Hi Melfer and Twinkle. Sorry you've had to join us but congratulations on your pregnancies!
Twinkle I'm afraid to say that the few weeks I was taking Avomine for, I was constantly tired and groggy, slept a huge amount just waking up to vomit. It really didn't take long to affect on me. Cyclizine also made me very tired and unable to function, to I've come to the conclusion that I'm very sensitive to anti-histamines. Give avomine a go for a few days/week, but if it doesn't help go back and ask to try something else. If you are one of the lucky ones avomine works for, that's really great as it's a very safe drug for pregnancy (not that any other anti-emetics are unsafe, just less tested). Good luck. Do you have work to contend with? Rest is very important when you're vomiting a lot. I found any movement made me so much worse, so several weeks of sleeping were very much needed.
Melfer go back and ask for different medication. Like freshbread mentioned, I find ondasentron is my holy grail of anti-emetics (though the constipation is bad!). Avomine/promethazine and stemitil didn't help me at all, I had some limited sucess with cyclizine, but ondansetron has helped the most. I'm no longer vomiting very much, though I do still feel very nauseous and scare unsuspecting people with my sudden loud and violent retching! I'm 21weeks now, and although I'm not quite right, I am so much better than those first few horrible, dark weeks of HG!
MoP Congratulations on starting maternity leave!
Reebok Congratulations on having made it to 37 weeks with all those contractions! The end of all the horrible pregnancy symptoms are in sight for you (and a lovely little baby!).
1more sorry to hear you're having a rough time. Nothing to add, but it will get better and easier (though I know you probably don't believe me right now!).
Ickle glad you had a nice day in the sun!
As always, huge thanks to Lucinda for looking after us all on this thread. I can't tell you how much this has helped me through pregnancy so far.
As always, hope everyone else is doing ok.
Thanks everyone else for all the supportive messages. I feel so much better after the appointment. The senior midwife that came and did all my obs before the consultant saw me was absolutely fantastic. She really put me at ease, and I loved that she suggested we listen to baby's heartbeat with the doppler. I've sent off an e-mail to their complaints/compliments department asking them to thank her again for me. Both dh and myself felt much happier having spoken to her.
I also like how all the midwives we've seen so far have felt the need to remind my dh that I need to eat whatever I can and it's important that I don't get hungry. If only I had cravings to abuse this power of being allowed to command food! Wish it was this hard to gain weight when I could actually enjoy eating!