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Hyperemesis Support

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LucindaE · 16/09/2014 17:49

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.

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GetTheRedOut · 27/10/2014 22:35

Oops posted that twice

WillowHouse · 28/10/2014 08:09

Red i totally sympathise. Dh thinks im mad as im chain watching cooking shows despite only being able to eat mashed potato or salt and vinegar crisps but seeing all the lovely food helps me to remember that one day i will be able to eat again.

How do people explain this to their kids? Both dds are asking why mummy never gets out of bed but if i tell them im pregnant my evil ex will find out and use it agaisnt me.

Are you feeling better newshoes?

and i would agree, unless they are very close friends who will come in and look after you and do housework i'd cancel.

Newshoesplease · 28/10/2014 10:08

I've been discharged! With cyclizine. Not heard great things buy willing to try!
willow I haven't told mine I'm pg either, which is proving really difficult!

red I totally relate!

basgetti · 28/10/2014 11:31

I've spoken to delivery suite who are happy to admit me whenever I'm ready basically! I said I'll see how I go for the rest of the day and if my ketones go any higher I'll go in, I've not kept my meds down again this morning so I know I'm back in the downward spiral now. Problem is I don't want to go into hospital again. I'm so fed up.

Hope everyone else is feeling okay today xx

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LucindaE · 28/10/2014 11:38

Just deleted a long message.
NewShoes I'm happy you're home. Don't hesitate to make a fuss if the sickness comes back badly, it's the first one they try, and helps many a lot, but there's others if it doesn't work for you.
basgetti You poor thing; how are you today?
WillowHouse Now, that is interesting, and I wonder if people experience sickness as different, as I couldn't bear to think about or look at food. Does this vary from day to day? When a bit better I did find the restricted diet caused by the heartburn as really dismal, though. Do you and DurhamRed find normally fizzy drinks left to go flat, like coke or Ironbru, or lucozade, for that mater, better?
Hope Everyone is coping today.
xx

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LucindaE · 28/10/2014 11:39

basgetti Trust me to cross post, it always happens to me. Hugs. That is so unfair. You must be really fed up. This will one day be over, time isn't standing still, it just seems to be.
xx

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DurhamRed · 28/10/2014 13:22

basgetti I'm so sorry to hear you are still suffering so badly. I know what you mean about not wanting to go back to hospital, but it does sound like it may be the best place to be to at the moment Sad sending much sympathy and hugs to you.

Lucinda it seems that flat come and Capri Sun are my saviours at the moment. This is my second day of feeling relatively OK and keeping small amounts of food/fluid down. I'm even up and dressed!!! I'm taking things very slowly though as I'm still feeling very dizzy and exhausted all the time, but things are slowly improving. Have my 20 week scan. On Thursday afternoon so something to focus on (I'm praying everything is OK).

Gentle hugs and sympathy to everyone suffering so badly Flowers

GetTheRedOut · 28/10/2014 16:01

Frozen orange Calippos anyone? Someone aha suggested this to dp and he's brought some home for me to try. Anyone tried them? I'm afraid of ingesting anything that will come back up tasting of poison...

Emsymarie · 28/10/2014 16:10

I ate orange calippos during my first pregnancy and although I didn't have HG I remember them being a dream to throw up, quite refreshing! xx

GetTheRedOut · 28/10/2014 16:19

I'm going to give one a try. He said the suggestions came from a colleague who's been through it

Emsymarie · 28/10/2014 16:23

Go for it, they were my massive pregnancy craving! Very tricky to get hold of in winter time. My ex once brought home pure orange juice lollies as he failed to find calippos. TOTALLY different experience! xx

Meerka · 28/10/2014 16:41

has anyone found that mcdonald's beefburgers stay down? a few people have in the past.

kalidasa · 28/10/2014 17:25

Yes McD or Burger King cheeseburger and chips. Totally and utterly disgusting but sometimes works. For several weeks when I was first managing to eat at all this time the only thing I could reliably keep down was a KFC Zinger Burger. The horror! Not sure I'll ever be able to face them again. Was really weird.

basgetti I really really feel for you. How far along are you now? You must be nearly there! I am really worried I am going to end up back in hospital by the end of this pregnancy, I'm already sliding again. I have never stopped throwing up but yesterday I threw up the cyclizine and I haven't done that for quite a while - always something peculiarly depressing about vomiting the anti-emetics I find!!

okla any news?

Oklahoma · 28/10/2014 17:49

Nope, nada. Grump, moan, whine, sulk. I just want this to be over!!!!

