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.

Thanks so much! It's so weird, I was sick an hour ago and now I am hungry?! What the heck?! Thankfully I work part time (mornings only apart from all day weds) and DC1 is 3 and has a nap still so I can nap at the same time!

Welcome lemons and congrats - hope you get to see a GP soon and let us know how you're feeling.

Reebok blooming good luck with the scan. In sure it'll all be fine - let us know how you get on.

I had a random midday vom which is quite unusual, it's all been only on the morning for the past couple of wks. It's probably because I emailed my manager to say I was feeling better and wanted to discuss a phased return, Sod's law haha. How is everyone today? xx

Hi lemons welcome to the HG he'll thread lol
Ref meds get to docs demand stuff... do not be fobbed off ! I had the if you think about it speech
Wow did that bomb!

This will.cheer everyone up ;)
We live in a HA house been here 18 months. We have a rats and sewage problem.
Rats have died after E health put down poison.
House stinks so bad I have to go around with a tissue to my face ... once whiff and I'm sick

If this weren't happening for real I'd laugh
My life is a joke!
Lemons ur lucky your lad has a nap
Dd is 2 +1/2 and been up 3 hours in night and never sleeps .
I'm. So pissed off today
Just threw again
Havbt been toilet in ages got sharp pains in gut now

Pass me the gun

Oh no reebok :( hope scan goes ok and your home to your bed soon

Spandau that's horrendous, are the council or someone able to come and fix the problem??

Lucinda that's so annoying about the spam problem, hope mumsnet are able to fix it!

Scan was perfect! Given me a little boost. Have to go by new dates which puts me at 10 weeks 1 day...means I have an additional week of sickness and sickness actually started at 5 weeks. Grrrr...baby had a lovely strong heartbeat and is forming arms and legs! Looks real. Home again and feel sick as hell. The hospital consultant was brilliant. She said as I'm still being sick on ondansetron and feeling sick constantly, they can offer me steroids. I don't want to unless I have to. Little scared to go on steroids. They tested my kidneys and liver to make sure it's functioning well as I haven't gone to hospital for a while and said will refer me to an ob if they have to.

Welcome lemons, my sickness started at 5+5 and I'm expecting number one. Still going strong at 16+2. Do push the doctors for some meds and I hope it all goes ok for you.
Reebok fingers crossed scan went well.
Spandau- that sounds awful, hope something is Being done.

I have one question, I have been prescribed metoclopramide and was given nine days worth but I read somewhere you shouldn't take for more than five days? I'm on day six now. Still vomiting on it though and feel constantly nauseous. It's not the vomiting that gets to me, it's the constant feeling of nausea. Bloody hate it.
At work today as doctors won't sign me off, I work in a factory and we had this new job today and it wasn't the smelliest stuff ever, smelt like cow dung. I was literally gagging I had to get away. So you have my sympathy spandau that must be horrendous.

Reebok so pleased for you that baby is all ok.
Glad they are running tests for you.

Welcome lemons and sorry you have to be here. I also started this at 5 weeks (was how I knew I was pregnant) so it's normal, though horrid in afraid!

spandau that's horrific, HA should Find you alternative accommodation in the meantime, though I'm not surprised they haven't.. Fingers crossed they sort it soon that's the last thing you need.

Reebok I'm so glad you had a happy boost at your scan today

ginger I've never heard that about metoclopramide I think it's one of the more common ones prescribed, in fact my new GP just prescribed me some more over the phone when I said it was part of the cocktail of ones I'm on at the moment! Ondansetron seems to be the only one they're sometimes reluctant about because it's relatively new so hasn't got as much experience under its belt as the rest of the drugs!

Hello to icant, MoP, bugista, and everyone else. Another bad day here and about to drag myself to pick up new prescription.

Thank you. Sorry not to reply individually today. Just feeling really sick. Saw this quote and thought of you all... Hopefully it attaches! But just in case it doesn't it says;

'Soon when all is well, you're going to look back at this period in your life and be glad you never gave up.'

Shoop, sorry to hear you're having a bad day. It's also prescription collection day for me but I've asked DP to pick it up on his way home.
Reebok, great news about the scan! So happy for you because I know how anxious you've been. I know that steroids can be used to treat HG but not sure I've known anyone on this thread who has had them. Maybe worth a shot? And I love that quote. I'm really struggling to be positive at the moment, so it does help to remember that we will look back on all this one day.
Bugista, sorry about the midday vomit. Do make that phased return a very gradual one.
Ginger, you poor thing having to work and especially with bad smells. Meerka is the expert on metochlopramide; I'm sure she'll pop on in due course.
Spandau, your living situation sounds horrendous. Surely the HA has to prioritise your case, given that you're pregnant and have small children? All sympathies.
I left the house today for the first time in weeks, to try a Costa Cooler as recommended! It was deliciously thirst quenching and stayed down. Was nice to be out in the fresh air, even if I did have to spit into drains on the walk down! Slightly better day today. Wow, what an essay!

