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.

Welcome to the newbies and commiserations my friends
My heart aches for you all going through the dreaded first trimester where it can get so SO hard but I see loads of veterans and y'all already know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel(though I know it's quite realistically difficult to see it atm).

For the one who mentioned about an unsupportive husband, I can only huff and puff indignantly on your behalf.
He should have expected this and it's sad that he thinks this is laziness as this is SO far from it. Nobody wants to just lie down 24/7 retching/puking/feeling nauseous. I hope he does start to understand to which extent really HG can rob the life out of you.

Mustang Lucky you on dream baby Mini Mustang 2! Hope I can get half as lucky as you!

Natsku i am guessing the birthday party preparations are in full swing! Hope Baby Nat is comfy until the 22nd atleast!

justtheonethen Argh so sorry to hear about the bad days. No point to suffer unnecessarily towards the end, I would suggest to rather stay on the dose you were on and stay cheery until baby Just is out!

Seize Glad to hear you are doing ok on HG front and sorry about the sore inner hips.

SPD flaring up here and that awful metallic aftertaste is back. Hating 3rd trimester
10 weeks to go though so trying to be a bit more optimistic...

Hi all. Can I join?

I've recently found out I'm pregnant. Due September. This is my second pregnancy, I have a beautiful DD from my first HG pregnancy. So here I am again!!

I felt I was a bit more prepared this time, if nothing else! At least I know what to expect and I was lucky in that symptoms had hugely improved by 14 weeks.

But I'm feeling sick this morning and I can't lie, I'm scared. I have a toddler to look after and I also don't feel I can take 5 weeks off work, which is what I did last time.

Looking for some hand holding I guess!

Going to ring my GP tomorrow morning and ask for some meds. I was taking prochloperazine (sp?) last time.

Hi peachesandcream - me too! I also have a lovely & lively little girl, I'm due late sept I think and I'm dreading it all kicking in. I was on Sominex (promethazine) last time but I was so groggy and tired that I'm hoping I can get something different this time. I feel like all the excitement I should feel is being squashed by the reality and dread of knowing that in the next 2 weeks I'll be awful. I can't look after my 2 year old or manage to teach full time unless my GP is more helpful.
I've bought some Sominex over the counter and ordered b6 from boots in the hope that I can manage it better in advance this time. I hope your GP can give you something to help tomorrow and you feel better soon x

Thank you to everyone for the morale boosting advice, I'll be much more assertive and get everything printed so that they don't fob me off

Are you a teacher? I can't imagine. At least I can hide in my office behind my desk on my own!

Does anyone else have a tiny list of foods they can eat? I was managing to cope with very small portions of most things (although was completely off meat) last week but I’m now down to peanut butter sandwiches, digestive biscuits and yoghurts. I feel like a child!

There were few foods I could eat during the worst time (I ate tacos for every meal for a couple of weeks!) but it got better once I got the right meds and the worst weeks were past so hold in there.

Welcome newcomers, hoping this time round isn't so bad for you.

Bad pain in my appendix scar today and last night, fed up of that, but all else is actually fine right now - for the first time I can almost enjoy this pregnancy. And quite happy because I found someone selling a Spectra S2 breastpump for 50 euros so have bought that and will just get new tubing etc. which is only 20 euros for the set, so very good bargain!

Didn't I ate only nibbles of cold jacket potato, grated cheese and plain hula hoops for weeks. It was miserable! That will get better as time goes on.

Norbert you're probably (definitely!) going to need time off! I was a teacher until last year and there is no way that HG is compatible. To be honest I'm not sure any job is really, I spent weeks 7-17 lying still and heaving/vomiting at noise/light/smell!
Tell them you have tried promethazine and it's too drowsy as they will try and give you that or cyclizine first which will make you drowsy too.

Peaches welcome and congratulations. Get to the gp! Cyclizine and vitamin d are an effective preemptive combo apparently - see photo.

Natsku hope that baby stays put, and you're doing nothing more taxing than eating cake.

Shehz you poor thing, the third trimester has been so unkind to you.
Ten weeks to go, you can do this.

I'm feeling full of baby, lots of odd bits poking out and jabbing me . 8 weeks to go (baby better not be late!)!

Those of you in the dreaded first trimester you WILL get through this. It's awful but just hunker down and get through each day. Tiny milestones to look forward to help. First scan/midwife app etc. Plus if you get through the first trimester and you're still being admitted to hospital/not coping then ask for (demand) steroids. I didn't as I foolishly thought the doctors knew best and had a dreadful second trimester then at 29 weeks I begged for them and got told I was too far on to have them which was rubbish, eventually got them and it's made such a difference. I can actually imagine doing this again if I got them earlier. Which before was unthinkable.

Peaches congratulations on your pregnancy. If you can get to a pharmacy before you get to the GP some antacids would really help. I take ranitidine along with cyclising and it helps. You can buy it Without prescription ( sometimes they are funny about selling it to you in pregnancy).

During my worst times I ate Belvita breakfast biscuits, red grapes and lemon fizzy water. I then moved on to baked potatoes, plain pasta with peas and vegetable soup. I also went through a phase when I ate salt and vinegar crisps and then was repulsed by them. Now I am 21 weeks I feel like I am turning a corner with the sickness and there are more foods I can eat.

Norbert I agree that you probably do need time off at least until you are on a combination of mess that work.

Shez you have my sympathy. I also have SPD. I imagine it is worse for you as you are further on in your pregnancy but it's not too long until the end now.

Natsku I hope the baby stays in there until after your daughter's birthday. I have taken up your love of bargains and have bought a cot bed for £40. It would have been £300 new and is in perfect condition and even comes with the instruction leaflet. I don't know how anyone manages to afford all new baby stuff some of the prams cost more than a car!

