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.

Okla I'm quite indignant on your behalf - I don't think, for sintance, that they've tried combinations of meds with you yet? That just can't be true, apart from being unsympathetic.
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Hi everyone. Sorry, I've been rubbish at following this thread lately.

Kali I am glad to read that you are out of hospital. 14 weeks is a good way through, I really hope that things are more manageable for you from now on.

Hello to everyone else, and newbies - sorry, I've not managed to read right back through the thread, just a couple of pages.

All OK with me here. The summer holidays are keeping me very busy, and I am filling my days with looking after the DSs. Unfortunately, unlike in previous pregnancies, my sickness has not magically disappeared at 20 weeks . But how I feel now is, I imagine, how "normal" people feel in the first trimester - nauseous most of the time, but largely at a level that I can ignore and get on with things. I'm only really being sick a few times a week - not even every day. It plateaued at that level at about 16 weeks, and I know I shouldn't complain - it is nothing at all like it was in the early days with the constant vomiting and wanting to die feeling.

We found out at our anomaly scan that baby number 3 is (they thought, anyway!) a girl. Which is nice, and may explain the more prolonged sickness? We are keeping this to ourselves though, as the sonographer initially said that she couldn't tell, and then when baby moved got a better view, but it's still left room for doubt in my mind!

Anyway, lots of sympathy for everyone still suffering. My GP friend was telling me yesterday how he'd sent his first ever patient into hospital with HG on Friday, so I gave him a big lecture about how very nice he must be to her from now on (and how there should be no mention of ginger).

congratulatoins sunny on your little girl :)

SomeSunnySunday Lovely to hear from you, and so nice of you to post as it's encouraging for others that things are at least bearable with you now. Lovely about a girl now, and do so hope the nausea tails off.
Ha, Ha, like MeerkaI'd have loved to have seen that lecture!
Kali I hope still at home?
I hope Everyone is coping during after this - amazingly- hot summer.
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Just spoken to a different GP as mine is on holiday.

He asked about how I was feeling then suggested referring me to the hospital to get better meds as he said that leaving me throwing up every day was unacceptable.

He asked about ketones, suggested getting ketostix and checked on my mental state. He also explained why those things are important and checked I understood.

I'm speechless. This is the first time I feel like someone actually understands and cares about my welfare rather than just whether the baby is growing.

Okla I'm so happy you managed to get a decent GP... it took me a few goes at the practice I visit (there's quite a few GPs there) but finally found one who appears to have had a rough ride with her own pregnancies and is really lovely when I just bawl my eyes out in one long whine.

Went back to work today on part time hours only (four hours, mornings only) and I think it's definitely for the best, I felt wiped out by lunchtime and had to nap for a couple of hours.

I'm 13 weeks tomorrow and still no sign of a proper let-up, I know it's early days to be seeing improvement in the grand scheme of things, but I'd so like some kind of reassurance that I won't have a terrible pregnancy. I have my dating scan on Weds, hopeful that will perk me up a bit.

okla that is fantastic news, and just proves how crap your last GP was being! I hope you get some joy with the hospital!

I'm very glad I belong to a big practice and have seen 5or 6 different GPs this pregnancy as their competence on this issue does seem to vary wildly!

frenetic take it easy, it is, as you say very early days. But if you can manage reduced hours now that's fantastic news too!

all round!

I've spent a fortune today on a pram etc...etc... Feels like a huge outlay but can't wait for it all to arrive

Oklahoma That is great news - but I'm dismayed if I never said my 'have you got kesostix' line to you - I hope I did!!!!
Waves to everyone.
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...and besides message to Oklahoma Frenetic I think most people do get a improvement somewhere between weeks fifteen and twenty, say-
even those who suffer throughout almost never have it as badly as in the first tri.
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okla its lovely to hear that someone's really shown care at last. HG gets you down so far mentally as well as physically. I hope it's buoyed you up tonight :)

Hi, it's nice to see all the positive comments on this thread as I have severe sickness and am really hoping this gets easier soon. I have had 7 weeks of relentless sickness so far (since 4 weeks pregnant). It's hard to keep on hoping it will ease when so worn out...

Hello! I finally got a moment to say that I had my baby girl on Friday by elcs and we are okay! Haven't slept in 3 days mind you but suppose that's common!! Utterly exhausted and mother in law came over for about 6 hrs today which was awful and I ended up sobbing upstairs with dh after she decided to tell a she didn't like the name we had chosen for the baby, among other things. Awful old bat.

But, I've been able of clean my teeth for the first time in over 8 months without gagging /retching etc!!!! My acid is no more either!!! I'm so tired that I don't don't know how nauseous I am

Congratulations starry! Enjoy those newborn cuddles, and hopefully once the tiredness goes the nausea will be gone too.

Okla, I'm glad you've found a sympathetic GP. It makes all the difference, doesn't it. Our practice is tiny, only 2 doctors and the odd locum, but they've always been very good with me and for that I am very grateful. Sometimes you just need them to acknowledge that HG is really, really crap.

newmummy hang in there. With my previously pregnancies my horrible, requiring hospitalisation sickness disappeared completely by 20 weeks and I felt great. This time round it's not quite gone (although I'm just coming up for 21 weeks, there's still time), but compared to what went before I feel good - I can get on with life as normal and just feel a bit queasy, and I'm not taking any meds any longer. 5 weeks ago I couldn't get off the sofa or leave the house (literally for weeks on end I lay on my parents' sofa and slept while they did all of the childcare, interspersed with bathroom vomit trips) and I never thought it would end, but it pretty much has.

