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.

Oh dear blue :(
Though at least it's fresh towels you're chewing on and not dirty ones

Natsku, sorry to hear about sickness resurgence. Those pesky hormone surges do mean the sickness can flare up, even when you're better overall. Glad that the omeperazole seems to be making a difference.

Pippa, are you taking anything for the heartburn?

Blue, argh, dreadful to still be sick at 30 weeks. I was the same. A daily late-afternoon vom that usually felt like pure acid, and then those unexpected lunch-losses you mention. The towel thing is intriguing, never heard of that! Hang in there, you're on the home stretch now, at 30 weeks.

Chewing towels?
My old boss used to lick charcoal

Really bad day of sickness and nausea today. I just feel like crying.

justtheone, so sorry you've had an awful day. It's such a horrendous feeling, especially that grinding nausea. I do feel for you. Are you up to any distractions? At my worst I spent weeks in bed watching Netflix on my IPad (I ploughed through a few series of The Good Wife). Radio 4 on a lot also helped to take my mind off it at times. Or when all else fails, just try to sleep through as much of it as possible.

The towel thing sounds like Pica tbh. Tends to happen to pregnant women. I used to chew the wooden kebab sticks when I was younger for no apparent reason.
As for me I think the baby has shifted a little bit as I'm feeling a bit uncomfortable inside so who knows.

Lots of audio books motherofpearl!

deaddoorpost ouch!

Yes to the audiobooks! I found I couldn't watch television as the movement made the nausea worse

When I was in the depths of HG, I found an internet link to an unending stream of old Just A Minute episodes which I listened to for hours. Though with the information that has since come to light on Clement Freud, I'm afraid that has rather been ruined for me.

So audiobooks sound like a fab idea!

I'm usually a massive reader but I find that makes me feel worse too. To ok some days but on others not.

Hope everyone ok today

When I was at my worst, all I could do was listen to audio books. Back lit screens, moving images and reading made me so ill - so not tv, movies, books or internet. Audio books were a life saver, and also helped me drift off to sleep sometimes.

Sorry you're feeling rough Blue. I'm 36 weeks here and still struggling. Thankful I haven't throw up for more than a week, but plenty of nausea and exhaustion (especially as I keep overdoing things trying to prep for the baby). Plus I'm now starting to get a bit twitchy about labour. Two in my NCT group have had their babies so far and both ended up with EMCS

Wow. Just wow. Stronger woman than me....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41148027

Bluels I feel for you, right there with you feeling rough again.

Motherofpearl yes, I am on ranitidine once a day alongside the antihistamines, will speak to the Dr about whether I can up the dose. Though to be honest I'm getting to the point where I feel like just giving up on the medicine as things seem so up and down even with it.

I like the idea of audiobooks, though somehow noise can make me feel queasy, don't even ask how...we have one of those oscillating fans and I can't bear to have it on some days as the swooshing sound makes me feel seasick.

Lemon it is really hard to hear others' experiences of birth, especially if difficult, hope you're not feeling too nervous.

Thank you ladies, you're right - It is literally just acid most times and I can't stand it.

I feel absolutely exhausted and useless. I can't physically move a lot of the time and I'm always in bed by 9pm the latest which DH feels quite put out about.

For anyone who remembers my previous ranting, DH has found a new job So happy! We're back on track financially, really. Things will be okay. I'm so relieved, the anxiety and general 'on edge' feeling it was giving me was so intense. Doesn't help that we had to take out a 5K loan that obviously needs paying back bit by bit, each month.

I can't believe Kate is pregnant again Lovely news, although not so lovely impact on her. I have a strong feeling this will be her third and final child.

blue that is great news
Not the acid, that is shit.

lemon wow she is brave . Wish I was 'being cared for at Kensington Palace'!

pippa time to try the next step up in treatment? Don't give up on the drugs yet!

I'm still a bit bitter that hers seems to miraculously clear up at 13 weeks!! At least it publicises HG I guess.

But yes, I can't believe she's doing it a third time. I think I'm mad for doing it a second time. There is absolutely no f*ing way I am doing it a third!!

Yes, I thought that Oklahoma. She seems to have a pretty severe first trimester but then gets back to public engagements. She's either lucky enough to be feeling better, or masks it incredibly well (would be sad if she was being presssured into these while still ill). I've been wiped out for my whole pregnancy, no way could I be doing that.

