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.

good to hear, dilly

good morning

kali wondering how you are now?

Sorry for everyone suffering through the worst bit now. matilda the combination of HG and a good scan, even a really early scan at 7 or 8 weeks, are very promising signs. Once they have seen a heart beat your chances of a MC are much reduced (though obviously they do still happen occasionally). The one good thing I found about having such severe HG was that both times I had lots of really early scans which were at least reassuring. (Mostly because the docs were always convinced that such extreme sickness = twins.)

I am 37+3 now, officially term! Am drinking raspberry leaf tea enthusiastically. Getting annoying 'period pain' a lot, especially in the evening, which also happened in the last couple of weeks with DS so I am hopeful that I'm not going to go over at least. I also feel noticeably calm and cheerful the last few days and the nausea, though very up and down, is overall fractionally better - I felt "different" and very zen in the last 10 days or so with DS too so fingers crossed! I'll probably still be waiting at 42 weeks now I've said that . . .

Have been totally housebound by my pelvis for so long now that even the thought of being able to go for a short walk with the baby is super exciting.

Kalidasa Congratulations on reaching term. You've been very stoic, it's awful to be stuck n bed, and for so long.
Tori It is so true that is why you feel so awful. Matilda the heaving and nausea can be almost worse, I think; not even a minute's relief.
Tall Sorry for the relapse, but good days are excellent signs of the turnaround.
Dilly I hope not too bad.
Waves to elizabethsmum and Meerka and I hope everyone is coping.
xx

Thanks Meerka, the meds lower it quite a bit but wipe me out too, been horizontal and sleepy all day, ketostix good idea thanks!

Having a terrible day today. The cyclizine is helping me eat and drink but I still can't eat very much without feeling ill. Also constantly tired and there's loads of housework that needs doing but I just can't face it. Feel awful for being so lazy and I feel like I should be enjoying being pregnant but the though of suffering like this for another 33 weeks is horrifying!

Hi how is everyone doing? Lucky ladies about to drop, I am jealous! Getting a bit down with it after pretty much horizontal weekend, just want to cry but can't as would upset dd, oh dear I need to get more positive , 8 weeks tomorrow that's good! Dd sickness started to go around 12 weeks.....worried this won't, how do u cope further on like this? Xxx

Matilda I hope it goes that early for you this time too. For almost everyone the first tri is by far the worst. I do so feel for everyone over the nausea, so much sympathy to you and Tori and everyone over that.
Dilly You are not lazy, but ill; too many women on here are hard on themselves, forcing themselves to do chores when they can hardly stand up. On which, I hope wavesandsmiles is coping and not still battling on at work.

Hi kalidasa, hope all goes quickly for you and you can enjoy some fresh air, can't believe you have been sick whole way through! Yes I'm hoping scan and sickness good signs, been pregnant 5 times and only had proper sickness with dd and this one, that 12 week scan seems pretty far away right now, as does normal life. Just found something I can stomach, chocolate Danish, oh dear! Better something than nothing I guess. Thanks lucinda, it's the feeling hungry, tummy growling but at the same time severe nausea to prevent food going in that gets me. Sorry you having bad day dillydolly, it's tough isn't it, I wouldn't worry about housework, just put your feet up and rest as much as poss. Take care everyone xxx

Hi ladies well after months and months of debating with myself if I can cope with hg again I have decided I can't
I came off my pill in December but just cannot shake the constant fear of it all happening again. I've been to see my dr who is happy to prescribe anti sickness meds as soon as I need them but there's no definite that it will stop hg. If it was just me I would do it but I can't put my 2 children through it and my oh. I do feel sad I won't have another baby but I just feel it's the best thing for my family. I'm literally not sleeping and spending 24/7 panicking about hg and how I will cope. It's so unfair some of us have to go through this while other ppl just breeze through there pregnancy but at least I already have 2 children already. Xx

laura I completely understand. Really do. Am waiting tomorrow for a phone call from doctor to arrange a hospital appt for sterilization ... So glad to have our two and (age and finance permitting) we might well have gone for no3. But no. Cannot do this a 3rd time.

kali so glad that you are in those last days. May the serenity last!

dilly ... never midn the housework. It makes you feel bad not being able to do it but over-doing it when you have HG makes you worse - it really does. You do -need- to take it easy. \

matilda I'm sorry to say that if you have HG the sickness sometimes does take longer than til 12 weeks :s Many people find an improvement from about 14 weeks - 22 weeks. You get one better day then a worse couple, then two better days, followed by a few bad .... it's erratic but the overall trend goes the right way.

