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.

Misstomrs this is HG pregnancy number 2 for me. I have a 4yr old. I don't think the first pregnancy was this bad but I lost 2.5stones and just took throwing up as the norm. This one seems worse. Constantly nauseous and no energy. Meds have stopped the throwing up but I am still dry retching in the mornings. I'm 42 in a few weeks, so that might play a part. We are definitely designed to have kids young! I think, had I known what I know now, I wouldn't have tried for a second and there have been days where I have sat on the bathroom floor and cried that I don't want this baby anymore. I'm only 11 weeks and I feel this is going to be a long slog. That said, it is what it is. My work has very good sickness leave. I'm lucky in that I can coach surf and do things at my own pace. My hubby travels so that creates some issues but again it is what it is. I think a 4yr gap was enough time for me to convince myself that HG wouldn't happen a second time. I've heard it can be the case.

Coach surf....sounds like a Debbie does Dallas type movie! COUCH lol. Before I start that rumour!

My bump always feels flat in the morning and baby always takes ages to move it’s very weird. I’m always sick in the morning though so that’s a reminder I’m preggers lol. It fills out again pretty quickly. I put it to the fact bump is scrambling as far back as they can because their big brother is constantly sleeping on them/finger rammed in my belly button trying to excavate it. It’s a strange comforter to chose that’s for sure.

Haha seize I read it as couch surf promise. Sorry for xpost.

I do agree this might have been easier 10yrs ago though. I’m 32 so I guess I shouldn’t complain.

Jees so many posts!!!

How is everyone doing today?? I feel like a bit of a fraud now as sickness seems to have settled a fair bit.
For anyone struggling with food, I stewed a chopped apple and let it cool and had it with some custard (the light version) and was really nice, not too sweet either. I can't take anything sweet as makes me want to puke.

I couldn't get back to sleep. So here's the photos with me normal and with me breathing in.

I am 22 and it's still haaaard
And now seeing you ladies having it even harder makes me not want to have any more. Well can't hide behind this.. HG makes me not want to have any more children and that's the bitter truth.

Dead totally bemused here

Hair just to add to that, aoole tasyes just as good usually on the way back uo if it comes to thag again for you. Custard... not so much 😂
Shehz I know right?! 😂😂😂

Dead thanks for heads up!!😂😂

I too have been thinking I don't think I would do pregnancy again after this one. Hg really would put you off! But i would love another. Ah decisions decisions!!

Morning ladies, thank you so much for the advice on stopping pregnecare! I've had a much better morning! Even managed a shower and fresh pjs 👍 Hoping it lasts a bit longer. I'm still hellish nauseas but not been sick yet today

Those of you worrying about second kids when you’re pregnancy with your first. Please try not to think about it now. Your views may change and they may not but until you have had and loved an actual child rather than a vomit inducing parasite you currently have it really isn’t worth worrying about. I appreciate that’s easier said than done. I swore I wouldn’t never do it again when I was pregnant with oklette and look at me now. I know others who swore they would never do it again and who haven’t changed their minds.

Check the core muscles on you Dead definitely envy lol.

Good to know Shehz, Blue & Dead are both young too I guess hg is exhausting no matter what.

Same boat as Oklahoma and couldn’t agree more.

Christ I’d make a shit super hero eh 😂 give up my own secret identity.

Just posted on local chat and I’d probably really identifiable under my username so changed to my next favourite thing.

