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

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.

elizabethsmum my thoughts and prayers are with your family.
Just had my 34 week apt and it was with my normal midwife. Normal, lovely service resumed! Baby seems to be engaging, 4/5 palpable, whatever that means! Good size still. She was slightly concerned about my urine sample, very concentrated but no ketones. Remembered ketones aren't always reliable indication for me and said that she trusts me to know my body by now with HG/dehydration and to ring triage if I'm not happy. Feeling more positive again ands very glad that baby is head down!

Hope everyone's having a manageable day.

Thanks so much for your kind messages. bless her dSil had terrible nausea today after chemo yesterday - she had the Grace to say she did not know how I had stuck it out for so long, felt so humbled. she is on the rolls Royce of anti- sickness at £80 per tablet!!

gosh can't believe you are 34weeks eallison!

waves to all my lovely hg thread friends xx

elizabethsmum so sorry for your poor SIL and I hope you are coping ok?

babybear9 that is so so encouraging to hear! I am currently almost 20 weeks with my first & already feeling utterly despondent at the thought of ever going through this again yet feeling guilty at the prospect of an only child. My friend was hospitalised with HG in her first pregnancy & had to have counselling to help her cope with the concept of ever doing it again. I truly understand that now!

Fancy stealing any of those anti sickness drugs, elizabethsmum. Not from your sil, of course, but they must have a supply somewhere!!!

I can't believe I've made it to 34 weeks either!

Oh no Elizabethsmum that is awful. Wishing her and you all strength and love x

elizabethsmum* Your poor SIL, and that is on strong meds; how horrible for her. It was nice of her to say that, too.
Eallision Happy news.
BarmeeMarmee It must be particularly difficult for women with children during the summer holidays; and then, with toddlers, it's another sort of challange; those who handle it deserve a medal.
RubyReins I do so hope your uncle's mean women friend keeps her mean remarks to herself. How can people stand being like that?
Lilac Congratulations on teeth coming through this undamaged.
BearGrower I hope you are feeling a lot better?
Daffodil I hope you are feeling a bit less down?
Mygreeneyedboy Melleebacca and everyone,how are things? Sorry if I've missed anyone.

Made it to aqua-natal today Feeling weightless in water was amazing, made me realise how heavy my bump has become! Class is run by midwives, lots of women there have SPD so it's focused on strengthening muscles around pelvis. So nice to have fun in a big group and feel pregnant rather than just ill. I got chatting to another lady with HG, like me she's missed lots of classes due to sickness so we compared notes! I didn't feel nauseous at all during class (avoided eating/drinking for 3 hours beforehand which probably helped). Felt queasy when got home but feel better after a nap. I definitely recommend aqua-natal to anyone suffering with SPD or feeling isolated at home.

Eallison glad your baby's head-down now! Mine's head-down too though not engaged with pelvis yet, midwife says he's lying at an angle, sort of diagonally across with his head to left side of pelvis.

Ruby sorry to hear about your uncle's mean girlfriend, what a horrible woman! Hope you said something cutting and sarcastic to her!

How's everyone else coping?

Lilac That's great, and so good you met another woman with Hyperemesis. It makes you realise how many people do suffer from this; a couple of women on here had GP's who'd had it, which must have really helped.

Meant to ask, did anyone lose weight in their 3rd trimester? Baby-bump is growing nicely, but I'm losing weight everywhere else! I managed to gain a bit in 2nd trimester after losing loads in first, but in last few weeks it's melted away and DH keeps commenting that my legs/arms look skinny and ribs/collarbones are standing out. He's worried weight-loss now will harm baby or make breastfeeding difficult (he keeps following me round the house with snacks and nagging me to eat more ) I'm eating regularly but only small amounts to keep heartburn/nausea in check, and still vomiting 2-3x day most days. He thinks I should 'eat continuously' and doesn't understand I'd just vomit most of it!

lol was wondering about the mega £80 tablets for everyone - makes ondansetron sound cheap!! (no idea how much a tablet of ondansetron costs btw!)
lilac not sure if I lost weight in 3rd trimester or not but was pretty gritty through much of it with dd1 so I totally hear what you're saying about pointlessness of eating much for it coming back anyway! your dh sounds lovely trying to look after you so well all the way through!

Hi all. Have been feeling horrible all day and have just vomited up my dinner before I'd finished eating it ???? Feeling totally despondent and miserable now.

Cutting and sarcastic is my default setting Gave the vile oxygen thief as good as she got. He dumps her all the time but she somehow claws her way back in. Christmas will be a hoot. Can't even share a bottle of gin with my sis in law as we do unspeakable things to turkeys.

Anyway! I don't want to get too excited but I have now been spew free for a whole 36 hours... Now 15 weeks. I managed to eat sushi and steak for my birthday yesterday! And it stayed down! Still feeling pretty zapped but hopefully a corner is being turned!

Sorry to hear that Barmee I know nothing makes it better but wishing you lots of good juju.

