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.

Oops...

We bought our pram, car seat & monitor together & saved a large chunk of change 👍🏻 Definitely for the best seeing as I managed to pick the most expensive of all options!

Why was your second trimester the worst lucy? Was the sickness worse? I'm really hoping mine improves over the next few weeks. 12 weeks today 🍾 still on 3 different kinds of meds though, and still need them all. The ondansetron has definitely helped.

The drugs for the heartburn are really helping , thanks for asking Lucy.
I wish I had been given them sooner!

I Just glug gavisicon - def having heartburn lots now
Is it true heartburn = baby with lots of hair

My mum used to drink gavisicon lots about 10yrs ago. She had bad heartburn but obv not preg

Blondes - one of the ladies in my NCT group had her baby on Thursday. She had awful heartburn & the baby has the most spectacular hair!

Captain - yes, the sickness was a lot worse in the second trimester.

Blondes Great Pink Castle! The one on that old board game in my youth was sweet, but not as spectacular as that.
fourcorneredcircle Sorry to hear of bad day; its nice you will be viewing prams.
Lucy I so agree about the chocolate milk and tinned peaches and juice.
Sorry you still continue to suffer badly.
CaptainWarbeck How are things today?
Waves to MotherofPearl and everyone.

moonoverthewater Meant to say, I am so glad the heartburn meds are helping. Heartburn makes the sickness so much worse.

Why are there so many different prams?! We only went to one local independent shop and that wore us out.

Not a bad day sick wise... yay!

Lucy I bet you can't quite believe there are only five sleeps to go! Thanks for the tip re: M&P event. Nearest M&P is quite a trek from here but we're planning to go in January. If we like what they have we'll sign up :)

Moon yay for heartburn meds making a difference...

blondes I second the heartburn = hair. My aunt had seven children. Only one of her pregnancies didn't have horrific heartburn, also the only bald baby!!!

captain I have everything crossed hoping you start to see a big improvement soon ... here's to the 2nd trimester relief mines late

Four - they have the big brands too. We have a bugaboo Buffalo & got it much cheaper from them in their event. Really recommend the car seat we got, it's called the cybex cloud & it's sat at a lower angle so we can travel longer with the boy when he's newborn. It also folds out flat once it's clipped onto the buggy. They just changed the rules about car seats & now they're only allowed in them for 30 mins on the older type. How completely impractical! Gah.

Managed to eat dinner tonight & I was really hungry. I hope that's not a sign that he's coming early, he's not allowed to!

Hi all, hope this weekend has been good. I am back to the docs tomorrow to review my new medication.
I feel like Ondansetron has made the best difference. Having the heartburn meds on top great. I am taking this with cyclizine which I'm not sure is helping and has the worst taste of it catches in your mouth!!!!

Please could you guys let me know what meds and doses have worked best for you. I would love to discuss with my doctor and get it under control so I can go back to work, to keep saving for mat leave!

Thank you all in advance. Have good days xxx

Lucy. Be interesting if bubs has lots of hair daddy doesn't

Lucinda. Found on Google and thought the pink fluffy clouds were fab

Four. You suffering as well with hb. I can go through a bottle of gavisicon in a week or two

Buggies. I wasn't sure what I wanted tho knew what I didn't want as used them as a nanny /maternity nurse

Hate bugaboo - icandy and Phil and teds and the one that looks like a gold trolley but costing £1k ++

Thought df and I would go buggy shipping etc but instead we saw a buggy online we liked. Reviewed it as new and had good reviews , then had email with 75% off it

So we brought it. Was £500ish and got for £169 - buggy car seat and basinette thing

Not long now lucy .....

Ps sick twice yesterday :( and eating cheese and biscuits in bed at midnight as so bloody hungry. And they were yummy !!!

South I'm on

• metoclopramide 10mg 3xday
• stematil 10mg 2-3xday
• ondansetron 8mg up to 3xday but realistically I'm only using it twice a day as I haven't worked out a good schedule for it yet and don't want to be setting alarms for the middle of the night yet.

I'm feeling a lot less sick although I get queasy just before I'm due my doses of stematil... and the ondansetron is causing the dreaded constipation, the joys. Also feeling really really tired and sleeping a lot at the moment. DH is doing a lot more round the house and we have family helping out with DS during the week.

Went out to a movie with DH today which was nice although I almost fell asleep in the cinema it was so dark and warm.

Blondes I too get the midnight cheese and crackers cravings!