Welcome to CalfaforniaDreaming15.Welcome. Sorry that you are sufeirng badly. A combination of meds might help? Also, many have found that an effective anti acid like Ranitidine or Omprazole can make a surprising difference. There is Ondansetron, have you been given that yet - if you are prescribed that, make sure you get a laxative prescribed too - it cause constipation and it is difficult to drink enough liquid anyway. Have you got kesostix to check for the early stages of dehydration? They are available from any chemists.
Some drinks and foods people have found good on here - flat full sugar coke, the juice of tinned fruit, ice lollies, ice cubes, soda water, Elderflower water, Dr Pepper, Lucoazade, orange squash, fizzy orange and sips of chocolate milkshake, maybe soya. For foods, tinned fruit, nibbles of crisps, maybe salt and vinegar, cuppa soup, jelly, cheap ice cream, slices of melon and now a recommendation of mango.
Welcome too to MisstoMrs. You've had good advice already, and mine has to be theoretical, as I stopped at one, but I do regret that. A network of support seems to be the main thing, and pre-emptive meds just in case, but you might be one of the lucky ones who escapes with ordinary ms next time.

JonSnowsBollocks Welcome. Congratulations on pregnancy and n being brave enough to go for it again. As you are a veteran, there's no need for me to give my usual spiel as above about kesostix and bearable drinks, etc.
DeadDoorPost That is amazing!
seize It's great you went for it at 42 - in my mid thirties, I was called an 'Elderly Primevra'. Someone on here earlier was called 'Geriatric'. Well, one does suffer from a weak bladder .
Sally I so agree that iron does make one vomit.

I’m JonSnowsbuttocks...... buttocks Lucinda.

You nearly made me pee my pants with the bullocks .

I highly doubt they are quite as appealing as Kits lovely bum.

LucindaE yea I don't think I'd like to be called a 'geriatric' mother!! That's made me thing of Bridget Jones baby 😂😂 her ob called her that!!😂😂

mustang terrible super hero, excellent name chooser
lucinda I just squealed, bollocks

door that's some trick! Where does it go?!

I can't imagine another HG pregnancy but who knows.

Hi girls,

Mustang27 directed me over here after being lovely on my very sad '1st trimester woes' thread.

Not sure I am a fully fledged member of the HG team. I am fairly sick (averaging 2-3 times a day and constant nausea) and rather sad with it but have never needed hospitalisation or medical treatment like some of your poor souls.

Also great at moaning, back rubbing, hugging and having a giggle when needed :-)

Can I please join the club?

Ladies, I’m after a bit of advice.
When the urge to vomit comes over, is it best to encourage the vomiting or hold it in?

Sometimes I have no choice, but sometimes I can choose whether to vomit or not if that makes sense?

Bunnyfluffy I so know what you mean! I feel better for about half an hour after vomiting, so I tend to let it go and get some relief. I am not as sick as some though, so it's not likely to become a problem for me. I guess if you are being sick many times a day, the constant loss of fluid/nutrition and damage that you might be doing to your gullet/teeth etc. wouldn't make it advisable if you can hold it back.

It's all so grim, isn't it!

Totally makes sense bunny. I've felt really, really guilty for helping it along a little bit in the past. But actually it can be the difference between a 2 minute vomit and a 1 hour retching session. I felt better afterwards and that's why I felt guilty I think.

I don't mind a bit of a retch but if I'm gonna have a full on sesh I'd rather help it along and get it over with. Wrong on many levels I know.

That ondansetron is some good shit! Don't get me wrong I still feel dreadful for about 4 hours a day, mostly before my next dose, but in between I feel LOADS better. I'm even eating healthier. It feels more like the severe NVP I had with DC1.

Very impressed and would highly recommend! I've not retched or vomitted once today

@BunnyFluffy - Yes I totally get what you mean. I can be like that some days. Today is not one of those days though. It's one of those days where I can't eat anything and just keep throwing up. 26 weeks today and I am just so so so so so so fed up. I can't cope with this. I feel like I am really beginning to resent being pregnant. I want my baby here but getting it here is the problem. I am struggling so much. I have no more paid sick days left at work and I can't afford to be off so I am in work, in tears feeling like absolute s**t! I have had enough. If i'm not being sick I am struggling with the crippling nausea. Yet another week I have lost weight too as I just have zero appetite. I hate this.

Spearo that sounds awful, you poor thing

Are you in any medication?