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 Oh no,you poor thing, as Meerka says it sounds so awful probably it's best to be admitted. Dismal at this stage. I'm glad your mother was shocked into recognizing how serious it is.
Elletorrito Collapsed, oh dear, that is scary. Good idea to make an emergency appointment to try and sort things out.
NoRoom Really sorry pangs are so bad.
Waves to elizabethsmum Meerka and others.
xx

Afternoon all. I'm really not doing great at the moment, can't seem to hold anything down. Whatever I vomit back up within 10 - 30 minutes. Every time I get up from bed or sofa to do the smallest of things I am sick. I am taking ondansetron regularly as instructed by doctors but it doesn't seem to help. I am just so fed up I just don't know what to do any more. Keytones seem stable at present but have lots of protein in urine.

Sounds like hideous days all round ladies. Bags of sympathy and strength to help you get through the next few hours.

I'm counting down the days Meerka & Lucinda 31 to go... Had an unfortunate puking incident at NCT this morning though. Hey ho!

Can I join you ladies?

Just been diagnosed HG today, which just confirms what I've been trying to avoid thinking for the last 2 weeks. Am currently 8 weeks. Started vomiting at 4 weeks and someone on mn told me I was in for a long haul which has turned out to be horribly bloody true. Nothing stays down, nothing at all. I can't eat little and often as everyone keeps insisting, ginger biscuits are the work of the devil, every type of juice I've tried works for exactly one day, same with any food thats worked.

DP has been lovely, checking up on me, running to the shop for things I need etc he hasn't read about HG and keeps asking when I'll want to eat, he's doing my head in.

This is my first baby so no little ones to try and look after, thank god! I don't know how some of you are doing that! DP's DD comes to us every weekend, she's 7, but I've been leaving him to do all the work lately. I can't move without vomiting, let alone run around playing all DSD's games. She's put out because I've never been so "boring" before.

I'm so tired and have been feeling really lonely. Reading the posts over on the thread for May babies is really depressing, everyone is all "oh I haven't had any symptoms yet!" I posted asking if anyone was actually having ms as I was feeling lonely but almost no one replied.

I have no energy to move and every time I do move, I heave. Went to the doctor this morning and was booked in for an early scan on Monday to see if it's twins as she said that's a common cause of HG and twins run in both our families. She also wanted to check my urine to see if I needed admitting to hospital but I couldn't summon a sample at all, there's nothing there to pee out!

GettheRedOut Welcome, oh dear, you must be very dehydrated if you couldn't produce a sample, when is she seeing you again? Do you have a headache, blurred vision, or dry skin, all symtoms of that? What meds has she put you on? Do get your partner to buy you some kesostix from a chemists to check on ketones in urine, if thee are 3+ you need admission to hospital for IV. How are flat coke, ice lollies, jelly, soda water or the juice of tinned fruit staying down? Unhealthy stuff seems the best, you notice. Cheap ice cream can be another life saver for some.
xx

Welcome Red. You poor thing. Lucinda will have the best advice but what did the doctor say is going to happen next? If you are too dehydrated to produce even a tiny wee you are not in a good place. Please please don't hesitate to get help over the weekend. Present yourself to A&E if you have to. Being so dehydrated and pregnant is an emergency.

Stay in bed for as long as you can. Tell DP to get his facts straight on it. It took DH a couple of days to click but he has been my absolute rock. DP may just be comparing your pregnancy to his ex's pregnancy with his DD so won't know what's needed.

Do you want food suggestions?

Poor you GetTheRed it sounds like you definitely need some fluids if you can't even produce a urine sample. Definitely rest as much as possible, too much movement or exertion can be a real trigger.

Sorry you are still suffering Durham. I want to give up with the ondanestron to be honest, it is making me worse at the moment by supressing sickness just long enough to really strain. So gave cyclizine another go since I still have about 200 and then I just got sick straight away and they hadn't even dissolved properly.

Sorry that is a really grim post, I can believe I now seem to have to plan my day around the best possible ways to be sick!

Hi everyone, I've been admitted to hospital.

I did manage to do a sample shortly after posting and DP ran it over to the doctors. They called a little while later to say I need to go in.

