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.

Sorry for silence these last few days. Been so busy at work and just feeling exhausted. Have an awful headache this evening, with nausea. Couldn't finish my dinner, which was only an omelette.
So sorry to hear of your painful and frustrating day Icant. Your endurance is really amazing. I so wish they could agree on, communicate, and implement a proper care plan for you. Sounds like they just make it up as they go along!!
Great to hear that you're having a little girl Spandau! I would love to find out what I'm having but have stupidly allowed my DP to talk me into the idea of 'a surprise'!
Barmee, I really sympathise. Don't feel you have to snap out of it when it is so miserable. But as others have said, you're past halfway. I keep thinking that I'll feel a lot better mentally when it's the new year. At least we'll all be able to think 'I will get to meet my baby this year'.
Iam, some people are so indiscreet. It's really not on for this news to be workplace gossip when it's meant to be private. Sorry.
How's the virus Reebok? Hope you've not overdone it by going into work today?
Hope I've not forgotten anyone, my brain is fried and head pounding. Off to take a paracetamol and get ready for bed.

In tears. Shouldn't have gone to work. Been sick 4 times so far and can feel more in my throat. Only had some rich tea biscuits for dinner but couldn't even keep that down. I'm 19 weeks. Feel like I will never be better. Sorry for the me post. Will catch up tomorrow.

in haste

spandau grats on the Pink!

so sorry that it's such a difficult time for so many

Reebok your not ready for work your body is telling you.noooooooo
Any way you can get signed off again ?!
Do you know what your having maybe a girl...my sickness ain't. Gone and I'm. 18 weeks now.... piss ing me off tbh but what can we do ?? Stuck on this roller coaster til.may now (April for you ;) )

Gonna wait til scan on 15th then buy baby a toy. Iv done it with each one. Any time I felt sad I'd cuddle it and know my baby will be here soon... soppy I know but it helped ...

Hugs to all xx

reebok it does get better, you will get better. Another day done and no work for 2 days.

spandau what a lovely idea! Not at all soppy

Reebok that so totally shit :(

Yet another medical drama for me, arm started aching esrlier but though nothing of it and that its a cold etc. By 5pm it was agony so got in the Go where he sends me to hospital . Get scanned and told I've a blood clot above picc line, then a few hours later have a seizure due to a High temp so being treated for the clot and septecina all from the picc! Was told I'm lucky I got seen when I did or I could have died, all sounds very dramatic :/ finally comfy and not vomiting or in pain after endless lots of medication.hopefully my luck will change soon???!

Oh icant that sounds very scary. Glad you were seen when you were! Silver lining...no vomiting out or pain right now?!

Bloody hell icant you're like a walking episode of casualty lately!!! Hope you're responding well to treatment!!
Reebok hope you've had some rest overnight, sounds like too much too soon xxx

I can't ... has your oh had to stop work or is family helping out ?? How u all coping??
No more kids for you after this one hey!!

You should start writing a blog on hyperemysis -the dark side of pregnancy

Or a book - could be a first class seller !!!

Trying to lighten the mood but in all seriousness it sounds like you've had a ridiculous amount thrown at you... how's baba? ?

Ican't My goodness, we might all have lost you! I'm near speechless at the horror of it. I feel really angry about how this whole thing has been handled. Things could have been made easier, you should have been taken far more seriously earlier on, there should have been more help offered at home. As others say, is your OH off for the duration now as unavoidable in the circumstances?
Reebok I am so sorry you stlll feel so bad. That virus does linger; I think you will feel a lot better when that goes. Rest as much as you can.
spandau Congratulations on a girl. You and Reebok are both due an improvement. Hypereemesis hangs about like an unwanted guest sometime, but almost everyone does feel a marked improvement at some point in the second tri. Even kalidasa did.
amysmummy Thinking of you.
Waves to MotherofPearl Charlie Iam shoop squeezed
BarmeeMarmee TwoDrifters&eallison OnceaMeer and everyone.
Apologies if I've overlooked anyone rudely.

Icant That sounds dreadful - and really scary. Hope you are ok at the moment, and able to enjoy the respite from the vomiting.

Reebok sorry you are still suffering. I hope you are able to relax a bit over the weekend.

Spandau A girl! How lovely. We find out in 2 weeks and I am very excited, although I don't mind at all what we get.

Hello to everyone else. Hope you are all having a peaceful day. I am a bit up and down but generally improving I think. Able to eat a good breakfast each day now which means that I have stopped just dropping the weight like I was before.

Wondering about tapering off the drugs - I am on ondansetron and stemetil and want to come off both really, but don't want to do it too quickly and land myself back in hospital!

Madrigal perhaps with the ondansetron you could extend the gaps between doses, knowing that it takes effect roughly fifteen mins after taking it. Or cut your dose at the best time if day for you, knowing you can take it if you need to.

The improvement is the meds no.doubt I wouldn't rush to come off them... gutted they didn't work fore at all ..

Still feel sick .... little one sleeping dreadfully and that's making it worse I'm 100% positive .

