Hello everyone,
Need to vent. I'm about 9 and a half weeks and suffering from hyperemesis, just like my mother did!
It has varied in intensity but a bog standard day is crippling nausea from the moment I wake up, some midday vomiting (no let up from the nausea of course) and some extreme vomiting in the evening, usually a dozen or so times until it's all bile. On bad days, fluids won't stay down. Have dropped weight pretty swiftly.
Have been tried on cyclizine and prochlorperizine (Stemetil) with zero success, so arranged a call from the GP to discuss other options.
And what did the useless heap of toss say?
"Have you tried ginger biscuits?"
And, even better:
"Try to keep things down."
Which of course infers that if you're vomiting incessantly, one possible explanation is that you're simply not making enough of an effort.
I was and am so incensed that he's lucky he escaped with his life, TBH.
I walked around on a fractured femur for half a decade, I am about the furthest thing from a drama llama that could feasibly exist in this respect. And they are very well aware of this. They've even commented on eerie levels of pain threshold, stoicism etc.
Why do they treat us like children as soon we're pregnant? 