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.

Hi all
hernrietta agree with mother hen's comments. obv not trying to be nosy, but just wondering whether this diagnosis is all down to the recent stress that you have been through on top of HG. Anyway great that all well with the scan, sorry that you have been put back a week and seriously hoping that you are one of the 'lucky ones' and that maybe your HG may soon improve (crosses fingers for you!). Does this mean that you have been signed off and not having to continue through all the whole phased return shenanigans (again crosses fingers)

waves and sends virtual moral support to all on the thread xx

Well, quite! I am overwhelmed, stressed, struggling to cope. I scored 15/30: 10-14 is moderate & 15+ is moderate to severe.

You rate questions 0-3 and some don't seem to take pregnancy into account eg: have you had trouble sleeping or been sleeping more: 3; have you lost your appetite or do you sometimes overeat: 3

And so on...

I have been teary and found simple tasks - like calling payroll to ask about my pay - overwhelming, but as you say it's not that surprising.

I'll take the diagnosis to get myself signed off for the last 2 weeks of term. I'm sure I'll be fine in the long run. But I won't rush into meds - talking therapy will be offered.

i was thinking the same- take the positive of the being signed off whilst not feeling overly daunted by the diagnosis. Am sure the the next few hopefully less stressful weeks will do you the world of good. Forget about work and concentrate on taking care of yourself xxxx

henrietta sorry to hear your struggles. A dear friend had antenatal depression and hg and was on antidepressants which massively helped. They are a safe option to consider alongside the talking therapy if that helps. Poor you, do take it easy and put your feet up at home. Ignore the witch at work, deal with it when you feel able to.

Morning all. Looking for some positive news. Which of us is next to be released from HG hell? I think there are a few CS coming up but can't remember exact dates. Need another baby to remind me why it's all worth it!

I need baby news too, Okla! Someone was booked in for a CS at the end of the month, weren't they?

Have decided to have a nice day telling our boys about the baby. Now 16 weeks and really showing (which is new for me, normally I'm way past 20 weeks before I properly show, but not this time - I guess my tummy muscles are officially b*ggered. Or else it's the crisps.) Hope they are pleased! Think DS1 will be; less sure about DS2. It will make it all seem a bit more real when we can talk about it as a family.

Hope everyone is as well as they can be today.

From memory I think it's Boo and starry soon but I could be wrong.

Sunny, I was about that stage when I told people.

Re passing the time I think it depends which way you look at it, I remember feeling a bit disheartened recently when my ap told me I've 90 something days to go but then I thought I've only got 4 days left of second trimester which feels much better!

Meerka Just what everyone needs!
Waves to all, hope today not too foul for everyone...
xx

Great picture Meerka

I've got 10 weeks to go. Feels like a lot... But I keep telling myself I've done three times that many already...

In 2 weeks DH will be back that'll help.

How's everyone else? okla hope your day picked up.

aww im sorry, husband a bit iffy about me posting it, will have to ask for it to be withdrawn. my bad.

Those last weeks feel like unclimbable mountains but they do pass, honest. I had a calendar up with a countdown on it and crossed each day off ...

Lovely pic, meerka. What gorgeous boys, glad I got to see it before it disappears.

10 weeks is nothing, Lottie! I have 22/23 weeks to go (until c-section, rather than due date) and even that doesn't seem too awful compared to the situation at 4 weeks where I felt that I was staring into eternity...

Lovely day here. Still sick, but DS1 (5) is beyond delighted about the baby, it has just been so incredibly sweet. He keeps asking to talk to and stroke my tummy, because "love might help the baby to grow". DS2 (3) is pretty disinterested, other than announcing at tea that one day, the baby will be born and it will have to climb and climb and come out of my mouth. Didn't correct this.

. Coming out the mouth is a great image! I wouldn't have corrected him either!

Sunny that is a fantastic image!

Awsome Sunny! Ahh, I missed the picture. Was it cute kiddlywinks?

Not doing too badly here this morning. Better morning than usual at least (still feel louzy of course) think yesterday's day of lazy morning, long afternoon nap and early night might have helped! This exhaustion is absolutly flooring me this time round.

I'm no where near getting a baby yet, only 6-7 1/2 weeks ish here (I don't entirely believe dates from last week's scan, so not sure just how far along we are now!).

Well, today is the SECOND day in a row DD has not had her morning breastfeed. I'm trying to encourage dropping it because, frankly, first thing in the morning when I'm doing my best not to vomit I could do without having to feed her. We'd got away with odd days missing it last week but not had two in a row until today.

