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Hyperemesis Support

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LucindaE · 13/11/2017 19:30

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, phone them on:
024 7638 2020
Lastly, the NICE guidelines on treatment are useful:
cks.nice.org.uk/nauseavomiting-in-pregnancy
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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Natsku · 06/12/2017 12:44

Urgh hate bum injections!

Scary shezh hope all is well now

Keep strong everyone, this too will pass eventually.

I walked half an hour in the snow with DD to get to the graveyard to pay our respects to the war dead (an independence day thing) but was a bad idea as my hips and pelvis were in agony when we got there. Someone walking past saw my face and offered us a lift home so my pain must have been quite visible!

Shehz21 · 06/12/2017 12:59

Jeez justtheonethen major twinning alert again! I did forget to mention I had the metoclopromide injection in the bum as well yesterday as I kept throwing up while waiting for Doc! Haha I was hyperventilating and kept wondering what's gonna happen to me in labour if this is how I react to a bum injection nowBlush

Natsku Ah bless them to give you a life!
Enjoy your baking today and maybe catch some Zzzs as well or rest. Wouldn't want that hip and pelvis pain to aggravate!

justtheonethen · 06/12/2017 13:11

Grin twin bum injections shehz. I am such a wimp, cried getting my cannula, practically passed out on the bum injection. Had to have clexane too. How will we cope in labour?!

Natsku hope you're feeling better now? Thank goodness for that kind person!

Shehz21 · 06/12/2017 13:14

Natsku Obviously my phone had to autocorrect lift to life lol.

justtheonethen I think we might be pretty overwhelmed by the end of such a pregnancy and deal with it better than expectedWink

justtheonethen · 06/12/2017 13:20

Yep let's go with that shehz Wink

Natsku · 06/12/2017 13:27

Lift=life when you're hurting that bad! Grin Better now I'm sitting (and had some ice cream...) going to cook dinner in a moment so we can eat before we go to the cinema.

justtheonethen · 06/12/2017 13:29

Happy birthday to the cat too natsku Smile

Natsku · 06/12/2017 13:47

I'm sure the cat would say thank you if she had any idea what a birthday was or why I keep saying that to her.

LucindaE · 06/12/2017 14:03

winky You poor thing, sorry I missed your post for so many hours. Can you talk to a counsellor, as you seem torn rather than sure? Much sympathy. Flowers
Shez Elephantgrey, jusththeonethen, Goats and everyone, thank you so much for your lovely comments, and compliments on my daughter's starting work as a vet. I am happy that this thread is useful.
justtheonethen I am so glad you are a bit better after treatment. That is a good cocktail. You are so right to complain, and I am so relieved you held your ground. That really is negligence. Smile Thanks for curiosity over books. I don't want to appear as if I am advertising. If you ever want to read any, pm me.
Shehz That must have been unnerving about the bleed. So glad all is OK.
Bunnyfluffy Ah, that is disappointing. But a few good days or weeks do, as others say, generally means that there are more to come, so don't despair. Some do have one of the dreaded hormonal surges round this time.
Waves to Mustang and Smile to Natsku. Watch me cross post!

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winkywinkybumbum · 06/12/2017 15:24

I'm definitely sure. I just had people giving me their opinions and saying I'd regret and then father telling me I was killing his dream so I just lost it when I was asked if I was sure.

I have no one to take me to the appointment so I don't know what to do. I can't believe I got myself into this. I should have been stronger yesterday.

DeadDoorpost · 06/12/2017 15:45

winky always do what's right for you. No-one else should ever have a say in your mental health or anything that affects it. Flowers
just I found the same thing re maternity being nicer than normal Drs etc. While I was being sorted out after giving birth the midwives were so much more helpful. They even wrote on my notes that I suffered from Hyperemesis.... more than my Dr ever did. So I finally got my diagnosis after I gave birth. Typical.

Lucinda I may or may not have found you and your books... and if so What was your favourite country to visit?

Waves to everyone else. Sorry I've not responded to everyone separately I've got the baby on my nipple and I'm trying to eat as well... cheering you all on to better days ahead

and 🎉🎉 for your cat Natsku

MeadowHay · 06/12/2017 18:21

I did catch up but now I can't barely remember what anyone said except for Winky who I am thinking of often and sending you all my love in this difficult time Sad Flowers.

I will call GP tomorrow for a new sick note anyway so I will tell them my mental health is crap too. I am having horrible withdrawal from my ADs now as it's the last fortnight of coming off them. Feel so dizzy all the time I can barely move my head without feeling like I'm on a boat which obviously doesn't help the nausea. The one good thing is that the withdrawal usually causes diarrhea but because I'm so constipated I'm just having a bowel movement every day now instead, which is great, although my bum has been bleeding a bit each time which isn't so good...hope that's not tmi, sorry.

