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.

Fab to hear you're having a good day Ems! It is hard when you have a 'down' day and I think sometimes you just need a good cry to get it all out of your system.

I second cheese toasties - it's the only lunch I have at the mo but it def stays down and doesn't make nausea worse. :)

I can't
Iv been in similar scenario s with no child care but if you don't go in you ll end up in worse position ..iller and oh having to take more time off. Kidney infections are nasty and oral antibiotics when u can't keep stuff down sounds risky.
Wish I could help :(
I'm on a concoction of cyclizine and mid day ondanstron. .. senna kot and ranitindine
I'm less sick but so exhausted and constantly nauseous and heaving :(
Actually hate being round ppl eating... wats it like to ENJOY a meal or a drink ???

I'm craving cheese toasties now haha!
I know it's just a vicious circle, been wracking my brain but literally have no one :(
I know - I get so envious seeing people enjoy food haha!

What does one do about reflux in babies? Is it a trip to the doctors? Cos he has all that - crying after feeds, back arching, trapped wind etc. I was on omeprazole most of my pregnancy.

My DS had that. He was admitted at 2 weeks to be tube fed as wouldn't keep anything down but they started him on gaviscon and rinitadine which settled things down and he had it in all his feeds.
Worth seeing GP ASAP x

Ealli take baby to the gp and tell him you think he has reflux/symptoms etc...the doc should put him on some medication like baby gaviscon. There are several other drugs too if that doesn't work. In all honesty, not a lot worked with dd. it has only started to improve the older she's gotten. Try not to lay him flat after a feed. Keep him upright for a while like you would yourself when pregnant. When he is sleeping, elevate his head part in some way by putting something under mattress...there are wedges you can buy or just put a blanket underneath it so he's not laying flat. It's horrible for them...poor things. Sorry you're having to go through this. Very difficult on mamma too. Hope the info helps.

Feeling awful. Shouldn't have gone out...it's taken it out of me. Zero energy, body aches, shivers, nauseous, bad indigestion and phlegm...can't sleep. I'm so tired but my body won't let me.

All the talk of cheese toasties is also making me want one! Icant, your situation sounds so tough. Wish there was some way you could get to hospital and have the treatment you need.
Bugista, nice to hear about your gender scan and that you're having a little boy! It does make it feel more real. My DP reckons that as we already have one of each that we shouldn't find out the gender in advance this time. I feel like it would really help me to connect with the baby.
Reebok, sorry you've tired yourself out by going out. It's scary to me how much HG debilitates you. Even the tiniest things exhaust me. Today I hoovered downstairs for no more than 10 mins, then had to sleep for 2 hours to recover!
Ems, long may the good days last.
Mellee must be nearly ready to enter the Pink Castle I think?
Ealli, sorry to hear about BabyEalli's reflux. Sounds distressing.

ealli definitely go to the doctors, my daughter ended up on baby gaviscon with colief drops and on comfort milk. Making bottles was a pain but the combination definitely helped. My milk didn't come in at all last time so attempted breast feeding but dd wasn't getting anything.

Reebok really sorry to hear your little trip took it out of you - hope you were able to get some rest in even if you didn't manage to sleep.

Ladies, my OH is pushing me to try and see people but I've realised I don't really want to see/talk to people much except my family. OH said yesterday he's worried I'm depressed but I just find it quite hard to talk to people who don't really understand what I'm going through...one of my friends texted me to ask "how much longer will I be in hibernation for" - she just doesn't get what this is like and I don't really feel like I've got the strength right now to try and explain it or put on a happy face. Did you ladies also feel a bit reclusive when going through this? Did it get better?? Am now feeling a bit paranoid about my mental health!

Ealli so sorry to hear about bub's reflux, hope you get that sorted soon - you deserve to have the easiest time of it!!

bugista I totally get what you mean, I'm exactly the same and a hermit tbh! People just don't understand and think it's "just morning sickness" so I think why bother.
Though that's totally not the right attitude for me to have :/
I found as I was later on in pregnancy and still having it with DS that's when people seemed to have a bit more understanding and I socialised a bit more. If that makes sense?

bugista I was the same, still am sometimes if I'm just not in the mood to see people. I just had no energy to try and make conversation with people!! It will get better as you start to feel less sick. Evenings are by far my worst time so that doesn't help. I just told my friends I'm not good company at the moment and they seemed to understand. People are trying to find ways to make you feel better/get you out the house but unless they understand the horror of hg they wouldn't realise that they aren't always being that helpful!!

Thanks so much Ems and icant that's basically exactly how I feel so it's so nice to know that others feel the same. I feel like HG takes so much out of you that you just don't have the extra energy needed for things that you'd normally find easy! Thanks feel better now knowing it's not just me and that hopefully it'll get better when I feel less sick xx

It all came up. Been sick all evening. Want to cry. I'm so fed up with feeling like this every day. The nausea is killing me and the reflux is so painful.

