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.

Basgetti, I haven't been given anything to check my keytones? I have no idea if I am dehydrated or not, ive managed a few mouthfuls of water this morning but I was sick before that.

I was thinking of getting mu husband to call 111 when he gets home between his shifts so he can get some advice because I need new medication anyway.

Sorry you are still suffering GetTheRed, glad you are managing to keep a bit of toast down. For me its crisps and full fat coke at the moment. I keep getting emails from baby clubs giving me updates and advice, I tend to glaze over the healthy food stuff, that ship has well and truly sailed. This weeks instructions are that at 31 weeks I should be doing daily gentle exercise. Hollow laugh from the bed I barely get out of lately!

Glitter you can buy ketostix from the chemist, can you get your husband to pick you some up?

I will drop him a message, thank you x

Right, Glitter, you need an action plan. Message DH to buy ketostix from a pharmacy on his way home. Get him to phone 111 and get seen. If you have to, go to A&E. You need help now. Also, phone the PSS helpline and talk to them. They will probably phone back on Monday but do accept the help of a volunteer. You need support and there are ex-HG sufferers out there who want to help and are trained to do it.

Thank you Noroom, I never know when to get help as I feel like im just being a pain in the bum, I don't want to go to hospital and be told there is nothing wrong and I am wasting everyones time.

NoTion I agree,
Glitter phone 111 because they are very very helpful, I had to in the middle of the night last week and I was sent straight to A&E and given an injection to stop the vomiting. Please please call them. And explain you have a wee one to look after and you are struggling.

111 will not make you feel like you're wasting their time, I always feel the same but I spoke to two very sympathetic ladies who assured i got seen immediately.

And also, I'd only been sick twice that day. I'd not kept meals down for 24 hours which sounds pathetic compared to you.

Glitter I so second NoRoom's and Kitten's advice about kestostix from chemists and phoning 111 and the PPS number 024 7638 2020 If ketones are more than 3+ you need IV, unfortunately. This is very stressful for you and LO and DP but you will get through it. Tell her if Mummy shouts its not her fault, it's because you feel bad inside(or whatever she can understand,not sure of her age).
But I'm sure y ou have. Some stickers bought in by DP as a reward for entertaining herself with toys while you lie down might be an idea?
Don't despair. Things will get better.
xx

Basgetti, I started feeling quite upset yesterday when looking at the Bounty pack I'd been handed at the hospital because of all the stuff in there about healthy eating. I feel so guilty that the baby isn't getting all the right healthy stuff and I'm not doing any exercise, which apparently is good for the baby as well. I'm just shite, have just been sat in this flat for weeks and weeks doing nothing (apart from vomiting and trying to control nausea) eating little and not really even speaking.

We're supposed to eat healthy to give baby everything it needs but i can't :(

I think I might actually be really depressed. I lie on the sofa day after day, I have no energy to do anything at all. Everyone else's lives are carrying on as normal, it feels like they must all be so happy.

Haven't told DP how upset its made me or how low I feel. He can see I'm down but he's doing so much already I don't want to add any more worries

Getthered- I know how you feel about being depressed, I feel very much the same way at the moment. I wonder if it is worth mentioning?

What is this white foam I keep throwing up? seriously fed up now.

GetTheRed I know how you feel. One of the MWs last week suggested speaking to the GP about going on antidepressants but the thought of any more medication at the moment is just too much for me.

Glitter I throw up white foamy stuff if I'm just bringing up water and my stomach is otherwise empty. Are you keeping any fluids down? x

GetThe I know how you feel about the advice sheets regarding vitamins and what weight you should be at. They really worry me as I've barely been able to eat at all (let alone vit tablets) and have drastically lost weight, so I am worried about the effect on baby.

Exercising is a total joke as I barely get out of bed let alone our flat! The only person I see is my OH as both of our families live so far away. (Minimum of 100miles) so the loneliness and boredom really gets to me too. The only social contact I get is from other patients when I'm in hospital... How sad!

My focus at the moment is on my 20 week scan to make sure baby is OK and that my weight loss hasn't affected baby's birth weight.

basgetti, obviously just throwing up the water i tried earlier then, im litterally running on empty.

Another thing stressing me out is the fact I have no idea how far along I am as i STILL haven't been assigned a midwife and could be waiting another week, do you think there is anyway I could get a scan just so i know atleast how far along I am.

I think white foam = excess saliva.

Oh glitter I'm so sorry I'm nowhere near you. Do make the phone calls. I know it's hard to speak when you feel so sick but actually they will take you seriously if your crying and retching so don't let that put you off. Call 111 now.

You can do this.

NoRoom, that also makes sense. Lovely. Well I just had a really frightening, painful sicking fit. You know the ones where you can't breath and you wonder how on earth stuff is still coming out your body??? Like where is that even coming from????

Needless to say I feel a bit better after that. How long for I do not know. Definatly need to go into hospital and get some new tablets. I'm really scared though because I don't mind having the IV put in (for some reason that only scares me a little) But last time I went in they injected me in the butcheek with something that BLOODY HURT. Do not want. Did anyone else have this? I think it was an antisickness thing. For some reason that really scares me.

Cyclizine injections hurt A LOT. Maybe it was that?

it must have been that, im such a baby but i think I will probably say I do not want it if they do it again.

I find the white foam is first thing every morning, or if I've only had water, or after I've taken one of the pills. YY to the vomiting until you can't breathe. It's so awful and exhausting! Think you do need to go to hospital glitter, if even water isn't staying down it sounds like you need rehydrating.

I was given the cyclizine injection during my first hospital stay, it hurt like fuck and the bruise lasted absolutely ages

Yeah I am not having that injection, not even sure cyclizine helps at all anyway, I had the tablets and they were rubbish.

Durham, my DP says the lack of excercise is probably a good thing at the moment. His theory is that the very little we're taking in is being used solely for the mum and baby and not being burned off in any way, he reckons it's probably what's keeping baby from miscarrying, that it's getting everything from what's being kept down.

My hospital always prescribe cyclizine IV. It makes you a bit woozy but its better than in the muscle, which I would refuse anyway after a horrible experience in my leg in my first pregnancy which left me with pain for ages.

I am so glad I am not the only one who had a bad experience with the injection!!! Feel so much better now for saying I don't want it.