Emotionally I have been all over the place and I have been worrying quite a lot.

I love a bargain too elephant, no way I could afford it all new! What are you worrying about?

Just had a small breakdown, weeping on the bathroom floor. Finding anything but lying down makes me so nauseous that I’ll start retching but can’t always vomit which is horrible. Poor DP is beside himself because he doesn’t know what to do to help and he’s struggling with renovating the house and doing all the housework on his own because I’m just this big useless lump. I just want to cook a nice dinner and go for a run ffs! Why is that so difficult?! DP is worried about my mental health because I’m not doing anything mentally stimulating and he’s totally right. I feel miserable as sin. At least if it was summer I could be outside! I’m going to try to go to the garden centre in a little bit and tear myself to some nice yarn and a new book. I need to do something!!

Interesting that several people mention baked potatoes and vegetable soup as bearable when you do move on to eating and luxuries like that...I remember those.

PeachesandCream. Welcome. Congratulations on your pregnancy. Were you on a previous thread, as the name seems familiar (sorry; I've a dreadful memory for names these days, and there have been eight years of these)? As you are a veteran, you don't need my kesostix and flat full sugar coke, ice lollies and the fruit and juice of tinned fruit spiel. Everyone is very supportive on here.

Didn't Cross posted. Much sympathy. The nausea is harder than the vomiting. Don't be hard on yourself. Reading is a good way of passing the time, and listening to the radio if you can't bear a screen to watch films etc. Some find audio books invaluable. Some swear by a chart where you colour in each day survived.
Sorry, I'm not sure who mentioned bargains, can't scroll through as my computer has been playing up since yesterday. I think it's great to further recycling by using second hand stuff, though it goes against the false values of consumerism. It isn't as if the baby is about to say, 'This isn't good enough. All the other babies have a new cot (even if half of them never sleep in it).' Rant over.
Much sympathy to all feeling foul. Things will improve.

justtheonethen I have been worrying about birth and looking after the baby when he is born because I have hypermobility syndrome. I have also worried that people will think that I am an unfit mother. I know that I have blown a lot of this out of proportion but I have moments when I feel very tearful or panicked and then later I feel more cheerful again. It is quite hard to explain it. Yesterday I couldn't explain to DH why I was crying now I feel quite chirpy.

I certainly couldn't afford everything new, baby stuff is ridiculously expensive!

Hi Lucinda. I think I was a lurker last time!

Didn't get on with cyclizine last time. Made me drowsy and it stopped working after a week.

Really want to avoid hospitalisation this time, although the nurses were all very nice!

How does everyone deal with hyper-salivation? I never had that symptom before and it is driving me crazy!

Lucinda I'm on omeprazole, but it only works on the days I manage to keep the meds down

Thanks everyone for your kind words, I had a total breakdown last night and told him I can't do anything etc etc and he's been much better today! I feel much less hopeless!

What is everyone managing to drink? Plain water makes me vomit, most things do actually ☹️ I've managed half a pint of milk today and that's it 🙈 I find I tolerate drinks much worse than food..

Work 2 weeks tomorrow 😬 at the moment all I can hope for is that at my occupational health interview on tues they say I can't go back?!

I could only tolerate fizzy drinks during the worst weeks mummadave, the sugar in them really helped too though I also drank unsweetened fizzy water a lot as well (lemon flavour seemed the nicest at the time)

Elephant totally normal with hormones all over the place. I felt suicidal at times. I would mention to go or midwife, I wish I had got referred to the mental health midwives.

Endora spitting into a tissue. Grim.

Didn't it's awful isn't it. I was so very down in those days. Audiobooks were invaluable to me as reading made me sick. The nausea has been my worst thing.

Mumma glad he's being better! Dizzy drinks only in the early days. Fizzy water was good. Then I found I could drink bottled water but not tap.

Evening everyone, you’ve been busy!

Lucinda, thanks for your good wishes, I’m so sorry to hear about your MMC. They rip the joy from pregnancy. My scan today went well, I can’t quite believe I’m saying that! It’s been two years of heartache but I can start to feel hopeful. And for the first time I am allowing myself to name the EDD, July 30th.

Many congratulations, Peaches, I really hope things are easier for you this time.

Didnt it’s so tough isn’t it, and so frustrating, to feel to useless and incapacitated. I am amaxed at how debilitating HG is. I’m wasting a lot of food at the moment, buying things then going off them. Dry coco pops, bread sticks, sometimes milk or Greek yog, I had some halloumi last night, that was ok.

Natsku the scar pain sounds grim. I was thinking about you—watched a vid about the diffeeence between braxton hicks and contractions. And remembering those funny tightenings! Exciting times.

Hope you’re ok, Elephantgrey, the emotions are tough. Agree to mention it if you can. I had PND with DS and was rubbish at getting help, I’ve been very upfront this time and the MW has been great.

Thanks for the lovely words, justtheonethen

Sorry for anyone I’ve missed X

Life lovely news

Lifeofpies so pleased your scan went well and you have a due date. It should get easier from now on. Thank you for your kind words.

Mummadave drinking is more difficult than eating. I was also on lemon water. I can also manage fruit juice quite well and tinned pineapple in pineapple juice. I have also been having ice lollies ( very seasonal).

justtheonethen it helps to know I am not the only person who feels like that. I have felt suecidal and also convinced that social services will take the baby away as soon as he's born. No one has even mentioned social services so it is just me worrying. I am feeling ok at the moment it is odd how up and down I feel.

Elephant I've been really worried about my mr two health at times. Definitely speak to midwife. I know I was catastrophising at my worst points which it sounds like you're doing too. Hugs for you. Always here if you want to chat

*my mental health