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.

Awww I'm so relieved to hear you've had some great support Holly! I'm happy you're feeling better in yourself - even if the HG witch is raging Nine weeks though - single digits woooo!!!

Thanks Lemon. Got my first NCT class tonight, so while I could really do without a late night (was up crying from 2ish this morning) I am hoping it will be a good distraction/cheer me up...

Hope you meet some nice people at the class

Argh, I just broke my non vomit streak 😫 It would have been about 9/10 days since I last threw up....but no. It was a really super wretchy one too, pulled my stomach. A friend is due over shortly and wants to order curry.....remind me not to order rice!

I'm a complete newbie... What is this class?

And I made it, full shift... Now home in bed!

Well done onnatures I'd have thrown the towel In at the first hurdle.

Don't do rice eeep iv just thrown up my dinner I had carbonara (bad choice) also my last ondansetron of the day.... could cry and don't want to risk taking another even though I saw it in the toilet bowl. I shall crawl into bed and feel sorry for myself. I co sleep with my wee one who gives the best cuddles though so it's all good.

Hmm there really needs to be more studies into HG it would be interesting to see the links with pre existing illnesses to see if preemptive treatment could help a lot of women.

Holly I'm so glad they are looking into you not having to self test it's crazy that they thought that's it was ever going to be a plausible option.

Iv decided to get sterilised after this baby I never want this again.

OnNatures, NCT does private antenatal classes, not been on one yet but midwife says they're really useful.

Had my real scan today and got my pics and everything. Had a real crisis of confidence last night, due to being shit at being pregnant, rubbish at my job, and probably rubbish at parenting in the future. Feeling better now, just a nagging feeling that I've done something wrong?
Scan pics have made me feel better, looking forward to showing family.

Hello all.. not been.on here much recently as been so sick even reading good suggestions as made me be sick haha.

Glad to hear lots of you are doing ok and sorry so many of you are having a crap crap crap time.

One nature thay policy is only fit for the garbage bin

I am jusy about over the chest infection. Been off work 3 week now and am.19 weeks pregnant. Came off my cyclizine as I was soo groggy with it and had suchance a bad time with the dry mouth and exhaustion. Felt like I was only semi conscious amd sleeping day and night.

Sickness isn't thay much worse without it to be honest surprisingly but maybe as I am a bit further along now. Being sick 3 to 5 times a day and really struggling to keep things down and am running out of new thibgs ti try as so many food items have now had their moment of glory and been ruled out for good :(

Due to go bavk to work on Monday bit am relly unsure if I will.make it. I have done a few bits if admin over the last few days and even afyer 40 minutes or so I am so drained from.it I start vomiting again out of control and need to sleep. I don't know what to do.

I don't think I jave said my due date.. 10th October :) not long now (??!)

Lemondrop99 sorry you lost you good non vomit streak! I had a 4 day streak once... ah those were the days!!!

Wishing you all well xx

*food suggestions!

Not good suggestions haha.

In the distant past I would make myself vomit as a form of self harm. Possibly explains why my gag reflex is so sensitive these days. Anyway, I saw a MH professional today and she asked whether I'd self-harmed in this way recently. No need, said I! How we laughed...

SnapAttack I feel like every single thread on MN mentions food (why does iPad correct food to good? Food is an actual word!), and I've felt almost betrayed when previously safe food has "turned" on me. Have you visited docs for different drugs?

Peaceloveandbiscuits that must add another dimension of horridness to the sickness as well

Sorry my attempt at being funny!

nonstopdisco haha I know... I have such a weird stock cupboard.. I would say in the kitchen but previously acceptable items are now hidden around the house in case I see them!

Haven't been to dr yet to try new drugs. Last visit was a pretty bad experience as new dr i saw was v anti medication in pregnancy and told me I should be focusing on cutting down not trying even more! It was the same Sr who told me my secondary chest infection was just an irritation cough though so maybe shouldn't take her advice to heart too muxh!

I managed to get another cyclizine prescription out of her though but then had another bad experience with the pharmacist running after me in boots shouting "how far along are you.. you know you shouldn't be taking them don't you.. contra indication.m do you know what you are doing! " ah that was a bad day!

So not sure reallt where to go.from here. Takes 3 plus weeks.to get a dr appointment where I live. So just battling on at the moment but it's awful and much less under.control without the cyclizine

Morning all. NCT class was quite good. There are 8 couples in all I think. Everyone seemed nice and friendly and I'm hoping a few people I will be able to make friends with. We also got some free baby grows from M&S which was a nice surprise! The content was quite useful, talked through the early stages of labour, when to go in, different types of places to give birth, how to deliver the placenta etc. A few opportunites to chat to each other in smaller groups. Looking forward to the next one.

I am sorry your non vom stream was broken Lemon . Here's hoping today starts a new one, how did the curry go or hopefully stay, down?! Hope you enjoyed your friends company.

Mustang how are you doing this morning? Sorry to hear you're so down. I want to have the same conversation with DH about getting sterilised. We want to adopt anyway, so I'm sure he will be in agreement. Just remember how amazing you are for willingly doing this twice. What a fab mum.

This is going to be a really feel sorry for myself post

I woke up this morning and vomited three times, since I've took my cyclizine I've not been sick but my word I feel like a zombie, I look a complete mess and the nausea is so debilitating. I could barely get the kids ready for school

I have another appointment with the doctor this afternoon.

Shall I ask for ondansetron again? I asked last time but he said to start off with something milder, I'm only 5+4 this is going to be a long road.

I don't get company sick pay and just can't afford not to get paid. I might ask my boss whether there's any possibility of company sick pay for a period - they do sometimes allow it at discretion.

