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.

Mmm puddings... Haven't tried those yet.. Any particular brand you would recommend? Thanks for the tip! Today I tried chocolate powder scooped on top of vanilla icecream and mixed in so it looked more like thick shake in a bowl - very nice!

Syrup sponge pudding, that was one of my cravings too! Along with custard poured over cake, and hot chocolate with marshmallows dissolved in it. I think your body craves sugar as it's so easy for baby to absorb. I moved onto sour things in 3rd trimester. Sour still-lemonade is my favourite right now, Tesco does a deliciously sharp bitter one that's just lemon juice, sugar and water! My body seems to tolerate it better than plain water.
Freshbread welcome to the thread and don't worry about healthy eating, just eat whatever you can keep down. Sugary things are good for energy when you're throwing up a lot. How are you feeling now?

Lucinda yes I love mint-tea with real mint, it's so refreshing and one of the traditional nausea remedies. I make mine with Assam teabags then leave mint sprigs in the pot for 15-20mins (though after your snail story I've been remembering to strain it )

ElizabethsMum glad your dSil is feeling a bit better! Nausea-kit is so thoughtful and kind, I bet it cheered her up.

Winky how did it go at the doctors? Make sure they test for UTI if you're getting stinging/burning. I had a bad upper-UTI earlier in pregnancy, it didn't show up on dipsticks only when they sent it to lab. UTIs can make nausea a lot worse.

Still feeling sea sick throughout the day and vomiting now once a day or every other day even on Meds so it's blissful to have moments of pleasure from sweet foods!

Hi all.

Just back from docs. My wee started smelling of fish today. Classic sign of cystitis according to doctor google. The real doc said that my wee is "full of ketones and looks like it could be infected" so is sending it off to the lab. He has prescribed anti sickness tablets, gaviscon and anti-biotics. He was happy to sign me off but I turned him down as we're just too busy at work really. I am just to call if I can't cope and he'll do a sick note.

Work was HARD. Boss wasn't too bad. Not a lot she can say really. The toilets are on the third floor so that was a joy :/ the only thing I could find in the nearest shop were nappy bags for any emergencies.

Doc also said main concern was fluid rather than food so to work on that.

Hope you're all as well as you can be xx

winky Oh dear, that sounds horrible. Cystitis has always been a bugbear of mine, and that fishy smell of the urine means a nasty infection. I'm so glad you've been signed off. Loos on third floor - oh dear.
Freshbread The kesostix are for checking dehydration, though I gather in certain circumstances they can be inaccurate, and always worth getting just in case you take a rapid turn for the worse,but at the moment it sounds as if you are managing to eat and drink some things, anyway, so hopefully you won 't be dehydrated. Yes, it's terrible the diet one has to adopt; coke, crisps, chips, the juice of tinned fruit, jelly, cheap ice cream...
Lilac Eallison and everyone. Though I didn't dare touch it when suffering, because of heartburn, syrup pudding and custard is one of my staple favourites, I'm sorry to say. Too lazy to make it often, though.
Ruby I hope DS settles in well, and you start blooming asap. eallison may feel bad, but I believe has been told she looks a lot better.

winky - glad you have a good gp! do take them up on offer of sick note if you need to tho!

fresh welcome - sorry you're suffering - no self righteousness on this thread!!- we've all been there I can assure you!! rant away!

ruby - hope your ds got on ok today and you managed to get some rest.

mint - I have plenty of in my garden- thanks lucinda will pass on!

Sorry feel like I am missing lots of people out at the moment but waves to everyone xx

Hello ladies, I've not posted for weeks but I have been keeping up to date with the thread. Welcome to all the new mums to be but sorry that you find yourselves here! I'm nearly 28 weeks and thoroughly fed up. Not been sick for a few weeks but still on ondanestron and think I will be until the end. I'm just exhausted and uncomfortable- although I had HG in my previous pregnancy I just don't recall things being such hard work, maybe it's because I only had myself to look after. I feel awful for moaning as I know I have come a long way from those early weeks but I was hoping to feel better by now !

Indeed lucinda and ruby; though I don't always feel like I'm blooming, people have started saying I'm looking better and "pregnancy suits me". I know it's meant as a compliment, but clearly pregnancy doesn't suit me or I wouldn't have spent most of it being/feeling sick, fighting with spd and being exhausted and drained all the bloody time!!

freshbread please do consider taking some time off; so many of us try to soldier on, but almost always end up making ourselves so much worse and end up having more time off than we would've otherwise. At least consider a reduced hours sick note, that way you feel like your helping whilst also taking care of yourself.

Think I'm going to have to take at least the rest of this week off. :( being sensible, how am I going to increase my fluid levels whilst being so far away from a toilet. Fluid either makes me sick or pee :(

I've been cramping quite a bit but I'm putting that down to the UTI. I will speak to EPU to see what they say.

Sorry freshbread, I was getting you and winky mixed up. Glad you're going to take time to look after yourself. Try calypso lolly/ice pops, I think they've worked for a few people, including me. Bottled water from the fridge, flat fizzy drinks, ice pops/lollies, frozen fruit (melons work well I think), some swear by milkshakes (esp the thick ones). Just try as much as you fell you can til you find what works for you, and try not to take it to hard when something you really fancy turns out to be a real mistake (we've all been there - for me it was fresh orange! What a disaster that was!)

Thankyou lovely ladies, sorry ems that you still feel so awful :( it sucks. Some people seem to sail through pregnancy unscathed, others genuinely seem allergic to pregnancy!! It feels like something is poisoning your body when you feel so rough, I told hubbie that if I wasn't pregnant and had the symptoms that I have I would be seriously worried about what I had!! I'm sure if men experienced pregnancy and childbirth there would be mandatory time off for those with 'morning' (aka all day) sickness and maternity leave would be different too! Is that true or am I being unfairly sexist?