In haste from a German keyboard ... am away atm and its not that easy to sneak time, but hoping everyone is surviving. The water is brilliant for l;ater pregnancy isnt it! ( as long as it's not too chlorinated).

Hoping everyone is surviving and it's not too horribly hot in the UK

Thanks Ruby - good juju gratefully accepted! ???? Still at least I know now that this will be my last DC. I always wanted 4 but I can't do this again. And nor can DH. Sad that as well as generally being shit HG has robbed us of the family I always thought we'd have. Gosh does it show I'm having a pity party tonight?! Hoping the rest of you are having a better day than me!

Meerka it's been raining and misty here so certainly not too hot!

Pissing with rain here too.

Fingers crossed for you ruby. although the corner for me was never turned first time around- still spewing in delivery room- in second pg the magical milestone was indeed 15 weeks...

barmee sorry it's been a shocker. the only reason I have three dc is due to second pg being twins. no way I could go through it a third time. hg is relentless Ime, hang in there xxx

meerka no danger of hot weather here either!

Hi everyone,

Hope everyone is doing ok.

I've been feeling really poorly this week - had a cyclizine injection in hospital which was HEAVEN but that soon wore off. Been feeling very down but have woken up this morning at 18+3 feeling a little bit different - my insane sense of smell seems to have gone a bit? Could this be a turning point?!

Hi everyone. I have tried to read the whole thread but I am on phone and it keeps jumping....argh!

If I tell you a bit about how I'm feeling could you tell me if I am being dramatic or if I could possibly have HG. I do have an appointment Monday and I am getting some ketostix from the chemist today just to say!

I am approx 6w4d and have spent the last week in hell. I have gone from a gannet to someone who can't be in the same room as food. I am not being sick but I am not able to eat to be sick IYSWIM. I am so nauseous I can't stomach the thought of putting something in my mouth. Even drinking is a big issue. I can just about manage ice poles but even those give me horrendous heartburn.

I have a constant lump in my throat and a watery mouth. My sense of smell is so over the top I want to cry. If I get the faintest (ha, no such thing now!) whiff of something i am heaving.

There is a 3 hour window between 7pm and 10pm where I feel okish. I eat maybe 1 meal a day and only if that is put in front of me. I am on annual leave until Monday and my poir dd6 has literally had food thrown at her as I can't have the smell near me.

So, put it to me straight. Is this normal or could HG be causing this? I can be a bit of a drama queen but this is just horrendous. I had a telephone appointment with the doc yesterday and I was hysterical begging for help as I can't go on like this. :(

Pressed post too soon!

Sorry for the essay and sorry so many of you are going through this. I appreciate your thoughts.

Me again! One meal a day sounds generous. Yesterday was 1 slice of toast with 2 tablespoons roughly of beans. It felt like I'd eaten a 3 course meal and it took all I had to stop it coming up again. Although next time I'm just going to be sick as the burning of keep swallowing (sorry) was painful.

winky seems to me to be a good thing that you've got a doc apt on Monday. Certainly sounds like more than normal morning sickness. A good idea is to try to try different foods (I know, it's horrid) and see if you can find the odd thing that works. For me that was tinned peaches and scotch pancakes - I know tinned fruit is quite a good one for a few people; not as unhealthy as some things, and the fruit juice is good for keeping dehydration at bay. It might not work for you tho, so don't be disheartened if not! The biggest thing is rest rest rest. Sleep When you can, relax when you can, don't push yourself.

Thanks so much for your reply. I've been loading 'threads I'm on' every 5 minutes as I'm desperate for support and I was worried I had killed the thread lol!

I will try tinned fruit. Just had a slice of crispy bacon. Spent the whole time it was cooking in another room with my nose covered. The texture worked for me and it's stayed down so I shouldn't complain. I just feel sea sick all the time. Walking from one room to another feels as if I am hungover and knackers me out. I feel so pathetic.

I'm due back to work on Monday after 2 weeks annual leave. My boss is not the most sympathetic to say they least. I won't tell my story as it will out me but let's just say when I needed help due to extreme depression and suicidal thoughts and said i couldn't come to work....I had a 20 minute lecture :/

I'd be tempted to tell your boss your pregnant and it's related - I know it's horrid telling people before you'd want to/are ready (one of the horrid things with HG - told my boss at 6 weeks). Only cos, if youre in the UK, this gives you legal protection and he has to support you - at least lip service - and can't deny you anything. He does sound like a tool tho.

Crispy bacon has been good for me too - in fact, I'm having a bit of a relapse at the moment, and largely surviving on bacon butties -can't bear the sight of tinned peaches now, must haveeaten a lifetimes worth!!

My boss is a woman. Somehow makes it worse IYSWIM.

I just had the fruit syrup from the tin. It really helped. My wee, when I can go, is super strong and stinks. It is also starting to sting. Yuck. Not brave enough to try the fruit yet.

I am in the bath and my OH just came in with the freshly washed shower curtain. He can't understand why I asked him to take it out as "it smells noce

Argh stupid phone!

"Smells nice". Yeah to who????