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.

Thanks again user147; this is my first pregnancy and I had such great plans of drinking kale juice and organic beetroot as a good start for my little one; the reality is crisps; rich tea biscuits and some lucozade! Good advice on resting; I'm dreading teaching next week 😓 Xx

Now we have two users, lol! Welcome to the new one. Some suggestions below, but I just wanted to say, MotherofPearl Lovely to have you back. I hope you had a wonderful time - did you say the West Coast of Scotland? We've missed you. On coming back to the land of wifi,diid you say you were forty, as I was just thinking - if so you remember how the world was without mobiles and the internet! Most women on here won't. I'm ancient; I remember the world without the micro chip and pc's or inflated house prices!
Myuser2015 Welcome to the thread nobody wants to need - and I am sorry you are suffering. You have already had good advice. Everyone on here is really helpful. You need meds definitely, and to invest in some kesostix available from any chemists to check for early stages of dehydration. Unfortunately, it is very hard to work with this, realistically most people have to take some time of in the first tri at least. As you're a teacher - I'm guessing you're in a union or anyway, your employer has to stick to employment guidelines about non discrmination against pregnant staff members with pregnancy related conditions? I so agree about crisps; sometimes oven chips and cheap ice cream and jelly. Someone on here discovered the virtues of cuppa soup and a lot find that bearable. Unhealthy food and drink is the thing. Also, tinned apricots, peaches or pears and especially the juice is good. Do you find ice lollies, ice cubes, sips of flat coke or chocolate milkshake any good?
use1477 So glad that things are OK generally at the hospital. I have known women bleed a fair bit on and off throughout, and it is unnerving if you've had an mc. On constipation, have you got those suppositories from Boots? Many swear by them, but although they use them in hospitals, they wont' sell them to a pregnant woman at a chemist's, but then, they won't sell cyclizine to them either, though it's been proven safe for decades!
fourcircledcorner That is almost certainly a good day, but people do worry.Then they go back to feeling terrible!
Waves to Blondes and everyone.
I'm just back from opticians - drops have made my near point vision blurry, I'll be back later...

Hi everyone, wave to Blondes.

Sorry to crash in, but has anyone heard from LH? I haven't seen her lately, and I'm worried she's ended up back in hospital. I don't want to bother her with a PM if she's feeling crap, but I'm sure she'll be checking this thread.

Thanks, Robber

Hello Robber thank you so much for caring. And help everyone else.

I am alive and not in hospital. Haven't had a great week - and starting to get quite down. Nearly ended up in hospital but I just don't want to go. Tried to find a way I could have some IV hydration as a day case but after a an enormous battle with the Portland they said I could have it for £1000 a go!! Erm, thanks but no.

I'm just fed up - I know you all know what I'm talking about. Totally housebound, no company, nothing in my brain that is interesting or meaningful.

Just getting through the day between vomits (and truly poor bladder control when I vomit) and pooing once every three days and only when I use a glycerin suppository. Pretty sad scene

Soooooo hoping for an improvement soon. I must have hit rock bottom at 9.5 weeks surely?

Harmony test this week at Fetal Med Centre. That is something useful at least.

I miss you all and I still read here daily. I just am losing the energy to contribute in a meaningful way.

LH lovely to hear from you but sorry you're feeling so bad . Hopefully the very worst is over after 9.5. Let us know how your Harmony goes?

Hi to everyone including newbies. Sorry you'be had to find this thread but lucinda and mop will look after you all (wave to you both).

Sat feeding DD while DS naps so thought I'd quickly check in. Sorry am unable to reply individually to everyone but just wanted to say about the lucozade drinking... I went through a phase early on only wanting it but I found that was the cause of my runny poo's. Not sure if it was because my stomach was completely empty of all food. Thought I'd mention it in case that's the same for others.

Hope others are having a restful weekend and managing some time away from the toilet!

LH sorry you are feeling so rough and so low. I'm appalled that you have to pay that! Are there any other London hospitals that do HG drop in hydration. I know there are a few about where you're only in for a few hours rather than full admission. I know it's hard to concentrate on the thread when feeling so poorly but I found it did help keep spirits up. My DD is 3 weeks now and it all feels worth it. Even with infected stitches, thrush from breastfeeding, and a colicky baby awake through the night, I still feel much better than I did in pregnancy - so that's one major bonus!

