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.

DP has now joined the ranks of the D&V sufferers! I can't tell whether I want to vomit because I always want to vomit or because I am getting it as well!

The final countdown must be really tough Meerka - you're nearly there!

it's weird, it's like I really am walking through a fog all the time. Can't think clearly, can't remember -anything-, can't collect my thoughts, don't want to see people, just want the nausea to stop. Don't remember it being like this first time (except wanting the nausea to stop).

Congrats Tally...lovely name and what a relief for you to have this over with.

Meerka I know exactly what you mean. Even when I only had a day left last time it just dragged. I felt claustrophobic in my own body with no escape. Hope everything goes well today.

My countdown never seems to get any closer yet there's only eight weeks left...having a bad day today and OH on call all week and weekend, which is stressy for him and me.

Come on time, get a move on.

Hello, just thought I'd update. Thanks for all your great advice, I did my research, got some stuff printed to take to the GP but I started feeling better, then the next day was better still and although I still feel a little foggy but I'm hopeful that the worst is now over - Ive had a normal ish few days, eaten some normal food - not just bread sticks and water - but actual small meals, have been outside for a few walks and even felt well enough to drive yesterday :)

Fingers crossed that you all start feeling better soon too xx

meerka I didn't want to see anyone in the last week or so. have you got tues confirmed? fingers crossed for you

It is confirmed thank heavens yes. They'll probably have to use ... er what was it ... prostaglandin? pessaries since my cervix isnt ripening that fast. Just so glad that they will at least be starting it then.

thanks finch and punk ... feel so odd, nice to know that it's kind of normal, seem to have totally forgotten everythign from first time. "claustrophobic in yoru own body" describes it perfectly.

teatime glad to hear you're a little better - did she or he give you some meds for just in case, or can you manage without? Hope the upwards line carries on :) there might be bad days now and then but if you're starting to improve, I'm sure it'll mostly keep on getting better now :)

He acknowledged that I was suffering above the normal to be expected but I it was starting to lift he said come back if I go downhill again - so at least I know it's there now I'd I need it - I was amazed he took it seriously!

Sorry for dodgy typos!!! Silly phone!

Most doctors I've seen have taken it seriously, as they should! Living like this just isn't normal!

I had an ok day yesterday, but forced myself not to overdo it. Plan is same again today, have so far managed, breakfast and a shower! In a couple of hours I'm going out to visit my sister but will be concentrating on sitting down and not doing too much. Then hopefully I will also feel ok tomorrow, I really want to stretch out my ok days, so far it's only ever been 2/3 in a row, if I can get it to 5/6 how amazing would that be?

Hi all

glad you're feeling better teatime really good to hear!

Thank goodness you have got a confirmed date now meerka! Sorry you're having a bad day punk easy for me to say you are another day closer on your countdown even though it still seems to be going so slowly when you are going through it- sorry want to say something more encouraging but I will just say I know how it feels ((hugs))

Hope everyone is soon over the lurgy in your house booboo. Was just picturing the scene at the vets - hope it didn't have you running for the nearest receptical yourself!

Try and take each day as it comes lottie I know how hard it is but I think we all underestimate how serious hg is sometimes and how much it takes out of us. Every good day you have is such a bonus but definitely try not to overdo it.

Sending positive thoughts to everyone for continued good days xxx

Hi guys, not clocked in for a couple of days so I thought I would drop in.
wowee meerka not long now!! I bet you are auper excited!

lottie I'm glad you are having a few better days, it is nice to feel almost human if only briefly!

I have been super busy at work, we had 69 bags of sale stock that needed to be processed (each individual item in each back had to be sorted into categories eg, men's denim, women's tunics etc, and scanned onto the computer) ready for collection tomorrow. All this in 2 days!! It was probably a bit too much for me but I was ok, I got someone else to do the moving! I just sat on my tush and scanned and tagged everything!
I'm still vomiting daily but I know when it's likely to happen and I can work around it. Although dh is finding giving me breakfast a pointless affair as it always reappears minutes later!

Hope everyone else is coping?

Thanks both
Had a good day, managed the visit and sit outside watching my nephew play. And then I ate actual meat (chicken) for dinner and I haven't been sick. First meat to not reappear (to be fair I haven't risked much!) in about ten weeks!

Fingers crossed tomorrow stays good!

Hope everyone else is ok too.

Hi everyone, back from Scotland which was lovely but a hectic couple of days! I don't recommend being squashed on easyJet if you feel remotely rough - spent most of the flight standing up. I couldn't eat much and got no sleep but got through the interview somehow and it was so nice to show DH the village where I grew up :) nothing like your own bed though, it's bliss to be in it!

