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.

How awful charlie!
Bad day today reebok just constant bile and my lip covered in sores, I've a review thurs but if poorly still tomorrow I'll have to get seen :( I couldn't face the walk to school so wrote a letter and sent the sick notes by special delivery for tommorow (cost £6.45!) I've got bad anxiety for talking on the phone again - had it before, and even won't open letters, strange!
Aghh why are people so obsessed with ginger?! My dr over the weekend suggested that maybe I should try more positive thinking... Hmm. Glad you've a lovely TA though, I think we would be a right pair with the HG if we had to work together haha!!

You poor thing Icant. Yes can you imagine! We would have to take it in turns to throw up!

Dam ginger
Every pregnancy it actually makes me vomit ...so no it don't work

I wish to god it did

Iv got thundering headache feel sick and can barely keep eyes open. Fed up. Feel like not getting any better and now know 16 weeks is not gonna be my magic no :(
Probably 20 weeks again ... another four weeks 3 days ! Can't stand this any more... and other ppl are so more worsening than me I know but I feel so miserable again knowing 16 weeks isn't gonna be my cure all ...

I can't u are so so brave I couldn't do it hunni

Reebok well done for teaching ! As a TA each time it was bloody hard going to work... I'm not working now thank god

I suffered horribly for most of my pregnancy but luckily now at 32 weeks I am clear! As a first time mum who was expecting to love pregnancy it came as quite a shock to me especially because my sister sailed through pregnancy! I have written about my experiences on mine and my sisters blog www.bournsisters.com I really feel for all you mamas suffering it can really be very upsetting! Stay strong! X

Had an OK day today, back to work. Lovely DH bought me a subway which I managed to keep down (turkey Breast and ham) along with a bottle of lemon Fanta. Had 2 pain air chocolate for reakfast, sat much better than cereal or toast. Just cooking dinner now and feeling a bit ropey nearly brought up my tablet I swallowed and could feel it coming right back up, just kept chugging my water and it settled.

Dr has agree to another 28 tablet course of the metoclopramide, I called and asked for it to be put on repeat but a no go. I assume because you can't be on them for longer than 12wks

Sorry everyone's having such a rough day, especially poor old Reebok struggling at work. Wish you didn't have to do it.
Nausea has been very bad today, worst in a while, although I seem to have staved off actual voms. Nausea really getting me down though. Like all of us, I'm longing for the end of HG hell. Hate it.

Thanks spandau and mop. It's crazy over the weekend I didn't feel half as bad but u suppose I did literally nothing except lay down indoors.

Hattie thanks for sharing your story.

Spandau I think I will also be a 20 week recovery this time. Last time I was feeling much better by now at 16+3 but this time it feels worse.

Mop sorry to hear the nausea is so bad today. That alone can make you feel horrendous!

Iam it's lovely To hear you had a better day. Glad you coped better than I did at work.

Sat here really annoyed. Asked oh to get me fanta Orange in the glass bottles....it helps when I'm feeling nauseous and lacking energy in small sips. Anyway he got me fanta in a glass bottle but it's bloody strawberry!!! I've been in tears because of it. Needed it to help take the horrid taste away. He won't go out again and look for it either.

Oh reebok I feel your pain about the Fanta... It's hard to understand for 'normal' folk how specific our tastes are at the moment.

Had a routine appt with consultant at hosp today (basically checking my history) which meant having to see a midwife first and do urine sample... What a surprise there's protein in my wee and its dark.. Yes I am dehydrated please just read my notes! Very frustrating.. I'm trying to drink honestly I am.. I would love to drink more!

