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.

I have also lived on barely any food the last week or so! Not sure I would advise it but what I have eaten has been simple (dry roasted peanuts worked for a few days) toast and plain rice.

Welcome back to PippaPigStinks. I remember your last pregnancy.
Congratulations on going for it a third time 'getting carried away' sounds sweet! At the risk of sounding bossy, what you need is pre-emptive meds asap, as you know better than me, as you're a twice vetaran.
TwoDrifters How are you doing?
Reebok I am so sorry you feel bad still. Were you instructed to cut down on Ondansetron, as that must be making the nausea worse? Lots of women are on it to the end. Much sympathy; I'll be happy for you when your ML starts; and amysmummy's and others...
shoop Livonia, I like it! She was stuck with the Emporer Augustus, wasn't she? A real matriarch, in so far as you could be in Roman times, so I'd lke it as a name...
Back soon. Apologies if I've overlooked anyone.

reebok don't feel like you need to cut down unless you're ready, and it sounds like you're not ready. I was on ondansetron to the end of my pregnancy, though by the end of my pregnancy I was on roughly 1 (4mg) a day, (down from 8mg 3 x a day at my worst).

Reebok to echo what others have already said, I'm still on 2x ondansetron and 3x cyclizine a day, most days. Don't cut down unless you have to or are ready!

Peppa, welcome. I'm sure I remember you from before? Our stories sound pretty similar. I have a 7 year old DD and wasn't too bad in that pregnancy. My second pregnancy was horrendous with vomiting right up until delivery, despite cyclizine. DS just turned 4. Agonised about whether I could go through it again, but like you feel that the end reward - a gorgeous new baby - is too hard to resist! Now 23+5 with baby 3. Was very sick weeks 6-14, but found Ondanestron a godsend in getting the sickness under much better control this time. Good for you resting and ignoring housework! Keep us posted on how you get on.
Hope everyone else is OK today. Icant, have they allowed you home yet?

Hello. Mother of pearl - I popped my head in a few weeks back as was feeling a bit iffy. Then seemed OK. I was on here with reebok last time (waves)!

I've actually just managed to eat something and have a big drink ! But feeling ok makes me paranoid as its early days! I wonder if it's a boy thing (although everything I read says you are more prone if it's a girl).

I'm currently sat in my local veggie cafe having a salad! 48hrs ago I was an absolute state and really could not imagine feeling well enough to tolerate this! It's also the most amount of leafy greens I've eaten since before Christmas! I'm going to write such gushing thank you cards to the gp and hospital staff!

special that's great to hear. Don't want yo seem a negative ninny, but please take things gently - don't try to rush back to normal and up relapsing. Also, be aware that dehydration can creep back in slowly
Even on good meds, so be careful. But I do hope things continue the way they are!!

No news from TwoDrifters, then?
Great advice from eallison BarmeeMarmee MotherofPearl and others.
SpecialStains Sounds good! Take it gently, as others say.
Reebok How are? Everyone?
Pippa I hope you can get meds; ah, I see you had one normal pregnancy,and then Hyperemesis last time. But you are still brave, going for it.
Ican't How are things?
shoop Have you had any luck in contacting the midwife about depression?
spandau I do hope, feeling not too bad; I seem to remember you said you had to go off anti-depressents, too?

Don't worry, I'm taking it easy! I slept in till midday and watched some modern family in bed. I live in a city centre so it was only a 5minute walk to the cafe. It seemed easier to go out than to open my fridge door and deal with food myself! I sat in a corner on my own, and managed a drink alongside my food. I feel happier for having done something normal and getting out the house to somewhere that isn't my gp practice. The ondansetron isn't perfect, I have had waves of nausea today, but no actual sickness which is great. Even if this just lasts a few days, I'm grateful.

I bet two is cradling her baby, far too busy 😁 xxx

so pleased for you special :)
I'd say welcome peppa but as you've been here before I'll just say hi and sorry you've had to come back.
Lucinda & Mop I'm ok thanks for asking, just got back home, hoping for a good day tomorrow (DS turns 3).
waves to everyone

special I understand that completely, I ate at cafes quote a lot when I started eating again cos I knew it'd be easy, no making it or tidying up.

just read the prev page - Peppa im constantly cold been told its malnutrition.
Also regarding B6 ive recently been started on it 3x a day as well as thiamine but been on that for a while.
Interestingly ive pernicious anemia which is b12 defeciancy which is normally treated with jabs but GP wont do it during pregnancy?
hope bubs has arrived twodrifters :)

Definitely a bad week and can't keep anything down during the day. Even sat in a meeting with an ice pop today. At least I can keep some fluids and food down in the evening or I'd be struggling. Also got SPD and have been referred for physio. Feeling grumpy

Argh squeezed I have had spd too. It's awful but I found sleeping with a pillow in between my legs really helped!

