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.

! what an interesting thought. I wonder if it's worth mentioning to your consultant?

Interesting point Living about adjusting the dosage to an increase in volume. I'm hoping that if I just use the meds when I'm at my worst it will be enough to see me through.

Kali Funny you should mention antacid meds as I seem to be drinking gaviscon like it's going out of fashion. Is Ranitidine available over the counter?
It definitely feels much worse when I am tired and at the moment I am highly stressed. I'm trying not to be but it's very hard when you live next door to your IL's and they are just awful.

Hope everyone else is ok and has a good day

Hi hope everyone is doing ok this morning. Glad you are improving Kali.

I'm 23+4 today and the improvement after my hospital visit has now faded. Last few days I've been really retchy, lots of nausea. Also having horrendous heartburn to add to the mix. I'm managing to keep the actual vomiting at bay with cyclizine as long as I take it like clockwork, but feeling so sick again after I had a bit of a reprieve and managed to get out and about more has made me feel really down.

I keep crying and everytime I feel the baby move I hate it. I really feel like I'm starting to get depressed.

Ranatidine has saved my life. I ended up back in hospital last week because the acid reflux was making me cough so badly I couldn't breathe. I don't think you can get it over the counter but ask your doc and they should be happy to prescribe it.

It has made a huge difference. I would say it has helped with the nausea a bit too as less acid churning around in your stomach.

I'm having a really bad day. Metoclopramide doesn't seem to be the drug for me. Been so so sick all day.

oh dear it sounds a bad time all round :(

avoid, can you go back and ask for something else? take a print out of the NICE meds with you?

basgetti, can you make an appointment with the doctor to see if there is help available for the mental side of things? This condition gets everyone down - previously fit and healthy people unable to work and unable to leave the house for months is definitely enough to trigger depression.

The mental health side of things needs to be managed becuase it's so damn miserable, and on a practical level to keep you in as good condition as possible for after the birth.

And keep posting here, it does help! Thinking of you.

okla sorry to hear you were back in hospital. You're better now, with the ranitidine?

-waves to everyone-

Thanks Meerka I have to go to the surgery shortly for a blood test so will try to book appointment then. Just feel really ungrateful and guilty, had MC in December and was desperate to get pregnant again and now just wishing I wasn't

Bas stop beating yourself up. I have spent the last 7 months wishing I wasn't pregnant but that has no bearing on how much we'll love our babies. It's normal to feel utterly miserable and depressed with HG.

Have you thought about trying to get a buddy from PSS? I think Kali has one so may be able to advise better.

Meerka we're surviving still. The ranatidine has helped with the horrific acid and cough but not the puking. Seeing midwife today and consultant next week though and think they're going to change my meds again. Who knows!!

How are you doing anyway? Finding it any easier yet?

ToAvoid agree with others that sounds like you need other meds. Hopefully your GP will be sensible. Have you tried combinations yet?

Hi Living how's it going? Sounds like you have a good set up now. V pleased for you.

Kali so pleased things are looking up for you. I can't believe how quickly the time has gone. It feels like last week you got your BFP.

Everyone else waves, hang on in there...

the sickness comes and goes but it's a bit better overall. Could do with the Squeak sleeping through the night, the exhaustion doesn't help sickness or anything else. But he's absolutely lovely, we are fortunate enough to have a laid back little mite and his brother is just a sweetheart with him.

basgetti, honestly, its normal to want whatever causes this level of illness and misery to disappear. The good news is that in the end, it definitely WILL disappear! but until then, feeling that you want it to go really is normal. But I do think you should say to your doctor that it's starting to get you down mentally and you could do with some more support.

Is your partner or family supportive?

Hi Meerka, my DP is very supportive. He does everything and I just do what I can when I feel up to it! He is also very sensitive to how I'm feeling which I really need at the moment!

My parents have been supportive in a practical sense as they took me to the hospital and looked after DS whilst I was in there as DP working, so I'm very lucky. However I do get quite a lot of unhelpful advice and lectures from my Mum which aren't very useful. They live a fair distance though so haven't really seen how bad the vomiting is, so when she rings me to advise me to eat crackers or stop laying around as it's not fair on DS and a brisk walk will do me good I just want to scream!

I'm seeing GP Friday morning so I'll offload then.

Bas, I know where you're coming from with unhelpful comments from your mum. Mine was very sick with both me and my sister, but loves to tell me how well I'm looking at the moment. I've lost a lot of weight over the last couple of weeks and she sees this as a good thing. She also had an 'interesting' attitude to mental health issues. Definitely talk to your GP about how you are feeling and don't let them give you the brush off. Antenatal depression is a real illness and needs to be taken seriously.

Is anyone else taking avomine? I'm finding that I need to increase to 2 tablets a day, is it common for this to happen? I've had a few days of feeling better and now I'm back to being sick a lot and feeling like poo.

