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 great: 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.

Thanks everyone. Thingy I think it was about 8 weeks. I delayed for a bit worrying about safety of the meds when I really should've just taken them straight away when it hit.

Congratulations Captain. Happy to see you've made it to the pink castle. Hope you're gorging yourself on all the good.

Lucinda - well done to your daughter. She's done brilliantly.

Oklahoma - I'm sorry you're feeling useless today, but you're growing a baby! So even if you don't get anything done, you are still accomplishing baby growing.

I'm grumpy today. I don't often ask for help or to borrow things, but MIL said I couldn't borrow her carpet cleaner (nesting here), because she needs to use it to clean all the stains her other grandkids have been allowed to make at her house. And then SIL who hasn't spoken to me all pregnancy wants to come over and look at our house for paint inspiration, and I can't be bothered to deal with her. Normally I'm much nicer, but I can't eat chocolate, I feel nauseous all the time and I don't care about paint colours at the moment.

Sorry for the moan 😞

Sorry you're feeling grumpy Mellee. Sounds a bit mean of MIL. Hopefully she'll let you borrow it when she's done (and maybe clean your carpets for you?! No? Lol). I know what you mean about can't be bothered to deal with people. I have a friend who has been spamming me non stop with her personal drivel for months and I just can't bring myself to care (normally I'm a very supportive friend but I have my limits, and she knows how ill I've been). Sadly even only replying to 1 message in 10, she doesn't seem to be getting the message.

Here you go, Potter fans. My nursery mural I'm really chuffed with it. I'll just put up one now, as I don't want to fill the thread up with it. But there's loads of detail which might be hard to see. I can always put more pics over on the FB group at a later date, especially when I've done the rest of it

Oh my Lemon!! Absolutely love it, how amazing. You resisted temptation to do it in house colours?! Very cool.

Sorry about MIL and SIL Mellee. Last thing you need. Can you get DH to intervene and have a word with his mum?!

Forgot to say, huge congrats Lucinda, what a wonderful achievement from your DD!

I've turned grumpy this evening as the nausea has been back for the last hour really quite bad . Next week cannot bloody come quick enough.

Thank you everybody for your kind congratulations. You will soon be boasting about your LO's achievements - and before you know it, they won't be LO's but bigger than you.

CaptainWarbeck Thank you so much for coming on with a lovely supportive message.
DeadDoorPost I hope the noise has long stopped and you found some drink that was bearable - ice cubes or soda water or elderflower water or whatever?
Hollyhop I do hope baby turns. Did you find the Spinning Babies website any good?
Mustang You poor thing.That is awful. Did they give a good explanation and sufficient reassurance? Never say you are useless - you are, as others say, doing a skilled job in growing a baby and if those presenters had Hyperemesis they would be gagging and looking far from glamorous.
Melleebacca I don't blame you for being grumpy. SIL is being insensitive. Hasn't she even asked how you are?
UrbanMortificado How are things now?
lemondrop That is a very neat piece of work.
Waves to Lemondrop flossyfloss and everyone.

Lemon - that's stunning. And I love how it's not in your face as being HP, it's really cleverly done. Baby is going to love it (in a year or so when it comes into focus 😊)

Holly - I think nausea and grumpiness go hand in hand. The nausea robs you of everything that makes you happy.

Lucinda - I could rave for days about DD, i think that's part of being a mama.

Calmed down a bit about family drama. Probably extra sensitive due to this SIL telling us by Chinese whispers the names she wants to use for her hypothetical children and that we can't use them.

Lucinda Yeah the noise stopped finally and then when the guy left I threw up. Shoved an ice lolly in my mouth and then ate some chocolate a few hours later when I felt much better. Was hungry for the rest of the day so I'm glad the nausea went. No idea what happened though. Maybe it was the lack of sleep

Lemon that mural is amazing, what a piece of work!

@Lemondrop99
That mural is lovely. Did you do it / design it yourself?

Lemon that's amazing, really beautiful!

Ugh had one of those uncontrollable vomiting sessions last night and feel just awful this morning. Trying to make it through with nibbles on coconut biscuit and pepsi, am hoping it stays down otherwise it's going to be one of those days. On the plus side it's raining here, so much better than the heatwave!

For those of you who are further along, can I ask at what point did you start to regain some of the weight you lost? Was never weighed last time so have no comparison point and don't know when to expect a turnaround.

lemon that's fantastic!
pippa I. A few day ahead, so not much, but I've put a couple of pounds on since 17 weeks, (19 weeks), still a stone and a half lighter than my start weight.

*I'm a few days ahead of you...

Pippa - lost 6kg with DD from week 6 to week 9. Plateaued until week 16 and then gained a steady 0.5kg a week until I have birth. This time around lost 6.3kg by week 8, plateaued till week 16 and have been slowly gaining it back. At week 31 I finally hit my pre-pregnancy weight again. So a bit slower this time around.
Looking forward to gaining heaps of weight back when I can finally eat again in roughly 60 days....Hope that helps.

Pippa: I've been similar to Mellee - aroubd 10kg lost at the start, maintained until weeks 16-20ish then started putting back on. Haven't weighed self in a few months but would guess by size of my bump that I'm back to pre-preg or just over. This time though I haven't really spread out anywhere other than bump or boobs so feeling a bit happier about my weight this time than last time where I managed to end up at 15st by the end.

