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Hyperemesis Support

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LucindaE · 14/12/2017 14:41

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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Shehz21 · 01/01/2018 07:25

Mustang Oh Mustang he is so adorable, my heart is melting here! Congratulations to you and your family Flowers
So glad about the quick labour and very well done on the natural delivery!
Cnt wait for pics of the Mini Mustang Boys.
Hope you had a well deserved sleep and you wake up feeling much better!

Ickle I think there is a hormone surge at 28/30 week where the others have had some relapse so I am in the middle of it all but I did prepare myself mentally for it. I have lost appetite due to the constant nausea in the last couple of days and went in for fluids last night but slept good and woke up feeling a bit better.

Happy new year everyone!CakeFlowers

Harebellmeadow · 01/01/2018 09:52

Congratulations mustang he is beautiful. Enjoy the snuggles and have a wonderful day today. A very happy story to start the year with Smile. Happiness forever.

OrangeCloud18 · 01/01/2018 10:16

Congratulations mustang !!

justtheonethen · 01/01/2018 10:20

Oh mustang he's perfect! Well done you, a drug free inducted labour? You're a bloody warrior!! I actually shed a tear, I'm so happy for you.
How lovely to step into the pink castle just before the year closed, I hope that you're sick free now?

justtheonethen · 01/01/2018 10:24

Happy new year all!

I had a great NYE. Ate steak (god how I've missed meat!!!!!) which was still delicious cooked through, well a tiny bit pink Wink, had a glass of red wine, watched Micky Flanagan on DVD and was in bed by 10. Managed to stay awake to watch the fireworks but then totally crashed out at about 5 past!

Starting new year feeling far more positive than I have, we have managed to sort out a financial issue that's been stressing me out. We are going to be mummies this year! Hurrah!

shit, it's all a bit close now

Natsku · 01/01/2018 12:03

Huge congrats Mustang! When he turns 18 he'll thank you for giving birth to him 8 minutes before midnight instead of after Grin

That's great Just!

Despite my fears about baby coming early earlier I now reckon he'll be late, just have a 'feeling' about it. Well so long as he comes after DD's birthday party, then all is fine, don't want to have to ask the children at the party to play a new party game "Call the Midwife!"

Oklahoma · 01/01/2018 12:24

Mustaaaaang!!!! Woohoo!! Congratulations. It’s over!! And he’s gorgeous - we’ll done you.

daffodil196 · 01/01/2018 12:43

Hello, I've been lurking for a little while. I'm 11weeks and have a 2yo Dd. I've had two hospital admissions already, which were pretty awful as they were so disorganised and useless. I'm now taking cyclizine and ondansetron which is helping to control the sickness a bit better but the nausea is awful and constant. I'm feeling so down and struggling to see how I will cope with the next seven months. I've spent the last ten days laying on the sofa as dh has been off work for Christmas but from tomorrow I need to be back on my game to look after Dd and also work myself - I'm self employed and do private tutoring from home in the evenings.

A quick question - I'm horribly constipated with the ondansetron, despite taking lactulose. Do I just have to put up with this for now?

Reading about the new babies has helped me remember there is an end point to all this but it feels so far away!

justtheonethen · 01/01/2018 13:09

Daffodil welcome. Sorry you had such horrible admissions. My hospital are awful too! I have had awful constipation for the whole time. I take a swig of lactulose twice a day and try and eat dried apricots when I can stomach. Unfortunately I think it's the pay off and for me it's awful but worth it. I am soooo looking forward to pooing without bleeding though!
I used to tutor but I had to give it up. I also went freelance before getting pregnant and then couldn't work so financially we are fucked Sad

justtheonethen · 01/01/2018 13:09

Call the midwife natsku Grin

icklekid · 01/01/2018 13:16

Welcome daffodil sorry to hear your struggling so badly. I was very constipated too. Avoid bread and bananas and try prunes or prune juice if you can stomach it. Unfortunately it is a common side effect. Do you have any help with 2 year old? as I would have really struggled to cope with ds whilst in the worst of it. Time does go by and it wont be for ever but I know that doesn't help much right now.

LucindaE · 01/01/2018 16:25

Mother Hen has just flapped back from Denbighshire. I will try and catch up this evening. icklekid has let me know that at last, Baby Mustang alias Blair, has arrived. Wonderful news. Flowers Flowers Smile

Icklekid Thank you so much for your invaluable help. Star Flowers Smile. I had to leave at short notice - but brother much more cheerful by the time we left and managing OK.
Back soon. Once again, all thanks to lovely Icklekid.

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icklekid · 01/01/2018 17:12

Any time. Wish I could help more regularly...will try and keep popping back and see how everyone is doing x

justtheonethen · 01/01/2018 17:21

Welcome back motherhen! Thank you ickle Smile

OrangeCloud18 · 01/01/2018 17:52

Welcome back!

I have struggled so much today... I haven't thrown up but thought I would a few times. Managed some soup at lunch and trying pasta now. I hope I feel better tomorrow as I am back at work...

justtheonethen · 01/01/2018 18:15

Oh no orange Sad

Elephantgrey · 01/01/2018 20:50

Mustang baby Blair is gorgeous! Huge congratulations. I hope you feel better soon.

Lucinda its good to have you back. I am pleased your brother is doing better.

Orange I feel for you. It's awful. I have been the same. My father in law made some lovely home made soup and I almost projectile vomited it over the kitchen. I have just managed to eat a lot of roast potatoes though so feeling a bit better.