Get him to get a load in next time so you always have some in xx I can't stand anything fizzy even the thought makes me wanna gag

Got a friend who is trying for a baby with her disabled wheelchair bound partner. Having to do artificial eh hem insemination
Well they ve had no joy and been trying six months they will only have one shot of ivf on nhs too... well she was saying yest really upsets me everyone seems to be pregnant and can't stand it wjen ppl who are moan...
Needless to say she does NOT know about me yet :(
Trouble is I sympathise but she wouldn't get me feeling so low and the HG and I think we d fall out...
Dunno what I'm gonna do when I start to show lol ... dilemmas eh ? Crazy world we live in ... she'd welcome this I expect ... Who knows I think HG test us all to breaking point...

Sorry just having a waffle ....

Spandau - your friend has never been pg so she has no 1st hand experience of horrible stuff that can happen in pregnancy. Most ppl dont seem to be able to get there head around hg either. Just because we moan and feel low coz the emotional and physical strain it puts on us, doesnt mean we dont appreciate that we are lucky enough to be able to concieve. If shes a true friend she will be supportive.

Reebook - its crazy how we suddenly find something that works or even temporarily works and how dependant we get of it (well at least i do lol!). For a while i found sparkling lemon and lime water a god send.

Mop - sorry to hear ur feeling worse, so annoying when u have a day or to where its slightly better and then the next you feel terrible, its just so cruel.

Shoop - ive got my 16 week midwife appointment 2moro. Last 2 appointments was told i have protein in my urine. Am currently on antibiotics for urine infection so hoping it will clear it up. I still find drinking harder than eating as my stomach as so acidy

spandau it's difficult when ppl make comments about how some people would just be glad to be pregnant etc... It took us nearly 2 years to get pregnant and there were times when I absolutely hated being pregnant and resented the parasite growing inside me andstealing my life. So even the most wanted and waited for pregnancy affected by HG is hell. Unfortunately, as we've all said again and again, unless you've been thru HG you've got no idea how awful it is.

Hoping everyone is coping. Glad to hear of some better days.

Didn't have a good night. We had steak pie and chips with veg for dinner, I was enjoying it at the time but I think I had too much as my stomach was churning for about 3 hrs afterwards, I think I felt the worse I have in weeks as night. I was only sick once though but I'm noticing that it's not proper sick on these tablets it's really odd. It didn't help and I ended up falling asleep on the sofa just after 8 but woke a good few times through the night in agony.

I'm 9 wks tomorrow and these 4 wks I've known and been sick for have felt like the ones that 4 wks of my life. And I know I'm just at the start pick up my prescription tomorrow and that will do me til a week on Friday so I'll have to phone drs again and see if he will prescribe again middle next week.

Hope everyone has better days, gentle hugs to all.

Oh iam you poor thing!!! I feel the same being 10 weeks, it already send like a lifetime

You poor thing iam. Well done for trying something different though! I'm still surviving on cheese toast and ready salted crisps. Can't wait to eat proper meals again. I think between 7-11 you will feel at your worst. With both hg pregnancies those were the weeks I felt like dying/having an abortion. Although I'm still being sick it's not as bad and I put it down to the exhaustion of returning to work sending me backwards. Only Tuesday. How I wish it was Friday already. Heck I wish it was the Xmas break and I was already 20 weeks!

That's horrible iam hope you get some respite today.

Hope school goes as well as it can do reebok

I've given in and made an emergency Drs apt after fainting last night, the nausea and vomiting have been terrible , normally I don't feel so bad after I've been sick but it's just not disappearing, DS had a bad night awake for hours think he could sense I wasn't well. The thought of walking the 8mins to the surgery makes me want to cry I've just no energy even though it's not far. Hoping they will give my cyclyzine injection but knowing my luck it will be hospital again.
Here's hoping you all have a good of a day as possible

Thinking of you icant I cant even begin to imagine the pressure you must feel with your ds, who has him while you're in hospital, you've probably said before but my brain is like a sieve xx

Gosh the thread moves fast!

charlie your HG may improve a bit when the viral infection's completely cleared up. Gobsmacked at people walking over you!

ican't thinking of you and wishing you strength .. how you're getting through I don't know. Did you manage to ring Preg Sickness Support?

amys how are you?

reebok hoping you have a reasonably easy day and commute

spandau agreed that HG affects you for a long time. I didn't know you could feel that ill for that long. Nasty discovery.

