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.

Purple, did you go to A&E and they couldn't even get a doctor to do you a prescription? What is NHS24 going to be able to do? Argh, I feel so frustrated for you!

Got a phone call from someone at the hospital so far obs and pee in a pot.

Got given buccasten (sp?)

Buccastem, yes. It's the brand name for prochlorperazine. One of the ones you dissolve on the gum. Hope it helps you Purple.

Oh Purple, I hope it helps

Purple. Better to eat then be sick as TBH you are going to be sick anyway. Least you get some food down you

And as said before far better being sick with food then sick with empty stomach and throw up yellow burning acid bile

Lucinda. All good with me 😷

Benson. If you had with previous you are very Likely to have again

Get sickness tablets from gp and ketones from Amazon so can keep eye on your wee /dehydration

Motherofpearl - totally agree about sleep. Sure that's why I'm doing ok as can sleep daytime (work nights)

Happydays. Hang in there. Almost over. What complications if you don't mind me asking?

I'm on fragmin daily till bubs pops out and possible 6w after

Purple. Wtf. They sent you home? Tho least with drugs

How is everyone faring this morning? Olivia? Purple? Four? LH? Blondes? Ican? Nerr? Iam? Newto? Happy?
Blondes, I know what you mean, but I so hated bringing food up that sometimes I felt yellow bile was easier. And certainly a morning bile run was inevitable before I'd eaten anything.
I remembered another drink I liked: chocolate flavoured almond or soya milk (ice cold, obvs). It's a good one if you're struggling with dairy.

Hello all!

Bad night with two rampant yellow 'morning bile runs'. Agony. It is still sitting in a bucket at foot of bed because I cannot face emptying and cleaning it yet. It stung so much.

Ondansetron constipation has hit. Quite crampy actually which is disconcerting at 8 weeks pregnant. Took two DulcoEase last night so have finally delivered a selection of rabbit pellets in various sizes, but no one would call it complete elimination.

Mornings are strangely my best time - drugged up to my eyeballs getting some work emails done before afternoon hell arrives.

Keen to know how others are. Purple any progress for you with your meds?

Boobs are you still holding it together?

LH, with that stinging acid bile I wonder whether you'd benefit from adding either ranitidine or omprazole to your meds repertoire? Sorry about the bucket o' bile.

MoP you are right. Thank you for reminding me (and for caring). Does anyone else forget what is in their medicine CRATE? I think dehydration has made me really stupid.

Third time lucky posting I managed a mini fillet burger and an icy 7 up last night after took tablets and even though it was painful it was heaven. I wasn't as brutally sick as I have been. Reading the small print I'm to take them after food I'm currently sucking on an ice pop and looking at the coop bag next to me with suspicion.

Purple you sound a tiny bit twinkly! Well done!

Hello! Just dropping in to say Hi to everyone. Sorry to see so many new people here (and not getting the support they should from GPs: drives me crazy, I realise now how lucky I was).

I've managed to stop my pills altogether now a couple of days ago and it is going OK. Had a wave of nausea this morning in my cab back from the hospital (21 week scan - all looks good despite the single umbilical artery - hooray!) and thought I was going to throw up in the cab but (a) I didn't and (b) it would have served him right anyway as he was driving like a loon.

But generally and touching all available wood I think I am through hell now. Still have a very light background nausea in the evenings, but it's totally manageable now, a very different beast from a few weeks ago.

Hope some of the rest of you are free soon too, and thank you for all your support through the difficult times. I know getting to 20 weeks feels like forever when you are only 7 or 10 weeks through and feeling like complete shit and you can't do another day, but somehow you get there. I can't tell you how much I think the drugs have helped me though - not that they are a miracle cure, but just that the "edge" they take off is really important to surviving it with some sanity intact. Please do keep trying to get medical help if your first GP isn't helpful, it really can be worth it!

Hello all,

I'm so glad to hear that you've managed to eat purple and that the buccastem seems to be helping a little.

I'm not having such a good day, bile first thing and mouthfuls of vomit ever since. Lying in bed dozing on and off.

LightTripper YOU are my new HG idol. I want to get to where you are. Congratulations on a good anomaly scan!

Fourcornered sorry to hear a bad day. I guess we are still at the stage where we get surges of HCG every few days - we cannot depend on anything.

Thanks LH :)
How are you doing today?