I've been looking at the earlier posts so now have a list of stuff to try when I get out of here. Orange fanta helped the other day but the next day it was like venom. Everything seems to be like that :( it's quite busy in here, everyone has their visitors but DP had to go get his DD from school and I don't want her seeing me in hospital like this so I'm just here on my own.

basgetti that's exactly how I feel. I swear ondansetron is making things worse, my stomach has a constant bubbling/gurgling sensationsensation form the moment I take it. Cyclizene and metoclopramide just make the vomiting worse and prochloperazine has little or no effect. I just have no clue what to do. I've managed to keep my lunch down today as I've missed out of of the ondansetron tablets but I still feel so sick. I'm currently in bed on my side knowing if I roll over I will be so close to vomiting :-(

Was meant to say missed out on one of the ondansetron tablets... That's what you get for typing on a tablet on your side!

Sorry you've had to be admitted but you are definitely in the right place. Visiting hours will be over soon and hopefully you can get some rest and start to feel better with fluids. Have they given you some drugs? Hopefully that will give you some respite x

Sorry the above was to GetTheRed.

Durham its miserable isn't it? Do you think you need readmitting?

oh goodness its sounds like a terrible time for everyone at the moment. I honestly think when it gets as bad as you have both described basgetti and durham then you both sound like you need iv fluids.

welcome to the thread getthered sorry you are suffering but glad the you have found us as it is ultra depressing reading joyful threads about people who are 'sailing through with no symptoms'
elle did you manage to see the dr?

waves to okla noroom meerka lucinda and everyone

durham do you think you may have a uti at all with +protein as that will also add to symptoms???

They've given me metoclopramide and cirtizine(?) I think and they've got another lined up for if I can keep some water down in a little while.

I think that upset me more than I thought elizabethsmum, reading all those posts where people were feeling nothing unpleasant at all and I was lying on my bed feeling like death!

Cyclizine! Just seen it on Durhams post, that's the one. Don't know where that other word came from

I'm sorry to hear you've been admitted Get bit you are definitely in the right place. After some iv fluids and anti sickness meds hopefully you should start feeling a little better. Definitely try to get some rest this evening and if possible get you OH to bring you some ear plugs... They were an absolute boon each time I was admitted. Wards can just be so noisy.

Elizabeth I did think I may have a uti but I tested this morning and had trace protein and trace ketones but nothing else...will keep an eye on it though. If it gets worse I'll head for the docs.

Basgetti I think I should be able to hold off admission if I can just keep one thing down per day...but will definitely keep an eye on my ketones.

Durham I just can't believe how Ill you still are. Wish I could do something. Glad you still just have traces. You are obviously battling it but it's so miserable.

GettheRed did you get a cyclizine injection? I found that really sore! How's it working for you so far? Don't feel shy to push for better drugs, they can be shy to prescribe the better drugs as they are much more expensive.

I haven stopped feeling nauseous at all and have just vomited again. They gave me this stuff hours ago, surely it should be working? I was giving them both through the drip tube bit have been taking meticlopramide for a couple of weeks to no effect so I'm not too surprised about that not working. Did you all keep vomiting while in hospital?

It took me a good while (usually overnight) before the vomiting stopped GetThe and the only anti sickness that worked for me iv was ondansetron (Though to be honest on my last admission I was still vomiting after food regardless of ondansetron). Hopefully a good nights rest and a few bags of iv fluids will help to ease the vomiting.

Had a rubbish day (although for a change not with vomiting) and had to have a scan. Turns out I have a subchorionic haemorrhage. Baby is fine at the moment and measured 9 weeks. I'm so dreading a mc, especially after battling sickness like this. I hate pregnancy.

It looks like a warzone on the thread tonight. I haven't got any advice just gentle pats and the hope that everyone sleeps through as much as possible tonight.

noroom (whispers), I am a sonographer and although it may seem worrying, we do see haematomas very commonly on early scans and the vast majority of these resolve. sometimes you may experience bleeding (from the haematomas, not mc), sometimes none at all. it goes without saying make sure that you get plenty of rest.

get it usually took me a good 12-24 hours to start to feel remotely improved (as remember you are extremely dehydrated so alongside meds will need several bags of fluids to rehydrate) and the majority of my admissions were at least 3 days so just try and get a bit of sleep if you can and hopefully fluids overnight and a bit of sleep and you will feel a little better in the morning.

love to everyone xx

GettheRedOut my first admission it took overnight, lots of fluid and 3 stemicel injections.

My second admission they tried injections of cyclizine, then stemitil and all they did was give me a bruised arse. Finally injected Odansetrone and the relief was in minutes. I'm lucky in that it's been very effective for me and 6 weeks later I'm still on it. Still sick sometimes but it really handles the nausea the vast majority of the time.

NoRoom I would hate that too but I've seen it loads on MN and its really common. Thank goodness ElizabethsMum is here.