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.

primary stop taking the metoclopramide until you've spoken to the doctor or pharmacist.

Most people are okay on it and it's safe for the baby, but occasionally the restlessness in the mother can be permanent.

Good alternatives are prochlorperazine (avomine, buccastem) or promethazine or if you can get it ondansetron

mop I do hope last night was a better night insomnia wise.

special it's so difficult hating being pregnant, isn't it. We all expect our pregnancy glow... I probably shone a bit at times when I hadn't showered for a while ands had greasy hair and skin. It feels veru unfair that we have to have such awful pregnancies rather than being able to look lovingly forward to meeting our babies. I actually thing it takes a lot if courage to say it out loud, so well done!

iam I was on much stronger meds fir the duration, I'd stopping makes you ill don't stop. If when you try to cut down you feel fine then hurrah, go for it. If you don't, keep on taking the meds; you and baby clearly need them.

squeezed I'm glad you're aware of the need for mental health support; it strikes me that this us seriously lacking fit women fighting HG.

primary as onceameer says, stop taking the meto immediately and get to your gp. There are other meds and is not worth the risk. Let us know how you get on.

primary how are you getting on?
I completely forgot to take my promethazine until it was too late last night. Now I'm really sick at home with dd who is being my doctor. Can't wait for tonight so I can sleep it off. And there was me thinking about starting to reduce the meds.

Oh that sounds awful squeezed. I find that I get horribly sick every time I try to reduce the meds, so I am starting to think I will be on them for the duration. (I am 24+3 now.) Hope you feel better soon!

Sorry I haven't been on as much lately. I've been feeling pretty depressed, partly as a result of the HG not disappearing as I had been hoping it would, and feeling a bit socially isolated as a result. Also finding work a real strain even though I am only back pt at the moment. Feel like I simultaneously can't wait for the baby to arrive, and also dreading it a bit because I don't know what to expect and worry that I won't be a good Mum! This whole pregnancy has just been so much harder than I thought it would be and I think it is taking its toll emotionally.

Hope everyone else is coping - was very relieved the other day to see that reebok doesn't have long left at work now, and have been thinking of all of you.

Iam and squeezedand Madrigal it's a shame you can't reduce the meds without suffering badly, but you've tried and at least they're safe. It's frustrating.
Ruby much commiserations about baby's delayed entrance. The fanfare music and the flashing lights that accompany a boxer's entrance into the ring might just do the job...
Reebok and MotherofPearl Roll on that maternity leave.
Peonie It might be worth mentioning the restless legs to the doctor just in case? It might be irrelevant, but always best to make sure.
Sterling advice from OnceaMeer and eallison was ever.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked. Back soon.

Sorry, that message was for Primaryteach not Peonie!

madrigal glad you're back. Try not to worry about needing meds throughout. If you had a broken leg, no one would suggest you take the cast off towards the end of the healing time. I understand the worry about not being a good mum; I was exactly the same. Really worried about whether I'd be able to love and look after this baby who was making me so ill. I don't know if I am a good mum, but he's growing and doesn't cry all the time, so I must be doing something right! Stick around, talking to the women here really helped my isolation.

madrigal just incase it helps can totally relate to feeling fed up and down. After not being able to keep any food down for last 5 weeks I've had enough too!

eallison I'm sure you are a fantastic mum. We can only do our best and even my grumpy baby has turned into a happy toddler!

squeezed I'm also having to be looked after by a small child although he doesn't understand being kind and just wants to jump around on me most of the time. Thank goodness for cbeebies!

Hi all.

I feel so sick. I want to cry. Afraid to move in case it makes it worse.

As you were.

AW special :(

And for everyone else too.
Sorry non personal replies today having a bad lupus flare.

Ickle I think that doctors should prescribe cbeebies alongside antiemetics.

Ican't deserves a special medal,and so do Ickle Reebok Mother of Pearl spandau everyone who battles through Hyperemesis looking after LO's,. Toddlers are sweet little monsters when you're ill. Special That's so horrible. Things will get better.

Sorry to see lots of people are having a bad time: Squeezed, Ickle, Madrigal, Icant and Special. I really do relate to what Madrigal and Ickle say about the depression. HG really sucks all joy and pleasure from life, even when you're not actually being sick. I've tried to explain this to my DP but not sure that people who've not experienced it really understand, even if they're sympathetic. I've said: 'try to imagine feeling really nauseous all day, every moment you're awake, for one whole day, with at least one vomit. Then imagine if it carried on beyond a day, for a whole week. And then try to imagine it lasting for months on end!' Still doesn't really get it.
I'm in my hotel room chomping down a few Rennies before sleep. Been a long, nauseous day but luckily no voms. Looking forward to getting home tomorrow to see the DC.

