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 god guys there are so many really struggling at the mo. You are Dilly it would be unfair to wish it on the worst person in the world tbf.

I had roast pork and roasted parsnips for tea I was really enjoying it until I recalled a few paragraphs in Christopher Hitchins "god is not great" couldn't eat it any more and wanted to cry as it's the first meal iv enjoyed in ages. Same happened when I first had mini mustang and I couldn't deal with a whole chicken or turkey because it upset me and reminded me of a baby!!! Yep I'm mental

mustang I've gone a bit weird about meat too. Thought I was going mental as it makes me sad to eat it.

dilly poor you. Fingers crossed it works but if not then fluids will make you feel so much better. It's so bloody awful isn't it.

Hi to all the new faces and commiserations to the regulars. Sounds like everyone is having a rotten time this week. Nothing to add really, same old vomit & nausea fest here. Sympathy to all

Welcome to Hairigician and Emu31. Emu31 Glad you got meds early, and avoided hospitalisation. Hopefully, you won't need them, but do invest in some kesostix even if you haven't got them already, to check for the early stages of dehydration. If you've been following this thread and have managed to stay out of hospital, you don't need my usual spiel about ice lollies and ice cubes and full sugar flat coke and the juice and fruit of tinned fruit etc.
DillyDollyDarling I do hope that stemetil works. Poor you. What are you ketones like, dare I ask?
speiro21 Maalox? That is intriguing.
justtheonethen Goodness -my meanness would have been horrified about that tshirt. No amount of washing would shift it, then? Well put about 'house fire and water pistol'. I always feel that suggesting ginger for Hyperemesis is like trying to stop a stampede of elephants with a pea shooter! But most people on here are too young to have heard of pea shooters...Much sympathy about fear of symptoms returning full force. Good days are generally a good sign.
Satsooma I am so glad omparzole has eliminated your heartburn.
Oklahoma I so agree.
I hope Flumplet is coping. Waves to everybody. Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.

DeadDoorPost Sorry about cold.

Mustang Of course you are not mad! Pregnancy hormones make you sensitive.

LucindaE I'm not sure that my ketostix are giving the right reading because if they are my ketones are +10. And I'm pretty sure that can't be right!

They gave me tablets that you have to dissolve on your gums. The taste of them made me feel awful and I threw up as soon as it had dissolved.

dilly were they prochlorperazine tablets by any chance? Because they were useless for me and did nothing. Exactly the same thing happened for me.. put the on my gums and I threw up within 20 minutes.
Lucinda I know about pea shooters 😂 never used one though

Hello ladies. Can i join in? I am 13w+5d and have been diagnosed with HG at 7 weeks. I have been admitted to the hosp for rehydration 3x ever since and have been trying to avoid hospital admissions since then with the medecine they've given me prochlorperazine. Unfotunately it doesn't work on most days but I had some leftover avomine/promethazine from a trip and this has worked much better than the prochlorperazine!
Yesterday hubby called gp to try to get a prescription for the avomine but the GP sent a prescription for Buccastem to the pharmacy. I am still vomiting every meal without the avomine :(
Will buccastem help with the HG? Any experienced ladies out there to help me. 1st time pregnant as well here. Miserable pregnancy must I add...

Forgot to add. Due date is 22nd of March :)

lucinda I was about to fly back to uk so didn't fancy carrying it!
Great analogy, I know about pea shooters!

sheh I think buccastem is Prochlorperazine again. Maybe call them again? The website in the OP has some useful info on what they should try next. If Avomine works though you can get it over the counter as a short term measure.

sheh hurrah for you knocking me off the bottom of the due date list!

Oh when are you due?
Oh no the prochlorperazine did nothing for me,just always puked it back up ~ along with whatever food I had.
Also I haven't been able to keep down my pregnacare since the past 2 weeks and whenever I do manage to keep it down, it makes me extremely nauseous. Could I just take folic acid instead? I am worried that baby is not getting the necessary nutrient due to my everyday vomiting but just cnt deal with the pregnacare.
Is there hope that this will pass by 16-20 weeks as my MW said?
Thanking God for the overly caring and supportive DH I have as MIL is just being plain b*tchy and we live at hers.

I'm due 9th March. Pregnacare makes me extra sick so I just take vitamin d and folic acid. Boots do a combined one. That's all the NHS suggest you take anyway. Lots of us are the same here. Think it's the iron in them.
I'm 15 weeks and having some good days so I'm hopeful for an improvement at some point but they are few and far between!

My MIL constantly compares me to her friends daughters who had 'proper' hyperemesis because she had to move back home to be looked after. Annoying.

Just that made me SO angry. How dare she compare you like that!!

@justtheonethen

Oh thanks for the suggestion. I will check the combined vit d + folic acid at boots then.
This is my 1st and last pregnancy for sure. I have one good day out of 30 days and it just doesn't compensate for the bad days!
I think I am also battling with ante natal depression and having a hard time to communicate that to hubby. Though he is being lovely, i think my condition will soon take a toll on him and that's always worrying me..

I know, it made me cry when I got home. She is utterly unsympathetic and there is no understanding that it's only because DH is so fab that I could stay at home.

sheh get in touch with your midwife and ask for a referral to the mental health midwife team. Don't suffer in silence

Also suggest you get on the next line of treatment as the current one isn't working.

@just i am sorry about your MIL :(

I know how it feels. I wish they would just offer some kind of support instead of constantly trying to point out how "good" our condition is as compared to others. Hope that you start feeling better soon and can start enjoying your pregnancy. I am still waiting for 2nd trimester surge of energy...
Just wishful thinking that maybe by 20 weeks this nightmare will be over for us.

I will get in touch with my MW today to get the referral but already kind of feel a lot better by getting things a bit off my chest thanks to this thread.
I haven't been able to connect with baby much until I had my 12 week scan and saw him/her waving and having a ball in there. I have a gender scan booked for 17weeks at babybond(booked by my mum to try and keep me going and have something to look forward to)
Will share with you guys it i have a blue or pink bundle :D

justtheonethen Sorry for your similar experience in the car I was mortified!

justtheonethen Argh, my MIL is like this too but hasn't got anyone to compare me with because she knows fuck all anyone with HG.

In saying that, she's still insistent I try ginger and insists "It's the nausea. Combat the nausea and then the sickness will reduce".

Arghhhhhh!

Hugs and strength to those suffering right now.
Hormone surge seems to have subsided now but noticed I'm still sensitive to strong smells after OH brought home a pizza yesterday - pizzeria pizzas always seem to smell stronger.
Anatomy ultrasound tomorrow, unfortunately the same day as parents evening at DD's school so have to hope it doesn't take too long.

Ah dear my mum was one of those who moved back with her parents but not b3cause she needed looking after... she couldn't stand the smell of my dad or the house... it was a new house so there were new smells and they used different washing powders etc etc... but my mum insisted she was 'allergic' to it all during the pregnancy. Bit pathetic really (she's done stranger things don't get me started...)