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.

Just been sick but the nausea is still there. The thing that is worrying me is that I can't face the thought of drinking anything. Even sips of water make me feel worse. I know I need to drink liquids, but I just can't.

Sorry to hear that MOP. Hoping it doesn't kick in too badly for you. Do you have acid reflux? I find that makes me not want to try eating or drinking again once I've been sick.

The constipation has kicked in thanks for ondasetron. In pain plus feeling sick to my stomach from nausea.

Can hear oh snapping at dd. I just want to slap him.

How is it that somebody playing loud music in my building is making my nausea worse? That makes no sense to me.
Awww MoP I'm sorry you're starting to feel so rough. Are there are any liquids you fancy at all?

Noise can aggravate hg. I live off a main road and all the noises outside make me feel sicker at times. Oh keeps playing the TV really loud and not only is it giving me a headache but it's making me feel sick.

That's so strange. I didn't realise that as me and my daughter don't really watch TV and she has been playing quite quietly on her own since I've been poorly bless her. What an odd thing to make it worse though.

When I was pregnant with dd I couldn't watch any tv so just sat staring at 4 walls...pretty much same as I do now. Dd bless her is trying to play alone but the sound of the iPad and her singing is enough to make me vomit. Being online is making me feel sick too but it's either mumsnet or go crazier than I am. Having a bad evening. Trying to fight the vomit. I seem to get worse after afternoon nap everyday. Everything makes my tummy turn.

Oh it's so rubbish isn't it. I love this forum though. So glad I found it. Afternoons and evenings are worse for me too. I'm not at all sure why they refer to pregnancy sickness as morning sickness! I think I have to go back to work in 2 weeks. Praying I will be feeling a lot better by then as I haven't a clue how I'm going to manage it.

in haste, lilac huge congratulations! lovely, really lovely to hear baby Lilac is at last here safely. What and ... exiting ... delivery though!

So pleased you are feeling so much better.

busy couple days, will catch up soon

Heaven it was the only thing that got me through pregnancy with dd. I had no real life support back then either and without the help of Lucinda, Mop and several other lovely ladies, I probably would have terminated. It was a dark time for me. Think I'm hitting that dark time again. It was roughly 8 weeks on that got really hard for me.

This time I keep crying over the fact that dd is not getting the love from me that she deserves and I'm starting to hate this thing growing inside me. I know I sound awful. But I can't bond with it. For all I know it's not even growing but it's making me sick. It's not like I haven't experienced that before. I had a mmc before dd but had no idea as I had hg. Sorry for the rant.

If you're still unwell in two weeks, do not get pushed into going back. I got pushed into going back at 15 weeks but luckily I turned a corner by 16 weeks.

I've got 2 weeks on my sick note and will probably get another one if I continue to feel the way I feel now.

Heaven, don't go back to work until you're ready. I'm worried because both you and Reebok are on ondansetron but you're still both so sick. I told myself that if I got bad this time I'd push for ondansetron, which I've never had but which seems to be regarded as a magic bullet. Maybe it doesn't work well for everyone.
I've just been sick again, pure stomach acid. Even after rinsing my mouth my teeth feel terrible!

Ps. Reebok, thanks for your kind words, glad I was some help before. Fear I won't be much use this time around...

The dreaded acid MOP. I have that everyday. I feel for you. Ice lollies sooth the pain for a few minutes...yes I'm back to those awful lollies I swore I would never have again after dd.
I don't think ondasetron is working for me. The vomiting has calmed down but I just feel sick all the time. Maybe it takes a while to kick in....only been on it since Tuesday. Everything seems to work better on me through iv but my gp surgery doesn't do injections.

We can be here for each other MOP.

I will try and hold off on going back to work if I can. It's the money that's worrying me to be honest. I have had to put in a claim for employment and support allowance as work won't pay me the statutory sick pay so I'm panicking I won't get it. They only just told me Thursday that I haven't had any pay since 17th August so next pay day there's nothing coming. I'm scared that the will also stop my working tax credits. If I can get the employment benefit sorted quickly I might feel a bit more confident about it. My partner doesn't live with me so there is only me keeping a roof over my daughters head. The pregnancy was very welcome but a little unexpected.
MoP I know I am still ill a lot of days but the ondansetron has helped me. Before the hospital put me on it I was being sick perhaps 20-25 times a day, couldn't eat or drink a thing. Now I occasionally have a day where I'm not sick, just feel nauseous although usually I am between 3-7 times but it's reduced it no end. I have had a couple of very bad days but not on a par with what I experienced before the ondansetron. It may not quite be the reassurance you hoped for but I do feel much better for being on it and am functioning very much better in that I can usually get myself out of bed now at least Before I just lay in bed or hugged the toilet bowl all day. So it's not perfect but it's better. I just don't get much warning on the ondansetron of when I'm going to be sick. I will be feeling my usual nausea and suddenly it's there and I'm making a mad sprint and only just making it. That worries me a lot about going back to work. I could take a supply of sick bags but the last thing I want is to throw up in front of colleagues. And I work on a deli. About the worst thing I could possibly do is have to use one of those sick bags in front of the customers because I haven't been able to get out the way quick enough.

