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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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Blue25654 · 02/02/2018 16:08

Thanks for the advice everyone. I was going to go to hospital this morning once DC at school but i managed to hold down just enough food and drink yesterday (the fruit juice was a winner) that the ketones have come right down this morning. hopefully it stays that way but as and when it doesn’t i’ll go in. I’m so fed up already just feel so awful constantly and useless to play with DC Sad

seizethecuttlefish · 02/02/2018 16:31

Welcome nails. That sounds a lot like hg. Those are the main symptoms I have now. Meds have stopped me being sick but they took a while to control the gagging. Or as the dr referred to it "dry boak".
Anatidae loving the vein finder general. Hope you're feeling a bit better by now?
Natsku sending loads of positive thoughts your way.
1984 he looks like a doll. So perfect.
Hope everyone is muddling along?

Anatidae · 02/02/2018 18:54

On the TENTH go they got a line in. I think by that point and with me not peeing for ten hours they realised i was actually as dehydrated as I said I was.the saline didn’t do much but the glucose drip was the dogs balls. I have peed, I have ondansetron and I’m back home.

So cute 1984 !

Happy gestating everyone. I’m off to nurse my puncture wounds

Natsku · 03/02/2018 07:58

So glad you have ondansetron now!

DD is ill, perfect timing...

LottieDoubtie · 03/02/2018 08:22

Hi everyone, I’d like to tentatively check myself in if that’s ok.

I had HG with my now 3 yo and we’ve been TTS no 2 recently. I’ve not been sick yet but have felt increasingly nauseous for the last week- still too early to test so I don’t know for certain but... well I’m pretty sure I don’t have food poisoning and I retched twice at work yesterday Blush

Went to see the doctor on thurs and he was supportive- gave me a prescription for Metoclopromide which was the only thing that worked last time. Told me not to take unless necessary and advised to hold off til 8 weeks it I possibly can- I’m not sure that’s good advice what do others think?

I didn’t feel sick this ridiculously early with my first and I’m feeling pretty scared 😟

Natsku · 03/02/2018 08:25

Waiting until you start being sick is not a good idea when you've had HG before. Maybe it would be better to start now with a first line treatment like cyclizine before you're vomiting and then switch to metoclopromide at 8 weeks if you need to.

AppleKatie · 03/02/2018 08:30

I’m a bit anti cyclizine as it gave me double vision/dizziness/made me sleep a ridiculously huge amount and didn’t appear to have any anti emetic properties at all for me 🙈

nailsathome · 03/02/2018 11:27

Thank you everyone for your support. Called the midwife line at the hospital today and they said is sounds like hg. I have to monitor my fluids and if I'm not drinking enough today then to go in for a drip.

I managed to be up on the sofa for 40 mins this morning until the heaving got too much so now I'm back in bed. Do you find it eases if you're laying down?

Are you all managing to go to work? I've been having a couple of days off here and there but it's so tough and I don't think I can sustain even that much any more.

Anatidae I'm glad you're home feeling a bit better. Yay for peeing!

Natsku · 03/02/2018 11:32

I was off work for the worst part nailsathome as luckily my workplace shut down for the summer. So many have had to take time off work, if you don't think you can work then go get sick leave.

Natsku · 03/02/2018 11:33

I would love a bit of cyclizine right now so I could sleep!

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LucindaE · 03/02/2018 11:55

Welcome back (possibly) to LottieDoubtie - I remember you from last time - for some reason, that 'doubtie' made me think you were Scottish, it sounds like Rabbie Burns! You being a veteran, if this is it, there is no need for me to give my kesostix-for-early-stages-of dehydration and the juice of tinned fruit and flat full sugar coke spiel.It might be worth phoning Pregnancy Sickness SOSon 024 7638 2020 about taking metoclopramide early, Pre-emptive meds do seemingly work more effectively; some neurological process to do with the brain and getting into a vomiting cycle.
AppleKatie Welcome if you are a new arrival, and not a regular who has gone in for a name change; - I don't always know the difference.
Cyclizine does seem to knock people out at least at first, but some find that wears off after some weeks. Are you on something else now?
Anitidae I am so glad that the treatment worked and you are feeling better at home.The cat's ovaries, as well as the dogs balls, perhaps!
Natsku Sorry about DD.
Blue I am glad that fruit juice took down the ketones. Was that the famous juice of tinned peaches? Many hefty babies have been grown on that here.
I see there is about sixty-five messsage spaces left. The IT shop in Newtown say that I can't have the PC before Tuesday at the earliest - so on Monday afternoon - after Welsh - I'll come in and start up a new thread if required. Hopefully this one should last until then.
I'm going to be chased off PC, but there's just time to ask Blue was it you who asked about work or was it nails? In fact, I'm amazed that you have been able to stagger in. Do get signed off if you possibly can; most sufferers are off for some time with this, as it is so much worse if you get up and try and lead a normal life. Lying still helps a lot.
Waves to Shehz justtheone Natsku seize Mustang and everyone. Apologies if I've rudely ignored anyone or cross posted.

