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.

Will ask midwife about drops, she is coming to the house to do my booking in as I think I will struggle to get there. Just want the next four weeks to be gone and be in "safe" part of my pregnancy. The thought of feeling this shit then losing it anyway, again, is just soul destroying.

AmeliaBlue Hello - welcome if you are new. Waves if you are one of the regulars with a name change!

user Much sympathy. Waiting for the risky bit to be over is nerve wracking.

I think I'm going to look for some plain folic acid pills tomorrow in the pharmacy and chewable vit D as once again I feel sick straight after taking my multivitamin. Trying really hard to not vomit so it has time to absorb but not sure I can hold out much longer. Was feeling so good before I took it as well - ate the most delicious pizza/flammkuchen made with my leftover duck and had enough appetite to eat the whole thing!

User: my gp gave me folic acid in a liquid form because I struggle with tablets anyway. I also got some of the chewable multi vits from the supermarket even though we're technically not supposed to take them because they have vit A in but my gp said it was fine as you actually need a lot of vit A to overdose and it wasn't like I was eating anything rich in it. I would agree with everyone else though and focus on trying to eat and drink in general. Once it settles a bit you can think about eating and drinking to help your vit and nutrient stores.

I'm broken. Exhausted by moving. Have done hardly anything today. Haven't now kept down more than an occasional piece of bread in a week. Today I reckon if I've kept down 200ml fluid that's optimistic. Booking appt with mw tomorrow. Going to try to find out how I get fluids here as I can't do this. I've only weed once today and have a bad headache.

but my gp said it was fine as you actually need a lot of vit A to overdose

If that's true then I might take DD's chewable multivitamins then as I reckon they'll stay down a lot easier than the horsepills!

Oh no bean sounds like you're getting dehydrated again :(

Yes. I'm certain I am.

Oh bean the move was always a big ask but it's dreadful you are struggling so much.

Hi, yes I'm new, sorry I should have introduced myself. I'm about ten weeks with my third. I've not been as bad this time as I was with my first two, so shouldn't complain but still feel pretty rotten. Although contrarily it is also kind of comforting, if I didn't have any sickness this time I'd be more worried that baby wasn't growing well.

Can I join? Feeling pretty miserable.

Diagnosed with HG today after weeks of increasing nausea that is now 24/7 and means I have barely eaten or drunk anything for a week now. I have cyclizine which I'm hoping will help but I feel so rotten as I'm dehydrated. Cracking headache that won't go.
GP sent me for blood test (can't remember what for) and it was so awful as I was dehydrated. Took many attempts before they got anything and I hate blood tests anyway.

I feel like a fraud because I'm not really throwing up much but I feel like I've got a stomach bug or sea sickness constantly and I just want to cry.

I'm 7+4 with a very much wanted ivf pregnancy but at the moment I just don't see how I can do this, I feel so upset and guilty that this should be a really happy time and it's not.

I know how difficult it is to eat and drink with the nausea but it is important to eat little and often as this is the best way to combat the nausea. The more dehydrated and hungry you are, the worse the nausea will be.

@justtheonethen
You are not alone. It's a bloody miserable time. It's seems especially cruel when the pregnancy is much wanted and planned for. You must have been through so much already! And delighted that ivf has been successful for you... only for this to happen. How are you finding cyclizine?

Thanks thingy, I'm not sure yet. Took the first ones today so not seen an improvement really yet. Maybe slightly less gagging when eating/drinking. I slept for 5 hours after taking the first one which was nice

amelia I am trying to eat/drink when I can. I know I will feel worse if I don't but it's bloody hard when everything makes me gag and dry retch.
Sorry if that sounds snappy but I'm a bit on edge and fed up.

Am I best taking the cyclizine over the day or to space the 3 doses over the whole day/night?

justtheonethen spacing it out helped me. It does suggest to do so every 8 hours I believe if I remember correctly. But then, I had to move on pretty quickly to stronger tablets so it's been a long while.

Currently still having bad nausea and doesn't seem to be going anytime soon. Luckily I haven't vomited again in a long time so I'm not too fussed but the sickness and general aches are driving me mad. That,coupled with possible depression I feel.. feeling really low and weepy today. Not a normal hormone surge but like actually crap and useless. Profiteroles didn't even print me out of it. Ah well.

@justtheonethen
Cyclizine makes me into a zombie. If it doesn't work then go back and try others. Ondansetron is the best but GPs very reluctant to prescribe it.
It's normal to eat crap and limit food to plain carbs. I went two weeks only eating hula hoops and plain tortilla wraps. I'm kind of back doing that now at 16 weeks.
Lots of people will give you advice. A lot of it well meaning but definitely not understanding. If you put £5 in a pot each time someone suggests ginger, you'll have a nice pot of savings! People are still suggesting ginger now, despite me being on the strongest antiemetics going!

Hello ladies!

So glad to have found you all again. My app stopped working and the last thread wouldn't load on my phone as it was too big!!

I promise to read through this all and catch up, just wanted to mark my place so I can find you all again. I've missed this!!