LH you poor thing, I found week 9 the worst of all, I hope this is your bottom point. It's so hard to feel so shit for so long, can you see if there's an epu near you for some iv drugs and fluids?

Lucinda how right you were about being back to feeling terrible. Reassuring and miserable at the same time.

Username2015 I'm a teacher too. Between bein signed off and half term I've had three weeks of being able to vomit and die in the comfort of my own home. I am not looking forward to Monday either BUT my plan is to go in, make sure everything a cover teacher might need is easy to find and see how I get on. If it's awful I'll ask to be signed off for another few weeks and it will be schools problem to get supply. I'm the only teacher in my department and I'm also the SENCO, Hell has to freeze over before I don't turn in normally (haven't had a sick day in.... dunno, six years? I'm generally a hardy soul) so I know I must be really low to even think like that. I fessed up to the head, and felt much better for it but I suppose it depends if you feel your head would be supportive.

Waddles in and blows kisses

Lh sorry you've been so poorly. To give you hope around 14w I felt a lot better. Still sick but not so much. Apart from yesterday

Welcome user. Go and see gp. You sound how I was in the early weeks

Are you all sitting comfortably - passes sick buckets round

Wedding was yesterday and last few days I've felt ok and not been sick .......

So course woke up yesterday and felt crap and thought shit today is gonna be a puking day

Some of you may have thought sod this and not gone

Not me !!! So off df and I went on m25. Felt awful. Stopped off at local services and sick

Always feel and look better once been sick - got told at wedding I'm glowing many times

Bubs has decided to really start showing in last 2 days so the dress that I tried on beginning of week with v neck wrap over boobs now doesn't fit and boobs escaping with bump straining - def looked preg yeustsay !!!

Safety pin saved the day and stopped me flashing every male and female lol

Lovely day and dinner and buffet etc. Was sick 4 times at Venue during day but tmi puked madly then And felt ok for another hour or two then sick again

Nice single loos so thankfully had privacy to puke

Had a lovely time but would have been nicer to not be sick so much

Bubs must be having a hormonal growth spurt .......:

Stayed at Venue. Threw up before breakie and ate a yummy fried breakie and we lost the lot 15m later

Drive home and since noon felt fine -bloody typical

off to work in a mo

Hope you are all ok x

Ah blondes I'm glad you went... if only to give us all something to aspire to!

Saturday sick update feeling rough today always the way at weekends, once I'm busy with my three year old. Blondes I'll take that sick bucket !

Buckets named bob or coop 10p bags 😷😬

I'm not saying I didn't feel crap and tempted to stay at home but what's the point - I'm going to be sick wherever I am

Df informed me that one of the blokes at the wedding as him if I was ok as he apparently heard me tho walls of loo /ajoined to blokes 😳😳

He asked if I was pissed and df said no. She's suffering from hg and has sickness

Go out and do something. What's the worst that can happen ? I threw up in a bag in hastings high street few months back

LHReturns So sorry you feel awful. What are the ketones measuring? It's really bad that in London there is no NHS drop in centre to be recommended.
RobberBride How lovely of you to check on LHReturns. Are you called that after the Margaret Atwood book?
SleepymrsE It's lovely of you, too, to call in to support people. Interesting about Lucozade loosening the bowels for you. Does that mean it could be used as a laxative?
fourcorneredcircle Sorry you feel bad. Mother Hen says as ever, 'Don't try and rush back to work'.
Blondes and User1417 'Buckets called Bob' lol! Blondes I am glad you enjoyed the wedding. Sorry it was a puking day. Did that man who thought you were drunk imagine that was your normal shape?! Congratulations on growing such a bump - a good sign about baby growing!
castlefeck I wrote a message and now can't read it. My handwriting gets worse!
Apologies to anyone rudely ignored.

Ah, I meant to say, SleepymrsE how are the infected stitches now? Much sympathy. They are agony.

