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, 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.

Well that is good news!

Quite amused today by how relaxed DD's school is - next week her class are going to a Christmas church service and as DD is exempt from religious activities her teacher just messaged me to say she can either come in at 11 or just take the whole day off if we want. I've left it up to DD to choose but I'm hoping she chooses to take the day off and then we can go swimming when it's quiet

That is good news!

Natsku that's hilariously laid back. I used to be a teacher and that wouldn't happen here! Fingers crossed you get to go swimming!

Constipation killing me- bum bleeding

Urgh to the bum bleeding, have been dealing with that too, not fun!

DD is torn on whether to take the day off or not as she's worried she might miss something "super fun", bless her. I'm glad she likes school though. Though that's no surprise she likes it seeing as today she told me they made gingerbread biscuits and then played the rest of the day (and her lovely school provided gluten free dough for her and sent the rest of it home with her so we can make some more)

Natsku I tried it out with a baby sized stuffed bear

Her school sound lovely

Oo stuffed bear sounds like an idea. I did try with one of DD's dolls but it wasn't exactly as flexible as a baby!

MeadowHay I’m taking ondansetron as often as I can, but it was causing such awful constripation that I can’t take it more than once or twice a day 😔 Cyclizine sometimes takes the edge off but sends me to sleep for hours, not really sustainable!

Thank you all for making me feel a bit more sane and a lot less guilty for being off work!

Practicing on a doll or stuffed bear sounds far more sensible than my initial plan, which was to swaddle and wrap my very lazy little dog

hanna I contemplated using a cat

Just I saw all the constipation chat and thought you'd contemplated using a car to wipe your bum I** only assumed because they were fluffy then I saw the carrier chat and was relieved.

That's good Dead I have to admit mini was pretty good until recently with Bugs.

I'm very jealous of all this sleep inducing cyclizine usage, does feck all on that front for me. Probably does feck all full stop but I'm to afraid to stop. Really suffering with acid again 300mg of ranitidine not cutting it anymore plus had an awful ibs flare . Kill me now if it keeps it up il have no energy for labour whatsoever and il be in for fluids in my 39th week .

Nat need to see your tie die creations, please share them. That's so cute I'd have taken the day off for sure if I was her lol.

Hanna snap the constipation was crippling for me so couldn't do it think I gave up about 18 weeks.

Shehz happens to me all the time so bloody frustrating as it takes so much brain power to reply.

BOLD FAIL

And that's supposed to be cat* not car

Don't think my cat will let me swaddle her or put her in the caboo!

Shall definitely post a picture of the tie dye creations once done.

Hannah I'm 12 weeks and been off week since the beginning of week 6 and I'm now signed off until after Christmas too. Work can "suck it", in the words of the best GP I've seen so far who wrote me my first sick note . I hear you wrt constipation, I'm coping alright now as I've managed to include some fruit and veg in my diet and I'm mostly ok keeping liquid down now so it's not as bad as it once was. I am able to eat homemade soups with lots of veg in them, as well as green grapes, raspberries, and granny smith apples (just listing in case anything someone hasn't tried yet to see if they can keep it down). Oh and instant porridge pots too that have lots of fibre in. But I only take the ondansetron once or twice a day, depending on how much of the day I sleep away .

Mustang Maybe you could speak to GP about trying a Proton Pump Inhibitor if the ranitidine isn't cutting it anymore? I take omprazole and was doing so pre-pregnancy anyway but it's a great drug.

Sooo I survived today... just about. I managed to get enough liquid in my bladder to have an over-the-belly US scan which was good and then OMG I was not prepared for how weird it would feel to see this tiny thing in my womb moving about . Weirdly I couldn't stop giggling !!We got the most hilarious scan photo, one of baby's legs was right stretched out in the air .

Then after that I went for a wee and vomited, then to midwife for bloods for the screening test for Down's, Edwards, and Patau's and oh dear. She couldn't get enough blood to fill the two vials so if the first one comes up as high risk I will have to go back and do another to double check but she said with my age and nuchal fluid measurement that's very unlikely. Anyway I fainted too for the first time in my life and then promptly started vomiting when I regained consciousness.

