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Hyperemesis Support

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LucindaE · 22/07/2017 20:13

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.

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LucindaE · 26/07/2017 19:20

"weasledee* I am so sorry. Thank you for keeping us updated. For now you just want to mourn, but I hope you conceive again asap.
Poppyred85 Welcome. Sorry you are suffering. As you are a veteran you don't kneed my usual spiel about kesostix to check for the early stages of dehydration and ice lollies, flat full sugar coke and the juice and fruit of tinned fruit etc etc. I hope the steriods help a lot. That is a lot of admissions for so early, so you must have it badly.

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LucindaE · 26/07/2017 19:28

Apart from my messages to weasledee and to Poppyred85, BluesYou, Sorry you are alarmed, I honestly don't know what the situation is regarding the dilation of the cervix, I would definitely ask your midwife about it asap, if only for reassurance.

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thingymaboob · 26/07/2017 19:37

@weasledee you are in my thoughts 💐

justtheonethen · 26/07/2017 19:57

weasledee I'm so sorry Flowers

Natsku · 26/07/2017 20:15

Will be thinking of you on Friday weasledee so sorry for you

You shouldn't have to be fighting so hard bean its terrible the way that some medical professionals treat HG sufferers. I am so thankful now that I am where I am as my local hospital is so nice and quick to treat.

user1471462428 · 26/07/2017 21:04

Bean hope you're pumped full of fluids and feeling brighter. It used to feel like quite an accomplishment watching my wee go from dark straw to clear!! The nurses once made me a badge because I had vomited less than the day before. Sleep well

beanhunter · 26/07/2017 21:05

On my 3rd litre. Still sitting at 2+. Hoping next wee better so I can go home tonight.

justtheonethen · 26/07/2017 21:09

Just had my sister tell me that I should just drink more if I'm dehydrated and that her sickness lasted until 20 weeks. She doesn't get that it's different and thinks I'm pathetic I think.
When she was pregnant she had food aversions and was nauseous but not all the time and she could always eat/drink.

I feel really judged Sad

Got ketostix. What level am I looking for to get an iv?

Natsku · 26/07/2017 21:23

Apparently 3+ justtheonethen though that seems a really silly way of setting the standard to me - at my hospital they go by physical symptoms like how I feel, how elastic my skin is, and how much I say I've been able to keep down (so a lot of trust in what I say, which is really really nice) and blood tests to see if salts are needed especially or sugars.

DeadDoorpost · 26/07/2017 22:04

I'm just going to moan for a little bit because I need to.
Sickness hasn't been as bad today. Neither have the depressing thoughts which is good. Anyway, my appetite has kinda gone atm and so I've been eating still but not loads because I really can't eat much if I'm not in the mood.

And DH who is usually so lovely refused to make me a bowl of cereal when my stomach did the really obvious 'feed me or I'll make you throw up' feeling. He was way closer to the kitchen and would have been quicker than me anyway.
So cue me now sat here eating cereal feeling miserable as hell coz my stomach has decided that it may or may not throw up regardless of the fact I've now fed it.

sighs

user1471462428 · 26/07/2017 22:33

Deaddoor if you're sick aim it in his direction. I know exactly the feeling of having to eat otherwise you'll be sick. I leave biscuits around just in case however my four year old has taken to nibbling them Confused

justtheonethen · 26/07/2017 22:34

Oh sweetie that sounds rubbish. Moan away. This whole thing is horrid and the least you can expect is to have his help feeding you quickly.

justtheonethen · 26/07/2017 22:35

So I think my ketones are 2+ which probably means they won't be interested?