He must have thought I was fat !!! 😳

Apart from this am I feel fine now so hopefully tom will be a good day

Morning all,
Good work on the wedding Blondes, that was impressive stamina getting through all those voms. Your upbeat mood is a great lifter of spirits!
Four and all other teachers - don't push yourselves to go back to work too soon. I am a university lecturer so only teach grown ups (well, relatively speaking!) and only about 10 hours of actual teaching a week, but even that is exhausting. I don't see how anyone with HG could be expected to cope with a classroom of kids all day. If you've been off for any length of time you should be offered a phased return, afaik.
LH, sorry you're having such a dreadful time. You are really in the worst of it now, I do feel for you. Is there anything that takes your mind off it? Netflix on the IPad saved my mental health when I was bedbound. Hang in there and congratulate yourself on just surviving each day.
Castle, I liked your post upthread about being a wimp and letting your DC co-sleep and BF them to sleep! I'm just the same! I'm afraid that I tried 'controlled crying' with DD1 for about 5 mins, and by the end we were both crying! I'm also on DC3 and BF her to sleep as I type!
Iamserious, how are you doing now on that meds combo?
Thanks for the welcome back Lucinda. We were in the Western Highlands, yes. Wonderfully wild and remote, beautiful autumn colours. You asked about age. I'm 42, sadly, so yes I well remember life before mobile phones and internet!
Sleepy, sorry you've had infected stitches, that's the worst pain! Hope all OK now? Totally agree though that nothing post-birth is anything like as bad as HG.
Big cheers for Rae and Fresh as they approach the finish line! You're nearly there now, and you've done so well. Already looking forward to hearing birth announcements!
Sorry not to reply to everyone individually. Have to dash off. DP away for work for a week and I have just discovered DD1 has nits which need dealing with. The joy!

MotherofPearl The western highlands are lovely at this time of year particularly. So glad you had a good holiday, and as below, it is great to have you back. Brilliant advice as ever. I'll be cheering RaeSkywalker and Freshbreadandfaith on, too...
Blondes I'm glad it's a good day today.

Today I told the head it was not my intention to be at work for the foreseeable. He was lovely. And phoned me back to check I was ok are I finished the conversation to vomit.
I think I was being a bit too brace. Cyclazine makes me really sleepy, I can't drive like that. And I can't not take the medicine as I'll vomit even more. Either way, I can't stand in front of teenagers all day.

My DH has also breathed a sigh of relief. I hadn't realised how worried he was until he said he was glad.
Going to go and have a long talk to myself over an ice lolly.

Four, you've done the right thing, you must feel relieved you can just rest now. So glad you have an understanding head; it makes a big difference to feel supported.

Also glad to hear four you've done so and they were understanding. I've been in tears in between throwing up all day about teaching tomorrow but I was off before half term with a bereavement so feel I have no choice. Does anyone know if midwife can prescribe anti sickness pills etc or do I have to see a GP? Hope the rest of you aren't feeling too bad today 💐

Myuser, sorry to hear things are so bad. Unfortunately midwives can't prescribe; you'll need to see your GP or self-refer to an EPU (always the best bet, imo). I do wish you'd reconsider getting yourself booked off work. The time off for a bereavement shouldn't make a difference. Have you looked at the information for employees and employers on the PSS website (link in Lucinda's OP)? If you're too unwell to work then that's that. Your health is more important.

Thank you motherofpearl....I just always suffer with such immense guilt being the only teacher of A level subjects; I know my school won't pay specialist cover so they'd be left reading textbooks if I don't make it....but can barely stand tonight I'm so dizzy so think tomorrow work is out. Huge thanks for links I will look through that page. X

fourcorneredcircleI am glad your head was understanding - the principal teacher , I mean, not the one on your shoulders .
user2015 You sound far too ill to go in, as ever I so agree with MotherofPearl. I know teachers are very responsible and suffer from extra guilt.
I hope LHReturns and others are coping. blondes It is amazing the way you have kept socialising - I think, to be honest, you must be a tidier puker than I was, and not caught short and making use of the floor.

Ah, and MotherofPearl Forty-two isn't so bad - it's a good bit younger than me.