electrocution. You must stop overdoing it. The baby won't turn up his nose at the decorations!

Punkstar Glad work went well.
Tallyra Poor you about bile run,that is so horrible.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.
I've probably cross posted again. I hope Chaffinch is feeling fine now.
xx

She was very nice to me and has given me prochlorperazine to try. She told me that nothing was going to make me feel normal and that I needed to accept that I needed to take it easy for a few weeks. But said in a nice way.

I thought prochlorperazine was the same as the Avomine you were on?

Awfully I think she's right, nothing will make you feel totally 'better' and rest is the only thing that helps even a bit. That said, if you are even the slightest bit worried about dehydration please go to A&E for fluids and a hospital doctor is more likely to prescribe the stronger drugs I'd say.

How many weeks are you now? It's tough waiting it out, and I'm not sure if it's the stronger drugs or the time or the rest but I'm feeling more normal than I was now, at 15, nearly 16 weeks. Sickness has gone back to how I felt at about seven weeks, which was the start of the end.

I just now need to get confidence back, I'm scared to do anything in case I set it off again, and have become very lazy!

okla :( Please do ring that number Mother Hen gave. They will ring you back and that retired doctor is very good. He's co-authored some of the respected papers in the field and really does help people get meds.

But yes, you won't feel completely normal for a while. Ondansetron does help a lot though.

mother Hen you were quite right and I promise I'm fine now and I also promise not to do more than about 2 hours' more work on the room (laying some flat-skirting for under the two doors, dead easy work). Then my husband can move the furniture in and I can walk more safely around the house and also get the hospital birth bag packed!! Really do feel fine. Actually I think I must have been well over tired because I slept and slept in the hospital.

The consultant in the ICU / CCU unit said the same as yours petit when I was upchucking, that HG didnt last the full length of preg .... there again, he's not a gynecologist I suppose.

Daft consultants, they need to read this thread!
My cons says in his experience 20% have significant hyperemesis until the end and the other 80% although get much better may still be affected by nausea and vomiting to a lesser degree throughout. He says if it remits completely you know it and it's quite a sudden feeling of normality again. That would be lush!

I think for me that will be on removal of the evil placenta!

Wonder how the DoomFinch is doing?

Hi all! Alarmed to hear you are electrocuting yourself Meerka!! I remember getting in a state when I pinged myself on the electric fence round my horse's field.

Lots of new faces on here - you poor things. I have two weeks left and can't wait to get rid of the gross taste and weird eating habits. I feel so tired now. I am living on chocolate and cereal, both of which leave me feeling sick but I need the sugar to run after a 22 month old toddler all day.

I would def consider a third child if it weren't for the HG but feeling sick for 18 months in ones lifetime is enough!

This baby better not be late!!

Punk star, as soon as I gave birth and got rid of the placenta I was normal again. All traces of sickness and gross taste gone, like a switch had been turned off. Amazing really. I shall never forget that first cup of tea after birth. I hope the same happens again this time.

Checking in , sorry to hear oklahoma had such a bad time and meerka was electrocuted! My eyes nearly popped out of my head reading that! Hope you are both feeling better now.

Thanks to those who agreed with giving dh written instructions, I think I'll start with talking him through it and if that doesn't work progress to writing...

On tenterhooks for news from Chaffinch !

totes wonderful, only 2 weeks left! I'm penguin-waddling after you and tallyra :)

I remember that too ... half an hour after the birth and everything was normal. Oh the first meal was just amazing ... best meal ever, even though it was a very ordinary one!

hope living is ok, not seen her for a couple days.

Hi guys! Another good day at work, I had a good afternoon on the shop floor although I found out that my assistant manager will be off for about a yr as she has to have an operation on each foot which overlaps my mat leave....oh dear! Good job I'm only planning on having 6 months off.
Starting to feel the nausea again now but should be having pizza and salad on my lap within few minutes.

oklahoma I cannot believe they won't give you the meds you need. Tbh I don't think my doc would have given it to me if the nurse at the hospital hadn't already given them to me.

MrsB
Congrats on surviving work again!

Ah a few of us are approaching the final hurdle! It's a bit of a marathon this pregnancy malarkey. Always envious of those ahead....

Absolutely agree Totes, three HG pregnancies is akin to madness. I am done after this. If I feel the need for a bigger family I'll get a dog (a hypoallergenic one though)

Vomit free day! This hg is so unpredictable!

Oh shit I spoke too soon.

I have indigestion (I think/hope) and it hurts like hell, I can't lay down. I feel like I'm going to puke (nausea at 8/10), for some inexplicable reason my back is also sore. I'm so close to waking up DH but then he'll make me go to A&E and I'll be that twat in A&E with indigestion.