Now have scan booked for tomorrow at 4pm. Feel shockingly bad BUT I have managed to have a croissant with jam!

Hi everyone. Just been reading through some of the threads and they look really helpful. I am really struggling atm. 7 weeks pregnant today with my second child and the sickness is not good. Anything up to five times a day right now with continuous severe nausea in between that seems to only be controlled slightly if I don't move at all. Yesterday I thought I had had a good day as I wasn't sick at all but then vomited 3 times in 30 mins late at night. Not so pleasant. My doctor has tried phenergan (no help) and buccastem (possibly helped very slightly) and has just put me on cyclizine instead. I just took the first one this morning and feel very sick and dizzy now. Well we will see if it helps. I'm at a bit of a low ebb, my lips are very sore and chapped which is adding to the general discomfort. Hoping the cyclizine will help. I'm signed off work at the moment. I work on a deli counter, all the meat and cheese smells are a definite no go. Before the actual vomiting kicked in I spent half an hour scrubbing the cheese prep area because I was convinced I could smell dolcelatte so my colleagues must have thought me completely insane. Any wise words from anyone?

Freshbread I think things would be handled very differently if men had to have severe morning sickness. I can't imagine many men I know coping well with it.

Winky hope the scan goes well! I'm counting down the days til mine next week. Heaven I just groaned in sympathy reading your message, sounds horrendous! Sucking frozen ginger ale ice cubes kinda helped with me but only while I was sucking them, keeping my tummy full every two hours helped (finding something that stays down) but that's a full time job in itself. Empty tum is much worse for me.
Stemitil medication takes the edge off. Only three daily and only lasts a few hours so I try to delay taking it in case I run out by evening when I feel worse. Haven't taken any yet today.
I just threw up :( however often it happens I never get used to it, it's so gross and horrible. I'm pretty much housebound as I just don't feel well enough to go out
Sorry if tmi.... Does anyone else count their heaves? I was heaving 10 times per throwing up so it used to help slightly to count the heaves as I knew it was coming to an end at heave 10!but sometimes I heave up to 18 times per time so that doesn't always help. My eyes stream and I have noticed small burst blood vessel spots on the skin by corner of my eyes and I also spit up blood after from the throat I think and throat is burning after from the acid :( love and hugs to all of you today xxxx

Hugs to you freshbread I almost wish I was being properly sick instead of this retching that I do. My throat is sore and my head is pounding from doing it but I need to even if nothing is coming up. Does that make sense?

Does something come up if you have just had a big drink or something to eat?

Hell yes. :(

I do an awful lot of retching myself. It's horrible isn't it? I guess it's when there's nothing left inside me to come up. Probably most of the time as I'm not managing to eat much. Oh isn't pregnancy so much fun?

Maybe keeping fluids up at least might cut down on the retching and give something to throw up? If I haven't eaten for two hours my throw ups are just retches, exhausting when there's like 17 of them in a row.... Ugh... Feel faint lightheaded and so unwell today, going to lie down soon just trying to psych myself up to have a shower, it feels like too much effort..... Have been crashed out infront of the tv today while hubble at work and 3 year old with grandma, at least 3 yr old is being more entertained with grandparents than she would be being looked after by me at the mo :( I do miss feeling normal though and having energy to do even basic tasks

Heavenscent88 Welcome. Sorry you feel so bad. Did you have Hyperemesis or severe MS in your last pregnancy? If you are a veteran of this, you don't need my usual suggestions about getting in kesostix to check for dehydration. How are the liquids staying down, flat coke, soda water, the juice of tinned fruit, ice cubes or ice cubes of flat coke? I'm so glad you have been signed off from working at a deli counter; doesn't bear thinking about.
EMS So sorry you are still suffering. at 28 weeks. I hope it goes off yet; you deserve a medal, like others who are struggling through it a second time.
eallison Great advice. It is at least better to look glowing, when feeling foul.
Freshbread
Was it you who said you were sucking flat ginger ale ice cubes? Sounds good; how do you find ones of coke?
On the number of heaves, I believe I heard somewhere that each counts as a vomit - I always wondered how people said that they counted fifty vomits a day without dying, but if it's counting heaves, I can see how that comes about.
When it gets to ten or so heaves with each vomit, it is so painful...
Gentle pats to all suffering like that.
Winky and Ruby How are you today? TwoDrifters Melleebacca and everyone?
elizabethsmum How are things?
winky Good luck with scan; almost certainly you won't need it.
I hope everyone is watching out for that dehydration? Mother Hen leaves, clucking and flapping nervously.

Hi all, hope everyone is doing the best they can. I've been having some vomit free weeks, can you believe it! At 26 weeks I thought I would cut right back on my meds, I can't still be ill right?? Wrong! Feel awful today and fully regretting my attempt to be medication free :(

Hi I had severe morning sickness in my last pregnancy although was never told I had hyperemesis. It felt different though as I was able to function in between bouts of sickness last time round. I'm managing to get some cherry lucozade to stay down although I'm not too sure if that's hydrating enough. The juice of tinned fruit sounds very good so that may be my next step. I think I also read a post on here where someone said they had an ice cold glass of Ribena so I'm freezing some ice cubes now to try that.

Hi all! Still being sick during the day but thankfully getting some respite post 7pm. At hospital now, waiting for my 20-week scan… So exciting!

Hope everyone is doing ok x

Cos I hate heaving and bringing nothing up so much that I took to keep water by the loo so I could at least bring that up rather than nothing!