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Hyperemesis Support

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LucindaE · 26/04/2014 20:20

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.

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PunkStar · 21/05/2014 19:08

There are a lot of us on the list! Glad I found this thread, it does make me feel more normal.

starrynight123 · 21/05/2014 19:21

punk me too!! It also makes me feel a bit less lonely and isolated, which I am and have been for months.

Lottiedoubtie · 21/05/2014 19:25

I can't believe how far up the list I am! I feel like I'm going to be pregnant forever, and have so far to go.

Meerka · 21/05/2014 19:30

Kali I'd join punk in urging you to ask for a referral. Given how sick you are -already- and you're so early, and given the research indicates pre-emptive treatment is so recommended, I really hope she can see you.

starrynight123 · 21/05/2014 19:39

kalidasayou mentioned that the Prof was a colleague; could you perhaps speak with her directly to find out if she can see you?

Oklahoma · 21/05/2014 19:39

Lottie I know exactly what you mean! And I'm no longer bottom!!!!!

livingzuid · 21/05/2014 19:40

sunny Grin at the handsome doctor!

boo and the others who are super organised about studying sigh. I have had no brainpower this pregnancy. It's like it all turned to mush.
lucinda it's more freak luck than brains that get me through my studies though!

I am super irritable which I am assured is a symptom of late pregnancy. It's not helped by the fact that everything tastes horrendous and I have to find new food again because it gives me such bad acid and sick taste. No more bread or potato. Or fish fingers :( I'm so over this!

starrynight123 · 21/05/2014 19:46

living have you tried soda water? Even soda water with bits of lemon/something in it? I've been drinking about a litre a day for the last few days and it has made such a big difference to my acid/indigestion.

Good luck finding something new to eat... I get so upset when a 'safe' food becomes suddenly 'unsafe' :-(

kalidasa · 21/05/2014 19:47

Thanks all. GP also gave me a prescription for movicol after I explained that I was a bit reluctant about the ondansetron because of the utterly terrible constipation which I found almost as miserable as the vomiting. She said she understood that big doses of movicol are impossible once vomiting really sets in but she thought it might be worth taking a small daily 'maintenance' dose as soon as I start using any ondansetron at all in the hope that I'll be able to tolerate this and it will stop it escalating.

I have just emailed my HoD to say I will get to the end of my current run of scripts (it's exam marking season) but I'm not going to manage anything beyond that. I'm only managing about an hour's work a day in bed at the moment so progress is v. slow and I don't want worries about work to make me hold off on the cyclizine.

sunny I also do cyclizine morning, lunchtime and bedtime. I'm pretty sure in hospital they were stricter about the 8 hour intervals but actually this wasn't great from my point of view because they tended to skip the middle-of-the-night doses if you weren't already awake. I also had a big battle in hospital to get them to stagger doses properly - the nurses would always try and give me all three anti-emetics at once three times a day - presumably because it makes the drug round a lot simpler - though obviously you need them staggered for real coverage.

kalidasa · 21/05/2014 19:48

Oh and starry I think it was you who mentioned soda water before. Great tip thanks! Didn't try that last pregnancy but it is going down well, tastes better than plain water somehow.

starrynight123 · 21/05/2014 19:55

My pleasure! I was looking for food/drink that were more alkaline to help offset the amount of acid I had, and this was one of the things that worked :-) Also, sparkling drinks help speed up digestion apparently, so that can't hurt either!

livingzuid · 21/05/2014 20:09

starry thank you and yes I remember you saying. Is that just sparkling water? I drink a lot of tonic water because of restless legs but I find that can be a bit heavy. Hot water and lemon I found good but it's too hot now!

Saraswati · 21/05/2014 20:10

I'll have to get me some soda water, good tip thanks!

Had an absolute shitter of a day (excuse my French) found out one of DHs best friends who has a lovely wife and two very young children has an aggressive brain tumour and has to face a 12 hour operation (whilst awake) to remove it then 6 months of aggressive chemo all of which maybe for nothing and it might only buy him a few more months. Cue lots of hormonal sobbing from me and violent throwing up because I got so upset. My dad died when I was a child and I just can't bear to see another family I love go through what mine did.