You will get through. Vent all you like here, we've all done it and it does help. [non-scented flowers]

Laura - I completely get that. I had always hoped for 4 children, but there is no way I could do this again once more let alone twice, so this will be us too. for your lost future

Yes, I totally understand about the sadness re: no more children. DH and I both really wanted two, which is why we did it again, and to be honest in an ideal world I would probably have had three, but we have had to rule that out. Even if I could face it again, DH couldn't; and actually this time has been so so bad (and with my pelvis too) that my consultant has said that I really mustn't have another baby, that they couldn't guarantee that I would ever recover completely from a third pregnancy like this one. Even though we would probably have stopped at two anyway, I still feel sad to have had the choice taken away from me. I also feel worried about it - I'm only 34, I have been advised against hormonal methods and in the three and a half years DH and I have been together we have only had four cycles in which we made love without contraception and I got pregnant in all four of them! (Two early mcs, two successful pregnancies.) Both my Mum and one of my sisters had their last child at 40 so realistically I've probably got at least 10 years of worrying about this.

I am beginning to think I must have commited some really heinous crimes in a past life! I am pretty sure that I'm developing another pregnancy complication I had PUPPPS in my first pregnancy and it was horrific. But they said it only usually happened to first time mums of boys so should be fine in the future. I've developed a horrible itchy rash that is spreading from my hands up my arms and over my neck. I remember sobbing on my consultant last time to deliver the baby early and I only developed it at 34 weeks. Not sure I can cope if it is this, I'm only 15 weeks.

Sorry for the pity party. I see my GI consultant tomorrow and the obstetrician on Thursday so we'll see what they say.

oh ye gods, giraffes, as if it wasn't bad enough. Hope they can give you some treatment. Sympathies.

laura totally understand your decision. there is no way I would've put myself through it a third time. unless you have had hg it is difficult for others to really understand (((hugs))))

tall poor you. must admit I had to google - sounds horrid for you :(( although I have not suffered I do have many skin allergies and contact dermatitis and feel like tearing my skin off sometimes. it is just another thing to contend with alongside hg, which is torturous enough. I had serious complications (unrelated) in first pg with severe pe and iugr and double amnio in second pg- did wonder how much more I could put myself through both times xx

TallGiraffess Dashing on to say that I do so hope they can do something, this sounds awful. I'd never heard of it, but it sounds nightmarish.
elizabethsmum All those sound nasty...
Lauraand Kalidasa I think you are wise. Two is fine, and the toll not only on you, but on the whole family has to be taken into account.
Waves to Matilda and Dilly and Everyone. Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.
Still concerned about wavesandsmiles...

The past couple of days I've also been doubting if I ever want any more kids. The thought of going through all this again is horrible. I just feel sorry for my OH as I'm making him suffer too and I don't think he really understands how awful I feel.

My mum keeps telling me that feeling this bad could be a sign of a multiple pregnancy, which does also run in the family. As much as the thought of twins terrifies me, I would love to be able to have 2 kids and only have to suffer the once!

Had my booking appointment with the midwife today and she dipped my urine and no ketones present which is awesome!

dilly Glad about ketones I hope you're expecting twins, like elizabethsmum was - she was unlucky n that she'd had hyperemesis with a singleton but women on here have found that if it is twins then the symptoms are awful but in many cases you get relief earlier if you haven't suffered from it with a sngleton.
SURVEY
Here's a link for a survey caitlin dean asked me to put up here if anyone wants to participate.
www.surveymonkey.com/s/haveyoutriedginger

Filled in. Managed not to suggest alternative uses for ginger when HCPs suggest trying it.

also filled in!! in my professional life as a sonographer I always make a particular point of giving mums suffering with hg useful advice such as which meds worked best for me and not coming off them too quickly etc....

dilly how many weeks are you? assume you have not had a scan yet to check whether or not its a multiple pg. as lucinda says I had hg in my singleton and twin pregnancies- it was less intense at the start but then gathered pace through the second trimester and never totally went, with the first (singleton pg). with the econd pg (twins) it was fullon until 15-16 or so weeks (although not as awful after 14 weeks or so) and then pretty much went away. has an early scan been suggested?? X

I'm 7+2. An early scan hasn't been suggested and the midwife didn't seem worried at all. My great grandmother had twins and they think that when my mum had my sister, she was a twin but the other never developed. I guess I'll find out at my 12 week scan! I doubt it is twins but I can hope :D

Hope everyone is coping today.

Dilly if you have twins in your family then it seems pretty likely! Surprised they haven't done an early scan though - I had 2 due to previous mc but they do them as routine at my hospital for anyone with hyperemesis.

Saw my GI consultant and he was horrified at my weight loss. Upped the nutritional support, a week of all sorts of drugs to try and give me a push into recovery. He'd never heard of PUPPPS either, so he happily left that for my obstetrician I did find some of my old treatment cream for it in a drawer though so I've been enjoying the relief of that.

Hope the quietness from kalidasa means labour is here!

waves I've been thinking of you lots, really hope you are ok