Hello my HG friends!
I am so very sorry for silence. Not intentional - and I now feel terrible that you were worried about me. I am very touched, and thank you.
We have a very complicated living situation at the moment while our London home is renovated, so we are basically commuting from our Home Counties place which is near where my stepchildren live with their mother. Trying to keep my DS in some kind of nursery schedule, and keep my job, with HG (plus throw in this week's train strikes) has NOT been helpful. Hope to move back home early next week which should help a lot.
I am writing this from a dodgy hotel room with DS rammed into a far too small travel cot in the bathroom while he has his nap - all so he could go to nursery today and tomorrow (see Santa, sing the songs, make a gingerbread house etc etc).
I am going to read back all the pages I have missed and come back to posters properly. So I hope you will forgive this post being 'all about me'.
I am now 15 weeks and I would say my original HG has improved a great deal over the past few weeks. I am only taking Ondansetron as needed now, and completely off the steroids (the moonface is slowly retreating).
However, I say 'original' HG because I have something new which I'm not sure might be a new manifestation of HG - because I don't know anyone else who has this as early as 15 weeks. It started about a week ago as what I can only describe as severe acid reflux - particularly bad at night. To the point that over the past few days I am waking throughout the night with the most shocking foul acidic taste burning in my mouth, and multiple long-lasting and VERY violent vomits (the Puke-Peeing has reached entirely new levels of indecency)....last couple days these vomits have been tinged with blood which is JUST GREAT.
This is not like my previous 24 hour a day sickness....this is very 'up high' (i should mention that I have a VERY high bump much earlier than with baby number 1). I did have this reflux with DS1 but at more like 6 or 7 months. But the nausea when it hits is so sudden and so violent.
So i now have 20mg of Omeprazole, constantly sucking Gaviscon, and eating and drinking an exclusively low acid diet. And sleeping in a raised position. I only started the Omeprazole yesterday and so far I am still suffering terribly (vomited in a taxi today etc). No real improvement yet.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I am not even 4 months pregnant, yet I thought this reflux was only an issue when the bump was so big that it was pushing the stomach contents right up? While that cannot be the issue here yet (if it is then I have a LONG way to go!).
Will the Omeprozole work over the coming days?
Ideas and advice and experiences seriously appreciated. I feel I am being bashed by one thing then the next.
Thank you again all for caring about me - it helps so much, and I promise not to be quiet for a prolonged period again. Life got on top of me, and I became tired and depressed with it all.