Interesting what you say about being cold and malnutrition- all I've eaten for weeks is bread. I can't remember when anything nutritious passed my lips. But it's working as I've yet to be sick - just suffer with nausea ALL DAY WITH NO LET UP!

Hi all...so glad it's the weekend. Already in bed. Felt like I had to cut down on the ondansetron because the constipation is getting too much again...back to having to use enemas in order to go and it's just so painful especially now bump is getting bigger. 15 more weeks...I'm
25 weeks today! Feeling a bit stressed...school is likely to have an ofsted visit soon so I'm freaked out!

Congrats Peppa...so sorry you're suffering yet again. What meds are you on?

So sorry I've become rubbish at replying to individual posts. I have absolutely no energy! 3 weeks and 4 working days left for this half of term and 4 weeks and 3 working days for the other half of term before I finish work for good. Can't wait!

Hope everyone is having a slightly better day...mop, Icant, Spandau, madrigal, special, squeezed, Barmee, shoop, bugista and everyone else...thinking of you all.

Waves to Lucinda, meerka, ealli.
Fx we hear good news from two soon!

Thanks MoP and Lucinda, I'm 30 weeks on Monday so three quarters of the way there! Still haven't been able to get hold of midwife - her phone doesn't connect so don't know if she's changed her number. I haven't had my 28 week appt (or any check ups except when been admitted to hospital) so left a message on the community midwives answerphone I suppose I'll try again on Monday if I still haven't heard back.

Well with those new tablets I've had a couple of really good days. I actually walked into town, looked after my DD and are real food. But I think I've overdone it, tonight I feel so sick, im fighting with the sick bowl, I was so sure it was suddenly all ok! I even went into work and said I would be in again on Monday!! So so frustrating, so fed up of this. Has anyone had experienced with relapse?

Peppa I've been calling you PippaPig silly me, shows I don't have a DD who's a kid any more! I remember shivering all the time in the first rri.
SpecialStains and eallision sounds a good idea, to give yourself a treat like that. Did I warn you to get in some stuff in for the constipation that often goes with Ondansetron, such as the suppository things for sale in Boots (have to send someone else, I'm guessing, as while they use them in maternity wards they probably won't sell them to a pregnant woman).
RachelJayne Sadly, it looks as if you've overdone it by daring to try and lead a halfway normal life, and that can cause a relapse. If you rest as much as you can, hopefully it will ease. Not easy with a DD, though. I think you'll need your real life support to the rescue.
squeezed I was wondering how you are doing. Sorry to hear of a bad week.
Reebok Poor you,and a OSTED check. I don't think you should be included in that, not fair at the moment. It's dismal if the tied up bowels are so bad you have to rely on enemas or cut down on Ondansetron- I remember Kalidasa had that too.
shoop It's bad you have to wait.
Apologies if I've rudely ignored anyone.

Quick question

Trimethropreme for uti

Had slight wbc on dip test yest. My sample won't go til.Monday :/

Anyone taken this ?? In pregnancy

24 plus 2

Don't wanna take anything

I've already had two courses of nitrofurantoin for utis. Utis can be dangerous in pregnancy and can cause miscarriage in early pregnancy and cause early labour later on (only had this explained to me this week). Thats why drs become so obsessed with your urine when you're pregnant.
Millions of women take abs for utis in pregnancy and if its been prescribed by a doctor it should be safe to take. I would love to be a healthy eating non-medicine taking earth mother throughout this pregnancy, but sadly I'm rattling like a pharmacy. There are however also lots of women who don't have access to healthcare and also manage to deliver healthy babies.
It is entirely your choice to take or not take medication, you can (and should) ask your gp about risks/benefits. If its just trace of wbc with no raised protein etc, maybe have sample sent off to microbiology and make a decision on the results (takes 48hrs to read a negative plate).

Dh says no to trimethroprim (sp?) in prehnancy as its a folate antagonist. Its is sometimes prescribed, but not normaly as a firstline.
Ooh gp for prescription abs only please!

Having the day from hell. DD has hand foot and mouth thanks to nursery! Doc said no risk of miscarriage if I get it but that's not what I've read online! Seems to be one thing after another. She's been glued to me in tears all day and I'm on my own. She's currently laying on me sleeping and I can't move or get comfortable.

Spandau Oh dear, wish I could advise. Sympathy is all I can offer.
Reebok That sounds awful, poor you. I find it hard to believe the surgery would give you that advice if there was a risk, because of legal consequences; but it sounds miserable for you. Also much symapthy.