Olivia Welcome. Sorry they are being dismissive about 'bad MS' - as MotherofPearl says, one shades into the other. As it's your third, you are the veteran and you don't need any advice from me about meds, kesostix, etc. Did you say the GP grudgingly gave you meds? Stupid of me- missed that part.
Purplefairly I am so glad that you finally got some treatment. I must be being obtuse - not unusual- I wasn't able to follow all that saga - did you get sent home from a and e and then get a phone call asking you to go in?
happydays Oh dear, I am sorry to hear that. It is very disappointing when Ondansetron doesn't work fo r you. Thank goodness you approach the end. You have avoided being admitted for some time, hopefully, at least?
LHReturns and Fourcorneredcircle So sorry to hear of Vile Bile Runs and feeling awful.
LightTripper That is happy news about the scan being fine, and I am so glad you feel a lot better. It is very good of you to come back to encourage others.
Blondes and MotherofPearl Good advice. Oh dear, I had to smile at that term - 'bucket o' bile'...
Apologies if I've overlooked anyone...

lucinda no haven't been admitted for a while and even though i always seem to be teetering at 1 or 2 ketones I think I'm hanging on. Third trimester exhaustion has well and truly hit though and am just counting down the days until I finish now!

LHR I am on omeprozole and it has helped a little. But what I found made mornings significantly less painful is to have an actimel yoghurt drink as soon as I get up. Generally I can make it to the bottom of the drink before it comes up but it means it's not just acid and no where near as painful. I also keep some belvita type biscuits by the bed and try to nibble on one when I wake at 2/3am just so there's a little something going into my stomach.

As for the rest of the time I'm just constantly sucking on mints so I can't taste the acid.

and waves to all - can barely keep my eyes open after a long day at work so sorry if I missed anyone

lucinda yes a and e told us to phone nhs24 and they said we could be waiting up to 2 hours for a phone call back. In the time it took to leave the hospital car park they'd phoned us back to come back to be seen.

bad day today, wasnt sick yesterday evening yah but ......

was very sick and bile 6am driving home from work, and all when doing 70m along m23, good old stash of trusty coop bags, i have one always looped round gearstick so that i can whip off and puke if driving

essential when in fast lane of motorway, tho managed to get into slow lane

then lost breakie, my trusted bagel :( they never come up , plus then sick in car again tho country lanes and then sick about 4, waiting for usual evening sickness

feel crap today and tho i eat and drink it comes back up, my ketones are 2 so dont want to increase overnight, sure tomorrow will be better

lh, def get ranitdene or omepraz, good for reflux and silent reflux, many babies ive looked after have this and help with acid

Oh Blondes, I'm so sorry. You don't deserve days like this at this stage. Throwing up while driving on Monday morning along the A3 while watched by some white van men was a real highlight. So sorry.

Thank you so much again for today's support. Having a bad afternoon and evening - no reason other than I think I drank a chocolate milkshake too fast and has really set me off. Then my toddler slipped down some of our stairs and got a bloody nose. He's fine but was very shocked and had a sort of baby panic attack (couldn't catch his breath etc) so I wanted to hold him while he recovered. My silent retching (caused by my fast run down stairs) was a little confusing for him I think.

I am in the case with the Omeprozole....

HEY ho

It's rare now to be sick all day

You kinda know what day it will be so knew today would be shit

Sorry you've had a bad day blondes. Hope it's the last one.

Lh I down a glass of water first thing which I then instantly throw up but it's not unpleasant and doesn't hurt at all.

Hope everyone else is ok, can't read back very well and have totally forgotten everyone's days. Going to sleep now Zzzzzzz

Gosh LH, hope your DS is alright after his fall? Pity about that chocolate milkshake, too.
Blondes, sorry you've had such an awful day. Hope you are resting up this evening. That goes for Castle, Happy and Four as well. Rest is Best should be the HG motto eh?
So glad to hear about your scan Light, and that you're feeling so much better. If only all HCPs could read what you wrote in your post about how the right treatment plan has helped you.
Purple, ah the trusty ice pops! Hope they're doing the trick. I ate an awful lot of White's Lemonade Ice Lollies when I was suffering and they worked a treat.

Managed to go to work yesterday but was exhausted last night.

Got in to bed at 7, dozed through some tv and then got really upset about how miserable I feel. I was so hungry but couldn't think of anything I wanted to eat, so lay here sobbing for ages.

It's just so miserable feeling like this.

Cyclizine is keeping the vomiting away but still feel sick and I can't really eat.

Is it the empty stomach or dehydration that makes your ketones go up?