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.

Kali Hugs, there are some new people who haven't yet given dates, so you shouldn't be bottom now really. Hugs about awful sufferings. I am so glad you that unmentionable consultant has been quietly shuffled off - I won't use the expression that comes to mind about him - I assume a him, maybe I'm wrong? - and thank goodness you can eat with steroids, but what torment relentless nausea is. It's so awful about sister when you can't do anything - but thank goodness for MIL. LO will flourish. I think LO's with several primary carers over periods of time grow up more confident.
SomeSunnySunday Sorry, I should have remembered the four days off your sentance! Waves to all, and lovely Meerka, elizabeth'smum Livingzuid and others.
Updated list:

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 20 December
Fraggle 28 December
Sarah 29 December
HenriettaTurkey 23 January
Kalidasa 28 January

kaili i am so so relieved to hear you have a good consultant now and good specialist midwife care. Really delighted.

Truely wish you strength during the nausea and that soon you will begin to feel a little better. Can't come quick enough. Sending good thoughts to you, your son and husband and your sister.

okla how are you doing now? did you survive the party?

kali so sorry to hear you are still so ill, but also so relieved to hear that you are getting proper care at last!

You are inching forward with the pregnancy, and I know it doesn't feel like it, but this will end!

I survived the ILs (just). Their car broke down so they ended up staying until 19h! They're lovely, I just find people really tiring.

Seriously paying for it today. Really sick this morning and now too scared to move from the sofa as I know I'll just be sick again. Dull dull dull!

Just been watching Glastonbury highlights on BBC iPlayer and sobbed my way through half the songs - stupid hormones.

Tomorrow will be a better day - 113 days to go!!

Hope everyone else is doing ok.

Okla I think you deserve a medal putting up with visitors. Sorry you feel so bad today. This awful Hyperemesis is like a visitor from hell,and has really stayed a long time in your case.

Lottie I hope still more or less OK?
Meerka Waves. so agree.
xx

Thanks all. TMI but I wonder if anyone has been in the same situation. I think I'm going to have to come off the ondansetron for a couple of days because otherwise I am going to end up in hospital because of constipation. The only thing that has worked for weeks is an enema every few days but the last week even that isn't working. I am in constant pain and of course it is making the sickness worse. I REALLY don't want to end up in hospital having my bowel cleared out, though obv if I come off the ondansetron there's a risk I'll end up back for vomiting. Really not sure what to do. Any ideas? I have tried absolutely everything else, all laxatives, suppositories etc, nothing works.

Im sorry but I think going to the hospital is the best. Unpleasant but coming off the ondansetron might make the vomming and nausea worse and both are draining you.

I did have to go to the hospital for a hospital enema. The hospital treatment wasn't too bad, partly cuase the nurses were so matter of fact. Still a bit though. Do you know what treatment they would propose for you?

Oh Kali I have no idea. Are you able to contact the nice new consultant to ask advice? Or the MW? Sorry you still have so much to strugggle with but very pleased to read you've managed to ditch the useless and awful consultant.

I'm just back from follow up scan after the one I had last week following bleeding. All is well and I am apparently 6 weeks and 5 days, and I saw the heart beat which was good and strong. Does put me just over a week earlier than I was from date of LMP, which means sickness set in earlier than I had thought, and even more earlier than with my last two. I feel like I'm really struggling with just about constant nausea and I'm SOOO exhausted. Keep having to remind myself I'm lucky that I can keep food down and I'm only sick once a day, sometimes not even that. But the nausea is so draining. If it had been bad news today I had already said to DH I didn't think I could do this again and we would have to stick with the 2 we have.

I expect today will be tough as DD fell asleep in the car back from the scan but woke when we got home so now she won't have an afternoon nap. I had been planning on parking DS in front of telly and having a snooz when DD napped! Oh well.

Adding me to the bottom of the due date list:

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 20 December
Fraggle 28 December
Sarah 29 December
HenriettaTurkey 23 January
Kalidasa 28 January
FloweryBoots 26 February

Thanks meerka and flowery. I have had to have an enema in hosp before, it was the same kind of enema as I am using at home, so not sure what they would do differently. If I thought I could turn up and have it done I might, but in reality it would be hours and hours as low priority in A&E and getting out of bed at all makes me vomit a lot more. So I think I would go downhill a lot and there's a chance they wouldn't treat it and just refer me to GP anyway. Did they treat you quickly meerka?

I spoke to my GP this morning and she suggested reducing the ondansetron a little to see if I can get away with it and that even a small reduction might be enough for the enema to work again. So I am going to try that. Not looking forward to the extra vomiting though.

Are you taking anything flowery? Is there anything else you could try?

kali Yes they did treat me fast. the dutch system, for all its unwarrented loathing of meds, is very good once they do realise there is a problem. You don't wait around for ages and ages.

