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.

Great it was straightforward! Really happy to hear that :)

Enjoy the snuggles, she’s perfect:)

@Shehz21 Niya is beautiful and what a fast labour. Glad it was all well and hope you are enjoying a nausea free after party in the pink castle with lots of tea and cake.

Sorry Hotchocolate about being sick again.

Foody if it makes you feel better I'm a hormonal shouty mum and I'm not in the midst of a hg haze. Please don't be hard on yourself it's only a short time your lb will be fine. Use technology and snacks as much as you need right now.

Tiredness is understandable you are growing a baby remember.

Well done on losing your weight gain Yule how did you do it and did it take long. Sounds traumatic having to deal with it like that. What's your diet restrictions and when can you test?

Ana that sounds horrible I'm so sorry that you are both poorly now and the weather is still awful.

I think that would be more what's expected Elephant but it doesn't seem so uncommon to actually gain more than expected. As I said before I think for some it's just the sheer unhealthiness of what you can stomach plus the lack of any exercise due to exhaustion. It's all so bloody crap.

Hope all are having as good a weekend as possible.

shehz congratulations. What a beautiful baby and lovely short birth for you.

ana sorry to hear you are still feeling so poorly. I hope now the fevers on it’s way out you will pick up a bit soon.

I am also a shouty Mum at the moment. I hate being like it and hope it eases off when the HG goes away completely.

We have snow again today. Anyone else got more snow? It all came down overnight. It was snowing all day yesterday but didn’t settle.

Yep
Snow here

Congratulations Shez she is beautiful

Congratulations shez
So lovely

Congrats Shehz Beautiful baby

Ooh you have more than me foody. Looks like we have a couple of inches so far.

I’m gutted as it seems I am back to actually being sick after a few days grace.

That's pant hotchocolate86
I was sick again a few times yesterday and felt awful most of the day, but had a few surprisingly good hours in the afternoon. I even managed some cleaning!
Felt like crap again in the evening and was a bit sick before going yo bed, but have felt better again today, just nauseous and a few wretching sessions.
Fx you feel better later/tomorrow

Oh my foody, that’s a lit of snow! We have maybe a couple of cms, I’m a bit disappointed as they predicted my area to have more like 8-10cm!

Shehz she’s gorgeous, look at the lovely hair!

Mustang it took me 2-3 years to lose and I didn’t lose any until after dd was 1 and so I was barely bfing as bfing made me so hungry. It was hard going but there was no secret formula I’m afraid, just making changes to be more active and gradually reduce portion sizes etc, and ALOT of willpower!

Hot choc that’s rubbish, that’s what I hate, there’s nothing predictable about pg and you will think it’s getting better only for it to return! I remember about week 13 it getting a bit better and thinking this is it, at last I’m at the end of the tunnel and then week 14 was really awful. How many weeks are you?

yule I’m 11 weeks tomorrow. I think I will go downhill if I can’t think of something to drink. I’ve been living off fizzy flavoured waters but I’m really struggling today and have hardly drank anything. Really thirsty but it just won’t seem to go down.

Any flavours of drinks you haven’t tried that night stay down? Anything at all you think you can face? Ginger beer/lemonade/dr pepper/ coke/lucazade. Or even sucking an energy tablet if you have any or can get somewhere that sell them or have someone go for you.

The only thing that feels remotely tempting is a McDonald’s vanilla milkshake. Hopefully DP is picking one up but I am worried I’ll regret it.

Hotchocolate rubbish to hear you are feeling so awful again, I hope the milkshake goes down and stays down...I sometimes find it harder to force a drink down than food?! Currently can only stand tap water, finding fizzy drinks too sweet, occasionally manage Lilt as not as sweet.

Foody sorry you have had a rubbish few days too.

I went to meet some friends yesterday and had lunch (well, shared a kid's meal with my little girl...), was so good to do something 'normal'. Paying for it today, feeling shattered and horribly sick, though if I lie down managing to avoid actually vomiting (so far....).

Mother Hen is back early - there's been so much snow in Mid Wales that I thought I'd better return early.
Thank you so much to lovely Mustang who has been doing a wonderful job.
Seize Oh what a lovely baby - what a mane of hair - and I am so glad that you had such an easy labour. Entirely fair, after such a terrible pregnancy. Thank you so much for reporting back.
hotchocloate Poor you. I do hope you can avoid getting ill enough to have to be admitted. Cyber pats on offer.
isthismummy Yule and others - it's so odd the way some lose weight alarmingly and others gain it - either way isn't good.
seize Much symapthy over being 'shouty'. But as others say, children are resiliant; from all that I have seen on here, they will soon forget.
Waves to Foodylicious and everyone...

And Bored - it was very brave of you to go out. Sorry it brought on a reslapse....

Good to see you back Lucinda although is it a good thing you’re back early or did you hope to be away longer?

Ok, I’m definitely feeling nauseous, have been on and off for a couple of days. I’m feeling so scared I could be pg and I’m getting symptoms so early again but I’m coping by telling myself it’s just anxiety and my body making up symptoms to worry about. Af isn’t due until sat-mon (although felt very sick 9 days before period first time so I know it’s possible so early). I’m going to try to hold off until at least Thursday to test but I’m debating whether to take cyclizine yet. I only have 2 weeks dose from gp (I can get more, but I need to be actually pg to get it!) and I don’t want to waste a weeks dose when I might not even be pg anyway! If it gets bad I’ll have to start but I’ll feel so ridiculous if af then comes.