I've run out of water by the bed and can't face going downstairs for more.

Fuck! I'm pathetic, sorry guys but I'm so miserable

Lottie
Oh noes!!!
You don't have any urine symptoms do you? Just thinking worth ruling out a UTI, sometimes you don't get the typical symptoms in pregnancy, but with the addition of back ache???? Just a thought if it doesn't improve.

I've got nausea and thirst induced insomnia....just had to have a trek downstairs. At least I stayed at my dad's house last night...,why are parental houses always better stocked? Just found a non alcoholic mojito!!' The lime in it is gorge!!

Hope you feel better come morn...,any ranitidine or gaviscon in stock? Milk helps me but I'm aware it's a no-no for some HG folk.

PS you are not pathetic.... You've got a terrible condition. Some days during the first tri I had no idea how I was going to survive the next hour let alone a whole day :-(
I honestly didn't know at times how I would be able to continue the pregnancy :'(

Oh dear lottie! I hope you're a bit better this morning? I've been getting a fair but of heart burn with the nausea in the evenings. I have been taking rennies and like punk suggested, milk really helps to calm it down.
I hope you get it sorted today.

I had a bit if a ding dong with my mum yesterday on the phone, she was going all "know it all" on me saying that she spoke to a woman the other day who had sickness jn her first pregnancy and didn't in her second. Good for her I said. She then said that every pregnancy is different and that it's unlikely I will get it again! Oh right because an 80% chance is now unlikely. I said that hyperemesis isn't just morning sickness and that she obviously has no idea. I also said that feeling the way I am and the way I have been its unlikely that I will try for another. And she piped up saying "you might change your mind in 2 yrs time" yes mother I might do but how I would cope with this and a toddler I do not know.
Anyway I ended that lovely chat and have been angry about it ever since. I feel a bit sad about it too because Ithought my own mum wwould understand

Im sorry to hear about that mrsb. I dont think anyone really understands who hasn't been through it, maybe a few sensitive husbands do, but people just don't get that this is not normal sickness. But the least people could do is -listen- and take it seriously when you tell them, especially if they've actually seen you upchucking like hell and loosing weight :s They just can't understand it when you get to the point like punk says of not knowing how to get through the next hour.

Im wondering if any of the websites might help her understand a bit better, or at least know what not to say a bit more. I actually have a vague memory that HG tends to get worse not better in subsequent pregs, though that wasn't the case for some people here. But yes, once you get it once it is highly likely to come back :(

Hope you're feeling a bit better lottie, the long dark hours are just horrible. If you aren't, please consider making a doctor's appt just to get checked out?

Aw MrsB that's rubbish. I understand the feeling angry, I still feel peed off at SIL from months ago! I looked a fecking state as well back then..... Seven stone and my face was grey and just seemed to hang off my cheek bones. I walked all crooked and hunched too!
Still everyone else has been wonderful and I have a chubba face and round tum now :-)

I found something on the PSS website for families to read, it's worth showing it to your Ma to see if it will help her understanding of the illness.

Erm I don't think anyone with this can even contemplate getting pregnant again while they are still in the midst of a HG preg!! Mine is worse second time but I've had excellent medical treatment so I'm coping with it better. I'd like to add the better medical treatment is only because we were armed with knowledge and OH never took no for an answer. Otherwise I think I would have rotted in my bed until another stone had dropped off.....

bloody hell, wish those consultants who say that HG goes away early on were right

upchucking merrily, how delightful

Thanks for the support, the middle of the night is a really dark time time of the day isn't it!

I feel a little better this morning, the top of my stomach/under my ribs feels a bit tender- like the memories of indigestion are still there ifyswim! Bit constipated this morning as well which is probably not helping.

DH has left me a sandwich and an apple by the bed so I'm going to try and eat them and hope it doesn't set it all off again...

lottie just a thought, might Gaviscon help stave off another attack if it was indigestion?

My lovely dh has said that there is no way he wants to put me through the sickness ever again, despite both of us wanting more than 1 before we started trying. I can't imagine how it would be possible to do it wit a child running around as well, and it would be selfish too as we would end up relying on family to look after her and me and the dog. I'm sad but we have decided 1 is enough.

News from this end is disappointing. We have confirmed that baby is breech and we don't want to have her turned, so if there's no change in 2 weeks I'll be going in for a section. just waiting for a phonecall with a date now. I'm really sad I won't get my home birth or even to labour in water

It might, but I haven't got any

DH is at work till 11pm tonight too, he works very close (5 min walk) so pops back at lunch/dinner time to make sure I'm not too ill, and have some food, but he won't have time to go to a shop.

I'm only 16 weeks, I thought it was too early for indigestion?