Yeah, if you would be vomitting lots and waiting lots, that puts a different slant on it. As flowers said, could you speak to the MW or consultant?

Lovely to hear the scan was good news, flowers :)

No I'm not taking anything so far. After the bleeding I think sort of thought there was no point trying to get anything if I was going to miscarry. Now I Know it's going OK I'll go to the doctors. Last time round I was repeatedly fobbed off because it was mostly 'just nausea' (although for a good chunk of time I was being sick 2-3 times a day) and they claimed that meds would only really ease the sickness but not the nausea. This time I will not be fobbed off so easily!

Doctors appointment tomorrow at 9.30am. Tonight I'd better read up and go prepared!

help. Help. Help. I'm being sick about 4 times a day. was on medicine at about 6 weeks (now 11) but it ran out. have got a new prescription but can't fetch it until Thursday (only if I strike) unless I call in sick tomorrow. I phoned in sick today which was my first time...I just feel so guilty. Help. I'm literally at my wits end

flowery can you take someone with you to the appt? Be totally straight with the doctor about how the nausea is affecting you. Use phrases like, lack of quality of life, unable to complete simple activities, difficult to keep water down etc... Don't leave without a prescription, reassure the doctor you have read the NICE guidelines and fully understand which drugs are safe if pregnancy.

mrsCK welcome, by the sounds of it another teacher? I'm beginning to think there's a link between HG and our profession! If you are being sick 4 times a day and don't have your meds then you need to go sick tomorrow, that's really important. You need to get the meds so that you avoid dehydration, the longer you are without them the greater the chance that you end up in hospital. Give yourself permission to be sick, I know it's tough but seriously, try and forget the guilt.

Hello mrsck. If you weren't pregnant you wouldn't even consider trying to go to work with that level of vomiting. Ring in sick tomorrow and collect the prescription. Did it work before? Which drug is it? In the meantime, stay as still as you can, stay in bed if possible, and focus on sipping drinks to keep you hydrated. Eat anything you feel like but don't worry if you don't want to eat at all, focus on the fluids. If the drugs don't help quickly make an appt with your GP. Good luck and DON'T feel guilty for a minute!

Call in sick, Mrs. You're too ill to teach!

...and I speak as a teacher too ill to teach feeling guilty for being off.

Thank you....it is so nice to have people who understand! I'll phone in sick and get the prescription first thing. It's metaclopramide which I think worked for me before!

and yes...another teacher :)

Morning ladies

Hello to the newbies but sorry to see you here if you see what I mean lol
What is it with teachers and HG? I'm guessing it's the stress and long hours?

kali so glad you're getting specialist help. Your new consultant sounds lovely :) it's sad that you should have to get a private opinion in the first place but It was obviously worth it

AFM - well I was doing really well but seem to have taken 10 steps backwards in the last few days. I've developed an ear infection which has left me with a crushing earache/headache which in turns seems to have set of my nausea and vomiting. I've thrown up 3 times since yesterday afternoon and spent the whole of yesterday at work feeling absolutely shocking. Currently debating whether to attempt the journey to work this morning but have got as far as sitting on the edge of the bed and I need to leave the house in 10mins so I guess that's that question answered.

Is it normal to get some other sort of illness/infection and for that the set everything off again? I really was doing so well :(

MrsCK. Hope you stick to your guns and phone in sick today and get that prescription. You can't hope to teach if you're vomiting that much and you need to take care of yourself. Just because this is pregnancy related does not make it any less real, foul, debilitating and does NOT mean we should all try to batttle through it. Have a day in bed, please.

I'm in bed...The kids would not have benefitted from me being there today so I'm tucked up. my pharmacy has my prescription and I'll collect it later. hopefully I'll feel stronger today!

Welcome MrsCK and sorry you're feeling rubbish.

Can't improve on others' advice other than to reiterate the font feel guilty point. Worrying and feeling guilty will just make you feel more ill.

Hope the meds help quickly.

Well done mrsCK you're doing the right thing. I was off between week 7 and week 20, (so most of the spring term) I felt awful about it, but I couldn't shower without retching never mind teach a class! If you're sick, you're sick, there are no other conditions where you would puke 4 times a day and still think it reasonable to go into work!

Think about making a GP's appointment for a sick note if you don't feel stronger by this afternoon. The only thing you can still do for your kids is get medical advice which enables your school to do some planning if you are likely to be off for more than a few days.

I've found metoclopromide to be the best medication for me, so fingers crossed it helps you.

fraggle I think sadly, that when you're run down anyway it does make other infections more likely. For goodness sake don't go to work, have you been to the doc? Sounds like you might need antibiotics?