I was stupidly optimistic thinking I could keep this under control this time . We have a holiday booked in 4 weeks - that's going to be completely ruined

Snap get yourself up to the maternity ward immediately 3 weeks is a disgrace do not just suffer through it. I did that last time it didn't help anyone.

I'm ok Holly honestly it's just hard work every day but everyone in here knows that.

Peace don't blame yourself for that I spent most of my teens doing it and I dont think my gag reflex is any more sensitive if anything it's harder to be sick. Regardless though I laughed at your humour as that's what I would have said, I can imagine the face you got lol.

I just wish there was more positive news for everyone and more improvements but I'm seriously starting to think the "it's better after the first trimester" bar a few is a myth lol

Flossy can I join you as I'm feeling sorry for myself today too? Feeling just awful, the combination of meclizine and the other m one whose name I forget definitely isn't working any better. The nausea is coming through worse every day and I'm vomiting more and more often and really just can't face food. Can't help but think what's the point in trying to eat anyway?! I feel so lucky that the medicine held the nausea at bay in the beginning, but am gutted it seems to be getting less effective.

Have to go and pick up my daughter in an hour from playgroup and have no idea how I'll get through the journey there and back and then keep her entertained all afternoon. Just want to crawl into the corner of a dark room and hide for a few days. Feel like I'm getting that 10 week surge thing, just a few weeks late, who knows.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, and sorry Flossy you're having such a rubbish day today too.

SnapAttack it's so demoralising when docs are not helpful, I don't think pregnant women are trusted to make decisions for themselves (this goes for a lot of things, not just HG treatment). As mustang says, get your maternity ward to prescribe meds for you. 3 weeks!?

peaceandlove sorry, it was funny! I just wondered if the HG was bringing it all back (so to speak).

flossy do you have decent doctors? If you've been through it before shouldn't they ramp up the drugs fairly quickly?

holly I honestly haven't thought beyond next week, nevermind about birth ( November is aaaaggges away). I didn't realise there was a 'how to deliver the placenta", I thought that... well I didn't. I just thought it turned up afterwards, somehow! I only know a couple of people with kids and neither of them have talked about birth or anything! (Beyond "I had a EMCS" or "the hospital had no food")

SnapAttack Ha Ha about the 'garbage bin' policy they have where OnNature'sCourse works. I'm glad the chest infection has gone; they are horrible, and must be dreadful with Hyperemesis. Mother Hen says you really must extend your sick note until you feel a lot better. Can you do it by phone as you've been seen before?
Mustang and peaceloveandbiscuits I am so glad they aren't making accusations connecting your old problems and this scouge. There was one girl on here who hadn't had that problem but had been overweight before Hyperemesis, and they said she was making herself vomit on purpose - she lost four stone and went down to her perfect weight; I think it was partly because she was very young she was treated in an arbitrary manner.
NonStopDisco Congratulations on that scan.Nobody should blame herself for having this condition that she wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. If you are so self-critical, it is a good sign that you will be anything but 'crap' as a mother - and we all fail to perform at that as well as we would wish.
Goodness, it has been busy on here of late. Anecdotally, then, it would appear that the tiny estimate of the percentage of women who suffer from Hyperemesis is surely incorrect?
Mustang Rice? Oh no.
Hollyhop I am glad that you feel a lot more positive and the NCT class went well.
Lemondrop09 Sorry about the vomit; I hope it was a one off. Were you overtired, says bossy Mother Hen?
flossyfloss I do hope the GP gives you Ondansetron (and meds for constipation - lactulose or whatever).
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pippasnippa Sorry, cross posted. Much sympathy. It must be so hard dealing with a toddler and Hyperemesis. Overuse of childrens' television and DVD's is wholly understandable!

So sorry you're feeling so bad flossy, our edd is very similar, mine is 13th Jan! My Ondansatron is keeping the sickness away but the nausea has ramped up this week. I've got a 2yr old with sickness bug and I've been housebound since Sunday, early pregnancy hormones are making me really emotional which isn't helping. Humpf :-(

Thanks for the support

I have a doctors appointment this afternoon. I'm going to ask for ondansetron again, to be honest my doctor didn't even look st my previous notes, he just about let me tell him what was wrong and then asked me what medication I wanted.

I'm going to have to put a doctors note in I have no idea how I will pay my bills but there's just no way I can function in work let alone drive there

Does ondansetron help with the nausea? I've never had it before.

Flossy... Have you been to the docs, what are they saying?

My day today started off better, then I got told my department is shutting down so we are all being moved to different jobs which will be 24/7 shifts or anything between 8am and 10pm and I've felt sick ever since.

I honestly will not be able to cope with late shifts. I currently work until 8pm one night a week and it kills me. Body has me awake at 4am every day without fail at the moment (insomnia?) and I rarely get a deep sleep plus DP has sleep apnea so I really need to be in bed and asleep before him if I have any chance of nodding off.

And if the above jobs don't suit we are being offered redundancy which will mean no maternity pay for me as we will leave with more than 15 weeks to my due date (qualifying week)

😟

So I got the results of my blood tests following up from my hospital admission a few weeks back. My potassium and thyroid levels are still messed up. I am not surprised, as the medicines were effervescent tablets that taste like dirty fizzy sea water. So naturally I threw most of them up.

Why do so many HG medicines taste disgusting (looking at you gaviscon and lactulose). What is wrong with tablets? \rant

Gp refused to give me any medication and said I am showing signs of dehydration and I need to go to hospital for some Iv fluids and then can sort out treatment there I'm not even 6 weeks yet, feel like a complete failure, why have I put myself through this again knowing I have other children to look after ? I feel like I have knowingly put myself in this situation.

They will just treat me and send me on my way and the whole thing starts in a viscous circle