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.

How is everyone doing this morning? I'm very nauseous today after quite a busy day yesterday and had hoped for a few hours in bed. Unfortunately poor DS woke up with a temperature and is chesty and croaky so he's off school and DP is out of the house today 8 til 8. Luckily DS is being good and just wants snuggles and films, and at least I have avoided the school runs!

Hope everyone is doing okay today, Newshoes you definitely need your ketones checked as you sound quite poorly. Hope you have a better day xx

Morning, feeling very low today. I hit 12 weeks yesterday and I know from experience 12 weeks is not the magic mark when sickness disappears but I didn't expect to be stuck in bed at this point. I tried to get up today as dinner stayed down last night, managed two hours during which I sat on the sofa and then in the bath (and by the toilet...) I can't move without being sick. Typing this is making me queasy too. Poor dp is off work on his days off and I haven't spent any time with him at all (he's also banned me from doing anything as says every time I do I end up really ill, he's right really but I have to keep trying?) Dd keeps coming up and kissing me and stroking my head but that just reinforces the guilt I feel at not being there for her. Sorry, feeling sorry for myself. Will try again later. X

Hugs muddy I hate the guilt. I reckon our los are more resilient than we think. It hurts though, doesn't it. I just want to be normal.

basgetti I have first midwife appt today so hopefully she'll check for ketones. Doctor didn't on tues.

Or mon. Days are merging into one.

Morning all, feeling a little better today, though still feeling nauseous (OH still isn't talking to me).

My back to work appointment with doctor went very well. I will be returning to work on Monday on a phased return and altered hours basis. She even stated on the form I was to only drive out of peak hours due to travel sickness. My employer is thankfully very supportive and are trying to arrange everything to help me (have been allocated my own parking space near to entrance, arranging hours to suit me and travelling etc). Fingers crossed I can keep holding food and fluid down and maintain some kind of normality.

Hello another newbie here. Currently 6 weeks pregnant with my second DC. Had horrendous HG with my son and its reared its ugly head again this time around. I feel horrendous. I have been signed off work for the week and given cyclizine which worked last time (in addition to a hospital admission) but I'm not keeping anything down at the moment.
Just wanted to introduce myself and say a very weak hello!

Fuck this i can't do it anymore. Today i can't eat or drink because everything tastes of metal. I vomit more on an empty stomach and just now didn't get out of bed on time. I've got so little energy that lieing in a pool of vomit actually feels a better option to having to stand up and strip the bed. My MIL just rang to ask if i will watch my nephew next week as shes read somewhere that HG lifts at 10 weeks. Apparantly now I have passed that i should be better not still upchucking. And best of all? Finally got my scan date for the 5th December - so i could have missed misscarryed and been going through three more weeks of hell for fucking nothing. I'll be 14 weeks by then if bean is ok. Oh yes and my dad came round yesterday and suggested i might need to do some housework. Clearly i'm just a lazy slut

newshoes you sound very low and I agree that feeling totally pointless and desperate can be a sign of ketosis in itself. I really hope the midwife checks for ketones - do ask about it. If you don't want to sound as if you are telling her her job maybe just say that you are worried that you must be dehydrated as you can't keep much fluid down and you have a bad headache (or whatever) and aren't peeing much. Any midwife who doesn't check your ketones if you say that is really incompetent! Please try not to worry at this point about the folic acid, vit D, calcium etc etc. It is you who will suffer as you run out of these things, your body will prioritise the baby. If you do end up in hospital - and to be honest it sounds as if you may need a day or two on a drip - they will check your levels for all this stuff anyway and top you up if necessary. They can infuse vit D, all the B vits (inc folic acid) and calcium and potassium via your drip if you need it, I just had these infusions every few days. What drugs are you on? Are they helping at all? It sounds like you need to try the next thing.

Your children will be fine. How old are they? I really remember when I was only about two weeks pregnant this time that DS (then 18 months) already thought that what plastic bowls were "for" was for being sick in! - If he saw one he would pick it up, shove his head inside and make gagging noises!! It was sort of funny and totally awful at the same time. But it made me realise that children do just accept how things are. DS was too little even to realise that being sick was something unpleasant/worrying/frightening. You will get through this dreadful stage and out the other side.

Have you tested your ketones willow? If you haven't can you see a doctor? Do you have anyone there to help you? You sound very unwell.

If you are vomiting on any empty stomach you will dehydrate very fast, and once the ketones are high they make you vomit more anyway. You might need a day or two in hospital to stabilise you. If you do end up in hospital you should say how concerned you are about the possibility of a mmc and ask for a scan. They are easier to arrange in hospital and in my experience they do understand that if you are that ill it is not unreasonable to want to be sure that you are not suffering for nothing.