DH called hospital to try and move the time of US scan on Friday but nope no cancellations. It's at 9am and I never get out of bed before about midday-2pm as the odd day I've done so I've had horrendous vomiting and nausea whereas if I stay sleeping I don't wake up from my sleep to be sick iyswim. We will have to leave about 8.30am and I will need at least an hour to get up and eat something, attempt to create a full bladder, get ready etc as everything takes me ages atm cos I have to keep sitting down in between each task and making time for retching and vomiting. I am really dreading it and I have developed anxiety that there will be something wrong with my scan or a mmc, I know it's ridiculous to just have conjured that up in my head but my anxiety is irrational and it's keeping me awake at night now leading up to the scan Sad.

I live in area where there is a dedicated gynae & pregnancy ER in the maternity hospital so we do not have to go to normal A&E we go there instead and it's all specialist so it's really good. That might out where I live as I suspect it may be the only one in the country. But it's amazing, it was great when I had to go to hospital, much better than if I had been stuck in a regular A&E.

NerNerNerNerBATMAN · 06/12/2017 18:29

Ha! Meadow we must be neighbours Grin

Winky bless you that sounds awful. I hope you are able to do whatever is best for you, whatever that is!

thingymaboob · 06/12/2017 18:39

Hello all! Sounds like most of you are having a shite time. I'm 35 weeks now which means I've been suffering with hyperemesis for 30 weeks. The vomiting is really ramping up again. I really hate it. Everything I eat stays in my oesophagus and just sits there. It's so uncomfortable. The food then just flows up and out. My mucus plug came away today so maybe this nightmare will be over soon!

LucindaE · 06/12/2017 18:39

winky It is very hard to hold out against the views of a parent at times - because after all, they gave us our conscience - but only you know how much you can bear. Much sympathy. Flowers
Meadowhay I don't know why they give women with Hyperemesis early morning appointments - bad enough with controllable MS. Much sympathy over that and MH. I have found that many women who had Hyperemesis had PTSD, and it could perhaps have been avoided with
help earlier.Great that you were a TU organiser - you probably know all the legislation about the workplace, sick leave, maternity leave and pregnancy so much better than I do, it's so many years since I was one, I am rusty....I do know that they mustn't count sick leave taken to pregnancy related illness, and that's about it.
Spearo Did I say how delighted I am that you are feeling so much better?
DeadDoorPost I wonder? Sadly, I haven't been abroad much for years, what with putting DD through university, except for one enjoyable visit to Paris a couple of years ago. I do love France, though.
Apologies to anyone rudely ignored.

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LucindaE · 06/12/2017 18:41

Cross posted with BATMAN and thingymaboob. Congratulations on loss of plug, thingymaboob, as that stuck and then returning stuff sounds horrific.

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justtheonethen · 06/12/2017 18:43

Meadow my scan anxiety was through the roof! Even after seeing all the limbs at 12 week scan I was still a wreck before the anomaly scan as I had convinced myself my baby would be missing an arm/leg. That before all the other worries about brain/organs etc.
Hopefully you will feel a bit more reassured after your scan. I did feel less worried after seeing the baby.
Hope you're ok with early start. My suggestion is to set alarm for an hour earlier than needed and take tablets, go back to sleep whilst they work. I do that if I have to d anything pre 10am!
Your hospital sounds really good for hyperemesis.

Winky just worry about yourself. I am sending you lots of love and strength. If you're anywhere near south east London I can try and help you get there.

Lucinda I think I might have found you too. If so you have had quite the life!

Door at least you finally got a diagnosis Grin

Thingy argh you poor thing. Fingers crossed your baby is evicted promptly.

justtheonethen · 06/12/2017 18:43

X posted. Maybe not you then lucinda!

justtheonethen · 06/12/2017 18:45

Cyclizine added to the mix. Took it at 12.45, slept from 1.30 until 6 Shock

thingymaboob · 06/12/2017 19:00

@justtheonethen cyclizine is great for assisting sleep. I'm going to bomb one now!

justtheonethen · 06/12/2017 19:08

It's bloody great! I'm going to snooze away a lot of days!

pippanippa · 06/12/2017 19:26

Just popping back to say hello. It sounds like everyone is having such a rubbish time at the moment. Hope you are feeling better just after that awful experience at hospital and that mustang and thingy don't have to wait much longer! Hope Shehz, batman, elephant and everyone have all had relatively ok days today.

Winky we're all thinking of you at such an impossible time.

winkywinkybumbum · 06/12/2017 19:31

Sorry Lucinda I meant the father of the child I'm carrying said I am killing his dream.

I am overwhelmed by support on this thread. Thank you all so much.

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NerNerNerNerBATMAN · 06/12/2017 19:41

Winky You have to do what is right for you not him. Have you got time/are able to get a bit of space from him so that perhaps you can clear your head and decide what you want?