❤

Hi Amelia, your third HG pregnancy I'm in awe. I have tbh the eating little and often didn't work at all for me but glad it helped you any relief however it comes is worth it even if it was ginger .

Justtheone hi you sound like you are having it rough. Why haven't they sent you up to hospital to get some fluids?? I really hope the cyclizine work for you give it no more than 3 days to see an effect though especially if you are already dehydrated and get straight back to the drs. Read Lucindae initial post there should be some advice on stuff you might be able to stand to help get some fluids into you. Have you tried ice lollies or ice poles? Again they don't work for everyone but they are normally sugary which can help.

Oh Dead the emotions are crazy try not to worry about them too much it's absolutely understandable with all that's going on in your pregnancy plus looking after your mum last week and graduation. I love profiteroles damn their uselessness on this occasion though

Hi onnatures glad to see you back. Hope you have been doing ok.

Eating little and often helps at the stage when it is mainly nausea and not vomiting. When you get too the point you are actually being sick it loses its effectiveness.
Justtheonethen in your first post you said it was just nausea and not sickness but in your next post you said dry gagging. That's something quite different and at that stage IV fluids are the best thing. Have they tested your urine? When I've been to the hospital in the past they've based the need for IV fluids on ketone levels in urine.

Mustang I used to love ginger before having my eldest but I took ginger tea in the early stages then and very soon developed a very strong aversion to it. I've never really enjoyed it since.

Ginger becomes a sore point very quickly for most of us. I tried it with my first as my mil (dr) suggested it and I'm with you I really can't stomach it anymore. It's when you are telling ppl that you are taking meds normally given to patients on chemo and they pipe up with have you tried ginger. I can't remember who said eye rolled so hard they fell out my head, that sums it up lol.

Justtheone just on the note of how you are wondering if you can get though this!! You can trust me it is absolutely worth it. I was sick from week 7 until I gave birth at 41+6 and I'm on my second (last as HG fecking sucks) so even though I knew I'd likely suffer the hell and end up at hospital on fluids several times again, I just look at my 2yr old and think fuck yeah I'd lose a limb if it meant I could give him a sibling.

HG becomes a distant memory (for most) as soon as you have your bubba in your arms it really does.

It will be a long few weeks but wait till you see that wee one wriggle in your dating scan it's amazing. Oh and having an actual baby to look after is a breeze after HG I honestly never once complained about the sleepless nights or the poop explosions lol.

Feeling pretty zombie like! Had a really bad night with churning stomach and headache but will persevere with cyclizine until Friday and then go back to the GP.
He didn't test urine. Just told me my blood pressure was low and sent me for blood tests.

Sorry I wasn't clear amelia, nausea to me is everything short of actual vomit.

Yep fucking ginger, everyone suggests it. To be fair I used to love ginger and imagined myself sailing through pregnancy drinking fresh ginger tea and smugly staving off the odd bit of nausea.
It's totally taken me by surprise as I'm NEVER sick/nauseous.

Saw baby on Monday at 7+3 and all measuring perfecting. Saw a tiny heartbeat which was lovely. I only went to the GP as the staff at the clinic told me it wasn't normal to feel this was. I just thought everyone did and I was being pathetic.

Those of you on your second or third , I'm in awe!

Welcome to Ameliablue and justtheone. Ameliablue I so agree. As you are a veteran you won't need my speil about have you got kesostix and helpful fluids like flat full sugar coke, the juice of tinned fruit and ice lollies etc.

Very brave of you to go for it a third time. justtheone I don't like the sound of that headache. It could be hormonal, but it could be a sign of dehydration, too. Did the doctor check your urine? Do invest in some kesostix from a chemists, which do check for the early stages of dehydration if the situation becomes more complex later. Have you got dark, scanty urine, blurry vision and unelastic skin, dry mouth etc? Some liquids and foods that have helped others are full sugar coke, flat, ice cubes, ice lollies, the juice of tinned fruit and the fruit, Lucozade, Dr Pepper, organge squash, Fanta orange, soda water, Elderflower water, and sips of choclolate milkshake (maybe soya). Also, slices of melon, nibbles of crisps, and cuppasoup, cheap ice crream and jelly. Don't despair; things do get a lot better for almost everyone. Even those in the unlucky minority who suffer throughout almost never suffer as much later on as they do early on.

beanhunter I so agree with others, it does sound as if you are dehydrated, that feeling of desperation seems to be one of the signs, too. Do go for fluids.
OnNature'sCourse Welcome back. I am glad you have found us again.
I hope everyone is coping today.

Thanks lucinda some really good suggestions. I'm so glad I found you lot!
Typed a long post, lost it, will get some ketostix today as I ordered some last night after reading through the thread.
Headache not any better but have managed some hula hoops and a bit of water. Really dry lips/mouth/eyes. Skin still elastic. Urine quite dark and less of it.

If my urine shows ketones what do I do with that info? If I go back to GP I think he will just tell me to give it a couple of days on cyclizine.