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#!scenario

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.

[1moretime]

Thank you all for your replys.
I'm gonna have to go. I didn't keep a single thing down yesterday & it's as tho the sickness won't stop until my stomach is completely empty!
My DS is 6 he was rubbin my back last night while I was throwing up bless him.
I didn't get anything for it last time but really can't go through that again.
xx

[eallison88]

Good luck today reebok the end is finally here!

We're rocking about 3 hours of broken sleep over at ealli headquarters. Babyealli doesn't think sleep is for us at the moment!

[amysmummy12345]

Wooooop! reebok Mexican wave!!!! We should have some sort of celebration.... Ginger nut anyone 😋?!

[LucindaE]

1moretime Welcome, you poor thing to have suffered so long with no meds last time. Did you say they gave you the Sickness is Normal Talk? Not this level of sickness! It can be bad for you and the baby if you get too severely dehydrated and it goes untreated and you end up with ketones.As MotherofPearl and others say, please di go to the dr's and get meds and also, invest in some keostix. It sounds bad enough for you to be dehydrated already.
CupCakes Welcome back. I am so glad it is a little better.
Colabottle Sorry for relapse. Good days are so often a sign of the turnaround to come, though, so don't despair.
Reebok HOORAY for your last day. for battliing on as you did, you trooper! How awful to have had to do it on one or two hours' sleep.
Much sympathy to all with spd and no sleep...
iclkkekid and cupcakes Lol about plonks and planks! I'm sure nobody with this feels up to doing a plank,but the time will come!
sqeezed That sounds awful about the managing crutches and the keycard thing. I wonder you could make it in time at all.
MotherofPearl Those arriving back home puking sessions sound awful, but you are to be congratulated on being able to hold on that long.
eallison Poor you. Is it teething? Great advice from you, MotherofPearland everyone.
amysmummy Glad improvement goes ahead in fits and starts. I say ad nauseum, if you'll forgive the expression, that I don't know how people manage with LO's or teaching with this, and as for teaching ANd LO's...
Madrigal I hope things are gradually improving for you?
spandau and Ican't How are things?
Apologies if I've rudely overlooked anyone/cross posted with them.

[spandau1980]

Hi all
Well.don't to reebok for completing work I can't even get out the dam house

Very fed up.

Hello.to newbies and commiserations /congratulations :p

[Reebok]

I am officially no longer a teacher!!!!! And it feels great but strange at the same time. Not quite sure what I'm going to do with myself next week! Was spoilt rotten with lovely gifts for baby, me, flowers, chocolates, gift vouchers which will come in handy. The children were in tears and kept cuddling me today. Looking forward to Monday...having a lay in...napping in the day...wearing my pjs all day and having the safety of my own bathroom when I'm sick. Here's hoping by not doing anything the sickness stops.

How is everyone getting on? Hope you've all managed a slightly better day. On my last commute home so will catch up with posts when I get a chance. X

[squeezed]

reebok You made it well done. I do hope the rest helps.
spandau I'm the same as you today, I'm still in bed. Hoping you have a better day tomorrow.

[MotherofPearl]

Big congratulations on getting to this day Reebok! Glad to hear they gave you a jolly send off. Lie ins and days spent in pjs sounds heavenly! I'm jealous. My last day of work is 8 April, which is still a month away, but luckily most of this time will be working at home. Only have to actually go in 6 more times, and counting!
Hope everyone has as relaxing a weekend as possible. It's my DD's 8th birthday () today, so we're all going out for an early dinner in a moment. Because I've been calmly at home all day I've avoided my late afternoon acid vom - happy days!

[1moretime]

Another awful day!!
Sick loads again. Just got I'm from work & rang EPU to ask their advice. I'm on thyroxine & my consultant rang me yesterday to increase my dose up to 200mcg. I'm worried my thyroxine isn't absorbing into my systen. EPU can't prescribe anything but said I can ring out of hours doctors and see if I can be checked over & they may btable to prescribe some anti sickness tablets. I'm freezing cold & just feel total shite. I'm knackerd so don't know whether to just wait until morning & ring them & see if I can go. Xx

[1moretime]

....and yes LucindaE doc last time basically said women do get morning sickness when pregnant it is just normal...so I just got on with it as I was made to feel stupid xx

[icklekid]

1more please make sure you see another gp this time and if need be use guidelines (link in first post) to back you up! You do not need to cope and actually is dangerous to when severely dehydrated.

reebok regardless of if you are working or not I'm afraid you may always be a teacher!!!

motherofpearl enjoy birthday meal am rather jealous!

Spent all afternoon being sick so cbeebies babysitter was required! At least it's the weekend so dh can take over childcare duties!