beanhunter · 26/07/2017 22:47

2+ earned me 3 litres today. Though actually we didn't know how much just that I hadn't weed for 12 hrs. Just got home

justtheonethen · 26/07/2017 22:57

How are you feeling now bean

FrostyPopThePenguinLord · 27/07/2017 01:15

I don't know if it counts as Hyperemesis but the doctor just signed me off work for a month due to my sickness and vomiting at work.
It's a bit of a mystery to me as it seems very situational, I'm mildly sick and nauseous at home but at work (I'm around raw meat a lot) I have to vomit between every 10to 30 mins and can't keep anything down. It's not great at home but I'm on prochloroperazine (spelling??) and that's helping a bit but it just kicks into another gear at work!
I feel a bit pathetic because I know pregnancy is not an illness but I'm also feeling a bit precious about myself because I've had and ectopic and a miscarriage since January. The doctor basically said he would rather I was at home with manageable sickness than exhausting/dehydrating myself and being stressed at work on stronger medication if I didn't need it.

BlueIsYou · 27/07/2017 08:03

Frosty Sounds like you do indeed need that time off work Flowers

How many weeks are you?

BlueIsYou · 27/07/2017 08:03

Argh, so sad to report that the sickness is back with a vengeance!

I had a lovely 3 days off it being practically gone! And now it's back... and I feel like bloody death again Sad

Natsku · 27/07/2017 09:24

The smell of raw meat sets me off Frosty I have to avoid the meat counter at the supermarket, even the sight can set me off on a bad day.

FrostyPopThePenguinLord · 27/07/2017 10:49

I'm just over 8 weeks and it hit me like a hammer at 6.5 weeks, I feel so bad, work accommodated me, change my role so it was safer etc, and I can't do the simplest things for them. I hate sitting at home but I don't have a choice, I can't take the throwing up.
I feel like such a fraud as well because I'm not actually that bad at home, I am still sick and the nausea is awful but the meds seem to help and the actual vomiting is manageable(comparitvely) and I can get some food and water down and stay down so obviously I feel a million% better at home.

BlueIsYou · 27/07/2017 11:16

Frosty You certainly aren't taking the piss at all, and you deserve to be at home with your feet up.

Honestly, don't think you're a fraud just because you haven't got your head down the toilet 24/7.

It's still crap that you're going through it at all Flowers

BlueeSpottyTiger · 27/07/2017 12:00

Hello ladies still lurking!
I haven't had and respite from the sickness since sat afternoon not even a measly 30mins. This is my 3rd day off this week now for sickness(although tuesday i was in hospital for pains that they thought were an ectopic)
I think work thinks im being dramatic but i feel truly awful! I'm struggling with caring for my dd and it is really making me feel like a rubbish mum to her.

Anyone else currently signed off with it or was... how long have you had??

Like i said last time i was on here- i only worked 20days due to hg my last pregnancy and started mat leave at 35 weeks and used all my hols before that.

beanhunter · 27/07/2017 12:00

Frosty - if work makes you worse the solution is obvious so don't stress about it. I also think don't under estimate the stress of trying to be normal at work. I'm so relieved that I have a gap between two jobs and have been off since 7.5 weeks and don't start until 17 weeks. There's no way on earth I could be at work at the moment.

As for me I got home finally at 11pm and only just got up. The iv anti sickness meant I had a good sleep and have woken feeling ok. I'm sure it'll be short lived but I now have access to fluids and reassessment when needed. They said if vomiting bad even without ketones I can go in to have iv antisickness. So that's reassuring that I have that access. Feeling very lazy that I've done nothing towards unpacking so my poor husband is looking after our daughter, unpacking and ferrying me to hospital. In other good news we had our panorama test back yesterday and are low risk for the major things screened for on the nuchal test so won't be having that and also found out we are having a girl. Makes it seem very real all of a sudden.

Ameliablue · 27/07/2017 12:32

I don't think I could work with any food at all at the moment, definitely not raw meat.

justtheonethen · 27/07/2017 17:22

Got put on a drip. Just waiting for 3rd bag to finish and another iv ondansetron dose then hoping to go home. They are giving me ondansetron to take home too.
I feel so much better Smile