I also have a question. If you do nothing and lie in bed, take medication, eat what you can when you can, avoid triggers eg smells and don’t have any commitments to have to go to do you find you can stop/calm the vomiting from these steps? It seems like a lot of you try to do stuff and then pay the price. Last pg I literally stayed in bed and didn’t leave home. Mentally it killed me but I managed to stop myself from being sick by doing this (just felt incredibly on the cusp of sick most of the time) and I think if I had had to take dd to school etc I would have definitely been very sick a lot. This might sound a weird thing to ask but you might remember I have emetophobia so for me being sick is literally a living nightmare. Feeling sick is bad enough but I feel like I can get through it if I can just stop myself from being sick. I know it sounds weird, just after some thoughts.

I’ve just eaten a bowl of cereal as I feel very nauseous like a low blood sugar way but it hasn’t helped one jot . It’s definitely a pg type nausea. I also quite fancy sniffing a lemon, but it could be my body getting anxious and worried and all in my mind. A test wouldn’t show up tomorrow I’m guessing...

So sorry to ask this and sound all pathetic when so many of you are living it and having such an awful time right now, I must seem so insignificant and silly.

Yule don't apologise! I think it is sensible to try and prepare yourself. It's tricky as it took us a while to conceive for the 2nd time and I had several months where I felt really nauseous in the run up to my period but wasn't pregnant - I think a lot of it was stress/anxiety about the whole thing. The month I did get pregnant was the one I chilled out, stopped myself doing any early pregnancy tests, and didn't have any symptoms (started about 5 weeks).
I'm almost 16 weeks now, and since about 12 weeks have found that if I lie in bed I can usually overcome the nausea and not vomit, in the preceding weeks unfortunately nothing stopped the vomiting, though finding the right medication combo helped. I know that's probably not what you want to hear, but certainly my experience. They do say getting meds on board before things get too bad really helps, personally I would wait until getting a positive test before taking the cyclizine, but don't know what others would think.

Well I’m pleased to announce my milkshake and some fries stayed down from McDonald’s. I have woken up feeling pretty rotten this morning but I’m hoping that eases off soon. I am a little hungry so maybe once I’ve eaten something.

bored sorry to hear you are feeling ill but well done on managing to get out. That’s definitely an achievement. I hope you feel a bit better today.

yule how are you feeling today? Fingers crossed it’s just your anxiety getting the better of you and not pregnancy sickness already. I have found I can’t stave off the vomiting all the time but I think if I lie or sit very still and take all my meds on time I am almost certainly sick less. Sometimes eating can help but that’s usually on my better days. Drinking and not getting dehydrated helps but is a real struggle. I have to avoid loud noises and bright or flashing lights when I’m really bad. Have you received your spray vitamin yet?

hotchocolate Well, that's the first time I have had to admit anything good about Macdonalds! Good news about that. That surely lowered the ketones.
Bored Good advice for Yuke. I think a lot of women who have had this actually have PTSD, from all I've seen; and small wonder. It's the seriousness of the illness being dismissed and the isolation, besides the illness itself. No wonder you are anxious, if you havea horror of vomiting. I used to myself as a kid, but I became desensitized when I developed migraines. I am sorry you had to go through Hypermesis while retaining that horror. No wonder you are anxious. But you survived once.

Thank you for your help and advice, I appreciate it. I’ve not felt sick today or particularly tired and period pain much less, so now I’m not feeling pg at all! I’m trying so hard not to overthink anything but my worry is if I am pg and start feeling nauseous when at work or out of the house as that’s related to my phobia (if I have to feel sick, which is terrible enough in itself I need to have my own space at home where things feel safe, I can’t cope at all otherwise). Just a few more days to go through until I know (for this month at least) and if I’m not I’ve mentally planned lots of nice things to do with dd in the holidays to cheer me up/appreciate the time I’ve got before I never do anything with her for months. I won’t moan like this every month, I know it’s insignificant when you are all in it, I’m sorry.

Hot that is fabulous about the milkshake and fries. The spray vitamin arrived today and I tested it out just earlier. I can’t work out if I really love the taste or not! Pretty much everything I eat is natural and home made and I don’t have any sweetners ever in anything other than medication and this is predominantly water and sweetener so it was a really weird sort of overpoweringly sweet flavour. I did 3 sprays today and if ok I’ll do 4 tomorrow than be up to the normal dose just in case it gives me diarrhoea too! It’s a great way to take a vitamin though, I’m going to see if they do a children’s vitamin like that as I get dd would love it!

Yule I'm sure everyone can empathize with your fear.
Updated list...
Due Dates
scottishem 22 March
AndInShortIWasAfraid 27 March
Polyfilla 25 April
Poppet1985 28 April
dillydollydarling 4 May
seizethecuttlefish 13 May
Sally Mid May
Bunnyfluffy 20 May
BATMAN 21 May
Greenbeanies 23 May
Elephantgrey 25 May
Meadowhay 18 June
Lifeofpies 9 July
NailsatHome 20 July twins
E2017 12 August
Harebell 13 August
Endorra44 16 August
Anitidae 27 August
Didntcomeheretofuckspiders 1st September
Boredoftryingoutusernames 4 Sepember
SleepyBadger 3 October
Foodylicious 5 October

Hey Lucinda I messaged you but Iv no idea if it sent  lol.

Hope the weather is improving for all especially Anatidae.

Hi @LucindaE my due date is 18th September can you add me to the list please
I agree with you all about being as still as possible to help with stopping vomiting as much, having a shower seems to be the extent of physical activity I can manage on a day to day basis and I have to really psyche myself up for it. Feel more sick after but at least I'm not smelly and grungy!