Captain: congrats! So happy to hear you are enjoying baby snuggles sickness free

Lemon: amazing mural. What a lucky baby!

Mellee: I can empathise with the nesting and grumpy feelings. Think my nesting urges have really hit but feeling a bit hampered by having no where to set up for baby just yet, the fact that we aren't going to start packing just yet as it looks like it's going to be weeks still before the solicitors are finished (though we are going to start doing some sorting next week so it will just be packing to do)

I'm all restless yet tired and not really wanting to do anything and I stupidly ate a pack of jammy dodgers last night even though the bad taste and nausea are worse in the evening so I didn't really enjoy them

Lemon. .. that's beautiful. .. well done you! What's the fb group ?!?!

Hope everyone one well as can be. No relapse just yet but fed up. Had glucose tolerance test yday which wit the new solution rwther than lucozade was just horrendous. Then I had to go to work and was so grumpy, then came home to grumpy 3 year old as husband out for his students prom and I really struggled lookong after him.on my own :( his stone collection fell out car door and he wanted to put then bavk in the car one by one and I just wanted to get in the house to eat and sit... then had an almighty tantrum about his pj bottoms and I just had to leave him in jis room as i was losing it.. poor thing just was a sobbing mess and gave me cuddles when i came back 3 minutes later. Feel awful :(

Is anyone else struggling with the well meaning, daily messages from multiple people asking "how are you today?"?
I'm still feeling and being sick like I have for the past 10 weeks.

Thanks Mellee, Haitch and nonstop it sounds like I should get there soon in that case. I've not lost vast amounts, just a slow and steady decline, but looking forward to the plateau!

Scots yes, I know what you mean, a while ago my dad came out with the flippant gem 'so how are you, oh still being sick then?'. To be honest, most other people don't bother asking any more, I'm not sure which is worse, think it's a no-win!

Here both attempts at breakfast have failed so it looks like it will be one of those days. I just don't understand how HG works, going from a really great day where I felt almost normal (ok, still throwing up, but not too much) to keeping nothing down...it's a strange illness!

oh and Flap it sounds like you handled that tantrum beautifully, much better to remove yourself from the situation for a couple of minutes. Hope you have a better day today!

Oh Scot it's tiresome or the few people who see you regularly telling you "you look a bit better today" aye that's helpful!!!!

Wow Lemon can you come do mine??? It's beautiful.

Oh wow look at all those scary weight losses. Hi everyone sorry I'm feeling meh and struggling to read for any period at mo but I'm taking a break from the ondansetron to kick start bowels again. Cramps still persistent and coincide with sickness, stress or excessive movement

Thanks Pippa.. I didn't feel it when he was screaming mummy no, no leave me. :( breaks my heart.

Oh the how are yous... and then the expectant expression wherr you feel you should say " fab thanks, had a ginger bicut snd that put me right straight away" . Its impossible. I was talking to a friend who is having fertility difficulties and she says she feels the same and has a same range of comments thay do her head in... have you downloaded this app, hve sex more, enjoy sleep while you can, oh we got pregnant first go!

Glad things have settled down a little mustang. Was thinking of yputting

Lemon please come and do mine when we eventually buy a house!!!

Scotslamb Welcome. Sorry you are suffering. Are you on any meds? Do you have kesostix to check for the early stages of dehydration? Well meaning remarks and advice are infuriating, and as for advice about ginger or of the 'I just got on with it' sort...Do you find flat full sugar coke, ice lollies, ice cubes, the juice and fruit of tinned fruit, Elderflower water, sips of chocolate milkshake (maybe soya), coconut milk, cuppa soup, slices of melon, cheap ice cream or crisps any good? Terrible diet, I know, but sweet and salty things seem to be acceptable sometimes.
lemondrop You should take up work house decorating if that wearisome redundancy goes through!
DeadDoorPost I am so glad the noise stopped and the nausea lessened. Noise can set it off badly.
pippasnippa Coconut biscuits sound a good idea. I hope they stayed put.
NonStopDisco Congratulations on weight gain (we must be the only thread where anyone would say that except for eating disorders).
Melleebacca I have heard of MIL's trying to dictate a baby's name, but an SIL comes as a surprise. I think my mother was offended I called DD after OH's mother, but my mother is called 'Doris'.That woudl have been cruel. I try and limit myself as a Maternal Bore, but I do it for all that. Also, it is astonishing to discover how clever babies are; they couldn't learn so much so quickly if they weren't, of course. I tried not to say,'She said "Gaa-Gaa'" in such a clever way.' .
Apologies to anyone rudely ignored.

NonStopDisco

FlapAttack Sorry, I meant to say, I so agree with others, you handled that really well; much better to leave than to stay and shout. Toddlers can be impossible.

My nausea is still rank today. I am so bored and restless...

Lucinda, can we have a due dates update please to cheer myself up?

Sorry to all having a bad day.

Holly I'm one of those having a bad day! Sick from the start this morning and now got the runs too (tmi!)
And I've got my booking in appointment tomorrow so hoping tomorrow is a better day

@pippasnippa I'm the same day as you and still have barely gained any of the weight back so don't worry too much. My boobs haven't even grown bigger they've stayed the same the whole time even when I lost the weight (16kg) but to be fair they're fairly big anyway.
@HaichM i hope I don't go back to the weight I was coz I was 16 stone.. I'm hoping I won't put too much weight on as the baby frowns so I can lose it faster afterwards