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.

Charlie this is my third child and I'd say second lot of HG with dd1 i was sick but nothing like this. I think I'd blocked it out until it actually started happening again, I honestly couldn't tell you if I was this bad last time round, though I haven't been hospitalised this time so maybe not! Mine are 7 and 11 though and we haven't told them (waiting til after scan) but I'm of the feeling that they are not stupid and they def notice that I am ill/exhausted though I've done my upmost to keep their day to day lives as normal as possible. I'll have a new baby just in time for the summer holidays starting and a 2mth old and one starting secondary which is mental! Poor DH thought we were done with dd2. We're still relatively young (both 29) so will have out 40s together.

I've had quite a good day, no sickness but I did get my flu jag. New prescription collected too, just noticed it says 1 every 8hrs as required - I've been taking them half hour before food I honestly don't think I could manage 8hrs in the day between tablets as I barely manage 6!

Back in , bad headache will post later.
for everyone

charlie it gets worse each one
This is my 5th child and no relenting on the HG yet were as before was gone by 16 weeks first 2 then 20 weeks so this is gonna drag for another 4 weeks I think
If It goes over 20 weeks I'll probably hang myself (in jest)

Feel so ooo ill headache sickie and generally worn out to my core ...

Oh speaking age gaps think about iron levels ect as HG lowers your iron and other vitamin mineral level s so u need to be back on top before trying again...
It took me 18 months each time to over come my severe anemia had to have iron infusion last preg

Oh and I'm anemic again (rolls eyes)

Welcome everyone to the new thread.
It seems last night the winds were strongest where I am in Mid Wales, so no wonder I got in a tizzy about people being out in it commuting.
The discussion on when to go for a second is very interesting; I didn't go for it at all because I had such bad migraines lasting so long when LO was little, and no meds helped; but I wish I had. I don't suppose there is ever an ideal time, but I do admire you all in going for it a second, third or fourth time (I get mixed up with spandau because she has twins; is this a fourth Hyperemesis preg?) Iam at twenty-nine with an eleven year old, you will be full of energy still when they're all of your hands. It's amazing you 've managed to hide it from them.
That book I attached back on old thread was apparently a book recommended by HG sites about explaining it to LO's (not one written by me, I hasten to add; that would be insensitive) and I keep meaning to look it up on amazon.
Ican't I'll be really upset if the Pregnancy Sickness Support people still haven't called. they are normally so good about it. I think they helped OnceaMeer and eallison.
I hope everyone is coping today.

Spandau, you poor thing, you're really having a rough time at the moment. Hugs to you. The relentlessness of feeling/being sick every day, all day, for weeks on end grinds you down like nothing else.
Icant, back in hospital? Oh dear. I really can't understand why they can't organise you proper home care, given that your condition doesn't seem to improve. How were you with the sickness in your last pregnancy? Did it eventually lift? Forgive me if you've already said.

iam remind me what meds you're on (sorry if you've told us recently, my mind is rather sieve like!).

It is a difficult one, when to try again. I think one of the biggest things I need to think about is whether I want another one. I mean, I do, but there's a bit of me that doesn't want to share my husband anymore than I am at the moment. Though I wonder if that changes as children get older?

Anywho, spandau poor you with tie anemia: it never rains but pours for you. Hoping today's been a slightly better day for you

On toothbrushing, everyone, I did sometimes manage to use a kids toothbrush, so that it was soft with a small head, and kids strawberry toothpaste. Sometimes I just rubbed that on the teeth. Sometimes I got so desperate I used a rinse of a teasspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in water, which you probably shouldn't because of the salt or something, but swilling about it did get them clean. Don't know if that eccentric tip is any good to anyone.
Waves at eallsion MotherofPearl and everyone. Reebok and squeezed still feel for you having to battle in to work with a commute yesterday, and charlie too. Is there anyone else dragging themselves In?
You deserve medals.

eallison it's metoclopramide hydrochloride 10mg

spandau I really feel for you :(
lucinda they sent me a text at 5pm - I've replied as its iMessage but no signal only wifi so won't be able to ring back until I'm home :(
MoP last time I got worse from 16 weeks - didn't need admission until then. So hoping it will be the opposite this time prays for a miracle

Dr said they may insert PICC line and I come to the medical day until every other day for fluids and IV anti sickness and steroids so they know I'm having it without vomiting. Weather that will happen I don't know :/

Ealli, on a non-HG note in relation to have a 2nd. I felt that having a 2nd allowed me to get my DP back to myself to some extent. I feel like we were able to be more of a twosome again, and the DC as their own little team (although obviously still do stuff as a whole family!).