When you say ppl.feel improvement Lucinda do you mean just that cos I got horrible feeling mine isn't gonna go completely this time :(

Just decorated the bathroom ... ffs then had to clean up... feel so fed up at 18 weeks I'm. Still unable to eat normally.. I'm so tired and thirsty most of the day and night...
Roll on may

spandau even if it doesn't go completely, you're almost certain to feel improvements. Mine didn't go completely but I definitely had improvements. Still had bad days, but even the bad days were nothing compared to the first 20 weeks or so. Hang on in there, you are doing so well. Sorry your daughter isn't sleeping well, i can imagine that really helping.

Can't imagine. Woops!

Icant I don't even know what to say. I'm so glad you got to the hospital when you did! You have really been through such an awful time. Just catching up on the thread I've been in tears for you! You are an amazing woman! Here's hoping for some improvement for you soon. Pls do not let the hospital discharge you until you're 100% better!

Spandau congrats on the girl! Lovely news. I'm finding out on 16th dec. Not sure what it is. Already have a girl and sickness was nowhere near as bad by 16 weeks. Don't really care what it is as long as it's healthy...just want April to hurry up and get here!

Had a nap while dd napped. Not sleeping at nights thanks to being sick/peeing/sciatic pain/dd crying. Today I don't feel as awful. It seems as long as I stay home and do nothing I don't feel as bad. Still struggling with the fluids. Can't seem to drink much of anything these days which is probably making me feel worse.

I v gone off all drinks and it's a king my tummy cramp as they say keep hydrated to avoid them... duh well if I drink I vomit tried alsorts
Milk stays down and tea sometimes
But they aren't great are they for hydration

Forget tablets of any kind for iron or vitamins...

Hoping for vast improvement by 20 weeks eallison :/

Had two social things on today and had to cancel both to feeling so sick and tired... pfft

again in haste - icant so very, very pleased you got seen when you did. You have been very lucky - though my god, you should have had far better treatment in the first place then this appalling lottery of incompetence.

spandau even tea or milk is something, drink all you can. Ice chips? or frozen milk cubes or something similar?

reebok rest, rest, rest really is one of the few helpful things for HG. are you checking your ketones with ketostix? bit worried about the lack of drink

sorry for not catching up properly, several visitors atm. Wishing everyone as peaceful a night as possible

Completely agree about rest meerka. Yes I check ketones constantly. + at moment but it's always like that or ++ these days. Not much I can do about it until I start to be able to keep more fluids in me. I feel silly complaining as I'm not at my worst anymore like I was in those awful days when I wanted an abortion. And I know poor icant is going through a dreadful time of it. Just feel like this thread is the only place I can come to where someone else understands how I feel. If one more person says to me it's just morning sickness one more time I will scream. On a positive note oh felt bubba kick todayً. It seems to move like crazy whenever dd talks. My little parasite is growing.

reebok please please please don't think like that; I was poorly before HG just unlucky with this pregnancy. What your all going through is terrible!
I feel wary posting about myself sometimws as it does sound bad and I don't want anyone else to feel they can't say how they feel?
And in a way I'm lucky as your all struggling and I'm getting IV antisickness so I envy the wonderful job you all do of being so poorly and soldering on

reebok absolutely this is the place to moan. everyone does because it's the worst most people have ever felt. Just because you don't feel like absolute hell like in the first weeks doesn't mean that you suddenly bright and breezy

Icna't Oh dear, I'm going to say again a huge WHEW about your (and baby's) narrow escape. I'm afraid you have the grim award of suffering the most of anyone I have ever known on this thread. You are very brave, that's all I can say. Do you feel slightly better? What are the arrangements at home?
spandau as eallison says in her excellent cheering post, almost everyone gets markedly better. Unfortunately, none of us, even the ones who have it much less severely and for a shorter time, feel exactly 'normally healthy', I think. Residual heartburn sometimes leading to vomiting and so on, do tend to linger, and food aversions etc. But it's so much better than it was generally.
Reebok Moan all you like;as OnceaMeer and others say, that is what this thread is for. You haven't exactly had it easy (to put it mildly) and it's disappointing that it seems to be hanging about longer this time. Whether this is due to your having an extra workload with a lO or the virus, or whatever, it is hard to bear. I hope OH is grateful that you were forcing yourself into work until set back by the virus.
amysmummy Thinking of you.
Excellent advice from OnceaMeer and Eallison as ever.
I hope everyone is coping today. Back soon.

Another 3 hr session with dd last night.. trying to get her to sleep.back in her own bed... after weeks in with me as iv been to ill to stop it really ... has made rod for my.own back :(

Stomach ache this morning :( sometimes it's constipation sometimes the opposite .. probably the rantidine ... to worried about omeprazole as never took that in preg b4 .. but may have to if acid carries on.. so unfair having to keep making choices over meds and my own health n that of the baby where some ppl breeze through ... starting to feel very lonely again... not well enough to do much.. Tired and feel ppl don't get it... shouldn't I be blooming ?! Yes I'm blooming awful thanks for that.

spandau Don't worry about taking whatever meds the doctors prescribe, they won't prescribe anything that does harm to the baby; not these days; they're super careful. Really sorry to hear about awful sessions with DD. It's very hard if they want to be with you and if you feel awful, it's so hard to deal with lO's 'kindly but firmly'. I've got my fingers crossed for you turning a corner soon.