Just one more trip to London to get through and mums visit and I can relax. May can't come fast enough.

it sounds a nice trip, living, except for the bloody preg - related stuff. Nice to show husband where you grew up =)

that sounds like very heavy work mrsb, hope you are not too wiped out by it today. take it easy if you can ...

yay for chicken lottie =)

It was pretty hard meerka but I tried to be as sensible as possible. Ive got the weekend off to go to a friend's wedding, nice surprise last night, she asked me to sign as a witness! Really flattered as she is a marrying dh friend really and have become friends this past year!

aww how sweet :) I hope it's a lovely weekend. Close to home or got to travel?

Hi all,

Glad you had a nice trip living, Lottie, that's great about eating meat, enjoy the wedding Mrs b.

Hi to all the newbies and sorry if I missed anyone. Hope you are all ok

I had my hospital appointment today. The good news is it's all ok. The bad news is I got a very grumpy consultant who shouted at me for being too old and too late for downs testing despite me telling them everything when we made our appointment. When I got upset then he just shouted at me for crying! My dates are further on than I thought which is probably part of the problem too. I'm due 1st October.

I was terrified during the scan and he wasn't telling me anything. He eventually told me everything was ok but I had to ask him if I could hear it. I am relieved but disappointed it wasn't a nicer experience. I. Have a picture but its rubbish. Glad the sickness has been better of late I'd be terrified to discuss it with him really hope I don't have to deal with him the whole way through.

He sounds awful mrsnec. After the horrible sickness the scan should have been lovely, you don't need someone like this to take away the pleasure from what should have been a special day. Can't believe he shouted at you for crying .

Glad that everything is ok though, that's the most important. Bugger him.

Hello, back, sorry,after getting back from Liverpool I had the dreaded stomach bug myself and didn't dare venture too far from the lav for over two days- sympathies for anyone who gets that and has Hyperemesis - Booboosto horrors about the dog. I see elizabethsmum has been doing a wonderful job as I knew she would - after two Hyperemesis pregnancies, one a twin one - she knows what she's talking about for sure.
Tallyra So happy for you - congratulations on Imogen. Now I can say, 'I told you so' remember I said I had a good feeling just before you conceived? After 3mcs, it makes it extra special.
Mrsnec I am shocked that the consultant was so mean and grumpy.I can't believe he shouted! I'm outraged he told you off about y our age - so mean - not all forms of Downs are connected with age, anyway, I've heard somewhere.
A belated welcome to Teatimecakes and you have had wonderful advice and I'm so glad y ou feel better.
Sashamonsta Again, a belated welcome, sorry you feel so bad, and I can only echo the advice of Meerka and others which says do watch out for that dehydration - I suppose as you need lots of liquid with the lung condition you've got kesostix in already?
Meerka I'll be so happy for you come Tuesday - it's been a long haul and it's awful you're back to spending half the time in bed. Gentle pats on offer - hugs too rough.
Livngzuid Scotland, you adventurous thing. Well done surviving the trip.
mrsb87 Congratulations on surviving such a heavy work schedule - you say you know when a puke is coming on, you are obviously of the tidy puker element. I wasn't and am still not, for that matter, when that way inclined.
Lottie and Oklahoma How are things? I hope the good days increase. Lottie Really sorry you have been so down at times, and this is a real endurance test. Oklahoma A two weeks' wait for a consultant seems a bit ridiculous.
petitelapin How are things?
I hope Starry is OK. SliceofLime?
Chaffinch Waves.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.
xx

Welcome back Lucinda sorry you've been ill, sounds awful!

I'm sat at Heathrow about to get on a flight and terrified. The thought of it is enough to make me puke let alone the reality. Give me strength...

Good luck okla, take it one minute at a time. And if the worst happens... Don't forget you definitely won't be the first person to up chuck on a plane.

I puked spectacularly on a plane when I was 16 weeks ish. No aeroplane sick bags so I used my own clear bag. Loved passing that

Bag along the row to the stewardess...

Welcome back Lucinda. I'm OK, eating and drinking what I like pretty much but suffering from the horrid ondansetron bowel problems. 6 weeks till d day! I can't wait!

Thanks, Everyone. Lottie Well, it only lasted two days with me, puking always brings back happy memories of this horror. Okla I don't think I've ever been on a flight where someone didn't vomit as we took off or landed, after all, but it's horrile fo ryou. I think it's the pressure on the ears, or something. Petitlapin No sick bags - was that economy? Very tidy of you, anyway.
xx