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LottieDoubtie · 03/02/2018 13:24

NC fail Blush - Lottie was the name I used during my last pregnancy so thought I’d change back for this thread in the hope you’d remember my misery! Thanks Lucinda no idea how I would have got through the last one without you. If this is ‘it’ I’m petrified but feeling ready to get it done with 🙈 in the spirit of if it’s going to be awful it’s going to be awful so...

Didntcomeheretofuckspiders · 03/02/2018 13:49

I seem to have had a couple of days where I feel much better. I’m 10 weeks today, is it a trap?! It’s making me panic a little bit if I’m honest.

Anatidae · 03/02/2018 14:34

nails in my first pregnancy I worked with no time off for the first six months and it nearly killed me. By 6 m I was seriously ill and had to take the rest off.
This time I promised myself I’d be more pushy with the docs earlier and less of a martyr. I’ve been signed off for the next month so far :( not ideal as we get a significant drop in pay from day one of sickness leave but I am honestly incapable just now.

Anatidae · 03/02/2018 14:35

The effects of drugs and drip lasted until about 2am. I feel dreadful today :(

Natsku · 03/02/2018 14:38

Oh no :(

Anatidae · 03/02/2018 19:21

Bugger. Have picked up the ondansetron prescription and it’s not having any effect so far. Nearly fainted in the supermarket and have felt awful all day. Still have this wracking cough which I’m sure won’t help. Grimness all round really.

I’m going back to PUBMED to look for anything that might help. Anyone had any luck with B vitamin supplementation (yes, it’s grasping at straws time!)

nailsathome · 04/02/2018 10:05

Sorry the meds aren't working Anatidae. How many weeks are you?

Does anyone else feel like it's Groundhog Day? I want to just hibernate for the next 20 weeks.

Natsku · 04/02/2018 10:35

Maybe it'll take a few doses before it starts to work effectively Anatidae? I tried vit B6 and it didn't really help but I wasn't able to take it in the way that's recommended (i.e. 10mg four times a day) as the only one I could get was a 200mg pill which I broke in half and took once a day. I've heard from others though that it's helped them when taken the 'proper' way so worth a shot at least.

I feel fed up. The slightly painful contractions have stopped and now it's just constant braxton hicks, my belly is like a rock most of the time. And I'm getting a stinging pain around my vagina when I wee (not in my urethra so don't think it's a UTI, it definitely feels like the pain is coming from my vagina) which I don't understand. At least the sickness seems to have eased again so I can be grateful for that.

Anatidae · 04/02/2018 10:54

I’m ten weeks. I’ve got some vit b6 pills and I’m taking them along with a general b vitamin supplement. And dehydration solution which is wonderful. What a fun cocktail

I’m just surprised that none of the antiemetics have worked at all Confused - they may have reduced the vomiting a bit (not by much) but no help at all with the nausea which is what is really flooring me.

Good luck natsku hope it happens soon for you!

butterfly86 · 04/02/2018 11:26

Anatidae the anti emetics have helped me with the vomiting so I can eat some plain food now and keep water down, I do still vomit but nowhere near as much but they've done nothing for the nausea I'm still nauseous pretty much 24/7. The doctor who I saw when I was admitted did say that would be the case that though.
I might have been silly this morning, I didn't vomit as soon as I got up so I thought I'd try some breakfast and didn't take my tablets, I'd really like to not take them if I can and i thought maybe it's easing...feeling sick now though! 11+2 today.

Natsku · 04/02/2018 11:50

10/11/12 weeks was the worst, not even my wonderful doxylamine which made me feel 'normal' most of the pregnancy could touch the nausea during those weeks, nor all of the vomiting. I was on holiday as well, with a loooong car journey, sheer hell but it passed eventually.

Definitely don't skip your meds butterfly no matter how good you feel!

SandyBabyToes · 04/02/2018 12:48

Anat Weeks 10 to 21 were the worst for me, absolutely vile. I'm probably not a great example though because I'm still very sick now and DS is 11 weeks. I'm very unlucky and I'm hoping you'll be luckier and it'll get easy after week 12/13 Thanks

I was horrendously sick last night, not been sick like that since DS was a few weeks old. But lucky me because it's almost 1pm and he's still asleep!

Ladies, please send your words of wisdom. I'm such a foolish wonder. I think I may be pregnant again Blush DS is only 11 weeks....

Natsku · 04/02/2018 13:05

Oh wow Sandy I guess you need to do a test! If you are, that might explain the worsening sickness

Natsku · 04/02/2018 13:07

Just skyped my mum and now she has me panicking that I might be dilating without realising it because of all these contractions and telling me I don't want to risk giving birth by the side of the road if I delay going to the hospital (she was born in a taxi on the way to the hospital)