Starry yay!! Absolutely thrilled for you.

Lucinda you did mention ketostix many months ago and I got some don't worry. I was just so in shock at the GP 'getting' it.

Newmmy same advice from me. Hang on in there, rant and moan at us, accept that HG is utterly shit and hope like anything you get a 20 week reprieve.

Fox be careful with work, please don't try and do too much too soon. I tried a few times to go back and just made myself sicker.

Lottie exciting news on the pram, what did you get? We ordered our car seat yesterday, finally starting to get a bit organised.

Meerka hiiiiiii .

Sunny your lecture amused me greatly. Please can you do the same for all GPs?

Congratulations Starry

newmummy. Rest assured we understand just how crap it is, welcome to the vom club!

okla we went for the Oyster Max

Okla so glad you found a sympathetic GP! Nothing worse than a dismissive doctor.

Starry how lovely! Congratulations! I didn't sleep for a few night either when DD arrived, must be something to do with the hormones!

newmummy welcome and hang in there. I suddenly had a symptom free week at 24wks and only minor nausea since then.

By the way have I mentioned I have now had 10 weeks of diarrhea? Lovely right? 24ks of nausea and the rest diarrhea! Four more weeks to go and believe me I am counting!

starry congratulations! How lovely .... do you feel comfy saying what you named her? I hope you're both doing wonderfully. Enjoy the first 48 hours when they sleep lots and lots =)

newmummy have you had any meds for the sickness? The ones usually prescribed are safe, they really are. Most people reckon the nausea is worse than the actual upchucking :s

Oh lord boo that sounds horrendous. Have you been able to take anything for it? I had a calendar and every single day was counted down. "45 days to due date .... 44 days to due date ... 43 days ... etc!"

Starry Lovely news, I am so happy for you.
You'v e c ome to the end of hideious Hyperemesis Endurance test.
Thanks s much for calling in to encourage others...Love to baby Starry.
newmummy Welcome, I can't better what SomeSunny and Booboosto say by way of encouragement. How are flat coke, ice lollies, cripss and jelly, maybe soda water for you? Are you on meds and how are the ketones, did the dr warn you to keep an eye on them via kestostix?
Oklahoma Thank goodness for that. Whew!
BooboostoThat sounds horrific. Much sympathy. What does the doctor say?I believe if you have more than six episodes a day, that's very dehydrating, I just hope you don't have that.
Meerka Love to baby. You are as lovely s ever.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.
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I am on relatively high doses of magnesium (850mg per day) which is causing the diarrhea. If I lower the dose even a tiny bit I get horrific cramps, plus my doctor has mentioned that low magnesium can be a contributing factor in pre term labour so even if I could do with less I probably wouldn't. We've tried a few different preparations but no better so we're at the 'live with it for another 4 weeks' stage of medical advice! I average about 6 times a day and with temperatures in the top 30s here I am also getting dehydrated which is very trying - yay me!

Booboosto That is so unlucky - all you can do, gentle pats on offer.
All you can do, I suppose, is keep on sipping away at the liquids. Thank godness you don't have long to go...
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Hello everyone. Firstly this thread has been so very helpful and I've really benefitted from all the tips (although had to skip all food discussions coz couldn't even read about it) I've been lurking for months and gaining succour but too shy to post. It has been so good to have it drummed in that rest is super important and it has made a massive difference to this (my second pregnancy)

I just wanted to thank you all so much, I check most days and it makes me feel less lonely, all this rest isn't that sociable is it?!

starry congratulations! Urgh at MIL hope your DH has set her straight. Has the hg subsided? I had no sleep either, it's a new mother tuned in thing to the baby I was told.

Sorry quick message yet again, now residing in Scotland yay but exhausted. Hope people are not feeling too dreadful.

Hello Elletorrito. Yes, rest is so important. Even now that my sickness is much better, I still find it is directly related to how tired I am. The days when it tips over into vomiting again are the ones where I haven't slept well, and do too much. My children are watching a lot of TV as a consequence.

Okla, the GP friend looked quite scared! I'm not sure that he'd be recommending me as a guest speaker . He was just making conversation when I collected DS1 from playing with his son, then boom - he didn't really seem to know what had hit him. I may have been a little...evangelical on the subject of hardcore prescription drugs.

Booboo sorry you're feeling so rubbish. No advice, hang in there.

living, welcome to sunny Scotland! Or, unfortunately grey, dreich, drizzly Scotland today - but up until last week the weather was lovely, promise....

We're off on holiday to Cornwall tomorrow (I hope - there are some issues at DH's work which may mean that we need to push it back a day or two). So I need to get my act together and start packing now. Where is my motivation? Dreading the drive as I get quite travel sick even under normal circumstances, and the pregnancy sick / travel sick combination is not good. But looking forward to the break and having DH around full time, as we've not seen much of him lately (and I could do with the help!).

Thank you!! She is such a sweet natured little baby and we are so lucky to have her! I never thought I'd reach the end of this journey and was so anxious about the birth, but we are getting through it. I find myself breaking down into floods of tears every so often, partly tiredness and feeling overwhelmed but also feeling like failure because I still haven't established breastfeeding. I was so anxious and panicky and exhausted for 3 says in hospital and once I'd got home that we had to give her formula. This hg has taken its toll mentally and physically. I was throwing up again yesterday and I think a lot of it was stress because it felt like a different sick feeling if that makes sense.

Meerka and living yes dh set her straight. We are a mixed race couple and gave our little girl an Indian first name and an English middle name but mother in law felt the middle name wasn't English enough, whatever that was supposed to mean.