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.

Mother it's so nice to hear about life 'on the other side' of HG! I was saying to my friend yesterday that I feel like I've been pregnant forever.

Vixx well done on the steak and chips! So glad that you're feeling a bit brighter.

Fresh I bet you're exhausted! 12 hours?! Are you on your feet the whole time. I'm 24 weeks tomorrow and still on ondansetron and cyclizine, and like you I notice that things get worse if I miss a dose. Sorry to hear about the pelvis. Would swimming help to ease it? Most of my kicks are low, but not quite as low as yours.

ickle I really hope you get home today. Glad to hear that life in the pink castle is good.

Lovely to hear from all those in the pink castle and the joys of newborns, and food! Hope you get home today ickle.

Sorry to hear you've had a tough week rae, I find myself constantly saying after this week it'll calm down and I'll not do as much but the last few weeks have taken their toll and I know I must slow down. Hope you have a lovely weekend at the christening.

vixx glad to hear you're feeling a bit better - fingers crossed it stays that way!

LT hopefully the combination of meds will help even more. It is hard work looking after other DC and having HG.

fresh your pelvic pain sounds sore. My hips hurt on occasion but no idea how you're dealing with both that and HG.

So, I'm feeling a bit better than I did on Wed & Thursday. Good job really as DH ended up in a&e yesterday after coming off his bike on the way home from work (he's ok just a bit battered and bruised) and now DS woke at 5am screaming and fighting a temp of 39.5. Don't think I have time to think about myself much today.

Morning all. We're en route to summer holiday in Devon, and have 2 very excited DC chatting in the seat behind me while the baby is thankfully asleep!
Vixx, steak and chips is a big achievement. Don't try to reduce the meds if they're helping. Same with Fresh - no point in trying to cut down if they're keeping you on a reasonably even keel. Can't believe you're 22 weeks now! And Rae is 24 weeks! I know it feels like time is standing still but it is creeping along.
Any improvement from the meto yet Light?
Good luck today Rae, and hope you get some rest Fresh.
Ickle, hope you and DD get discharged today. Meanwhile do enjoy basking in the splendour of the Pink Castle.

Cross-posted with Sleepy. Sorry to hear about your DH, that must have given you a fright. Glad he's OK. Hope you manage to get some downtime today and that DS's temperature doesn't materialise into anything serious.

Thanks Sleepy! So glad you feel better, but what a nightmare about your DH and DS! Was your DH knocked off? 😱 It never rains but it pours eh.

Mother hope you have a lovely holiday!

We've arrived at our hotel. I'm ok, just tired (slept for 13 hours last night so really shouldn't be!) And I've just eaten a whole chocolate muffin! I don't know whether to be pleased or ashamed: it's the first non-bland thing I've managed for months, but on the other hand, I really should be trying to eat fruit or something vaguely healthy! Fingers crossed it stays down.

Hop everyone is coping tonight.

^ 'Hope', not 'hop' 🙄

Morning All! Just checking in to say I do have wifi here, so can check in from the cottage we're staying at. Quiet on here so hope everyone is coping and having relaxing weekends, as far as possible. Well done on the muffin Rae, hope that stayed down. Don't feel you should eat 'healthy' food: just congratulate yourself on eating at all!

Hello,

Sorry for recent silence. Lots of house guests and I'm just a bit fed up of being pregnant. Been mainlining pineapple and rose leaf tea, but can't have spicy food because it sets me off.

I just want to feel normal again!

Hope everyone else is coping ok.

light tripper "this too shall pass like a kidney stone" made me laugh out loud!!
rae don't worry my 12 hour shift isn't at a workplace as such it's looking after my four year old!!
Xx

Special, a spicy curry was one of the post-pregnancy meals I most looked forward to. Not too much longer for you, although I fully appreciate that people saying that doesn't really help and if you're anything like I was, might make you feel a bit homicidal! Hope this last part doesn't drag too badly. The certainty that it will end is something to hang onto.
Hope you're resting Fresh, and everyone else for that matter.

Hope you're having fun Mother!

Special it's so nice to hear from you, I was getting worried! Sorry you're feeling so low. You must be st the end of your tether! Not long to go now for you is there?