Sorry not being much support currently. I'm in basic survival mode and struggling to do anything else.

basgetti · 28/10/2014 18:07

Hi kali I'm 32+2 today! I'm just in a never ending cycle of getting fluids, feeling a bit better for a week or so and then going downhill again. I don't think I will be made to go to term though, so there is an end in sight. Sorry you are struggling again, it's horrible not being able to keep the meds down. I'm sipping fat coke and trying to keep my ketones under 3, I've given up on food for today! DS due home tomorrow and I want to spend a couple of days of half term with him, already feeling like such a rubbish Mum at the moment. The idea of having to ask my parents to hang on to him cos I'm back in hospital just makes me want to cry.

Poor you Okla, I really hope you get some movement soon. You must be so fed up xx

Newshoesplease · 28/10/2014 19:32

basgetti I hope you improve very soon.

lucinda
I find that the iller I was getting, the less appealing food got until I would gag at the name of a food.

I feel fairly sick again now and have (tmi tmi sorry) diarrhoea. (I really hope that doesn't trigger puking from anyone.) I just feel like my body thinks I have food poisoning. Hmm

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LucindaE · 28/10/2014 20:20

NewShoesPlease Never worry about tmi; on here anything goes...
basgetti You have really had it bad. Gentle pats on offer, wish I could do something. You'll be able to make it up to DS when this is over. You deserve an angelic baby who sleeps those eighteen hours...
Kalidasa ...And you, too. I'm really sorry things are going downhill. I remembe with the last preg it was more like bad MS for some weeks, which was as good as it got for you, and it's too bad if you're not even going to have that much improvement.
DurhamRed Good luck for scan and I'm so happy things are a bit better.
GetTheRedOut Emysmarieand others, sounds good about those capris. Emysmarie With your other pregnancy, you still had bad sickness, then?
Waves to Meerka and leaves, clucking anxiously...
xx

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LucindaE · 28/10/2014 20:22

Sorry, that was calippos!
xx

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GetTheRedOut · 28/10/2014 20:47

Is it too soon to be wishing it was all over already at 14 weeks?

Newshoesplease · 28/10/2014 21:19

I'm wishing it at 7 weeks red . It's a unique kind of hell. I'm fairly sure I'm about to vom again.

Fraggle31 · 28/10/2014 21:38

Evening ladies......I'm slinking back if that's ok and wondering if how I'm feeling is normal? I finally stopped vomiting completely at about 26/27 weeks (after stopping anti emetics at 20 weeks) and since then have felt really quite well. but in the last week (now 31+2) find myself starting to feel grumbling-ly nauseous again all the time, am losing interest In food and threw up this morning for the first time in ages. Had a duvet day from work yesterday which helped abit but have felt pretty pants all day today. Don't get me wrong I don't feel anywhere near like I did at my worst but it's frustrating to start feeling crap again when it seems you're on the home straight. Had my 31 week midwife appt today who remarked that I 'didn't look quite myself' and to sehow things went, but to ask my gp to sign me off again if I felt I needed it. I don't feel I'm at that point yet though. The commute (esp homeward bound) is seeming like increasingly hard work.

Welcome to all the newbies, sorry to see you find yourself here.......to those of you with the end in sight hang on in there it's nearly over, and those in middle well done for getting this far you are amazing :)

Emsymarie · 28/10/2014 21:42

A unique kind of hell sums it up really well newshoes. I really feel for all of you suffering.

No Lucinda I used to be sick once a day every day until 12 weeks 4 days with my singleton, but fine otherwise. I just seemed to pick up two or three sickness bugs while I was pregnant and that's when I remember the calippos! Nothing like this pregnancy. Although I'm one of the lucky ones (touches wood) that the sickness has eased early, unlike some of you poor ladies, you deserve a medal for this.

We find out what sex the twins are on Thursday, looking forward to that! And finally down to just one dose of promethazine a day. All ok except nausea hits again in the evenings. Really hoping this doesn't come back in the third trimester! xx

Newshoesplease · 28/10/2014 22:03

I just puked so hard that I wet myself.

emsy it's so exciting that you'll know what you're having! ! That's when it always starts to feel real for me.

GetTheRedOut · 28/10/2014 22:45

Newshoes have been there on the weeing while vomiting, grim but can't be helped!

Emsymarie · 29/10/2014 04:57

newshoes I know it feels very far away right now but my friends and I laughed til we cried the other night when I told them the story of when I puked over my own face laying in bed, then when I did get to the sink to carrying on puking I full on wet myself as my OH came in to ask if he could do anything. You will get through this, you will xx