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.

@Boredoftryingusernames thank you. Sounds like sound advice! I'll have a look at the keto sticks, definitely. It really is grim, but 100% worth it. I don't mind the feeling sick and vomiting and after numerous miscarriages I am more than ecstatic to have made it to 8 weeks! I just want this pregnancy to be as healthy as possible and don't want to put baby at any risk due to dehydration. Funny how you get no advice until your first MW appointment which for me isn't until 11 weeks. My dad is a GP and it's been so hard not telling him as he would be my first point of call! Thanks again for your advise. MN has been of so much value this past few weeks!

Having a very bad HG day today :-( so depressed, was hoping to get things done (things we need to do to get house ready for baby) but just lying on sofa unable to move

If I had known pregnancy would be like this then I would have waited until the house was finished to try for a baby! (Though I am very lucky to have wonderful, lovely and kind DH).

would have waited until the house was finished to try for a baby!

If it makes you feel any better we built a house and moved during my first pregnancy - three years on and we still haven’t really finished it. The baby doesn’t care at all. They’re in your room for the first months anyway. We eventually turned the ‘bung it in there’ room into ds’s room when he was 15m
It’s nice to have a nursery that looks good but the baby won’t mind or care and you probably won’t even use it for six months anyway. Don’t stress about it, just rest and concentrate on getting through the grimness that is pregnancy

@LucindaE no I hadn't been on any anti sickness meds they've started me on he combined. So far I still feel really nauseous but not vomiting so keeping a bit of food and fluids down today. I'm meant to be back at work on Wednesday but don't see how I can go in as the tablets are making me feel so spaced out and dizzy.

Lucinda I would definitely add scotch pancakes to the list of foods to try; my 9lb boy was grown on them, along with tinned peaches.

Someone mentioned dairy leaving a funny taste; I was similar and for most of my pregnancy dairy literally bounced straight bean out. I never found a dairy free alternative that worked.

Just went and got some scotch pancakes they have helped thanks.

Also potato cakes.

@Anatidae thanks for encouragement :-) you're right baby wont mind if colour scheme in bedroom is from the 70's (which it is!). More important to get this baby made and out than a designer bedroom. Just hard to keep perspective sometimes!

Welcome to NikioleSalski. You've already had great advice. I so agree about getting kesostix and going for meds as soon as the dr's opens.
When you say being sick 10 -25 times a day, is that separate heaving sessions? The reason I ask if because dr's tend to count each heave as a vomit, which seems weird to me, but they do. The amended drinks and food (so -called). Flat full sugar coke, the juice of tinned fruit, ice lollies, ice cubes, soda water, Elderflower water, Robinson's fruit drinks, orange juice (if not too acidic), fizzy orange, Lucozade, Dr Pepper, sips of chocolate milk shake - maybe soya, and orange squash. Also, the famous Scotch pancakes, nibbles of crisps and chips, cuppa soup, cheap ice cream, slices of mango and melon, baked potatoes and jelly.
eallison 9lb is great! I'm glad you benefited by the tinned fruit advice - so many hefty babies have been grown on that on this thread! I've added the Scotch pancakes.
AW12345 I so agree with Anididae. The baby will be in bed with you, and I promise s/he won't say: 'I expected better accomodation.' Besides, goodness, 1970's styles are Retro, after all...
songbirdI do hope that combination helps you. Cyclizne does make a lot of people spaced out at first, but they often find this wears off after a bit. If things aren't better in a couple of days, don't hesitate to report to the GP that they aren't working.
Waves to RockinRobin StatisticallyChallanged Bored Anitidae and everyone.

On the nursery front; i sort of wish I hadn't bothered... little still doesn't really spend much time in there (nap and bedtime only) And he's of an age now (2.5) where it'd be nice to decorate it with his choices (or sort of!), but it's done now and I don't really want to spend more money on it!!!

Songbird, I really hope the meds help, if they don't, please don't hesitate to go back to GO and ask for something different.

Have a peaceful, restful night all

I painted and fitted new skirting board in our 'nursery' at about 33-35 weeks last time.
It's been OHs bedroom for nearly 4 years now.
LO still bed shares with me

Though we have been in the (slow) process of decluttering so we can repaint and recarpet in there as LO now thinks he 'might' like his own room.

OHs snoring is awful though so we have also bought a new sofa bed for downstairs...

Sickness isn't too bad these days.
Some days the nausea and fatigue just floors me and there are lots of near misses with the voms, but I think I am having more days where I don't actually vom, than days I do.

I tried taking Promethazine through the days but find it makes me quite agitated and easily agrivated so sticking with just at night.

Seem my folks today and told them about the pg so that's good.
It's my brothers wedding next Friday.
Looking forward to seeing everyone but I will be knackered

Thanks for all the replies. I don't mind being on it if I need it but was hopeful that at nearly 37/40 The hg would have done one!

Oh yes, toscacat, I was on at least 8mg of ondansetron daily from about week 7 until the day i gace birth.

Foodylicious, have you tried other meds (sorry if I'm out of touch And you've mentioned this already?). Many women don't get on with promethazine (or a variety of reasons).

I've been on at about 5 weeks or so.
Last of I was on it from 11 weeks all the way through.
I might get on better with something else, but I'm too scared to switch. And whilst this is shit, I am eating and putting on weight so it's definitely working for the most part.
I just can face putting myself through days of vomming again and time off work whilst I try something else.

*last pg, not last of

Could you try something else as well, then gradually decrease the promethazine, see how that plays out?

Just back from the docs - switched to 4mg ondanestron for now and wants me to stop taking everything else for now.

Is a cold turkey switch normal, does anyone know? Slightly wary of stopping the existing ones and losing whatever control i have.

@StatisticallyChallenged I was on a bit of a drug cocktail and they said to stop everything except the ondansetron... Was very worried but went with what they said (was consultant gynecologist) and have been overall better just on ondansetron. Less drowsy etc :-)

@statistiychallenged the only meds that did anything for me were ondansetron, so you might find that the ondansetron does as much, if not more, than the cocktail.

Fingers crossed this one works then! how quickly did you find it kicked in?

How many times a day have they told you to take the ondansetron Statistically Challenged?

I'm on 4mg up to 3 times a day.

@StatisticallyChallenged same dose here! I am the best I've been on just ondansetron tbh, but I wonder how much of that is because of being out of the first 20 weeks? Not sure tbh :-) really hope it works well for you anyway

It was 3 years ago and I think I've blocked most of my memories from that time, but I think I was on 8mg 3x a day for most of my pregnancy, then dropped to 4mg 3x day. I found the effect of ondansetron pretty instant.

He did mention he hadn't started me on max dose - I'm 12 weeks tomorrow and I he seemed very hopeful it would go by about 14 weeks (I hear the hollow laughs on that one!!!)

I've only taken one dose and just managed to eat a sandwich, then some pasta! Can't tell if that's just fluke or not but given I'd only consumed dry toast so far today I'm choosing to be optimistic.