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.

[LucindaE]

icklekid Oh no, I am sorry my recommendation set that off; I suffered so dreadfully from heartburn, I never was sure what was setting it off; maybe the jelly was one of the factors? About work, I must have got it wrong, I hoped you were off for the duration?
mrsmonkey Glad you're coping in the heat. I've got the drawbridge of the fabled Pink Castle down.
Jodders Have they let you out yet?
I hope everyone isn't melting...

[LightTripper]

Hello everyone! Thanks for holding my hand yesterday. Was feeling very wobbly.

Had the scan this morning. One foetus (thank God!!!), heartbeat, all looks good. I'm actually only 7 weeks pregnant (I was 8 weeks by dates), which is a bit worrying as it means I've been throwing up since 6 weeks 1 day which is much earlier than my previous pregnancies. I'm 41 so there's still a significant chance of m/c but it's as good as it could be for this stage, so I'm very happy.

AND I HAVE DRUGS!!! I was seen by a Consultant Nurse, so she could prescribe and dispense herself (how good is that?) so I have two little boxes of Cyclizine on my desk now. I haven't dared take one yet because I am going to be so crushed if they don't work.... but also because usually I can manage the nausea with food until mid-pm so I think I'm going to hold off until later, and take 1 to deal with my commute and then 1 to try to keep dinner down.

Thanks for all the top tips. I had forgotten flat coke but I do quite fancy that. I shouldn't be too badly off for nutrition as I do generally manage to eat breakfast and lunch, it's just later in the day that everything goes wrong...

Hope everybody is coping in the heat and/or manages to find some aircon!

LT xxx

[mrsmonkey14]

Btw light I had a funny reaction to cyclizine (quite unusual it seems) but it wiped me out to the extent I couldn't stand up - from one tablet! Basically made me feel trippy. So you might want to try it at home rather than out and about?? To be fair it makes most ppl sleepy but don't think anyone else on this thread reacted like that. You're not driving are you?

[LightTripper]

No, not driving ... but thanks for the warning!!

[icklekid]

lucinda I'm doing very little work- tue and wed 1/2 days then last day is next mon... don't worry about jelly it was yummy whilst it lasted!

light hope Cyclazine works for you- if it doesn't there are other options so don't dispair

rae I rang after work at 12 as lots more come today they said would ring back but haven't yet...if not heard by 3 will try again

I'm totally exhausted and so hot!

[SpecialStains]

Hello,

Hope everyone is coping with the heat. The cat and I have decided the outdoor world is too much today and so are sharing a bottle of frozen water on the sofa (I drink the bottle, he licks condensation off the outside).

Light Congratulations on your scan! We knew I was pregnant very early on, because I was throwing up from 5 weeks pregnant onwards. Fwiw, HG is often a good sign that your body is making all the right pregnancy hormones. Good news on the medication! I have to admit that while cyclizine did help me, it did also make me very groggy. I seem to react strongly to antihistamines, and couldn't function at all on promethazine (slept for about 18hours a day, waking up occasionally to vomit). Give the cyclizine a few days to see if it works, but do go back if it doesn't.

Jodders How you getting on? How did the IV meds help?

MrsMonkey I hope your midwife appointment goes well and baby Monkey stays in for a couple more weeks!

Hi Ickle, Rae, Sleepy, Lucinda and everyone else. 36 weeks tomorrow and I'm ready to have this baby. Fed up with the constant sickness and being booted in the ribs.

[SpecialStains]

Sorry, it was Ickle that I hope your midwife appointment goes well and baby Ickle no 1 stays in for a couple more weeks!

MrsMonkey I hope you feel more comfortable soon. I have bad pain in my upper inner thighs when I walk any kind of distance at the moment, but not a lot of pelvic pressure.

[SpecialStains]

Sorry, brain has melted in the heat Baby Ickle No. 2.

[Vixxfacee]

Hi everyone, I do not know what has happened. I couldn't see any messages.
Lucinda sorry for posting so quickly! I thought the other thread was full. When I came back this one was empty.

But anyway I have found you all now. How is it going for everyone?

When I reached the 12 weeks stage my sickness went from about 8/10 to 4/10. Still can't eat but being sick maybe twice a day in the evenings.
My work place threatened not to pay me for the month I had off (statutory sick pay only as have been there for 6 months).
I came back to work yesterday and didn't eat a thing whilst there (my usual cereal and jelly beans) as I knew once I started being sick then that would be it for the rest of the day.
I went home at 5 and had cereal. I was so sick (as bad as weeks 7 -10) and couldn't move from the sofa.
This morning I woke up feeling a bit better. I am so fatigued and the weather isn't helping! All my energy being at work means by the time I get home I'm good for nothing. Feeling resentful. Still on 3 tablets a day and nothe stopping for now. Enough moaning from me!

I Have my 12 weeks scan Thursday and I will be 13 weeks. After miscarriage, 3 years infertility and ivf I am very anxious.

Sorry epic post. How is everyone else?

[SpecialStains]

Hey Vix sorry you are feeling so unwell, and that work are threatening to not pay you. I completely understand that exhausted feeling of holding it together at work to be absolutely useless at home and it sucks. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for your scan! I know the anxious feeling beforehand (I still get it before each growth scan, now 36 weeks), but it is lovely seeing them on the scan when they're so tiny! I couldn't get over the fact that the little babies are already moving at that stage.

You are at the stage I felt the worst. You have every right to feel fed up and resentful and to moan as much as you want. Pregnancy can be very hard, no matter how much you want it.