Hoping that the day gets better for those of you having a bad start to the day. I was curious of at what point you decide that you're unable to go to work. Each day I go in makes me feel awful and I'm then having a couple of days off again. Nearly fainted last night and feeling rough today. At least the train is quiet so I can curl up and feel sorry for myself.

meer I'm not too bad, the unending nausea is still grinding me down, have 1/2 voms a day and the dry heaving when anything and everything tickles my stomach... Even the most random things set me off, for example yesterday I had to mop up some spilled water with kitchen roll and the sogginess of the kitchen roll made me wretch like you wouldn't believe! my family think I'm fully mental now... Pregnancy does weird things to a woman lol how are you now? X

Just checking in. Sorry you had such a bad night Iam, sounds awful. Reebok, wishing you a better day at school today.
Amys, like Reebok I think weeks 6-12 are the worst. I'm still struggling at 15+2, but nothing like as bad as I was. I think I'm lucky in that Ondanestron has made a big difference for me. I take it religiously and feel anxious if I start running low! In normal life I'm usually so healthy, never take any meds, barely even a paracetamol for a headache!
ICant, good luck getting to the surgery today, and hope you can get some treatment. It's amazing to me how you keep on keeping on, with such a great attitude. x

Iam and Icant, sorry you are both having a rough time.

I am nearly 12 weeks now, and I am having a few more better days. Still can't eat much without feeling vile though. I've lost getting on for 3 stone since I got pregnant. I had it to lose, but it is pretty shocking that I've lost it so quickly.

My 12 week scan is on Friday, so I'm nervous and excited about that.

Hope everyone else is ok.

Squeezed, if work is making you worse and you feel like you're not coping you should ask your GP to sign you off for a few weeks. Are reduced hours an option for you? That might help.
Amys, it's not mental at all, the strangest things can trigger the sickness. I totally relate about the soggy kitchen roll! In my last HG pregnancy I caught sight of a bottle of olive oil in my kitchen cupboard and instantly got violently sick in the kitchen sink!! Just the sight of it was enough! And last night when my DP got into bed I had to ask him to turn away from me because his breath was, wait for it, 'too minty'! I can only tolerate those herbal health toothpastes that don't foam and aren't minty!

iam I hated ondanstron they made me only puke little bits it was vile and so much worse :(

Talking about weird things to make you puke with ds 3 it was 4x4 vehicles !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not even food
An advert before emmerdale with dd set me off
My own hair I find repulsive
Can't stand smell of my fingers pmsl not that there is anything smelly on them ha ha my nails are so oo long now as I used to chew them....

So freak award to me pls!!!!!

squeezed I was lucky in that an assistant head took me to one side and told me to go home and be sick in my own loo, sleep when I can and eat when I can. At the time I was dragging myself in on reduced hours, making several vom trips to the loo and exhausting myself trying to keep things normal for the kids. Was getting home and collapsing in bed. So I think if it's exhausting to be there, there are regular vom trips to the loo, and you're struggling to work as you normally would, then you need some time off. If your currently working the same hours you always have, ask your GP to give you an amended sick note with reduced hours/duties (be specific with hours etc, and think about when the best bit if your day is (eg, I always went down hill from 2pm, so did hours that meant I was home for 2 but started a little later to avoid traffic as driving made me sick too)). Try that first (it will show your bosses that you're trying but struggling) - unless, of course, you are really really struggling, in which case, soak to GP and get yourself signed off. The best help with HG is rest, rest and more rest.

I hope you got on OK icant I've lost about a stone I think in a month, I'm lucky in that I can eat just unfortunately these tablets are horrible but I do feel they are making a difference. I'm on metoclopramide. Work was OK today, just so tired now that I am out but no surprises there. Will definitely be avoiding steak pie for the foreseeable future!