HG is a great leveller. All the staff help in the world can't take away nausea. Poor Kate. Brave lady indeed.

Brave or nuts! As much as I'd love a third child I doubt I'll be doing this again (though never say never, or at least I'll reserve the right to say never when I get to the birthing bit!)

BlueIsYou that's good news indeed! Can you pass some on to my DH? He wants to get out of his job and into a better one. He's not happy at all atm.

I woke up to the news (my phone gives me 'breaking news' updates) so my first thought was 'oh, my step mum will be so happy' (she loves the royals) and then I was like 'oh dear, she's going to be sick again'.

I was talking with my DH last night and told him that I reckon I'm going to end up giving birth about 2 weeks early. I keep having t he 5th November pop up in my head for no reason. We don't often do stuff for Bonfire Night so I can't see it being that. And I've told him I reckon our next child will be a girl, or at least I think we're meant to have a girl at some point. Can't shake that feeling off. So I guess I could end up having another bad pregnancy.

And the really uncomfortable feeling I had last night? Turns out it was a combination of trapped wind, shifted baby and constipation/diarrhoea which all sorted itself out this morning. So I'm feeling much better now.

How's this for irony?

First trimester, so so ill. Throwing up multiple times a day, barely drinking an inch of water in 24 hours. Some how (no idea how) I never had ketones in my urine. As such, I was never sent for a drip I clearly needed, given I had every other symptom of severe dehydration!

36 weeks midwife check.... ketones in my urine simply because I skipped breakfast this morning and haven't drunk much today! Wtf???!!

Wow, Kate is brave!! Although my friend with very extreme HG had three (pretty sure the last one was an accident though, as she's Catholic so doesn't believe in a lot of birth control!)

Sorry about your ketones lemon. Do they do something about that, or just keep an eye?

I totally relied on speech radio during my pgs. TV was just too much, especially in the evenings when I was feeling worst. BBC iPlayer is amazing (there's a separate app for radio and you can search by category).

What did the midwife say about the ketones Lemon? Seems so unfair for you, at 36 weeks.

Blue, I remember my DP getting fed up with my very early HG bedtime - not annoyed, just said he got lonely. But HG is really only survivable on a huge amount of sleep, isn't it?

Pippa, what other meds are you on?

justtheone, how are you feeling today after yesterday's misery?

As for the royal baby news... as anyone who has suffered HG knows, it's the absolute pits, even for royalty, but I'm sure the D of C has it easier than most, even if just because she can rest all the time, with that army of staff.

OH likes my early bedtime these days because he's usually in bed early too.

Mother Hen has flapped back from Buckinghamshire and had a quick read through. I am so grateful for lovely MotherofPearl LightTripper TwoDrifters and Lemondrop for giving such invaluable support. I ended up with so many helpers because TwoDrifters had to go after 31 August and there was a delay before the others got my requests and I so I clucked hysterically and ended up with four helpers.... Well, I have been doing all sorts of ridiculous things recently, including putting on a top back to front and mixing up a meeting thinking it was in Oxford Street, not Regent Street...
Loosemoose28 Hope all went well at dr's appointment. Dizziness is awful and adds terribly to nausea.
Lemondrop It is dismal having ketones at the wrong end of the pregnancy! Sorry to hear that. Could what is dramatically called 'long term starvation' or a 'low diet' for a long time be the cause as opposed to the dehydration of the early weeks?
Sorry that Oklahoma and justtheonethen are suffering from people convinced that they must be completely recovered rather than partially and comparatively....
BluelsYou Congratulations on OH having another job! Great news!
Sorry about dramatic vomit. Thanks for compliment on dyslexic people and intelligence! Oddly enough, I did the martial arts when young and loved riding a bicyle - too much of a wimp to do either these days...
Waves to Ameliablue Natsku Pippasnippa DeadDoorPost and everybody.... I hope TwoDrifters soon conceives and has a Hyperemesis free pregnancy.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.

OMG cyclizine has hopefully done it. Can see straight. I feel exhausted and my tummy feels sensitive but the room is staying still and I feel so much better in myself. I really hope this works.

Loosemoose28 That sounds good! Do keep us informed about how things are.