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.

Noroom 8 weeks is really tough. I can see why you need to let it all out. Is this your 4th HG pregnancy? I am in awe.

Lucinda oddly I really love acidic things and really lemony lemons were one of the few things I could stand in the early weeks. It probably did me no good whatsoever but I was repulsed by a lot of alkaline thing esp dairy.

Seize I am going to investigate the organised mum blogs. I am not organised enough to be a mum so I need to try something and I like colour coded journals so that would be worth a try.

Mummadave I think bringing the Green Top guidelines is a good idea. I hope you get some Onadestrone.

Got my appointment letter for the maternity clinic, they're going to do an ultrasound as well so I get to see baby again :)

Thanks for your suggestions, I didn't see the dr I spoke to on the phone in the end fortunately! The one I did see was lovely and basically just asked me what I wanted her to describe and gave me what I wanted - phew!

Natsku Sympathies, but you've probably did her a favour in the long run by being unable to walk with her - when you tell her that she is brave and how proud you are of her, that will be part of her self image, and that's great.
mummadave I'm so glad it worked out all right.
Elephantgrey That just shows how individual Hyperemesis is - I would have gone into orbit if I'd had so much as looked at a lemon!

Thanks Lucinda I know in the long run it's best for her to just do it and gain self-confidence but hard to remember that when you see them wobbly and scared.

That's a great result mummadave!

Sorry guys, been a bit absent for a while.
Now back at work, but regretting coming back so soon.
Not being sick as much as I was but it's still between 3-10 times per day.
Calling my GP later to see what he can do, but I feel so bad for not wanting to be at work, but I'm exhausted trying to be here all day.

RockingLobstering Do, says Bossy Mother Hen, go straight to your GP's to get a sick note, Do Not Pass Go...You should not be at work with that level of vomiting. Can they give you any other meds? I seem to be saying that a lot today about new meds. Change the CD, Lucinda.

Hi all, lots of updates, really intersted to read about reflux and HG. If anyone wants full journal articles let me know as I have good access through work.

Great news about the prescription, mumanddave

NoRoom I’m so sorry, it’s really tough. Keep posting and get help where you can. I have a 4yo and have been having lots of play dates on our days together.

Rocking agree you should not be at work! Even without the vomiting the exhaustion, wobbles etc are very hard to deal with at work.

A late congratulations to you @Mustang! Hope you are enjoy your new bundle and are feeling less sick!!

Sorry to see more names added into the thread as well, it is a long tough journey but your babas will be with you before you know it!

We finally have our boy home with us from his time in NICU. He spent 13 days in there and it was the most stressful, emotional and horrible 13 days I've gone through. Thankfully he is all better and is now just a normal healthy baby, albeit a bit small but he is perfect and is feeding great and putting on weight. I can't explain how awful those first few nights in hospital were for me, having to sit on the ward surrounded by mums and their new babies. I was just a crying a mess but thankfully we are now passed all that and we can just be a proper family again. I'm so glad I have HG behind me but somehow miss being pregnant at the same time... there will be no more however. 2 HG pregnancies was enough for me!!!

Congratulations on getting home, spearo! You must be delighted. It is a trauma being on postnatal ward without your baby, and you need time to heal from that. Enjoy all those wonderful snuggles in your own space.

Glad you have him home now spearo

spearo How wonderful! Now I can give you congratulations! You have many happy times ahead of you.

Huge congratulations spearo!!

Spearo that is brilliant . Enjoy having your baby home.

Rocking I agree, you shouldn't be at work!

Natsku oh that must have broken your heart but I agree with Lucinda, good for her long term. Good news about scan.

Forgotten everything else . Waves all round to everyone.

I'm still feeling so much better, so nervous to drop dose though on Wednesday. I have to try and wean off them over a month period but I'm scared I'll just feel the same as I did before.

Welcome home spearo!

I, too, spent time on the postnatal ward with my baby in NICU on another floor - it was horrendous and you have my full sympathy.

How utterly fantastic that you are home now!!! I’m so happy for you!!!