Evening all. Case of one step forward, two steps back today. After two great days, I was starting to glimpse positivity, but tonight is like a whole new level of nausea intensity. Not even at 16 weeks yet, the next six months feels like too much.

bas when I was really ill if I'd had the strength I'd have punched my family for all their 'get some fresh air advice'. Inside I was roaring with frustration at their glibness.

mrsanne okla is the Avomine expert I'm sure she'll be along soon.

frenetic hang in there. I know it doesn't feel like it right now but there is a very strong chance that you are on the cusp of a big improvement, and whether you are or not you can get through this and time will pass.

I'm knackered, emotional and nauseous today great combo! But I must stress that although unpleasant it is nothing like it was in the first 20 weeks. Ironically now it is the kind of nausea that some fresh air will help

Frentic I know where you are but at 9+6. Yesterday was awful. Sick about 30 times and my GP sent me to hospital. Tried cyclizine, Stemetil and finally an Odansetrone jag. Within minutes started to not feel sick. On my 7th bag of fluid. Hospital have been so lovely.

avoid, very pleased to hear you got sent to hospital and they've given you Ondan. Hopefully they'll prescribe it when you're out, too

The fluid alone will be making you feel better, too =)

frenetic what lottie says ... also there are good days and bad days, but with any luck at all you'll be on the upwards path soon

basgetti hope you're holding up until tomorrow

kali how are you doing now?

Anne I was on 3-4 Avomine a day at my worst so you can definitely ramp up the dose. They tend to start you on 1 before bed and then increase as needed.

When I was on a high dose I felt pretty drugged as it is a sedative too. But it's the only one I found that did anything for the nausea (although that could have been because I was asleep!).

In short going up to 2 is fine and there is also scope to go up from there.

frenetic sorry to hear you had a bad day. I really sympathise. I've had a couple of good days this week (not moving off the sofa good, just not being sick good) but that's all gone backwards again today . I'm only 9+4 and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.

toavoid I hope you're feeling a bit better now. Wishing everyone else a more positive day too.

Twinkle I'll see you through to the end. Your just 2 days behind me! Although by my ovulation date I actually think I'm closer to 9+2. Got out of hospital this afternoon and now on the sofa watching Gavin&Stacey as inspired by a Mumsnet thread.

toavoid I hope you're feeling better today, sounds really awful :(

I'm having a day of intermittent queasiness, which isn't the end of the world considering at midnight last night I was a trembling wreck, just begging it to stop.

Another smug colleague said to me "by 15 weeks I was feeling amazing, I loved it!"

Yes. Thank you. Now go away.

frenetic the only reasonable response to that is to think of something horrid and upchuck in her direction

Thanks Meerka, Twinkle and Frentic. Woke up panicking a bit today but haven't been sick since Wednesday. Which is amazing because I've been sick 2-30 times a day since the 5th of August.

Having read this thread I now have the confidence to demand the treatment I need when I needed it.

Treatment at the hospital was very good. They were super busy so I actually ended up staying on the Delivery ward and got a bit spoiled as I was the only overnight patient. My midwife even took off her shoes to tiptoe in to change my drips during the night so she wouldn't wake me! How amazing is that?

Thankfully, despite my normal GP being off sick today, the GP was happy to prescribe me Ondansetrone. I've got to use that plus cyclizine and top up with stemitel when I want.

Hi all, just checking in. Can't believe how fast this thread is moving at the moment. Hi to everyone and welcome all the newbies. Sorry to hear everyone suffering.

To avoid, I wish all nursing staff were like that. Result with your apt today.

frenetic, yes those kind of remarks are very frustrating I've had moments when I've been tempted to follow Meerkas suggestion!

Hope you are ok oakla. Good luck with your next apt.

meerka, glad you're a little better. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone.

So I had a check up today. Yet another different doctor. She's breech now but this doctor said he's not going to try and turn her because all the other factors point to c section anyway. (age, medical history and cpd) wouldn't give me a definite date though but said definitely before 38 weeks. My next appointment is the 9th September and by measurements I'm 38 weeks on the 15th September so it's cutting it a bit fine to give me a definite date. Assuming my next appointment will be my pre op assessment! I think I'm happy with the decision that it's probably going to be over sooner but still a shock she's going to be here in possibly less than 2 weeks!

Mrsnec that's so exciting! Less than 2 weeks?! Are you ready for the new arrival?

Glad to hear you were treated well in the hospital toavoid .

mrsnec that's exciting news that she'll be here so soon!

I've had a bad few days. Stemetil hasn't been working for me at all so I went back to the GP today. She prescribed me 7 days worth of cyclizine and said if I'm still sick over the weekend I have to go back on Monday so she can send me to hospital. I would really like to be fit to go to work on Tuesday so here's hoping the cyclizine helps!!

Twinkle don't hold off going to the hospital if you need it. I was sick from the early hours and by mid-afternoon I had 3+ ketones. A whole weekend of it might have you on your knees...

Did she suggest doubling up the cyclizine and stemitil?