[amysmummy12345]

1more your GP sounds like a knob of the highest order some just don't get it!!
reebok congrats!! I think you're so brave stepping away from teaching but I'm so envious at the same time!!! Enjoy the relaxation/non planning/non marking/non assessing...

[SpecialStains]

Hi all.

Congratulations on your last day at work, Reebok! I hope some time off before baby arrives will help you feel better.

icant how are you feeling?

MoP glad to hear you've had a good day, and happy birthday to mini MoP!

squeezed and Spandau, sorry you're not having good days.

1more I had a nurse practitioner tell me my constant vomiting was normal. It's not. I'd lost 3kg in two weeks and ended up in hospital the week after for dehydration. Sorry you're struggling to get treatment. I was fortunate to have a gp dh who is very supportive of anti-emetics for pregnant women, but some older hcps were trained differently with regards to medicine. At the bare minimum you should expect your gp to start you on promethazine or cyclizine. Monitoring ketones is also important. If they go above 2 you need to be considering a hospital trip. The feeling that you should just get on with it is crap. Someone on here previously posted that pregnancy may not be an illness, but if anyone else was vomiting, dehydrated and unable to eat they certainly wouldn't be going to work or continuing as normal!

I only needed to be at Uni until 2 today, but really feeling this last week. Dh was nice enough to drop me off and pick me up from uni which saved me from having to deal with smelly bus people. I was feeling so sick on the journey home yesterday, but I don't look pregnant and was too shy to ask for a seat. I think I've overdone it a bit.

I'm still not vomiting, just retching but feel very nauseous and have the foamy saliva feeling. Dh is going to make me a runny boiled egg (controversial, I know, but I currently have so few pleasures in life!) So I hope that will help.

I'm really starting to worry about my weight and ketones. I'm constantly running at 1/2 ketones and I weigh less than at my booking in appointment. Any advice on this?

I have got a little bump appearing now, which I actually love. Looking forward to feeling baby's first kick. When did other people first feel that?

Sorry for the long post. I have spent the week surrounded by scientists and academics, and I've been trying to avoid mentioning my nausea or gestating. I'm also not close to many people in real life that are having babies, so this is my main outlet for all my baby thoughts!

Waves to everyone else.

[eallison88]

special I had a fair few runny yolks when pregnant, baby fine! The risk is salmonella and like no eggs have salmonella these days. If it's something you can eat and enjoy eating, go for it! Eggs are full of good stuff. Oh and talk about baby stuff here, it's important for us to have opportunities to talk about 'normal' baby stuff as well as the horrid vomity ness!

Wishing all a peaceful night.

1more please see a different gp this time. This is not normal, you don't have to suffer on without medical help. If you had a broken leg you wouldn't be expected to get on with life without a cast or crutches!!!

reebok well done you . Enjoy the time off. Hopefully the rest will ease the horrid nausea and vomiting - fingers crossed!

lucinda not teething. Not sure what it is. We're just coming out of the 4 month sleep regression, and have a pattern at the moment of 2/3 days with 2 or 3 wakings, then have a really good night with a 6/7 hour stretch of sleep, immediately followed by a night of no sleep! So hopeful tonight will be slightly better... I almost don't want the really good night's if they have to be followed by a really bad one!!!

MoP your mat leave will be here before you know it. Glad you've only got to drab yourself in a few times.

[curlywurly4]

1moretime sorry you're struggling to get taken seriously. The out of hours have prescribed cyclizine for me before and faced the prescription to my local pharmacy. It's worth giving them a call.

Reebok well done with making it to the end! My success disappeared within a month after stopping word last time, really hope that happens for you.

MoP hope you have a nice dinner with your DD.

Spandau, icklekid & squeezed sorry youve had rough days. It's bloody boring feeling ill all the time. Yay for the weekend help.

Icant hope you are doing ok.

Special I've also had ketones for 4 weeks,then discovered fruit pastilles, which I know are crap but it's all I can manage in the afternoon/evenings and my ketones have gone. Not sure about the weight loss, I'm also a couple of kgs under. I mentioned it to the obstetrician this week who wasnt concerned. You can only eat what you can cope with.

I'm with you on the retching and nausea. I'm finding being outside in public really difficult as I'm retching a lot, and find it really embarrassing. Are people

[curlywurly4]

Opp...posted too soon. Are people trying to not retch, retch in corners? I retched about 20 times in the two hours I was out today and it's really undignified

[mrsmonkey14]

