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.

The smells!! I got a new car early in my pregnancy but getting in it made me heave! Slept in the spare room quite a lot because I couldn't stand the smell of my husband, freshly showered or otherwise! On an unrelated note has anyone had Braxton hicks and could describe the feeling. I've not been right all day and started getting period pains in my lower back and some tightening on my stomach. I've got 10 weeks left so too early to be anything else!

Hi everyone! I'm really missing the feeling of hunger, actually forgotten what it's like to enjoy food as I'm sure most of you have. I keep thinking of all the times I took food for granted now haha!

Also when I'm throwing up feel like my stomach is actually contracting or some weird business even though I'm only 9 weeks or so.

Hope everyone managed to make it through today !

Oh goodness me, got the BFP today. Been feeling unsettled all day but thought my period was due on Sat. Then went back over my dates and realised it was due yesterday, and that with being away I'd lost track. Decided to do a test this evening and it's positive! Excited and very nervous at the same time. Think I'm going to try getting some cyclizine tomorrow to hopefully prevent the worst from setting in. Eeeeek.

Congratulations MoP and Reebok. Reebok keeping everything crossed this one sticks...

I'm going in ridiculous waves at the moment. One good day followed by a bad one or two. Still "good" is all relative anyway isn't it?!

Hope today is a good one for you all.

Oh my MoP.

Big congratulation and from over the north sea, wishing you the very best of luck. Unmumsnetty

Congratulations MoP! How exciting. :)

I've been reading this thread but have had a couple of hellish days - made worse by the fact it all had seemed to get better so I was lulled into a false sense of security! I'm back on crackers and corn flakes - no fun.

I've got a random question - do you guys "fight" the vom? I hate vomming so often when I feel it coming on I'll lie in bed for a couple of hours unable to move at all because that'll bring on the vom. I'm starting to wonder if just giving in and vomming is easier than this!?

Obvs this doesn't apply to the vom that you have no control over, that's gonna come out no matter what you do hah.

Sending wellness vibes to everyone x

So encouraged by your message winky, so pleased for you!

Bonjour from France, I managed the trip and am enjoying the change in scenery. Still throwing up most evenings but hoping that is a good sign that baby is hanging in there and fighting
Bugista I too try to fight the vom but feel better initially after I have given in to it but everyone is different. Hate doing it though! I'm so vocal I think people can hear me a mile off!

MotherOfPearl congratulations!!!

Ems about braxton-hicks... I started getting them around 20weeks, bump would go hard and tight for 30seconds... uncomfortable but not painful until around 30weeks when they started getting more intense. Now they make me feel breathless, the tightening feeling starts in chest and spreads down across bump, everything goes rigid for about a minute then relaxes. When I got lots close together I also get low back pain and period-type crampy pains. Had one night when I was about 34weeks when they came every 5mins entire night, went to maternity assessment unit (thinking it was early labour) where they confirmed cervix was still closed and said I had an 'irritable uterus'. I find baby wriggling sets them off. Now when I get lots close together I get all excited thinking I'm going into labour, but so far they've just stopped naturally after few hours! I wouldn't worry too much unless yours are particularly uncomfortable/painful or you get them close together. I find paracetamol and a warm bath helps.

Bugista I only fight the urge to vomit if I'm in public. At home I give in to it as I usually feel better afterwards.

Hope everyone's coping ok...

Thanks for good wishes all. I am celebrating today by eating a bacon sandwich for lunch . Feeling OK so far, just a very vague background queasiness. Long may it last.
About 'fighting' the voms: I nearly always tried to fight it as I really, really hate throwing up (not that anyone enjoys it, obviously!). But as Lilac says, I think it does offer some short-term relief, so perhaps best to give in when circumstances allow.

Just dashing on to say MotherofPearl Congratulations on bfp. Exciting news, though of course, you're understandably apprehensive.
Ah, on the smell of OH's...I used to hold a lavender satchet to my nose in bed...I could stand the smell of lavender, not everyone can.
And more congratulations and keeping fingers crossed as we all are for Rebok.
Freshbred I hope France is nice and relaxing. Hugs.
Back soon.

Hi everyone, wondering if I can join in?

I'm 13+1 preg and have been suffering from constant nausea and sickness since 6wks. I have been signed off work but not officially diagnosed with hg. I've spent most of the past 7 weeks in bed, exhausted and nauseated. I have 2 dc already and although dp has been amazing at taking over their care fully (whilst looking after me and also sitting his finals!!) I miss them and doing things with them so much. I'm bored of being indoors but every time I try to do something I get worse and have to recover for days.