Poor you Willow I agree it sounds like you need to be in hospital. Kali is right about the possibility of a scan too, my first hospital admission was nearly 15 weeks and the doctor trundled a machine into the treatment room and gave me a quick scan. It was a bit primitive but did the job. Do you have any support? Can't believe your MIL is asking you to babysit when you are so poorly x

Agree with the otherd willow you may need to go into hospital. I was in for 3 days when I was 8 weeks pg with my son and they gave me a scan too

no i have no way to test my keytones - no spare money till Jan and i physically cannot get myself to a doctor.

with scans it kind of my own fault. I declined an early scan as i have a hospital phobia and i know quite often they cause more worry than reassurance but i was banking on getting a 12 week scan. I know its only an extra two weeks but time goes very slowly when you worry

Been MIA, stressful couple of weeks. Been diagnosed with SPD, so currently battling with that pain. I think out of the last 20 weeks, I've maybe had two or three days where I've been completely nausea free. I'm been retch/vom-free for a while touch wood but sometimes I wonder if I can remember what it feels like to not have that churning sensation.

Hope everyone else is having an ok afternoon x

Due Dates
Mampam 17 November
Sassehmonsta 15 December
basgetti 21 December
SomeSunnySunday 24 December
Sarah 29 December
Kalidasa 28 January
EmysMarie 15 March
Durham Red 19 March
MuddyLettuce 26 May
NewShoesPlease 12 June
Caitmus 25 June

Oh dear, lots of suffering. Willow and NewShoes I so agree with others you're probably dehydrated. In the absence of the magic sticks, do you have dry skin, blurred vision, headache or dark scanty urine as Kalidasa says? Not to mention the depression and muddle headed feeling.
DurhamRed It's too bad of OH; what does he mean by it? I'm glad work are sympaethetic, anyway.
MuddyLettuce I hope you get relief soon. Most people do in the second tri, but not normally so early as with ms.
basgetti Sorry about poor DS.
Kalidasa I remember from another thread how common that 'play vomiting' is and of course, that's how they accomodate to life as you say. From everything I've seen on these threads, LO's forget all about it, they have such flexible minds, it's wonderful.
Meerka I forgot to thank you for the corn.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.
xx

willow can you call your GP or your midwife? Can you say that you are vomiting repeatedly and unable to get out of bed to come to the surgery? I know it feels like an absolute mountain to climb to access help but you do need to see someone.

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willowI'm v concerned about you. You need some fluids imho.

kalidasa the midwife didn't check my urine as she was out of sample tube things. Asked me to drop one tomo-really annoying. We were at a children's centre rather than the doctors. Mil is here now but I'll check ketones when she's gone home! Have ketostix now. willow id send u some if I could get to a post box. .

lucinda dc are 9 & 5 so they're quite self sufficient in their own way. So worried about me though. Poor boys.Dc1 is mid asd assessment and keeps asking me/others matter of factly how long I can go without fluid until I die.

newshoes your DS sounds more on the ball than your midwife!! Glad you have the ketostix.

kalidasa he doesn't miss a trick! Tested ketones-they're negative so at least that's something!

willow, agreed with everyone, you need treatment urgently.

new how are you doing today? Hope it's a slightly better day ... Your poor son :(

Hello hallohallo. If you can get to the doctor you could ask for somethign stronger than cyclizine. Promethazine works in the same way as cyclazine but is stronger. It can make you drowsy though. Or there's stemetil or metoclopramide as well, or a couple others.

frenetic are you working again? SPD sounds horrid ...

kali talking of SPD, how are you? and is your nausea any better?

Thanks meerka cyclizine has made me drowsy as it is lol. I have previously tried metoclopramide and it didn't work for me.

Aaarrrrrrgggghhh!! I just hate feeling like this and it's noe fair on my poor DS

Sorry not been around for a while- just quickly marking place on thread. Will try to catch up xx

Thanks Willow and Lucinda. I'm sorry for all those who are so poorly. It's such a horrible, relentless illness.

I'm adding insomnia to my lists of woes now. Despite the exhaustion I can't bloody get to sleep. Or stay asleep. Grrrr.

I've got my ten week scan tomorrow. Feeling anxious/positive in equal measures. Feel like this is a big one. Not helping the nausea with my stomach flipping.

Can I ask you advice? It was a locum dr that prescribed me Metroclopramide. No alternatives were discussed. Just handed over months worth. Said take them whenever I felt ill. But when I felt ill I just vomited them up.

A nurse at my 7wk scan said you have to take three a day to build up until they work. To be honest, even on three a day it didn't really help. Still feel sick 24hrs.

So if I manage to get another GP appt is there specific things I should be asking or requesting?

My mouth feels dry most of the time but I am able to sip water. They'll test my urine at the scan so that will tell me if I'm dehydrated I guess.

Any advice? I rubbish at communicating with doctors.

This image sums up my whole life. First depression now hg!

So am I caitmous just tell them that it doesn't work, Could you try an alternative. I've found that ally tablets knock me out pretty much.

All my tablets*