Evening all, and happy Friday (too optimistic??!). I missed all the updates and can't manage personal messages as I can't remember who has said what, sorry!!
Welcome to newbies, deffo get to GP. From all our stories it seems that (anecdotally at least) willingness to prescribe for sickness varies massively. I have fortunately always been offered drugs by doctors, although in hindsight I can see I was failed by midwife in my last pregnancy as she didn't care about my sickness so I didn't realise how bad it was.
Whoever was eating a runny egg, I'm sure I read recently that they're changing the advice on that anyway as lion stamped eggs are salmonella free, so enjoy! I would join you but thought of eggs brings on retching. Unless it's Cadburys mini eggs. They go down ok! (Anyone else find chocolate one of the least worst things to throw up?!)
The time seems to be limping on until anomaly scan next week... Desperate to see baby and know that she's ok. Bump seems massive despite weight loss.
I've tried cutting down on Ondansetron this week but it's not gone well. Horrible cold has gone finally so I feel more human as easier to sleep. Can't see work being possible on Monday but will see how weekend goes.
Gentle hugs to all

[squeezed]

I've made Dh cross again. He's really unhappy about me working and then being ill at the weekend. Spent the whole of yesterday in bed barely moving with spd and being repeatedly being sick.
I know there will be no problem in getting signed off but I'm worried about how it will affect my mental health. Feeling like a grump today

[SleepymrsE]

Morning everyone, sorry went a bit awol. Had a rough few days which culminated in a hospital admittance for hydration. According to DH I had more colour in my cheeks after just one bag of fluids than I have had in three weeks. So now on a combination of odansetron and prochlorperazine. Plus if I get bad again I can go straight back to hospital for more fluids (although the trauma of getting a cannula in me puts me off - they had to get an anesthetist to do it due to dehydration making my already thin veins even worse).

1moretime your doctor sounds useless. Mine has been pretty good but having spoken to the nurses at the hospital they say most GPs are hesitant and it's silly because they could manage most cases quite well instead of letting ladies get so dehydrated they end up in hospital.

Sounds like others have been really struggling too which is rubbish.

Congrats on your last day at work reebok - it must be a lovely feeling knowing you've no more work stress.

Thinking about icant and hoping all is ok.

[eallison88]

squeezedI totally understand your concerns re work/mental health/physical health balance. Might a compromise be to get an 'amended sick note' that specifies reduced hours/duties -can even specify which hours. That way you're still able to rest, but you're mentally active? I did that for a number of weeks.

sleepy sorry you ended up admitted but glad they've changed meds and left you with an open door policy. I had a difficult time with a cannula first time as was so dehydrated. However, if you're not as dehydrated next time it won't be so bad (tho hopefully there won't be a next time!)

[1moretime]

Hope you are all well.
I rang the out of hours doctors this morning. The lady i spoke to said it sounded awful what i was going through. I explained that i am on thyroxine for undsractove thyroid and have had to increase my dose. I explainwd i am worried that thw medication isnt absorbing with me being so sick. She said straight away i was at risk of dehydrating & should be prescribed a anti sickness drug.

A doctor called me back after 40 mins I went through everything again. He said that with Me being on medication that I should be able to get anti sickness drugs to help but he said I'm best waiting to see how I go over the weekend & speak to my own GP if no improvements.
I'm fed up & just cried when I got off the phone. I was sick 7 times yesterday & been sick 3 times today so far!

[squeezed]

1more I'm really cross for you. The hcp are not looking after you and your baby. It's just not acceptable and you shouldn't have to wait until Monday when you are so I'll. Telling you to see how you go is fucking ridiculous. Can you go directly to A&E now?

[1moretime]

Hi squeezed
Im fed up!! Yes I could go but my hubby is out today and I have my DS at home.
I have managed sone toast & im sipping water & touch wood it's been an hour since I had it.
Hubby will be home around 6 so may get him to run me up. Would they prescribe anything? X

[LucindaE]

1moretime Can your OH bring you kesostix? You probably have got high kestones by now, and at A and E they'd give you fluids and meds and you'd feel a lot better. Have you got any ice lollies/ice cubes while you wait?
Reebok Again starstar starstarstar. I do hope resting helps.
SleepymrsE Sorry to hear you've been in hospital. Glad you got good treatment and a good combination of meds.
eallison Great advice as ever.
mrsmonkey I found the weight loss made the bump more obvious, too.
icklekid Lol about 'once a teacher, always a teacher'!
MotherofPearl I'm glad it's only six more times. I think you mentioned a horribly long commute?
curlywurly Not nice,but I'm glad you avoided a Public Puking Performance.

squeezed eallison's advice cannot be bettered.
amysmummy How are things?
squeezed I so agree.
spandau Sorry things are no better.
special I hope things are OK today.
Ican't Thinking of you, and hoping baby has a growth spurt.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked. Back soon.

[mrsmonkey14]

Just checking in quickly to say 1more that sounds rubbish. Can you get your OH to go to a pharmacy and buy you some Buccastem. You place them on your gums and they dissolve, helps you to keep your medication down. A few weeks ago I had gastroenteritis on top of HV and consultant advised me to take buccastem to stop me throwing up the Ondansetron. You can buy over counter no probs. Good luck.