Really bad day as off ondanstron as being sick from constipation but cyclizine not helping
Thrown up all day nothing staying down.
Got head ache nausea horrid sewage smell horrific
Is everyone else's sense of smell really warped. . I can't bare breathing. Only place ok is outside. It's the worst part of HG for me as everyone and everything is revolting to smell. Clean clothes rank ... soap.rank ... washing up liquid .. the dog ... bread ... the fridge... everything's making me wanna scream
Feel I am going mad ... genuinely today I can't see me doing this til 16 weeks
I'm sobbing

Hello ladies, sorry to see your all having a rough day. Same here too. Home from hospital today and already missing the IV, vomiting back with a vengeance .
How ironic the best I feel is when I'm in hospital?!
On the plus side it's lush to see DS today had lots of cuddles.
for you all , hope we all have a better day tomorrow!

Icant- sometimes I wish we could all have home iv drips how good would that be, glad you got to see your son and hope you have some improvement soon.
Spandau- I know what you mean, every smell is rank at the moment. Hope you feel better soon. Are you seeing your gp again?
Vomited on the street on the way home from work. Was so embarrassed and upset.
Had a meltdown this evening. Crying that I can't do this anymore. I hate feeling sick all the time. Oh says take tomorrow off and go to the doctors again but I'm scared as I've had so much time off already. They havnt signed me off yet. We could only just afford to be signed of aswell. We would have 123 pound a month left a month if I did and that would have to be for food. Ugh.

What a shit situation ginger, do any meds help you at all? A good night rest and hopefully a better day for you tonmorow x

Ginger I feel awful for you...you really need to get signed off though. Your health and baby are vital...there's no point trying to work if you're not well. It will only aggravate the illness.

Spandau did you manage to find an enema? How long since you have gone? Might be worth going to the hospital for help if you're very bunged up. It can be dangerous.

Shoot, Bugista and Icant sorry you're all feeling so rubbish.

Mop glad you had a better day.

In bed feeling like dying. Thrown up 3 times in 2 hours. Feeling awful.

Oh no reebok :(
Hyperemisis is a pain. Literally.
Had booking in appt with MW, she said I should start doing excersise 4x a week, gave me a gym leaflet and said it would help?
I said I class getting out of bed and getting dressed and being sick excersise. she wasn't amused

Gp s dunno wat to do
Your still sick on the cyclizine? Oh and the ondanstron oh ?
Yes and I can't go toilet ... oh dear ... no suggestions then? No!? Christ stupid doctors make u feel a nuisance
Just nearly sick again lovely barfing noise
OH have being an arse again
Also keep waking at night having a panic like feeling and so dizzy it's horrible like I can't breath
Can stand the sick just wish didn't feel sick every waking moment that's the worst bit and knowing tomorrow ll be exactly the same :(

I've tried phenergan which was on/off some days I got lucky with it, other days not.
I'm not on metoclopramide and tbh I don't think it's doing a lot.
I know we could scrape by with me off work but it'll be hard and as I would probably have less than a month off I think we would be ok.
I'm off Thursday for a midwife app so I think I might see gp then as at least then I'm taking no extra time off work.
I'm really scared I'll get dehydrated. I've drunk 750ml of apple and black currant squash and seen none of it come back up which I suppose is good but how do I know when I need hospital admission? It's hard to judge.
Hope tomorrow is better for you as well. It's the constant nausea that kills me. The vomiting on its own I could cope with but the nausea is hell.
This time in a year we will all have our babies though and this will be a distant memory. Trying to look forward to my private gender scan as a little incentive to get through this week but it's so hard. So thankful my oh is the most understanding and helpful person ever- don't know how I'd cope without him.

I can't
Seriously she said that? I think I would have twat ed her stupid bitch

I was suppose to have mine today but I'm not going til I feel better
I know the routine well enough and they can never get bloods at best of time least of all when I'm so sick

Oh spandau. It's awful isn't it.
This man at work was morning as he had a blocked nose and sore throat all weekend but was feeling better today, could of smacked him one. If I catch it their will be hell to pay.
Reebok- I'm just about to crawl into bed and try to sleep as well.

Ginger I know what you mean about dehydration. . I'm so dizzy and weak sometimes I wonder if I need see someone but who knows
Docs don't seem arsed

I know, last doctor I saw wouldn't even discuss anything with me, just said "oh your sick and pregnant here's some new meds" and sent me on my way.
Very helpful advice not haha.
We will all get through this one way or another this won't last forever!
How many weeks are you spandau?

Reebok no been so ill all day couldn't get an enema :(
Did you suffer with reflux before getting preg
Swear that's what's making me feel extra pains in my upper stomach like an awful constant ache
And food stuck at back of throat feeling
Which is phlegm and acid burn :(
Makes me feel more gagging sick
I gotta wait til 27th for dating scan
Could do with one now help me bond
I.just feel like I'm dreadfully sick and start to wish anything to feel well again

Ginger
I'm 9 weeks 4 days
Every day no every hour counts doesn't it lol
You??xx