In other news DH and I are battling over windows. I feel like everywhere smells and keep going round opening windows to try and rid the house of smells and get some fresh air in, poor DH has horrible hayfever and keeps shutting them all after me because it's making his eyes worse! Currently I'm winning today because he's still asleep!

Flowery surely given he can drug himself against the pollen you win hands down?

I have PILs, BIL and DH's Nan over today. Not having a good day and really can't face the thought of it. Urgh. I am becoming incredibly antisocial.

Oklahoma totaly understandable. I'm not too bad all things considered and I am avoiding socialising as far as possible. That's quite a lot of poeple to have over. Is DH doing the cooking? Or can you face eating out? Anything to help you not feel like you have to do much for the visit.

DHs hayfever is really really bad. I've never seen anyone with worse (and I know my Dad!). Drugs don't really touch it. And I need him in a good enough state to do stuff with the kids when I can't!

OIklA I don't blame you. Can the Nan wait on you? I hope so. SomeSunny That is sweet about LO1!
Meerka Ah, what a shame, is that through fear of perverts getting hold of the picture or something- I don't think many would be likely to ocme near this thread, though! It's awful how wary people have to be about photos and security these days.

Here's the old due dates list, no doubt needs updating.

Due Dates
SliceofLime 2 August
IWorry 8 August
Starry 12 August
What 14 August
Lottie 12 September
Booboostoo 14 September
mrsb87 29 September
mrsnec 1 October
George by the Sea 6 October
Pickofthepops 7 October
Oklahoma 28 October
Mampam 17 November
Sassehmonsta 15 December
SomeSunnySunday 24 December
Sarah 29 December
Kalidasa 28 January

Silly me- just realised DiddyBeth was 12 June, and I do hope all went well for her. Flowery Fraggle and others,not on the list yet...
xx

I'm the 28th December :) :)

I'm 23 January :)

I'm 20th December, Lucinda (although c-section should knock a week off that).

meerka, I may just have to try that!

Hayfever here too, Flowery, but I'm still opening windows because of smells. Come to think of it, that's probably why my hayfever is so bad.

Hope your day went well, Okla. I am also in the antisocial club. We have a family party on DH's side next weekend; it's a 2+ hour drive away (each way) and I've already decided that I'm not going. I just can't do chit chat, food I've not chosen, 4 hours in a car etc and loose a whole precious day of my weekend (the only time I can really put my feet up, as I have the children at home and no help all week).

I hope it was okay, okla. Good luck next weekend, sunny

Hi all. Can't believe I'm still the bottom of the list! I'm sure there must be someone due after me by now . . .

I am managing to stay out of hosp (been out for a week now after a fortnight in) but that's all I can say really. I can't get out of bed at all, and even staying motionless all day on all the drugs + steroids I am still throwing up in the evening, fortunately haven't lost control of it yet so staying out of ketosis. The steroids make a big difference because they help me eat even through the intense and unrelenting nausea, which I just couldn't without vomiting before. 10+5 now so I'm hoping for at least a tiny improvement in the next few weeks.

One bit of good news is that I managed to change my dreadful consultant whom I never saw ONCE in all my time in hospital despite the dreadful state I was in. In the end we paid to see a different consultant who was recommended and who also works at the Royal Free in her private practice (I saw her at the Portland) but she immediately said that I could switch to her as my NHS consultant at the RF. She just crossed out my old consultants name on my notes and wrote her's in! She was so nice and understanding and reassuring about the steroids and immediately gave me a proper care plan and will see me herself in clinic. So it was totally worth the £220 (!) and the trip to the Portland which meant I vomited all evening when we got back.

I've also got my old midwife from last pregnancy back and because I am so ill she came to see me at home last week, which was lovely. She's part of a special team for women having difficult pregnancies/in difficult circumstances. So after a very dreadful month feeling quite let down by the hospital I now finally feel that I have good people looking after me and if the worst happens and I have to go back into hospital yet again at least I feel that I'll be better looked after.

My family circs are still really difficult and stressful - we are not really getting any family support from my side because one of my sisters has breast cancer and is going through a v messy separation/divorce all at the same time. V difficult and worrying and of course I can't do anything to help at the moment. Luckily my mother-in-law is being an absolute rock and has now been in London for weeks (she lives in Paris really) and is being a huge help for my husband with DS. Our nanny is also an absolute star and DS is having a great summer going every day to the zoo/park/paddling pool etc. Sad I can't do all these fun things with him but so relieved that he seems so settled and happy.

Hope everyone else is surviving.

Kali that sounds like a pretty mixed bag for you. Good that you're finally getting some care and support but it really sucks how much you're still suffering.