Thanks for all your advice last week, we told DS yesterday, his excitement at learning he will be a big brother was lovely. He hasn't linked illness with pregnancy, think he is forgetting what I was like when well, let's hope he forgets illness just as quickly when it's all over.

Scan last week went well, DH was excited to see baby, I was just relieved that a) baby is ok and b) there is only one baby.

Sorry I haven't posted for a while, all a bit boring here. Vomiting is mostly under control now, only sick about once a week since starting ondansetron/cyclizine and bed rest combination. Nausea still bad enough to need a few hours lying still with eye mask and radio 4 several times a day.

Think I am struggling more mentally than physically at the moment, I am nowhere near as ill as the majority on this thread - your strength continues to amaze and inspire me.

On the subject of hair and heartburn, I had no heartburn at all in previous pregnancy, DS was born with a full head of hair, it stuck straight up in the air for months (someone actually asked me if I used gel!)

South I agree about the after taste with cyclizine (when I was at my worst, it did make me throw up if I didn't swallow it first time and I still panic that I will be sick every time I take it). Have found taking it in the middle of a meal works well, something in my stomach to throw up if it goes wrong, then the rest of the food to take taste away!

Found stemetil far worse for after taste as it dissolves slowly on gums meaning horrible taste is there for hours, plus can't eat or drink to take taste away (and I missed hunger windows because of it). Was glad to be off that one.

Like captain I am also only taking 2 ondansetron a day as I sleep 10 hours a night and don't want to be setting alarms for medication.

I tried staggering the ondansetron and cyclizine to spread them out during the day, but found taking them at the same time was easier.

Good luck with GP, mine said we just need to keep trying different combinations to see what works best. I hope you find a combination that works for you.

Yes the taste of an anti sickness pill makes you feel sick if any of the coating dissolves in your mouth

It's revolting

I always have water ready to swallow down with

Yah for seeing scan and agree the relief of one. I was so worried I had identical twins as so sick early one and knew one embryo was put in via ivf

Love looking after twins but don't want twins at my age - plus double the cost with buggies car seats cots etc

Fab happy being big brother x

Hi South

I'm on metachlopramide 3 times a day,
Prochloprazine twice a day,
Ondansatron is for when I feel I need it but I'm still on it twice a day.

Like captain I don't want to be waking in the middle of the night to take a 3rd prochloprazine and I think it's the least effective one anyway.

Im still being sick 3-7 times a day, although yesterday I had a miracle day and wasn't sick atall, which I credit with trying tinned peaches! Still not well enough to leave the house or do much other than sleep or sit in the sofa.

I hated cyclizine when I took it, because it made me dizzy.

It looks as if various sorts of congratulations are in order.
Lucy on eating dinner
SouthLondon on a good-ish weekend
CaptainWarbeck on going out (and having a nice snooze in the cosy cinema)
Squeezypeasy on scan and on sleeping ten hours a night
And fourcourneredcircle On choosing a pushchair and on that fecund aunt...
Interesting, people's comments about hirsute babies and heartburn - my DD only had fair fluff and that heartburn was torment...
Blondes 'At your age' nothing; you've more energy than many a women in her twenties, what with that Socialising With Occasional Puking Breaks.
Ah, and on the Pink Castle,for new people. When I was a kid we had a Snakes and Ladder board with a pink castle at the end in the winning square. As Hyperemesis is like a grotesque board game - eat something, move forward two squares, meds stop working, back three- I got in the habit of seeing a wonderful Pink Castle being the end of the Hyperemesis journey...And Blondes Where did you get that lovely image of one - I'd like to copy it and put it in the introductory post.
I hope everyone is coping today. Waves to MotherofPearl and Lighttripper
Apologies if I've rudely ignored anyone.

Pastiemaid I forgot to say - you poor thing, sick up to seven times a day even on those meds. I am glad the tinned peaches were acceptable. I swore by tinned pears too myself.

The tinned peach thing is so odd. But hey, if it works, it works, eh!

Blondes - unfortunately it's my hair that fell out, I have HG triggered alopecia. Joy. I basically have a monks patch about the size of a tennis ball 🙈

I can't remember the dosages of everything, but I was on metaclopramie 2 x tablets 3 x a day, stemitil 2 x 5 mg 3 x a day, & Ondansetron 8 mg 3 x a day. And I was still being very very sick. It's been under 10 times a day since about 32/33 weeks, but in the second trimester I was being sick a couple of times an hour. Truly miserable.