Fresh looking after a 4 year old? Doesn't reassure me that you aren't overdoing things

Got back from the christening early afternoon- it was lovely. However I am totally exhausted, but had to do a couple of hours work earlier (big meeting tomorrow, I am over preparing I think, but would rather be safe than sorry). I keep a spreadsheet to record hours worked, and I've done 53 this week including today. I'm so tired, I can't believe that a 60-70 hour week was my normal a few months ago! 😱

Feeling very sick so off to bed now. Praying for a good sleep and no vomiting tomorrow before the meeting!

Hello! Hope everyone is doing OK.

I am hopeful the meto is doing something. Feel a bit more with it. Still throwing up but only once the last couple of days, and kept my dinner 3 nights in a row, which had not been the case for the previous few days. Got to snuggle a 1 week old baby yesterday too, which was lovely. Reminds you what it is all for!

Just hoping the sickness may be hitting its peak now, so hopefully the drugs won't get left behind again. I'm only 9 weeks though, I'm not sure if I had peaked yet with DD - I think it was more like 11?

I was just working out this morning that if I am sick for as long as with my DD then I will stop throwing up in late October, which is a bit (I need a "waah" smiley). And then that made me think about miscarrying, and whether that is better, and then how many more times I can do this if I do miscarry. Which is a not very helpful circle is it?

Anyway, have another scan in 2.5 weeks so I am just focusing on getting through to that first...

Sending hugs to everyone xxx

Light, glad you feel the meto might be helping. I had to reread your sentence that starts 'I was just working out this morning' - for a dreadful moment I thought you meant working out in the gym! Glad that's not the case. I think you're right not to think too far ahead. Just focus on getting through each day, or sometimes just through each hour.
Tut tut Rae, I really feel I ought to tell you off on Mother Hen's behalf - 53 hours of work a week is NOT taking it easy! No wonder you're exhausted! Don't overdo it. Glad to hear the christening went well though.
Hope the week has started tolerably well for others. How are today Sleepy? Special?
Holiday going well so far although dismal weather today so challenging to keep the DCs occupied.

Just a quick one from me, had a phone consult with the doc today. Iron still low but also got a vitamin b12 deficiency. She didn't seem too concerned and said she was more keen on getting iron levels up. Dr Google (yes I know I shouldn't look) says vitamin b12 deficiency can cause birth defects so now I'm panicking slightly!

I'm sure I read somewhere that your body gets nutrition to the baby first, so the fact you are deficient in B12 doesn't necessarily mean the baby is! Is B12 the one that is linked to sickness though, or am I getting it mixed up?

Xxx

Aww, she's lovely, Ickle - appropriately diddy! Any news on the jaundice? Hope you get to go home soon.

Lucinda thank you, I'm good, thanks for asking. I'm just ignoring the idiots, they really must lead spectacularly empty lives. I've decided to just feel sorry for them, particularly now they've given away their identities & people have figured out who they are (my ex colleagues, which has not exactly looked favourably on them at the office with their current colleagues). I was being so good by not telling anyone who it was too. Oh well, their stupidity, not mine. I'm staying out of it!

Rae not to join in too much with the lecture here, but 53 hours? Are you contracted to that? Personally I'd do what you're contracted to & leave it there - they don't exactly seem grateful for your efforts.

Light I had those thoughts too. Before I was put on the current drugs I was thinking I may not be able to go full term. I know some women end up making that choice. Awful. Keep trying the different meds, the 'last resort' one is brilliant. It's no exaggeration to say it's turned my pregnancy around.

Special when are you due? Can't be long until you get that food!

How is everyone feeling now the heat has eased up a bit? I had a headache today, but it's going now it's raining. Bit miserable here this evening.

I keep being asked to miss a dose of the meds so the doctors can figure out how ill I am still. To some up - very! Ick!

Just made & ate a very spicy curry in the hope that it triggers 'something'. Now on sucralose but it's not doing anything at all. Better than being sick 50 times a day though, anything is better than that. Pregnancy is such a beautiful joy!

Waves & sending love/strength/sympathies to all 👋🏼

Light glad that the meds are helping. Keep taking them I know what you mean about the miscarriage thoughts- I have them often, I hate it not sure about the B12 thing- my midwife tells me that babies are "very effective parasites" if that helps?

Sorry about the weather Mother! What did you get up to?

Lucy I'm better now that the temperature has dropped but still struggling as it's very humid here! My Dr keeps telling me to try and cut down too so I've adopted a policy of taking as and when things feel unbearable- and surprise surprise, I still need the full dose.

