chatty phenergen is a stronger anti-histamine that should be working on the hormones that make HG worse (the precise workings are not yet fully understood).
I wonder if it's not that you are acclimatizing, but that the HG may be getting worse. People respond very individually to the meds and HG varies from day to day, sometimes wildly. it might well be worth asking your doc if you can try prochlorperazine (stemetil, avomine) which works on the inner ear, that helps some people. Or maybe metoclopramide, though that can occasionally have unpleasant side effects on you (perfectly safe for the baby as far as is known).
The best is ondansetron but it's also the strongest and most expensive, and it bungs you up something horrid, so it tends to be given out last of all.
I think the best thing is to see if you can see the doctor on tuesday (to give the phenergen another day) and if it's still really bad, ask if you can try another med.
amys very glad to hear that you've broken up. You don't start a new contract in the new year do you? Some rest sounds appropriate ...
reebok glad to hear that you made it to the party, your daughter must have been so delighted. Do take it easy though now, please? If you can, maybe cut the xmas stuff down to the absolute bare minimum; there's always next year.
mmminx the improvement does often come slowly, good days and bad days. But the good days come to outnumber the bad ones usually =) and then as ealli said, some people find that once the HG goes it goes for good. Others arent quite a lucky, but it's never as bad again as the first months.
icant wishing you the very best for tomorrow. Please let us know how you are ...
HI bergamotmouse (what a lovely name!)
As far as I'm aware, and I'm not a pharmacist, after a few days for initial adjustment the meds should keep on having the same effect. If you start getting worse or better maybe the HG is getting worse / better.
Having said that, everyone is individual and responds individually to the meds (specially with HG) so it's more of a 'should not change effectiveness' rather than 'guarenteed never to'.
Also the bad news is that until the HG lifts on its own you might not feel entirely normal, even if you were on a cocktail of meds. But they can usually help you enough to function.
Personally I think it's impossible to say how long the HG will last but getting meds early on during it will probably help. They seem to soften the worst of it. Also, rest rest rest rest as much as you can! (really; that's the other thing that helps a lot).
About Christmas - yes, it might not be quite as enjoyable as other christmasses. Hopefully it will, but HG is a bugger. BUT - next year you'll be back to normal and with an extra tinybergamot mouse to enjoy it with you =)
squeezed very glad to hear that you're experiencing some better days. The psych thing is weird isn't it? Where I live they do not prescribe meds, but sent me to a psychologist instead. Bloody crazy. I didn't need a head-doctor, I needed some effective meds to make me stop vomitting endlessly. I knew more about HG than the professionals tho, by then :/
iamdiv glad to hear the days have crawled by to 14 weeks ... it could be a while longer but you can realistically hope that some improvement will kick in soon. Hopefully on Christmas day, if the HG has any mercy at all!
two, fingers crossed for tomorrow. Perhaps the baby is getting used to bouncing around ...