Saw the midwife today as was sick all night. I'm 38+3 today but he's measuring 40 weeks! Was sent away with directions to have a glass of wine & a roast dinner! Wine!! 🙌🏻 So far it's stayed down... everyone cross fingers!

Fingers crossed Lucy. Enjoy that wine!! Baby will be so soon now, really happy for you. Your experience seems far the worst I have seen.

Thank you so much for doses etc. I really appreciate it. My doc never had a HG patient before and trying to get my hosp to take more responsibility for me. In the meantime he was in touch with one of the hosp obstetric docs who suggested my current combo. I feel ondansetron is the changer but only on 4mg at the moment... only constipation already set in!!!!! ... start contrast to runny tummy of last week!

To all constipation suffererers have you taken laxative? If so what are your experiences? Hydration is my biggest issue and I'm worried to perpetuate it... at the same time I won't be ok with prolonged constipation.

In my head I am aiming to get back to work on Thursday....

Huge thanks again for knowledge, wisdom and experiences!!

Ah, I forgot to say, those suffering from constipation, that many swear by those pessaries from Boots. Pharmacists can object to selling them to pregnant women, though they are used in hospital.
Lucy Sorry to hear you were sick all night. Best of luck with the wine. Well, many healthy sized babies born to women on here have been more or less grown on tinned fruit and its juice, sips of coke, Elderflower water, nibbles crisps, ice lollies, cheap ice cream, cuppa soup and so on...I'm glad baby is measuring well, anyway. You'll soon grow that hair back, and what a relief.

Enjoy wine lucy. and :( at hair loss. R.E.M. You saying that now

I may have energy but still old 😉

Ps literally put pink castle. Fluffy clouds into google images and found it

You should be able to click on pic and save it

Hello everyone!
im 8/40 with my third pregnancy, 2&4 yr old ds's already.
Have had a couple of looks over this thread but last week was too ill to even think about typing.
Started vomiting at 5 weeks, got admitted at 7 weeks, was pretty sick in a&e. I'm a nurse and I knew I was dehydrated but I think I'd been trying to tough it out at home after the usual fob offs in my last pregnancy when I presented to an out of hours GP with 4+ ketones and barely awake and told to just get on with it...cue 3 weeks in bed licking ice lollies...
This time it's much worse...I'm really really hopeful it will start to lessen around 24/40 like my last two pregnancies, fingers crossed!
Am on ondansetron 4mg 4 hourly which seems to have the vomiting under control and cyclizine 3 a day but it makes me feel awful!
Main issue is I just don't want to eat or drink....any tips?!

Cyclazine 3x a day here. Force the first one down when DH gets up for work at 6... I mush half a cracker up in my mouth to a paste and pop the pill inside that. I find if I drink anything, even a sip before I've had the first bile vomit of the day it comes back up. But the cracker mush seems to work.
Then another at 2, and sometimes one at ten, depends how sick I feel. I have random days where I vom in the evening. If I don't, I don't take it. It works, mostly, most days I have one big vomit first thing then although I retch a bit throughout the day I'm not often sick more than that once/twice. And they tend to be mouthfuls. Cyclizine initially made me sleepy and dopey (the two best dwarves) but now I'm pretty okish as long as I don't over do it. I get shakey sometimes in the day if I'm too tired but I think a lot of that is probably hunger/dehydration. I don't drink much before 2pm as it makes me feel very sick, suck a few ice lollies if I'm awake. Don't panic lucinda and MoP, I have many, many pints of ridiculously strong black currant squash of an afternoon/evening, I'm trying hard to avoid dehydration!!! Also, it's still pretty much my only fruit/vegetable intake!

Lovely day today, told my 95 y o grandma that we are expecting. She was very pleased to hear the news. Although she moaned a bit about how long she still has to wait (she's not known for her patience!). Also, I ate an actual meal (not as impressive a meal as Lucy mind... mmm )! Mashed potato, gravy and a nut cutlet thing. Followed by custard. The apple pie was not appealing. This is good though as it's improved my acceptable food stuffs by 300%, even if basically I just ate slightly solid soup for both courses

Jump welcome to the club that no one wants to join. Pull up a bucket, you are among green, hair losing, peach juice swigging, pregnancy cynical friends.

Sorry to those suffering with constipation... glycerine suppositories have been mentioned. LH got desperate enough to try eating kiwi... with the skin on although, we never got an update as to how effective that was...

Waves to blondes, sneezy and everyone else. Anyone heard from peace lately?