Don't know what to say about working hours really, I know it's bad and I'd be telling anyone else that they were mad! My set hours are only 37.5- it's just a very full-on job and the company is going through a lot of change at the moment. The workload is going up and I hate letting people down by not delivering. Plus I am scared that they're looking for an e cuss to say I can't cope, and not meeting a deadline might give them that. DH is very cross with me about it all!

Hope everyone is coping tonight.

Got horrid period type pains (early contractions?) and have the feeling of vomit in my throat. Very fed up and just burst into tears because the cat bit me.

I'm so ready to get this baby out.

Hi ladies just popping back to see how you are all getting on. light thanks for asking over dd and her jaundice- we finally came home at 9pm last night! I have just had an amazing sleep in my own bed (in between 3hourly feeds!) And just so nice to be home. May the madness of 2 children really begin!

rae sorry to hear about work still being crazy that is so hard to know what to do for the best. Glad your dh is advocating for you though. Together you will get through it!

LT my baby definitely got everything she needed and was incredibly healthy despite being so premature so think your right about mums feeling awful but baby being fine!

Sorry ds just woke up and he doesn't know I'm home so got to go will finish messages later!

Rae , Ickle , glad you're both okay.

Rae maybe consider cutting back when you can, or else negotiate the deadline with your boss - she was okay, wasn't she?

Special are you okay this morning? Worried about you x

I'm fine. No baby yet (38 weeks tomorrow). Every time I have any symptom that could possibly be a sign of labour, I try to convince myself that is it! Friends are being very lovely and coming round and meeting up with me, but I'm so grumpy atm that I'm annoying myself! I do not suit pregnancy one bit!

How's everyone else getting on?

Also, congratulations ickle on getting home! That's fab news!

"I do not suit pregnancy one bit!"

Oh yes, this!!!

Is anybody else still early doors like me? I have soooo long to go unless I m/c. I'm hoping if the next scan is good news they might redate me to closer to my dates ... I still haven't updated my app to say I am 9 weeks instead of 10 as I can't quite bear the thought of the extra week :-/ Soooo long to go! Though on the bright side, as I'm over 40 I don't think they'd let me go beyond 40 weeks - so 2 fewer than last time...

LTxx

I'm sure everybody is right about little one taking whatever they need. Got an extra appointment with the midwife next week to chat through it and my worries - hopefully that will help. I am going to try and take the pregnancy vitamins again rather than just the folic acid/vitamin d ones. I'm also going to try really hard to eat more. At least I will only hopefully have less than 10 weeks on 9 tablets a day! The doctors have stopped asking me to reduce meds now lucy so don't feel you need to if they are working quite well. Every time I have tried to drop one I'm quite sick again so it's not worth it.

I'm so sorry to hear you're feeling fed up special, I'm dreading going over 40 weeks as I know I will be so ready. I went into labour at 38+6 with DS but didn't have any real indication til my waters broke. I will keep my fingers crossed that it isn't too much longer for you.

ickle great news about getting home with DD. Hope DS takes to brotherhood ok and that you settle well.

rae I am in agreement with others. Do try and take it easy which u know is much easier said than done. Have work done a risk assessment for you? Those hours would not be advisable for any pregnancy woman let alone one with HG! Maybe more working from home?

Hope you're enjoying the holiday and the weather has picked up mop

Sleepy, sorry to hear about this additional worry about vitamin deficiency. As others have said, the babies are excellent at taking what they need, although it's inevitable that you will feel anxious.
Light, the best thing about my recent pregnancy was that because I'm also over 40 I was induced at 39+4. Hospital policy for mothers over 40 is induction between 39 and 40 weeks. I went to well over 40 weeks in my previous 2 pregnancies, so it was a huge mental relief this time to know I was working towards a fixed deadline! Hope you'll have the same.
Special, I'm not surprised you're fed up. It is bloody awful, and the last few weeks feel like eternity.
Lucy, I hope the doctors aren't trying to pressure you into reducing meds. It can really set you back once you've managed to achieve some semblance of normality with a particular combination of meds.
Rae, I hope my telling off about long work hours wasn't too harsh! I think work can be a good distraction from the misery of HG, and it can help the time pass more quickly. I just hope you're not feeling pressured to do those hours, and then feeling sicker because you're tired. How are you today?
Ickle, so glad to hear you're home now. Enjoy all the home comforts and seeing your DS getting to know his baby sister!
Weather here still grim but forecast for tomorrow looks better. We've spent today at quaint, dusty local museum, and then at a cafe. I was forced to buy a truly hideous neon pac-a-mac to fend off the elements.