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.

Wow very exciting!

wow hello the wait is nearly over!! try and get a bit of sleep the next two nights if you can

Not long now hello, I hope these next couple of days pass by quickly for you!

ConfusedHow are things, did you get some treatment? DaffodilI hope the improvement with Ondansetron continues? I hope everyone is coping today. Hello now one day and night...I hope the vomiting keeps away at least during that time.

Hello good luck for tomorrow!! Nearly there now...

Meerka it's interesting the vomiting stopped when you were ill with the uterine infection and such a high fever. I guess with HG you get so used to feeling ill much of the time it's easy to put symptoms down to HG or not pay much attention to them, as feeling unwell becomes so normal. Really glad you and Pipspeak were both ok in the end, what an ordeal to go through!

Daffodil glad you're improving and out of hospital. How are you feeling now? Be patient about getting back to your old self, work etc. Every time i feel I'm starting to get my life back I take on too much and end up feeling worse for a few days. Try to get lots of rest and build up your strength gradually.

Kayme I'm 28weeks now, still vomiting 2-3x day, sometimes 6-7x on bad days (but thankfully not having as many bad days the last few weeks). In your previous pregnancies was there a point where you felt much better, or did the vomiting drag on all the way through? I was expecting to be back at work by now, but starting to think this might be as good as it gets with HG. It's not just the vomiting I find hard to cope with, it's the nausea and feeling so drained and tired. Even on good days the nausea's never far away, can never relax when out of house or go anywhere without sick-bags!

Guests left yesterday eve, DH has agreed no more overnight guests until baby is here
I enjoyed seeing our old friends, just found it exhausting having to chat and plan activities when feeling queasy. I ended up staying in all yesterday while DH took them out, couldn't face any more walking, crowds or restaurants! Kept waking up last night feeling sick, vomited 3x this morn so going to take it easy this week.

Hi guys

Sorry I have been MIA for months, but I am still about. I am 34 weeks now, still nauseated and some vomiting even with ondansetron. Every Day.

I am completely exhausted all the time, and sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am just ready to have this baby and stop feeling sick.

Hope everyone else is ok.

jen so sorry you are still suffering - glad at least that ondansetron has got the worst of the vomiting under control but months on end of constant nausea is just as draining. we're you like this all the way through last time as well? what is your Due date? (crosses fingers for you sooner than that tho).

lilac poor you- it is exhausting doing anything more than looking after yourself with hg let alone guests. we tried it a couple of times but it never really worked out. even with a new born I found it easier to cope with guests than I did with hg. Glad your dh has seen that it is too much for you.

waves to everyone and waits for news waits impatiently for baby news from hello #onemoresleep

Jen Welcome back, oh dear, I can only join with elizabethsmum in sympathizing that you have suffered all this time. I do so feel for those who are unlucky enough to suffer throughout - it's bad enough to suffer just for a few weeks. How often is the vomiting? It must be awful. Gentle cyber pats on offer.
Lilac You are a star for trying so hard to be sociable, but it's too much to endure restaurants, and crowds, and chatting and the rest of it. Rest as much as you can. I'm glad OH sees it's too much.
Leaves, clucking and flapping (and pecking at dirt).

Hi all,
Please can I join in? I'm 6 weeks and feeling dreadful. This is my second pregnancy (daughter now almost 7). My sickness lasted 7 months last time (was bad, used to drive round with a washing up bowl on the passenger seat!) and I ended up on cyclizine. Not sure if it was ever classed as HG though. I'm feeling really down as know what lies ahead this time, last time was a bit easier as was in blissful ignorance keeping thinking it would end soon this time I know it most likely won't! I wasn't sure I ever wanted to be pregnant again but here I am!

I'm only really throwing up first thing in the morning so far but feeling nauseous all day long - feels like a permanent hangover or sea sickness! I'm also knackered! The thought of 34 more weeks like this is terrifying me and I just can't feel excited about the pregnancy as all I feel is dread and fear about feeling like this for so long. I haven't even made a booking in appointment with the midwife yet, not sure why - think still trying to get my head around it all first! (Or burying my head!). Really glad to have found this thread and know I'm not alone and all you lovely people to do some virtual hand holding! Thank you x

Cubmum Welcome. I am sorry you have had to go to hospital for fluids, but it's he best thing when you are dehydrated. Hope you soon feel a lot better. I must be being obtuse, I've looked further down, and can't find you, but I am so glad you got good advice and do keep us informed how things are.
Casablanca Welcome, sorry you feel so foul. You obviously had it badly last time to suffer up to the end like that. It's a good idea to go to the dr's for meds as early as you can as I've heard from experts that it can stop things getting really bad if you get treatment before the vomiting becomes a pattern. I am sorry they didn't give you anything apart from cyclezine last time, as it obviously wasn't doing a great job. As you're a veteran, I feel a bit silly asking if you've got kestostix to check for dehydration, but if they were a bit blase about your symptoms, it could be you didn't get any in?

Confused - it is good you are getting help at the hospital. I always feel loads better after the drip! I think dehydration adds to the misery.

Casablanca, I hope you don't suffer as much as you did last time. Do get booked in, though.