Hi all, another day another dollar... Managed to get through most the day with only sporadic heaving... Been told this afternoon I'm surplus to requirements after next Friday so looks like I'll be going back to day to day work with my agency, a bit sad as I've been at the school since October 2014 (although it is a long time to keep supply so I can't complain lol). Been having shooting pains in my nether regions but I've had them before I got pregnant, dunno if it's just muscular kind of stretching?!

icant I'm so sorry you're back in hospital again!! Hugs to all xxx

Hello everyone, have been having a difficult day here. Had some bleeding and cramping which is really freaking me out. Spoke to gp but he said that he couldn't get me a scan earlier then my 12 week scan on Friday anyway, so it's just a waiting game.

Selfishly can't bear the idea of miscarriage now when I've been through all these weeks of illness already. I think there are only a limited number of times in my life I can actually get through hg and I don't want to "waste" it on a pregnancy that doesn't work out.

Sorry, that sounds really callous. Just hate how I feel about the whole thing.

madrigal thinking of you, I can understand what you mean, you've come such a long way... Our baby wasn't planned, I think if anything happened we wouldn't try again because of the HG... It's just too hard going... Xx

MoP that is interesting, thanks.

iam that's not a drug I used, but maybe have a quick chat with gp about how best to take it. The meds I was on (ondansetron) worked best when I took them at regular times (6 am, 2pm and 10pm).

icant hope you get to speak to PSS sooner rather than later and hoping they can help you. It's ridiculous how unable they seem to be in planning an effective plan of care for you.

madrigal I understand that completely. I had the same thoughts throughout most of my pregnancy. It's that feeling of it having to be worth it!!

This is my 7 th pregnancy
6th with HG
Yes I have twins an 11 yr old a dd 2.5

HG is something you do forget when your not expecting and the urge for a baby can over come the fear of the HG but once it's hits all the old memories are instantly tangable again...

I pray your cramps and bleed are a one.off and baby is doing well. It's quite common in first 12 weeks and the constant vomiting dehydration puts pressure on uterus to cramp ... x

Madrigal, that bleeding sounds very stressful. You don't sound callous at all. HG is unbearable, but the one thing that gets us through it is the thought of meeting of babies on the other end. If that suddenly seems uncertain then you're bound to feel terrible, and that your heroic endurance of the sickness has been for nothing. Really hope all is well. As Spandau says, early bleeding is quite common.
Amys, sorry to hear about work. Might it be a good thing in the sense that you'll have more rest at home? Still unsettling though, after being in the same school for over a year.

Hi all, shattered and feeling like crap. Threw up again at work. Just feel like I'm falling apart lately. I should be better by now. I'm 17 weeks on Friday. I honestly feel like this time the hg is worse.

It's crazy how many of us have put ourselves through hg more than once. I remember after dd I swore I would never try again for another but then I got pregnant again in May...miscarried that baby and realized I wanted another. I think I secretly prayed hg wouldn't hit again...silly huh.

Madrigal keeping fingers crossed for you Hun. I had spotting at 8 weeks and all was ok. Also have had cramps. Could just be a bit of stretching and the bleed could be from placenta. Sending you hugs.

Icant and Spandau sorry things are still so rough.

Waves to Mop, ealli, ems, amy, Meerka, Lucinda and everyone else x

Madrigal i hope every turns out ok and that its nothing to serious. To have gone through HG its unfair that your now having this happen. Big hugs xoxo

Icant i wish the healthcare ppl would just give you what you need.

I've had to wash all the clothes I haven't worn since earlier in my pregnancy because the washing powder I used at the time is reminding me of HG! I've found the offending bottle at the back of the cupboard, it is ariel with a purple label! My mum and husband smelt it and were saying it smells nice and clean!! I think if I ever contemplate a third child I will go to the supermarket and sniff it!!

Madrigal How awful they can't get you a scan before Friday. I do feel for you; what you say doesn't sound callous at all. This is very hard to bear, and it''s so much harder than with a normal pregnancy if things go wrong.
Thinking of you, and so hoping those cramps go off.
Icna't I am so glad to hear that. I hope something is worked out that helps.
Reebok You poor thing; you are a trooper.
spandau You must be the veteran of this thread, then, my goodness, six Hyperemesis pregnancies. You must be brave.
Waves to EMS "TwoDrifters* MotherofPearl eallison OnceaMeer Iam Charlie and everyone.

amysmummy I am sorry that after over a year they just ended your employment like that, particularly when you're ill. And day work with an agency, teaching, sounds really stressful. Can one get part time work, or is that for practical purposes impossible?

Brave no
Stark raving mad Yep
Xxx

Thanks Lucinda, the pay with the agency is quite good so I'm going to continue to do three days a week with them, they're usually quite good at getting me regular work and let me know in advance where I'll be, plus if I'm doing day to day stuff at least I'll have no work to bring home x

Thank you all. I will try to stop beating myself up about my feelings about it all and just focus on getting through the next few days.