I stayed up for new year and went into the village to watch the fireworks which were great but I really wanted to go to bed at 9:00.

LucindaE · 01/01/2018 21:15

More or less caught up.
Sorry to LightTripper. You responded to my SOS call as well as Icklekid, and thank you so much for wise advice.
Welcome to Daffodil. Sorry you feel so foul. Most people find that they have an improvement sometime between 14 and 21 weeks. Even those unlucky few who suffer througout, almost never feel quite as bad later on as they do in the first few weeks. Did you say you have childcare or someone who can give you respite? I don't know of any laxatives apart from lactulose off the top of my head that they use in pregnancy, but there may well be some, so it's worth asking. Can you stand liquorice, figs or cocoanut ( I know the last is questionable).
On the liquids front, how do you find flat full sugar coke, ice lollies or ice cubes, or the juice and fruit of tinned fruit, Lucozade, Dr Pepper, soda water, Elderflower water, orange squash, fizzy orange or sips of chocolate milkshake (maybe soya? ) For food (of a sort) slices of melon or mango, cuppa soup, cheap ice cream, jelly, the tinned fruit or nibbles of crisps and chips. A lot find baked potatoes bearable later on, as a little bit back in the thread. Natsku has added frozen peas, a great idea.
Sorry that NoRoom has been admitted, but so glad that she's got Ondansetron.
Sorry that MeadhowHay and Orangecloud have been feeliing particularly foul.
So glad Justtheonethen Is feeling so much better. I had to laugh at your cartoon.
Lovely picture Shehz21.
Twinklelittlestar I hope you manage to work out a good plan for coping. I do regret not having had a sibling for my DD, but there is no doubt that it is hell on earth dealing with a toddler and Hypermesis without really good support.
CrazyPlantLady Sorry you were gingered. That's a good idea about sucking an ice cube to get rid of that foul taste. I sucked sweets (barley sugar from an old fasioned sweet shop, but they do increase saliva).
Waves to Elephantgrey and everyone. I do hope no more admissions.
Still delighted about Mustang. Sorry you feel nauseated.
Someone asked about when sickness goes. For 99 percent, I would say, within a day or so, often, right after the birth. For a tiny minority, it lingers a while, due to hormones and breast feeding, maybe seven people out of the hundreds who have been on all this threads since 2010 or thereabouts. Trust me to be among them, though I didn't suffer badly compared to most, and with me, it was only severe for ten days, then just a nauseated feeling with let down until I stipped breast feeding.
Thank you again so much to Icklekid and LightTripper.

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LucindaE · 01/01/2018 21:16

Elephantgrey Thank you so much for that and for aking after brother. He's doing OK and awaiting an operation which hopefully will put all right. You were brave to do so much over the New Year!

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LightTripper · 02/01/2018 00:32

Not at all, sorry I wasn't in more. Mumsnet won't seem to let me reply to messages on the phone, which is really frustrating!

Natsku · 02/01/2018 04:50

Oh dear Orange hope today goes better for you.

More bloods today, re-checking my blood group in case it's magically changed Hmm and insomnia strikes yet again - why does it always happen when I have a blood test? It's not like I'm nervous or anything as blood tests don't bother me one jot. Oh well at least this time I'm pretty sure I don't need to fast so eating gingerbread and drinking tea.

TwoDrifters · 02/01/2018 07:24

Congratulations Mustang I’m so happy for you all!

Herecomesanotheron2018 · 02/01/2018 07:41

Hello,

I was wondering if I could get some advise please? I should start by saying I don't think I have HG, as I'm nowhere near suffering as bad as you guys, but I am struggling and my mental health is taking a huge dive because of it...so I wondered if anyone could advise me please?

In my last pregnancy, I started feeling sick around 5 weeks, and it reached its peak at 8 weeks. I was sick once or twice a day, but the nausea was so debilitating I couldn't move. At 13 weeks I gave in and got metoclopromide from the gp. I took this until approx 35 weeks when I felt slightly better.

I'm now 6 weeks pregnant and was dreading feeling like that again. I've been feeling sick since 4 weeks, but the last 3 days it's got even worse. I can't face eating or drinking - even the thought of drinking makes me shudder and gag. I'm trying to force myself though, but I did have a horrible migraine yesterday as a result of not drinking enough I think.

I am at higher risk of spina bifida, So take 5mg folic acid at night. I couldn't keep that down last night. I am sat on the bathroom floor fighting my gag reflex. I don't feel like I can move from this spot as I feel I could be sick at any minute.

This feels so much worse than last time. I have a toddler who is crying as she knows mummy is poorly and I can't take care of her. We tried for a year for this baby and now I'm starting to wish we didn't 😭 I'm sorry for moaning, I know it could be so much worse but I just can't cop3. I'm so shaky and weak and have so much guilt about my toddler I just don't know what to do :(

justtheonethen · 02/01/2018 07:45

Here I think you need to go and get meds! All NVP is a spectrum and if it's affecting your daily life then you need help.
Fwiw my HG started with gagging and constant nausea at 6 weeks. By 7 weeks I was admitted for fluids.
Go to the gp. Can you get any help with looking after your little one?

Natsku · 02/01/2018 07:52

Definitely go get meds, you need to be able to keep your folic acid down so it's especially important for you, make sure you explain that to your GP and hopefully you will get meds straight away. If you can't get an appointment today or tomorrow then get some avomine from the pharmacy so you can keep the folic acid down.