Lucinda and Elizabethsmum hi! I have missed the board, just haven't had a lot of time to post with DS1 being 16months and still working full time. I am completely exhausted most of the time. Fortunately I finish work in a week, so my plate will be a little less full.

Due date is 3rd August but I really don't want to have to wait that long... I really hope he comes sooner. And yes, he is a he - 2 boys for me!

Popping in to wish Hello good luck for tomorrow!! How exciting!!

Hi all newbies - sorry to hear you're suffering. To those who have been through it before and are brave enough to endure a second HG pregnancy, you're amazing. My aunty went through two severe HG pregnancies with the second being waaaay worse due to depression. She knew what was coming and had a toddler and sunk into a black hole. So please make sure you have a support team of family, friends and medical staff that can help you. HG is bad enough by itself.

Hello - I'm so excited for you, all the best for tomorrow. Hope you manage to get some sleep.

Hope all goes well tomorrow Hello. Bet you will be mightily relieved! Lucinda, does that Pink Castle still exist? If so, I hope you're plumping the cushions!
Just wanted to say to Lilac, I so related to your post about not wanting to socialise when suffering. I so remember that feeling of wanting to be quiet, alone, early nights etc. HG is so so draining, you need all your resources just to get through each day. There's no spare energy for socialising!
Hope everyone having a reasonable evening.

hey jen! je gods, what a marathon to get that far . Utterly wretched. Roll on 40 weeks, unless tinyJen makes an early appearance

cub and confused hospital is never nice, but I'm glad you're both there so that you can get the treatment you need. Hope the scan goes well confused! exiting.

Welcome casa, congratulations and commiserations.

Can you start on cyclizine now? there's some evidence that starting meds early can cushion the worst of the HG. Cyclizine is absolutely harmless. If you can take that and vitamin B6, it may help. You can ask your partner to get it over the counter, you can buy it in boxes of 100 though it's not cheap - 20pounds last time I was in the UK.

This thread is always open for clean sickbuckets business, do post whenever you feel like it :)

hello best of luck for tomorrow!!!

lilac agreed with eveyrone else about socializing. It's a real drain. Do take it as easy as you can.

Hi all. Busy weekend has left me very tired thus the quiet from me. Sorry to see so many newbies. Please rant/moan/whatever you need. We All understand how horrid this can be as well as understanding the need to talk to someone gets it. Keep on at the docs. Some are better than others and some need you constantly telling them how bad it is for them to get it.

Those in hospital; I know it's not the nicest place to be, but getting rehydrated us absolutely the best thing for you and you will feel so much better for it. Don't let them discharge you without medication and IMPORTANTLY a plan for what medication they will try next if what they give you doesn t work. Make them agree a point with you that you decide whether the meds are helping, and at the very least a clear plan of reassessment if they won't commit to what to try next.

casablanca if I was you (I didn't know at the time!) I'd get to the doc now and get cyclizine and a plan. You've done this before,you know the pattern and your doc should agree a plan to keep you as healthy as possible and safe. Be bolshy now while you've more energy before it all truly kicks in (which it might not,but better prepared!!).

hello best of luck tomorrow. I'm so excited for you to be meeting bambino, I can't imagine how you must be feeling!

Apologies to anyone overlooked; lots of posts and people to catch up on! Remember ladies,another day nearly ticked off!!

Hi all. After feeling so well for so long, I'm worried that the hg is returning. For the past week I've felt a bit sick in the mornings but for the last 2 days I've felt pretty sick all day hoping it's just a temporary thing. Haven't been sick at all so I guess that's something! And only 10 weeks left to go.

Hope everyone else is feeling okay

dilly it can come back to some degree yes :( (or if you're really damn unlucky it never goes away)

But - it's never as bad again.

it'd be fine to take cyclizine if you wanted, it could help

yay for 30 weeks, last stretch to go

I do still have a stash of cyclizine, metoclopramide and ondansetron so if it carries on or gets worse, I may give the cyclizine a go.

I'm lucky that it subsided pretty early for me so I always thought it might make a reappearance!

Hiya! i think i may have this ive been very sick now for about 4 weeks since i was 4.5 weeks pg.. ive been sick everyday with about 4 days off in total.. i can be sick on average about 9 times per day and havent stopped feeling nausea the entire time.. along with headaches and migranes and its making me so fed up all i seem to do is cry . ive not been diagnosed with it yet but im at the doctors tomorrow. . do you think i could possibly have it? thanks x

MissMartin, it sounds likely I'm afraid, although there is a grey area between bad MS and HG. The main thing is that you're obviously feeling awful, and being sick 9 times a day is excessive. Is this your first PG? Try to push for medication from GP tomorrow, you can't be expected to just put up with it. Have you been testing for ketones with ketostix? They're not the only indicator, but can show dehydration and some health care professionals seem to base their diagnosis on this.
Do let us know how you get on tomorrow. Good luck, and all sympathies.

thanks how do i test for ketones?
i really don't want to start taking medication is it necessary?
I'll let you know tomorrow x

You can test for ketones with ketostix which you can get from the chemist. You pee on them and if you get a reading of about 3++ then that's a sign of dehydration. Meerka will pop on to advise about meds as she's the expert, but I know from experience that cyclizine is absolutely harmless for you and baby, and often the med they start with. Do give it a try.