Sorry to put a massive downer on the thread I just have to vent somewhere. I know you will all understand that sometimes life is just so unfair! I'm feeling particularly angry at the universe today.

starrynight123 · 21/05/2014 20:15

living it's specifically soda water rather than sparkling 'regular' or mineral water. I find the last two taste awful and don't do a thing for my acid, whereas the soda water really helps and is more palatable too. I can't drink any hot drinks at all!

Oklahoma · 21/05/2014 20:26

Oh Sara you poor thing, that sounds horrendous. I had a friend go through something similar and it was awful. Lots and lots of sympathy hugs.

Life just isn't fair sometimes!

livingzuid · 21/05/2014 20:28

sara I'm so sorry to hear that and how sad for his family :( bad news does not make this hg any easier to manage.

starry it may require a trip to the British shop but I will look and keep my fingers crossed!

Meerka · 21/05/2014 20:34

sara i am so sorry to hear about your DH's friend and his family. Really am. I hope a miracle might happen for them Flowers

PunkStar · 21/05/2014 20:39

Sara
That is a shitter :-(
Fully understand, it's pretty unfair and depressing...my Ma was on salvage chemo pretty much throughout the whole of my first ( HG) pregnancy. On a positive I did see her all the time due to moving in with the parentals. Looking back I'm kinda appreciative of the HG in a strange way as I spent so much time with her :-)

Saraswati · 21/05/2014 20:41

Thanks ladies,I know this isn't really the place for talking about it and sorry for high jacking the thread!

Didn't get the cyclizine in the end today so will have to try again tomorrow. Have found being upset today has made things much worse. I'm off to bed, hope you are all ok x

PunkStar · 21/05/2014 20:45

Sleep well Sara
Hope things go well for your friend x

kalidasa · 21/05/2014 22:40

sara I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. A friend of mine had a cancer diagnosis just a few months after his wife (also a friend) had given birth to twins. But he is fine now and has come through it, it's amazing what families get through.

mrsnec · 22/05/2014 08:04

Sorry to hear about your friend sara. Hope they pull through.

Just been skimming through to catch up with everyone. We are a clever bunch with the writing and the studying! I have considered writing too. I also thought I should put it off for now, not that I had any inspiration anyway, but an old school friend of mine is writing her life story it's going to be a trilogy and I offered to proof read it for her I was wondering if I was taking on too much but perhaps I'm not after all?

Changing the subject. I read about some of you having the same problem as me with safe food. I'm getting that too. Can't face toast and milk now it's really annoying I'm also off most bread except really soft brown rolls.

I was going to ask you all that had relief at 20 weeks. I thought I was in the clear but had a bad day yesterday I went to work with dh but had enough by lunchtime. Came home and pottered around the house but my nausea was so bad I had to have a lie down then went to bed really early. Hope it was just a one off dh has invited friends round on Saturday and I feel like that I'll be in no shape for socialising let alone entertaining!

On the soda water thing, I can't always get it here. I agree on some mineral water but I can do perrier. At one point with a dash of lime cordial but that's too acidic now.

livingzuid · 22/05/2014 08:33

mrsnec I'm in the same boat. My Nutella on toast was awful this morning I was nearly sick in the car (had to drop dh at work). So acidic :( I just don't know what to have. Perrier is a good idea though as I don't think we get soda water here either. Maybe with a bit of fresh lemon or lime squeezed in it? With oodles of ice?

sara hope you feel a bit better today.

Nausea woke me up at 5. I had hopes of some excitement as my plug went (sorry tmi) but apparently very common after the internal sigh. I have been getting back pain similar to when I have my period, and very mild period type pains which I have not had at all in pregnancy so I am keeping up hope that maybe something will happen soon!

Is there a correlation between the closer you get to labour the sicker you become again? It is getting worse every day - really battled against vomiting this morning - and food aversions are back with a vengeance.

SomeSunnySunday · 22/05/2014 08:46

Sara so sorry about your friend, I hope that you are feeling better this morning.

living, sounds exciting! No idea about the sickness though, mine had gone by that point.

Not much to report here, other than the best night's sleep I've had in a month - 7 straight hours! Feel much better for it - still nauseous and yucky but not exhausted this morning. I think a day on cyclizine and eating / drinking relatively well (in terms of volume if not nutritional value) really helped. Today I might even try to eat a vegetable....

Oklahoma · 22/05/2014 08:53

Living hope things start happening for you soon.

I'm having a bad day today. Did too much yesterday (ie marginally more than nothing) and slept really badly so now I feel awful. Joy. 5 months to go...