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.

@Natsku that's such an amazingly clear 3D scan picture! Such a cutie :)

@DeadDoorpost I have the same kind of spooky feeling its a boy for me as well!

Ladies can anyone shed some light on the use of phenergan/avomine/promethazine in pregnancy? I received some backlash with my husband's friends who are midwives for buying it over the counter to control my vomiting as opposed to taking buccastem(which does absolutely nothing for me!! Makes me more nauseous infact!). They said avomine is a class C drug which makes it dangerous to the fetus:( should i stop taking it or have I caused harm already to my baby? Feeling absolutely horrible right now.. have just vomited for the 9th time today while trying to avoid taking the avomine.

Excuse my French, but bullshit

www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/help/treatments/antihistamines/

www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/gtg_57.pdf

Cyclizine and promthezine (antihistamines) at the very first line drug that GPs go to, as they have a long history of use in pregnant women and are widely regarded as safe. Also I was put on 25mg, which are stronger than the 20mg that you buy over the counter.

sheh I do wish hcp would be better informed. See attached.

natsku that picture is gorgeous

Whoops

Oops x post!

Not read back properly as having a really bad day today. Am in bed with the cats feeling sorry for myself.

Sorry, wrong RCOG guidelines

www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/green-top-guidelines/gtg69-hyperemesis.pdf

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Sheh I'm actually so bloody angry for you!!! Their scaremongering is useful in what way? If it makes you feel any better my mil is a dr and told me my baby would have a cleft lip a heart defect and be lucky to be born alive if I took ondansetron before 12 weeks. This was at 8 1/2 weeks in the car about to go in the drs to beg for a prescription after a 3 weeks of trying everything else. I told her it was that or a termination which soon shut her up but not before she told me I was selfish to think like that and I told her it was my bloody body and my baby. Any way I was sent to hospital at that gp app got drip and was prescribed ondansetron but had to combine it with cyclizine. I assume she was unimpressed but mini mustang 2 appears healthy and strong.

I'm lucky my parents don't really know much about the tablets or HG (except the fact that my mum suffered with it) but when I told my dad about the cyclizine and the ondansetron he started to ask me how I was with them and ended up comparing each other as he's taking them for his pancreatitis 😂😂 he's a huge bloke but the cyclizine knocks him out it's hilarious. They did nothing for me however...

Just been reading some women's experiences of labour and really gone off of the whole pregnancy thing.. I really should stop worrying myself but I'd still like to be prepared a bit...

Honestly Dead I'm not lying when I say my labour was great. Not painless but it was fine and I was calm and I was only on gas and air. My advice though if you need the pain relief take it nobody comes round too give you a gold star afterwards for not taking them.

Lemon - I was connected up to fluids and IV antiemetics as soon as I was admitted into the delivery ward with DD1. Mostly because I walked in and emptied my whole stomach contents within minutes. They saw bile and rushed to get me connected up. Fluids is super important too as dehydration can slow labour.
The best thing is, as soon as you get to the hospital, throwing up is less of a big deal as someone else will have to clean it up. You just gotta focus on getting baby out.

I wonder if I would’ve had HG with a boy, as I’m pretty sure mine is bought on by the increased oestrogen. Not going to try again just to find out though!

Lemon some women seem to have it easy, I know one woman personally who would pretty much sneeze and the baby would come out it was that easy for her.
And yet there's others who've hated it etc. I guess knowing about both and how they've dealt with it is good in case anything similar happens...
Just sat down to dinner and I swear if I throw it up I'm gonna start crying. Cba to be dealing with this now especially as I'm tired, hungry and just a little bit constipated thanks to the iron tablets and no root beer available atm...

Dead Hope you keep the food down Sorry about the root beer. I was quite frazzled in Asda today - My favourite household cleaning spread use to be £1 and is now £3.50

Sorry, not comparable but I refused to pay the price. I've been left very angry and having to find it elsewhere for the principle. Also, DH had the last of my lemonade and didn't put the new bottle in the fridge! Argh

*spray, not spread

Lemon I was hideously sick in labour and throwing up with every contraction. They had me on a fluids and ondansetron drip which I presume must have helped but I was still being sick. So yeh they gave me a bowl and I just got on with it. I didn't feel nauseous though it was more of a reflex so it wasn't actually that bad. Point is they should help you with the nausea and vomiting if you're bad in labour.