Then home for vomiting and sleep. Then dragged to GP which was an ordeal as by that point I'd not kept any food down and had been sick about 7 times so felt griiiim. GP was nice and signed me off til Xmas and said if I need it extending then they will just do it over the phone. He also checked my wee and no ketones and said if I keep being this sick over the next few days to go back in early next week to get it checked again and he will think about other meds for me. And he even did my flu vax then and there for me to save me having to go in again next week for my appt as I explained how I get super sick when I have to go anywhere, which I thought was really kind of him. The only thing that wasn't so successful is I did try to explain about my low mood and had a little cry and he didn't really say anything about that, felt like he didn't know what to say but oh well he was great for everything else.

Sorry for long rambly post.

mustang, my cat wouldn't tolerate the Caboo let alone being used as a fluffy bum wipe!

Also want to see natsku's tie for creations.

Feeling really down again. Spent an hour crying in the bath. I just can't bear this.

Meadow well done on surviving today! Glad scan went well. It's unreal seeing that tiny baby isn't it?
Glad gp was good, if not for mood. I would phone midwife and ask to be referred to the MH team. Which is what I'm going to do.

Welcome to hannamia. Sorry about relapse. I hope you will soon have a lot more good days. Never feel guilty, you wouldn't if you had something else, but people are dismissive of this scourge. Goodness, after seeing the wonderful healthy food which Meadowhay is able to eat, I feel bad listing what has helped so many. You probably know what suits you and what doesn't, but some liquids that have helped many are ice lollies, ice cubes, the juice of tinned fruit (and maybe the fruit), flat full sugar coke, Lucozade, soda water, Elderflower Water, Dr Pepper, orange squash, fizzy orange and sips of chocolate milkshake (maybe soya). For food of a sort, cuppa soup, nibbles of crisps and chips, cheap ice cream, tinned fruit, jelly and slices of melon and mango (the only healthy things!). I suppose you have kesostix? What meds have they got you on, if you don't mind my asking? Whatever it is, an anti acid is usually invaluable.
Meadowhay I am so glad you got through the scan - but what a horrible day, fainting and vomiting. Cyber pats on offer. I am glad the doctor was so nice about your sick note.
justtheone And much sympathy and cyber pats to you, too. I do feel for you, crying in the bath. It does seem endless. Bleeding from the bum sounds awful - I believe you can get that with bad constipation and it isn't serious but is dismal.
scottishem Sorry that it hasn't got any better.
Shez21 If you only missed a couple of showers/baths with Hyperemesis, then you deserve a Heroine of Hygiene award. Unwashed hair and uncleaned teeth was my special look, when suffering.
Natsku Tie and dye? Very enterprising. On swaddling, my OH was an expert, and could do it without waking the baby when transferring her to her cot. She was a sleepless menace; and swaddling was the only thing that worked in the early months.
Much sympathy to all suffering, and thinking of winky and watts.

Lucinda I was thinking that about Shehz post re: hygiene...I was worried I was some unspeakable human being as I tend only to shower every 3 days or so atm and struggle to brush my teeth once a day if that . I feel utterly disgusting constantly but I just can't see a way around it when they all make me so sick and I'm not going anywhere or seeing anyone anyway...poor DH though .

Oh yeah, I was fetid in the early days

Hi ladies

Just popping in to moan say hi.

11+3 here and still feel pretty shit. Vommed this morning despite taking my ondansetron before even lifting my head off the pillow, as usual and still really queasy. Still scarfing white bread and lollies like my life depends on it (maybe it does! 😂)

for winky and watts it must be really tough.

I am getting early bloods back next week - hoping everything is okay, mainly of course for the baby's sake but also because a large part of me could not bear these 12 weeks to be for naught. Awful I know 😳

Really hanging out to tell work - 6 weeks ago I was gong to go for a promotion now I just want to retire forever!!