[icklekid]

Glad you found us vixx hope scan goes well and totally understand anxiety around it

special think the heat might be causing baby brain 😂 midwife rang back and said sounded like mucus plug and I should put a pad on to check waters aren't going slowly... this did not reassure me. Will get some pads when go to pick ds up and then see midwife tomorrow for 34 week appointment. I'm fairly sure my waters haven't gone- just discharge and sweaty. So sorry way tmi! Kept asking if I felt well, am ridiculously hot and fell asleep just before she rang so not really but don't think is related!

[Vixxfacee]

Special when did you start feeling a little better?
36 weeks aw not long to go for you!

[Vixxfacee]

Ickle and special I don't know how you are coping in this heat being heavily pregnant and sick!

[icklekid]

Vixx with a 2 year old to entertain don't forget 😉

[LightTripper]

Good luck with the scan Vixx! That was the stage I felt absolutely worst in my first pregnancy too: although the sickness took a bit longer to get better, the exhaustion peaked around then, so by 17 weeks I was feeling a bit more human despite the sickness. Hope things start to get a bit better for you too.

Keeping everything crossed for Thursday for you xxx

[Vixxfacee]

I honestly don't know how those with toddlers have managed. This is my first and last!

Thank you light

This is all temporary. Need to hold on to that.

[SleepymrsE]

Hello everyone from a very hot and swollen sleepy. Today has been hard work and it's not even my busy days at work this week.

light congrats on the scan, and the meds. Lots of us are on cyclizine and it def does help me along with ondansatron. I didn't have the sleepy side effects but it did initially give me heart palpitations although they stopped after a few weeks. Fingers crossed it works for you. As others have said, with HG sickness tends to make an appearance early. This time round it started badly at 5 weeks (hospital admission) and worst at 8 weeks (hospital admission). Don't be a stranger to this forum - it's amazing as a support network esp when not many people in real life understand.

vixx sorry to hear you're still suffering quite badly. Do you think it would be worthwhile trying another medication? Or combination of meds?

ickle hope I didn't jinx things the other day when I mentioned early babies. I have heard people can lose their plugs and they grow back again. Good idea to keep an eye on things though, my waters were more of a trickle to start with when they went last time but def more noticeable after a period of sitting down then standing up. They can test at the assessment centre if it's amniotic fluid I think. But hopefully it's just sweat & general heavy pregnancy discharge.

special, mrsmonkey I am in awe of you ladies coping in this heat. I am not, at all! rae jealous of your ac but hope you're not doing too much (says she who knows she's def doing too much).

Just got home from work to find a letter to say my 28wk bloods confirm I'm anaemic so need iron tablets. I swear at this rate of someone shook me, as well as being sick, I'd rattle. I'm trying to look on the positive in that I might get a bit of energy back but I'm fearful of how bad this will effect my already suffering constipation and piles. And to top it off DS has come up in another nasty rash!

[SleepymrsE]

Oh and hope jodders is doing ok...

[RaeSkywalker]

Light I'm so pleased that your scan went well. I had exactly the same thing- thought I was over 8 weeks, was actually bang on 7! Hope you get on with the cyclizine.

ickle did the midwife call back?

Hope it's not too much longer for you Special

Vixx so sorry you're suffering at work. Have you checked your contract? I'm
Struggling too and am no good to anyone past about 5pm! Good luck for the scan, hope it goes well. I was so nervous before mine I was shaking!

Sorry about the anaemia Sleepy. Have you got anything to help with the constipation?Is your DS's rash allergy related?

Work was tough today, but I survived! Only 3 days to go before the weekend 😩

[Freshbreadandfaith]

Anyone else find that the heat makes hyperemesis worse? Ugh struggling

[RaeSkywalker]

Fresh yes! I don't quite know what to do with myself. I'm in bed but it's so hot upstairs I'm not sure it was the best idea 😩

[LucindaE]

Vixx I am so glad you have found us- I don't know what happened with your first post- seems to have vanished.I blame my PC. It did some b ad magic. Sorry work are being unhelpful - what meds are you on? I'm sure you could be helped more. I do sympathize about anxiety before scan. I had an mmc and was just the same. The statistics are greatly in your favour.
Sorry to hear of worrying symptoms, icklekid. Never worry about tmi.
Keeping fingers crossed for baby staying put.
LightTripper Glad to hear that scan went well. Lots of women on this thread have had successful pregnancies at over forty. You're a spring chicken says Mother Hen.
SpecialStains So sorry you still feel foul and to hear about the baby putting the boot in.
Rae Sorry to hear that you and others are suffering at work in the heat.
SleepymrsE I do hope the iron tablets don't make you vomit as they did me; I think they can give you drops, if so?
Freshbreadandfaith Much sympathy. It's hard enough to take in enough liquid anyway with this, and when one is losing liquid in sweat...
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.

[Vixxfacee]

Lucinda how are you?
I know strange how it disappeared!
I'm on cyclizine. I've only been sick once today. I feel amazed.

Sorry about your mmc. It really taints any other pregnancy and you can't relax. I just want Thursday to be over.

[SleepymrsE]

Glad the cyclizine helped vixx.

Really hoping ickle's lack of morning post is just because she's managed an amazing lie in and not because baby has made a very early appearance.

[icklekid]

sleepy fear not no baby here! Ds was awake at 5 and his room was a sauna so required entertaining! I did start at post at 1am but fell asleep! Insomnia does seem to be getting bit better at least!

vixx glad cyclazine is having desired effect. The sickness decreasing does make a huge difference! Long may it continue!

fresh yes yes and yes. It is very hot. Everyone seems to be very sympathetic of pregnant women about to pop though- one old lady offered to let me go infront of her in queue at boots bless her!

rae midwife did call she just said to put a pad on to check waters weren't leaking. I'm fairly sure they aren't and will buy pads today! Well done for surviving at work...are you working from home at all this week?

Brain gone so sorry if forgot anyone!