Something to make you all smile:

Dd is playing with her baby doll. I look at her and she make a crying sound. She then pats her baby, kisses it and says 'it's Kay baby. Mummy here. No cry. Cuddle? Mummy here.' Made me smile. Hope it made you too.

Reebok I don't know if the ondansetron takes it away completely. It certainly hasn't for me. It's just made it a bit more manageable. They did prescribe me cyclizine as well but that does nothing for me. I'd take one and still throw up. The only thing that seems to stand a chance of stopping it is the ondansetron.

Why are they not paying you smp? Is that legal??

Stomach acid is the worst MOP, much sympathy! I had that earlier, it was awful. I'm now steering clear of anything even slightly acidic as I think it makes it worse. I'm sending my oh out tomorrow to get watermelon which I will try and freeze.

I'm 12 weeks today and I think I've had the worst day since the start! Could not keep anything down at all. I've just had some banana and fingers crossed it stays put. This is so exhausting, I've just weighed myself and I'm down 8kg to 52kg. I haven't been this weight since I was 23!

Much sympathy, it sounds like the vom/nausea monster is out to make everyone suffer today. I really hope you all get some rest/respite x

Sorry meant ssp. I'm hoping it's taking a while to kick in as I'm still stuck to my bed all day. Don't feel like I can do anything yet.

Awww that's sweet about your little one. It did make me smile. Apparently I can't get the SSP because my weekly earnings fall under the qualifying amount by about £6. Gutted as I only needed to work an extra hour or two a week and I would have qualified.

Heaven are your work allowed to not pay your SMP?! That sounds like such a stressful situation, I really hope you are able to get that or another benefit, it's insane that you should feel you have to work while still being so sick.

Sorry heaven cross posted! That's absolute madness. Is that def the case when it's pregnancy related? I thought there was a distinction made there but I may be wrong. Have you spoken to the pregnancy support helpline? They may have other ideas. Sorry if you've done all this already! Really hope there's a solution.

Ah I see. That's terrible. Will keep fx that you get a different benefit. Are you renting? You should be entitled to housing benefit or child tax credits.

Bugista sorry to hear that today has been rough. With dd I think 12 weeks was a rough point for me just after the scan. I was tricked for a few days into thinking I was ok but went downhill again until 16 weeks when I felt much better. Apparently some women are better by 14 weeks so fx for you!

Bugista what is the pregnancy support helpline? They could well be worth speaking to and finding out where I stand. Myself and my partner have tried looking on the Internet but nothing seems to be exceptionally clear. By the way I do hope you start to feel better soon.
Reebok I privately rent yes. I do get child tax credits and housing benefit. My housing benefit will I presume go up but they won't get that in motion until I can take in my pay slip to show that I haven't been paid. Hoping that I will also have something to do with this benefit so that they won't overpay me housing benefit and take it back off me at a later date. It's all a hassle I could do without at the moment.

Reebok and MoP - for some ondansetron is a miracle drug, for some it just takes the edge off. I'm in the second group. It slowed down the vomiting enough that I could drink enough to have low ketones, but the crippling nausea remained. It wasn't until 16w that I noticed it helping.
Bugista - I lost 6kg in the first 12w, only started gaining it back after week 16, and now at 34w I'm only 5kg above my pre-pregnancy weight. I have a little bump and a big baby in there. My friends midwife says hyperemesis babies are the best parasites and often end up large, so don't worry too much. My HG friend gave birth at 41w to a 9 1/2lb baby, and she was puking up till delivery.
Heaven - I don't know much about the UKs sick leave policies (im in NZ), but I do know that returning to work when you're not ready is detrimental. I had 16w off, with a really sympathetic company, but I felt guilty the whole time until I realized that even pushing myself for an hour a day was making me so much worse. Exhaustion just exaggerates the HG.

Good luck to all the sufferers, I'm hoping for a better day today, spent most of yesterday throwing up little bits into my mouth, ew.