I was sick in my second pregnancy but nowhere near to this extent. First pregnancy was a breeze.
I've been prescribed two meds at separate times but haven't got along with them. I've tried promethazine and cyclizine but both have made me incredibly drowsy, sleeping for two days kind of drowsy. I did ask the doctor for something non-drowsy and she prescribed cyclizine (which had a drowsy warning on the label but gave it the benefit of the doubt but it still knocked me out).
I am going to go to the GP when I feel up to it (the irony!) but thought I'd ask here if anyone has tried anything to combat nausea which hasn't made them drowsy?

Peach (sorry, can't quite bring myself to call you Mouldy!), try clicking on the NICE medication guidelines in Lucinda's original post at the top of the page. It lists all the different meds. I found the drowsiness with cyclizine did eventually wear off, but you have to stick with it, taking it at regular intervals for a few days (I'd say a week to give it a real chance). I know the gold standard of HG drugs is ondansetron, but while I've not heard of it causing drowsiness, it brings other side effects like constipation. Hope you manage to find something to bring you relief.

Haha yes sorry motherofpearl I'm making myself feel sick, perhaps need a nc

Thank you, I'll have a look now.

Thanks Barmee and Lucinda.

Congrats MOP! That's brill news. Fx the hg won't set in this time.

Feeling really awful. Sprawled out on sofa with dd at my feet playing on the iPad as I cannot entertain her. The nausea is really getting to me. I can't find anything I can keep down except coke and grapes. I just want to cry! I feel so so so sick and now because I have dd I can't be sick. Last time I just lay in my room in the dark and looked at the ceiling. Wish I could call in sick but we have bills to pay and as my boss is being a you know what I can't.

Bugista, yes I fight the vom. And then when it finally happens it's projectile (sorry!) and hurts. Mainly fighting it as trying not to throw up at work or everyone will find out. Had to tell a few close colleagues just in case.

I try to fight the vom but sometimes I have done the opposite made myself sick just to get it over with. Never makes me feel much better but at least it's out.

So amazing to hear other reactions to smells etc. Thought I was going mad! I can smell everything and very aware of the bodily smells of dh and dd even though they don't smell bad. It's so weird! I feel like superman but just with the power to smell anything and everything that surrounds me all at once! Extra phlegm dripping down back of throat has contributed to my retching especially when I try to cough it up and then follow through, brushing my teeth and coughing up phlegm normally results in full on vomit

freshbread on tooth brushing, try a kid's toothpaste - either a fruity one or tge mint ones are often milder than adult ones. Or there's a fennel toothpaste. Also, find a mouthwash that you can stand - useful post vom ands on the data when brushing just isn't gonna happen.

mop that's lovely news, congratulations.

Freshbread As others say, a children's toothpaste is less nauseating than that strong, minty taste of adults'. A couple of people on here have used the sort you get in health shops and found it OK. I used to use a mixture of bicarbonate of soda and water to get the yukky stuff off the teeth, all that salt's probably not recommended, but then this condition isn't recommended and I tried to avoid swallowing it.
Welcome to Peach. I have heard that Ondansetron doesn't make you sleepy, but can give you headaches, and it is so expensive that it's usually only tried when all the others have failed.
Bugista Peach Lilac MotherofPearl and others, I so agree; fighting the need to vomit makes one feel the way you do just before puking for an extended period of time, and it's better to get the heaving out of the way.
Thinking of Lilac eallison moving towards that Pink Castle and I hope everyone is coping today.

Thanks re toothpaste suggestions. Re extra saliva, I have found that a towel over my pillow helps excess overnight drooling and stops the cold wet patch you get on a pillow case and soaks in towel bit more

Freshbread That's a good idea.
Reebok and others feeling guilty about LO's - this is purely anecdotal, as I wasn't one of the brave ones who went for it twice, but if it is any comfort, from all that I've seen on this thread, LO's forget this period of comparative neglect surprisingly quickly (remember their minds retain the flxibility that adults lack), and they have a sibling, and however annoying at times siblings may be, they are a lifelong gift.

Hi all
Sorry for complete absence from thread for weeks- has loads of trouble with password and then back to school and twins starting school so not Ben on it- will try and catch up asap!!- blimey Motherofpearl- congrats!!

Marking place but will be back...

Waves to everyone

Thanks lucinda I'm off to the gp first thing Monday morning to hopefully get another medication. The cyclizine was prescribed by a hospital doctor last Tuesday so I hope they have a record of it by now or they may make me 'try' it? I suppose I can always take my box of tablets with my name on if any doubt.

I'm so glad I don't suffer the excess saliva like some of you, must be awful for you. Although I must swallow lots in my sleep as that's always the first thing out before the delightful stomach acid.

I ended up only able to use mouthwash and I'm afraid it did affect my teeth.

wb eiliz'smum, that password thing was a total pita.

Hoping everyone is surivving the weekend. One day closer to the end ...