It's so fucking bad, I've taken my ondansetron doses a bit closer than usual and I'm sat with my sea bands, eating gin-gins. They are the most awful thing on the planet. I have some leftover cyclizine so might take one before bed. It's been a bad day.

Special I feel u I hear u and it will get a bit better I promise ...
Can't promise full relief but u won't feel this bad the entire time ok??
Another day /hour/minute down...

Cross the days off on a calendar. .. buy a fetal doppler to remind u why ur doing this.. / try find a book u can read even if u can only manage small.chunks of it ...

Courageous hugs to all...

My days been spent in hospital as baby was measuring small and my iron is ridiculous low and I'm so constipated I swear my bump is more poop than baby!!!!!!!

Sob sob

Woo.is me xx

Thanks everyone, although I wouldn't wish this on anyone, it is good to know I'm not alone in feeling like this.

Hope today is a better day special!

Roll on 4pm!! Half term begins!! CAN NOT WAIT!!!! I need some rest. Well I definitely have pgp...will need physio. Sucks on top of everything else but at least only 10 working days to battle through with my daily vom after half term. Nursery is paid up for dd for March so I will get rest 5 days a week as she's full time...much needed rest!

Spandau sorry to hear you're in hospital. I swear we could be twins though...dd2 is also measuring small and I have low iron which is really affecting my ability to stand these days. Feel like I'm going to faint a lot lately.

Sorry there are so many of you suffering so badly. I agree with spandau though...while it may not go away completely, it will improve a little. I'm 29 weeks now and although I'm still heavily reliant on ondansetron and being sick daily, it's nowhere near as bad as it was in those earlier days. I do feel this time I won't be able to come off the drugs until baby arrives but hey ho....hg has become a part of life now!

Here's hoping you all have a slightly restful Friday. Much love to you all...remember you are amazing for what you are doing and every day is another day closer to meeting your LO.

Ps ruby keeping fx for you!

spandau Poor you, in hospital, how dismal. I hope all goes well. I have heard that these scares are often a false alarm due to scanning errors?
Madrigal and Special and squeezed BarmeeMarmee and Reebok and all in the thick of it, and Ruby if she is still waiting for the torment to end. Gentle cyber pats always on offer. I am glad that Reebok has got half term. Ican't Has the acupuunture helped at all?
Primary How is the restless legs symptom? Could they give you any reassurance about it?
Peony and other new people, how are things?
Everyone?

MoherofPearlRemind me of your location? I so hope the change helps.
Ickle You are sensible to stay on it.
Iam You've had such good advice from others, I can't improve on it. It does frustrate a lot of sufferers when they have to stay on meds, and even medics can be judgemental about it at times.

special we will get through this together. I'm still sick at least 10 times a day and feeling very miserable. I had a scan today arranged by gp for reassurance and all fine. Weirdly I actually feel more able to cope with hg now I know baby is fine.

reebok hope the next few hours fly by. I have to say have no idea how I will go back to work until this is settled. Having dd in nursery is a very good plan. I'm trying to persuade dh that ds should stay at childminders or go to preschool at least a couple of days a week when I'm on maternity leave but it all comes down to money really!

spandau counting down the days is a long way away but after 20 weeks probably will try and do it!

The depression that comes with HG is awful. I have had it since end of Dec till now and am about 12 weeks pregnant. My third pregnancy, had HG for 5 and 4 months with the others. How did I forget about this aspect of pregnancy? One good thing is my local hospital have been amazing. Open door for me to go in and get fluids whenever I need them. The meds haven't touched HG and I ended up throwing them up anyway even when takin combinations of anti-emetics. I'm on countdown to 4 months and praying this ordeal will be over soon.

mrsindigo Welcome, you are a veteran, so don't need my usual question about kesostix and ketones or, I am sure, advice on useful things to drink.
You are brave to go for it a third time. Sorry no meds have worked; I hope you get relief during the second tri. You are so right about the depression, which of course, is partly caused by the sheer isolation for sufferers.
icklekid I hope that's ten heaves, not ten separate vomiting sessions? Otherwise, I don't see how you could keep down sufficient fluids.

Hope you are able to get your feet up asap Reebok. Enjoy the rest!

Sorry you're still being sick 10 times a day ickle - how horrific. Are you on Ondansetron?

Hoping your HG clears up at the 4 month mark msindigo - not too long off for you now!

I had a slightly more positive day today - actually managed to shower and wash my hair without retching all the way through it. I think that's the first time in about 4-5 months!