Shehz21 You've had great advice already about those absurd remarks, so I don't need to add other remarks about how ill informed that advice was. Ignore such nonsense! Sorry about Bile Run.
dillydollydarling I am so glad you feel a bit better after the fluids. That was a lot of ketones.
BlueButTrue Great about the job offer. I can't believe that they could not notice - had they not seen you sideways, lol?
Mustang27 You are so right about the dog. I am sure lots of adoring potential owners will come along.
DeadDoorPost Congratulations on boy. I so agree with your OH, unfortunately; that is a sign of dehydration. Do watch out for those ketones, or for blurry vision, headache, dark urine etc etc etc.
Natsku Nice scan picture. Even I can make some sense of it.
Lemondrop I scribbled a message for you and now I can't read it.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.

Oklahoma That was it! I meant to say to Lemondrop that lots of women on her vomit in labour, and have to have meds and a bowl.

Dead I feel exactly the same. I am so so fed up with throwing my dinner up half way through every night. I wonder if it's because we're more tired in the evenings now we're 30+ weeks?

Lemon I was still being sick in the cab on the way to the hospital - almost 2 weeks overdue - and then I had an EMCS.

After having the epidural and being told not to move (!) I was in the theatre and whispered to my DH that I was going to be sick.

He said "TELL THEM!" and I said "No, I can't" as I felt ridiculously shy for some reason (?!) so he announced to the room (full of surgeons, assistants, anaesthetists, etc.) "Erm, I think she's going to be sick…"

They brought me one of those grey cardboard kidney shaped dish things and I very inelegantly turned my head to the left and tried to politely vomit out of the side of my mouth.

It wasn't dignified but minutes later when my DS - yes, another boy for this thread! - was born, I could have cared less.

Blue I totally get it though, I went to ick up my ondansetron tablets and told DH that he was NOT to fight me getting Maltesers. Thankfully they had some but I would have just cried there and then if they'd been out.
Oklahoma probably. Hormones seem to have ramped up because all i feel like doing is ceying right niw iver atupid things and im never like this. Dinner stayed down but felt sick for ages.
Lucinda I know I should be drinking more but I honestly just CBA to. Not when I'm forcing myself to. I hate it. Guess I better just suck it up haha. Bad joke but still 😑

Thanks for the labour tales, useful to hear what happens. TwoDrifters, I can so see that happening to me too if I end up with a c section! Only thing is when I vomit, it's full convulsive stomach injection. Scary thought when someone is using a scalpel!!!

Door, third trimester exhaustion on top of HG has definitely had an effect on me. And bloody hormones. Generally I've not been too bad through the pregnancy, but in the last few weeks I've had a few irrational meltdowns at DH and I had about 3 days where I simply didn't want to talk to anyone and ignored my phone. Came out of it suddenly and have felt much better since. Silly thing on the liquids front, but I have a big bottle of water that I carry everywhere with me and sip it mindlessly through the day. I definitely drink more automatically when it's right there compared to when I have to keep getting up and filling glasses. Might be worth a try?

Just realised how many of the people I started on this thread with are getting into/are already in the third trimester!! Woo, well done ladies. We're getting there.

Just wanted to remind people about the HG Graduates group on Facebook, if anyone in their third trimester wants to join. When you spend months supporting each other through this, it's a shame to lose contact so it's a place to support each other through labour prep and newborn days. We'd be happy if anyone wants to join us

Lucinda This is what I thought! I don't think they actually know though

Here literally just to moan again (I feel like its endless atm I'm sorry) but I've just woken up for the first time in my life drenched in sweat and not even sure what has happened. I'm not wrapped up, I'm not feeling too hot, but I genuinely thought I'd been drooling so much it had caused a puddle on my chest before realising my mouth is totally dry and that couldn't have happened.
The next 9 weeks can do one. I'm fed up now. I just want to sleep with no more problems 😭😭😭😭

Ignore your husband's stupid friends shehz avomine is safe and if you're ever in doubt or if you want to set those people straight then look at/direct them to the pregnancy sickness support website