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.

Congratulations to Iamserious! Hopefully the nausea fades with the hormones. You've done so well.

Lucinda yeah they only last for a week or so. My body gets used to tablets so quickly it's crazy. At least I know roughly how long I have until they stop working so I can plan ahead. The cyclizine tablets worked for a bit longer than usual because i wasn't used to them straight away but I did see the decline happening and knew I was in for a bumpy ride. But yeah. Scan day Thursday was the worst I've ever been. 12 hours of vomiting just in 4.5 hours while out for the hospital and back isn't good. Since then I've lost 6lbs as it is. So really really bad.

Congratulations serious so happy for you

You might not even get it this time quest, look forward to NYC.

Congratulations Serious!!!! I'm so so soooooo happy for you. Can't wait to see a photo of your little girl

Holly, are you going to try steroids?

I met another lady today who has HG and we spent half an hour complaining about it! I then asked if she'd tried ginger Her face was a picture as she took a second to realise I was joking, then she laugh and told me to F off

To celebrate a vomit free week, DH and I went out for curry. It was delicious but I just realised that I'd sworn off rice forever!!! Let's hope it stays put

Hi to everyone else, I've run out of energy to type, I'm too full of food!

Oh the rice vom bomb. Good luck with that

I met another lady today who has HG and we spent half an hour complaining about it! I then asked if she'd tried ginger  Her face was a picture as she took a second to realise I was joking, then she laugh and told me to F off 

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@Shirley / fab news. Many congrats 💓👶🏼💓👶🏼💓

And avoid rice everyone

It's the devils work when have hg x

Nausea has landed - I've been taking my cyclizine since yesterday, it's got worse today than yesterday, I'm 4+6 today, I am eating constantly it seems if I put food in my mouth the nausea goes away, if I stop it comes back this is how it always starts and then the vomiting will begin by about Wednesday is my guesstimation

So I'm about to join you all in the horror of HG, I can only hope that Pre-emptive meds actually make a difference!

Has anyone had HG before and then tried ore-emptive meds and it's actually helped and made a difference? I guess I'm just hoping it won't be as bad this time!

Oh flossy I remember how I felt when it started up again with my 2nd pg (this one) :( I honestly thought I may be getting away with it as I got it from 4 weeks ish with my first and then didn't start until 7 weeks ish with this one!!!

And quest I had similar fears to you as I was booked onto a school trip abroad as a teacher for when I was 6.5 weeks !!! I was terrified it wpuld start on the way there on the 35 hour coach journey! !

Luckily it only started halfway through the coach journey home!!!

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I know we love to laugh about the (sodding) ginger biscuits but back in my first HG pregnancy when I didn't even know about HG and felt soooo alone and no one to understand my ginger fury I did used to get really upset by being asked it! Even this time I get really upset by people asking it and do my best to just smile and say thanks for that thoughtful suggestion ( aka f off and shove your ginger biscuits up your hoop ) and I wondered why it upsets me soooo much as I know most mean well. This poster summarises it well!

Flossy - 2nd time round here. Took ondansetron when nausea started and managed to delay vomiting for a week longer than with my first.

Lemon - I love it! I always ask someone as soon as they announce a pregnancy about their level of sickness. I'm a little HG obsessed, and searching for friends to complain with 😂

Happy Mothers Day everyone! Hope you managed to have a puke free day. Today my teeny tiny MIL spent ages complaining to me about how fat she has gotten, whilst telling me how big my non-existent bump has gotten. Feeling pudgy here. Had a spoonful of ice cream and now on the verge of vomiting. Oh the joy.

Congratulations Shirley!star]star]star]**
I hope the end of nausea comes very, very soon but in the meantime you've got a beautiful distraction.

I get really tearful whenever there's a birth announcement on here. I can feel so bloody low and helpless with it all, it's all going to be worth it in the end.

Congratulations Iamserious!!!

Thank you everyone. It's a huge relief. Nausea is definitely ebbing away, so feeling hopeful. We even had a half decent night. So all very happy.

put put just remember with each birth you are moving up that damn list. I used to like seeing names above me leave- felt like proper progress. But I do know how hard it is when your in the middle of it all. Xx

Here she is. Xx

Aww look at that beautiful wee face!! She is gorgeous.

She is beautiful I Am Serious, huge congrats!! So happy for you, I've got my fingers firmly crossed the nausea does one completely today.

I am looking forward to moving up the list! July still seems like a bloody age away, but if I can get an early induction, it could be end of June...

I'm not going to ask for the steroids unless it gets back to the absolute worst it was Lemon. At the moment, I am back to being sick everyday, but it is only 3/4 times. If it gets up to 6/7 I might change my mind again.

Waves to all, hope today is a good day.

Ahh she is beautiful :) xx

Ah, she's lovely iamserious congratulations again xx

IAmSerious What a lovely baby! I always forget how tiny newborns are. But the noise they make! Again congratulations, you were always wonderful on this thread at encouraging others, though suffering yourself. Glad that the nausea is on the wane. Do you know, I am still good and mad about that manager or work colleague who wrinkled up her nose at your vomit stained trousers?!

Aw, that picture has cheered me up on a bad day, enjoy those lovely, precious first few days iamserious!!!

She's beautiful xx

She's absolutely beautiful Iamserious.

I know what you mean Holly. 11+2 weeks to go seems a long long way away still. I don't know how you do it, still being sick that many times a day but I'm glad it's not worse.

I'm still the same as yesterday. Been left in the house on my own and feel rubbish and reallt anxious about getting dehyrdated again since I'm barely eating or drinking anything and my lips are already so dry and also worried about what my manager will think if I say I'm not coming in tomorrow. I don't think I can if I'm like this. I can't really move without wretching or wanting to be sick...

Massive congratualtions iamserious, she is beautiful!

DeadDoorpost, I think if you are taking the tablets properly you should not really taste them. I was doing it wrong at first and they tasted awful. They go at the top of you gum and sort of stick in place after a few minutes. But it takes 1-2 hours(!) for them to dissolve, so you have to be careful not to move them around or poke them with your tongue. If that does not work, you could always try the regular tablets.

I have basically been stuck on the sofa for the past 5 weeks and dehydrated/losing weight. I've tried lots of different meds over that time, but I just started on 4 x 4mg ondanestron (Zofran) and 3 x 5mg prochlorperazine (Stemetil) each day. I feel amazing!

Part of that is maybe not being sedated by the bloody cyclizine (which I feel didn't really help with the nausea anyway), but I also have not thrown up, or even felt particularly nauseous in 48 hours. I am eating real food and drinking water properly instead of tiny little sips. My muscles have given up on me, so I'm trying to build up some short walks. I am only 10 weeks, so hopefully I have finally hit on a winning combination of meds.