Hey there everyone.
Holy sheesh this thread has really moved and there are so many new names, I missed out on so much!!
Hello there newbies, so sorry you all are going through this
Please take advice re work especially as overdoing it can really wear you down.
I am so sorry I am unable to have a personalised messaged for each and everyone as I have been missing since quite a few days. What with, my awful relapse followed by the worst cold of the decade. Have hardly managed to sleep since New Year's, feeling like a zombie here.

Spearo21 I have to say YAY and massive congrats for finally bringing your little boy back home. You so deserve all the warm lovely snuggle cuddles after the obstetrics cholestasis and early induction. Glad you are finally out of your misery with HG,OC and worry for lo.

justtheonethen May i just say how great i felt reading your posts about how brilliant these steroids have been for you!
Goodluck with weaning off them though, can understand your worry about being off them and potentially having to deal with HG again which is a foreseeable nightmare. Crossing my fingers you manage to wean off them alright when time comes and then not long maybe before bubba makes an appearance!

Waves to Nat Lucinda Seize Elephant Thingy and everyone else

Has your relapse improved at all Shehz? Hope you get some sleep soon.

Have to sort out DD's birthday party next, it'll have to be on the 20th when I'm 39 weeks which seems scarily close and pushing my luck a bit but hopefully all will be fine. At least DD wants to spend half the party outside playing backyard hockey and cooking sausages over the fire so OH will have to supervise that instead of me so I can just sit inside and try not to eat the cake

Hey shehz,oh no! Hope you're starting to improve? I'm not sleeping well either and it's really getting me down.

Natsku eek! That call the midwife game could happen

Shehz hope you have a better day today.
Natsku my sons bday party is a month before my due date and I've already said it won't be at home. Loving your style.
Spearo hope you're enjoying loads of cuddles. Ds was in NICU for a week and it was torture. They put me in a private room but I felt so isolated. Now I think I got off lucky.
I'm having a feel good day. Dinner is in the slow cooker. Don't think I'll be eating any as still no appetite but DH informs me it tastes lovely. Cleared out a kitchen cupboard, the fridge and the kitchen shelves. Ashamed to say I have a black bag full of very out of date food! Also, finally done my ironing. That said, to use a good Scottish word, I'm gubbed. But I had a good day, after a week of terrible days, it's great.
Hugs to you all.

Can I ask for some advice? My dating scan is on Sunday and a full bladder is essential, apparently. How full do you think it needs to be?! I’ll do my best, obviously, but really struggling with fluids. Should I just drink a pint of water and hope for the best?! Feel rather pathetic asking this.

Many congratulations on the good day, sieze!

Life just drink as much as you can and don't worry. It just gives a clearer picture so they may have to press harder. I was lucky that at my hospital I had to have an empty bladder for my 6 and 12 week scans!

Thank you, justtheonethen, my letter has a bolded section about full bladders, funny (but not surprising) that different hospitals have different policies.

Thank you, justtheonethen, my letter has a bolded section about full bladders, funny (but not surprising) that different hospitals have different policies.

LifeofPies I remember a doctor saying to me that a full bladder just makes it easier; they can see well enough at 12 weeks without. If you can't retain a lot of liquid they should be able to do it anyway.
Retrospective hugs to TwoDrifters and siezethecuttlefish over having babies in intensive care.
Shehz21 How are you? I hope you are not suffering badly now, as you'd said you'd had a relapse a few days since?
RockingLobstering I hope you are off work now? (Mother Hen demands bossily).
Natsku That sounds like healthy stuff - hockey. Do you have snow on the ground - is it a form of ice hockey? I remember slippping and sliding playing hockey on the sports field. How is DD - happier about
walking in the gloom?
pippasnippa Waves. Miss you and all the veterans now residing in the Pink Castle. I don't know if I have explained that reference in a while. When I was a kid we used to have a snakes and ladders boards where the last square was a pink castle in the clouds. As Hyperemesis is like a horrible game of snakes and ladders - drink a glass of water, up a short ladder, a succession of bile runs, down a long snake, I thought of a blissful Pink Castle at the end.
Waves to all. Apologies to anyone rudely ignored. Watch me cross post.