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.

God dead she sounds a bit sinister!!! Is she easily avoided?

Just I was taking 24mg a day at my worst but they constipation made the sickness look like a walk in the park so I'm off them completely now.

I'm already really constipated

mustang I don't know, but I usually have a very good set of gut instincts (never been wrong about anyone yet) so I was always wary of her. I don't know about sinister but there's something about a friend of hers mistreating their son and her getting SS involved.. Don't know how true it is but sounds like she's trying to get the son to live with her (he's 2 I think). Maybe she's just unhinged and desperately wants a child. Either way, I'm hoping she's far from me when i give birth.

Hi everyone, weasledee I'm sure checking this thread will be the last thing on your mind today, but just wanted to post in case to say I hope everything is as ok as possible today.

Muddling along here - sorry for the silence, but its same old same old, still vomiting daily, but no awful days for a week or two, so it counts as an improvement. Still trying to figure out if we'll go on holiday, not sure I have the energy! Hope some of you are having ok days.

Weasledee I hope today has been as ok as it could have been x

Hello everyone hope you're doing ok? I was trundling along ok but have hit a bad patch the last few days, think I'm allergic to prochozapine or however you spell it. Really swollen face and tongue whenever I take it so just on cyclazine at the moment which doesn't stop me throwing up. I know I need to go back to the GP's but can't face it just so so tired. Had been promised a home visit for my booking in appointment but the midwives are refusing and I now have to go to a family centre 3 miles from my house. I went to my sisters yesterday (my mum drove me door to door) and I'm exhausted today. I'm 8 weeks now and I'm dreading next week as I lost my last baby at 9 weeks 6 days. Just feel like crap.

I join beanhunter and pippasnippa and others in hoping that things have gone as bearably with weasledee as they could.
Anitidae Congratulations on your pregnancy, as others say, not on the sickness, obviously. I didn't suffer badly compared to most on here, and yet I had nausea and heartburn from a couple of days after conception; really odd. Remind me what meds you were on last time?
user1471 It is nervewracking after having suffered a prior miscarriage - but the chances are overwhelmingly on your side.
Sorry you approach a time that brings back bad memories.
justtheonethen I am glad that you got really good treatment and the medics were understanding. That was a high level of ketones! Don't let the constipation go for long - ask for lactulose. I never understand why medics don't automatically include anti constipation treatment in the prescription. There are those suppositories available from Boots. Although they use them in hospital, they don't like to sell them to pregnant woman, though, so you'd have to send someone else.
Waves to Mustang , pippasnippa and everyone. Apologies to anyone rudely ignored. I am glad that people are 'trudging along' rather than staggering perilously towards the drawbridge of the fabled Pink Castle at the end of the Hyperemesis horror board game...

Well, I was hoping to quit the ondansetron altogether from today but looks like it's a no... not been awake long and feel absolutely crap as though I'm going to throw up soon. Best get the tablets then...

DeadDoorPost Sorry that the meds are urgently required. I meant to say on the strange woman, she is best avoided, clearly, if possible. Does she live near you?

@LucindaE I don't know exactly where she lives but she definitely doesn't know where I live thankfully.

Thanks to ladies thinking of me...
I'm home now and I'm doing ok.
After a 7 hour labour (and it really was like labour!) I delivered the baby last night.
We'll get the results of tests in a few weeks to see what was wrong.
Thanks again for the amazing support and hopefully (weirdly!) I'll be back soon xx

weasledee so glad you're ok and at home again now. I hope the tests can give you some answers. In the meantime rest up and take care xx

weasledee What a terribly hard time you've gone through. I hope you're getting much needed care now to recuperate x

Thinking of you Weasle Look after yourself. I hope it doesn't take you long to conceive again, once you are ready to try x

Hello all, kind of been lingering on here for a while. I've been back to work this week and I'm knackered when I get home. My symptoms have improved again and I think it's all thanks to omeprazole and fibogel. I have still vomited a few times this week but it's not acidic.

weasledee I am so sorry you had to go thorugh that. Indulge yourself all you can. If I say we hope to see you here again soon, that would be awful, as you want to escape Hyperemesis if you can - but wishing you all luck with recovery. When I had a miscarriage myself, I read that it was considered bad taste to say 'best luck for next time' but I didn't mind that at all myself. Hugs.

thingymaboob Mother Hen says - as ever - don't overdo it! I hope it is a staggered return.

weasledee Hope you rest up and recover and find answers that will bring some relief to you.

The loss of an expected baby is always really distressing, but when you have suffered from Hyperemesis, it seems a really cruel stroke of fate.
Going thorugh an induced mini labour must be awful; I only had a 'D and C' under general anasethetic. I gather they give tablets before they do that these days?

Yes lucinda, I had a tablet at the hospital and then I was sent home for 2 days. This is awful because I was scared it would start at home, luckily it didn't. They then give you pessaries every 3 hours when u go in. I got pains within 10 mins and after 6 hours of build up they were as strong as when I had my first DC. I had pethidine which was amazing, the actually delivery was not at all painful, just the contractions.

Hello ladies, and you're in my thoughts weasle

Looks like DS will be coming very early indeed. Contractions again this morning and I'm bleeding again.

Hospital made it clear he'd need to be coming on his way by management if HB got too low again. I'm petrified. I'm only 24+2 weeks.

Please keep me in your thoughts/prayers

Thinking of you too blues! x

Thinking of you blue. Ever extra day you've kept him cooking has helped. Have you had steroids?

weasledee It's awful for you. You have been very brave. It is important to talk about something so traumatic. Your brain will play out the scenes repeatedly for a short while, but that will decrease massively as the days go by. Hugs.
Bluesyou That is so alarming. Thinking of you.

weasle I just can't imagine, you poor thing.

blue how scary. Fingers crossed he gets a few more days cooking

Fingers crossed here too Blue I can't imagine what it's like, considering you're only a few days ahead of me. and hugs here