I honestly feel this last 9 months has aged me ladies. I'm not talking in a vain oh I have some extra wrinkles kinda way but in that my bones and organs have all had so much stress put on them there is no way they can fully recover. I know that sounds dramatic but I feel bloody damaged and think it's going to take at least another 9 months of baby being here to feel slightly normal.

Haha ladies I want to see pet carrying sooooo bloody cute. My dogs are 25kgs there is no way they are fitting in a carrier.

Oh Gennz it's not a nice feeling. I still worry things will go wrong my dreams are truly awful as well. The thought of all this and then something going wrong I'd be broken.

Laughed at fetid just, dw about it Meadow the shower is a sure fire way to make us all sick it's a catch 22.

This is confusing. I’m obviously not complaining but it’s a little strange.
I don’t feel so bad today. I’ve taken my usual meds including Ondansetron as usual. But I didn’t throw up this morning and I have been able to have a bath and move about the house without feeling dizzy or more than I can cope with sick. I’ve even been hungry!
I’m 7 weeks so it’s a bit strange. I don’t know Wether this is a blip, or magic fairy dust, or a miscarriage. I don’t know what this means for Thursday!!

ohnowehatsthis sounds like the drugs are doing there thing, which is great! I had the dizziness too, it was SO hard. It did get better around 7/8 weeks so maybe it's that. Life is so much better when you can get out of bed and have a wash.

You don't need to masked any decision about Thursday until Thursday. You could push the date back if you think feeling a bit better changes things but you need a bit more time to think?

What else are you on besides the ondansetron? It's a great drug but I need the cyclazine alongside it to function. Wish it knocked me out like everyone else, but it really doesn't!

Wow, miss a couple of days and I feel miles behind.
Oh it does sound like the drugs are kicking in. I started with a day like this and then more days. Occasionally a wee step back but it's amazing how different you feel on good days. One day at a time and see how you feel.
Mustang speak to your dr about omprezole. Ok for use in pregnancy and a complete game changer for me. Even me dr (no rant this time) prescribes it.
Gennz get the promotion thing. I was on a major project and told in September that my standard of work would be opening doors for me. I haven't been back at work since 17 Sept. I suspect the doors may not be that open but I just want to focus on surviving this. And as a former career queen, it feels weird.
Hanna, just the constipation is brutal. Lactulose does eventually work but it takes a while. Have you been given lactulose? Drink loads. It works by drawing water in to make your stools softer. The lovelies here also recommended kiwis. They are miracle fruit!*
Nat* you are so organised. I practiced with a doll and a bag of sugar. When I went to try out slings she had a weighted doll. Mind you, I smothered it a few times, between my boobs and lack of technique
For everyone struggling, hugs. I started the dreaded HG symptoms at 4 weeks. I'm 18 weeks tomorrow and it's got better for me. I'm not constantly sick, nausea comes and goes but dizzy spells are gone. I have good days and bad. On a bad day, if I stand up I start dry heaving. Very attractive. On a good day, like today, I've managed some tidying up and a bath. It's really one day at a time. I still can't travel for more than 10 mins. Even if I'm driving, I feel sick! I don't really get out the house but baby seize is hanging in there. I've come a long way from the dark days, when the meds weren't working. I'm also in a very good mood as I'm regular (if you know what I mean?!?).
Sorry if I've missed loads. So much happening.

Snap on cyclizine front batman I'd happily take the zombie feeling.

That's good the meds are working. It will be what it is Ohnowattsthis. There is little you can do I hope you can continue feeling well.

Glad the scan went well meadowhay
Natsku your DD's school sounds very like my DD's. They are so laid back they're horizontal and I think it's great. It's a tiny school and it really is like a family.. The children are so well supported as individuals and they all do well, despite being put under almost zero pressure. I wish all schools would follow suit and just chill out, childhood is short and learning should be enjoyed.

I'm really seeing what you all mean re the constipation on onandestron. Bloody hell. I've taken some milk of magnesia and cranberry juice in the hope it will help.