Bugista i can relate to what you said. I don't want to see anyone. I don't even like talking to my husband or child because of the excess saliva. And as for everyone else including my parents, I just don't want to see anyone. It's too hard and I end up feeling sicker. My brother wanted to come over now and I told him not to. Evenings are my worst and he didn't get it. I just want to be left alone in a dark room all the time in silence. God I sound mad.

Ican't A kidney infection sounds awful with this. I do hope the antibiotics work. Would it be impossible for you to go in?
Bugista I'm sure it wasn't 'ugly crying' just tragic crying . Glad you can work from home. I think it is very hard for people to relate to this, and the problem isn't with the sufferer, but people expecting halfway normal behaviour... Feeling fed up when you feel dreadful is a normal reaction, not depression - isn't real depression not misery, but a 'dead feeling' (I may be wrong here,but have heard that).
Great advice from everyone to eallison*.
Reebok Sorry you are now exhausted but so glad you actually enjoyed cheese toasties. I wonder if they are a good safe food, then? How near is half term? Even then might be a little ambitious, clucks Mother Hen.
spandau I'm glad you are getting a little relief from the vomiting, anyway. That is supposed to be a good combination, I hear.
EMS Glad today is better than yesterday...
I hope TwoDrifters "Shoop* Greyhorses and everyone is OK.
Waves to Meerka. I must look out the Due Dates list on the previous thread...

Reebok Cross posted, poor you. Much sympathy; no, you don't sound mad, just ill. You're doing really well, don't despair, you will get there.

Reebok It is such a disappointment after you enjoyed that meal. The time will come when you start to feel better...
I scrawled a couple of messages to MotherofPearl and Barmee and Shoop and Magnificient Meerka and others, and my handwriting was even worse than usual, so
I couldn't read them.
Here was the lastest due dates list. We've got a lot of new people since then, so MotherofPearl is probably not laston the list any more.
Due Dates
Melleebacca 25 October
Amy 11 November
Ems10000 15 November
Laura 24 November
Chopsface 14 December
Daffodil 14 December
Kayme 28 January
RubyReins 6 February
mrsm14 14 February
Mirabel 19 February
mygreeneyedboy 22 February
BarmeeMarmee 10 March
Reebok 23 April
spandau 8 May
Motherof Pearl 12 May.

reebok you don't sound mad at all and it will get better for you but you can only take it one day (or hour) at a time. How me and my husband are not divorced by now is a miracle, he is supportive but I have no patience at all and feel like he deliberately goes out of his way to annoy me!!!

It is :( my family can't (or won't) help out and DP doesn't have a day off until Thursday so I'll try the antibiotics until then.
Got amoxicillin and metronidazole , just so frustrated as out of the last 3 weeks I've spent 15 days in hospital in which I had IV antibiotics but I just get infections all the time.
How are you doing lucinda ?
reebok really sounds like a rough time for you :(
bugista fx you feel better soon but don't worry about being unsociable it's totally normal.

I'm craving marmite ham and cheese toastie but I just now it will be horrible to vomit! :(
And I'm too lazy to move off the sofa!

Oh Reebok, that sounds awful. So sorry for you. You're having such a rough time. x

Also to Bugista and others feeling unsocial, I think it's quite normal. My DP has also expressed concern that I'm 'depressed'. I just don't think non-sufferers understand how feeling and being sick all the time grinds you down emotionally as well as physically. I totally relate to Lucinda's comment about the 'dead feel'. It's hard enough to do basic stuff; socialising is just not possible. I just feel like it's too much effort.

I'd rather not see anyone.
Even talking makes me feel sick... and I have no patience either.

Eallison go to boots ... dd had awful reflux
Put her on reflux powder milk. I breast fed for 6 weeks but breast milk is to runny :(
The reflux milk is thicker . It works quite well. Gaviscon can bung babies up :(
Also put baby in a cot and raise legs with argos books lol
Dd hated her moses basket never slept in it
Too flat for her . I felt like a zombie for first 2 months trying to sort reflux as they cry feed sick cry feed endlessly bless them ...
Xx good luck

I am now looking at toasted sandwich makers online…

I had a ham, cheese and marmite toastie.
Which lasted an hour before an horrific acid vom, yuck! my own fault

Thanks everyone. Keep trying to remind myself that I've done it before and can get through it again.

Icant sorry to hear you were so sick last night. Gentle hugs.

Cannot sleep again. My body seems to always be in pain. Don't know if it's from lack of water or what. Does anyone else find it easier to drink water overnight in between sleeping then during the day? It seems to be the only way I can keep water in me.

How is everyone this morning? Another day ahead of us all...here's hoping we can get through it.