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.

nails, foody and boo hope you feel much better tomorrow :-( it's just so easy to over do it. I'm worried I've overdone it today (have done dishwasher, cooked dinner and did a wash load!) so am worried about tomorrow now :-(

bored you feeling any better today?

Surely a newborn doesn't knock you out as much as HG?! Or does it!?

StatisticallyChallenged oh my gosh I know how you feel... time does NOT fly at all when you're hyperemetic! Longest 21 weeks of my life so far!

Was crying my eyes out on Thursday when friends popped in and they were all like "August is not that far away... not long to go now... the time will fly"

So I left the house today for the first time in nearly 3 weeks to take my daughter to a birthday party. Only a 30 min drive away but boy was it hard work! Had to sit in the cafe afterwards as I was feeling really shaky like my blood sugar was dropping.
Two parents there congratulated me on my weight loss, I'm only 10 weeks so no-one knows I'm pregnant. I have lost half a stone, and I look exhausted and terrible and I don't want to be congratulated on my weight loss (nor would I have wanted to be pre pregnancy) I just want to feel better :(
And now I'm in bed, grumpy and feeling sorry for myself!

Aw hope you don't suffer for it tomorrow. You are right - caring for my newborn was way easier than hyperemesis has been! Feeling a bit better today thank you, tried to catch up on some jobs (MIL visit tonight!) and then had to have a lie down as felt grotty again. Definitely feel worse this last 5 days than the 10 days before. Still miles better than the early days though.

I felt better with a newborn and a c-section than when I was pregnant! I didn't have HG the whole way last time, but my body REALLY doesn't like pregnancy hormones as it went straight from HG to SPD. I was in less pain post CS than I was before.

AW12345 I get you - it feels like a very long time when every day is a drag!!! Last time round I found that I really was struggling to feel much in the way of bonding/love towards the baby when I was pregnant as it just felt like this thing that was making me sick (I know there are women who would dearly love to be pregnant which made me feel bad for feeling that way) - I found finding out the sex helped a bit as it made the reason I was doing it a bit less abstract.

I've had two days of feeling quite good! Even the bad taste has disappeared. I was feeling so rotten last week so this reprieve is lovely....although I am aware that nothing is permanent! I'm also on annual leave for the next two weeks but will be with the kids for most of that time (school holidays here) so I'm not sure how restful it will be.
Am feeling the beginning of SPD but I'd much rather be dealing with that than HG.
Think I'm learning to take each day as it comes - someone wise gave me that advice when I first joined this thread!
Thinking of all of you having relapses (and d&v bugs! that's the worst). Sorry, I'm no good at responding to people individually when I'm on my phone - I always get names mixed up

Glad that Ohiwa and StatisticallyChallanged are feeling better.
booandbump I know just what you mean - I have always been mad about walking too, and it lifts the spirits if you can face it with Hyperemesis - but it does eat up energy, if you'll forgive the expression.
Goodness - everyone has been very active,what with StatisticallyChallanged working, and Foodylicious ironing, and nails overdoing it too - sorry to hear of painful Braxton Hicks -Sabulous taking DD to a birthday party and all the rest of it.
AW much sympathy. Most people find dealing with a normal newborn is easy. I did find my sleepless one exhausting, but I had anemia, which didn't help and thankfully, most newborns sleep a lot. Bored I do hope that this is one of those dreaded 20 week hormonal surge lapses.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.

Thanks Lucinda, am feeling a bit better today, though still waking up really early feeling horribly nauseous. The swabs I had done when I had my scare recently have shown a bacterial infection so I have to take metronidazole - pharmacist warned me about an awful taste in my mouth - surely can't get any worse (?!) and potential for nausea and vomiting.....great!!!
Hope work went well for anyone that braved it in today, I'm going to try again on Thursday.

bored really really try to eat just before taking the metronidazole.
Some people are not that affected by it, but it can make you quite sick.

Thanks Foody the pharmacist said that too. On the whole eating fairly well at breakfast and tea so hopefully should be ok. Fingers crossed!

bored so sorry to hear you have an injection to deal with as well as HG :-( sounds miserable. Hope metronidazole doesn't make you feel worse.

ohiwa really glad you've had a couple of good days, long may it continue!

Sabulous poor you, it's so hard to feel so awful and not be able to tell anyone :-( hope you feel better soon

I've had a couple of good days too thankfully, have even had whole days without crying and generally less depressed now. Slight concern as new member of staff has now said she has shingles (I've never had chicken pox) so Dr has said I need to go for blood test hope baby is ok in there...

Morning all!

I’ve been quite quiet (and worried!) as I’ve not been feeling or being sick, and after my last miscarriage, I took that as a bad sign, and couldn’t even enjoy the lack of sickness (!) but this morning… ah yes! Hello HG! I remember you!

I’m 7 weeks today so have started on the cyclizine and B6 and will see how that goes. I was supposed to go in today for an early scan but to be honest, as hard as it seems, I think I’m going to wait for my 12-week scan. Even if I saw a heartbeat today, I don’t think it would stop me worrying.

Last time, I was so concerned about baby development, that I wouldn’t take any medication until after 12 weeks. This time, I am throwing caution to the wind, and hoping to cut HG off before it gets too strong a hold.

How is everyone else feeling today?

Aw12345
Shingles is unlikely to be contagious if it's in an area that is covered and you do not have direct contact with it.

Hopefully the blood results will come back quickly.

I think thete is a medication given if you have been exposed to ch pox, but have no immunity to it.

It's also surprisingly common for people to have immunity but to not know that they have had ch pox.
Fingers crossed for you that all is well x

bored Oh no - poor old you. Was there no other med they could give in the circumstances?
TwoDrifters I do feel for you, about that worry, so that even Hyperesis seems better than no nausea. A mmc mars everything in a subsequent pregnancy. The chances are massively in your favour, but knowing that intellectually is no use.
Much sympathy to all suffering.

Thanks Foody, yer I'm telling myself that it's all probably fine... Pregnancy is so worrying!!

Just popping in to have a moan.
Nausea and exhaustion rubbish again last few days. And was sick within minutes of getting up this morning. Think I pulled a muscle .

Also I am HUGE and so uncomfortable.
I feel almost as stretched and achey around my stomach as I did around 30 weeks last time.
I'm only 15 weeks!
Anyone else have this second time around ??
Feeling a bit woe
No way I can take any time of work, but I am trying to pace myself

We found out we are having a boy today 💙 makes all the s**t very worthwhile when you get to these milestones. Can't wait to tell my dcs on Sunday - planning a gender reveal :-)

I haven't been too bad with sickness for the last week - touch wood - last time I was in hospital was 2 weeks ago for hypermesis and also an infection. It's taken 2 weeks for them to work out what infection it was and they've finally given me antibiotics today. Feel abit miffed that I've had it for 2 weeks now and taken nothing for it but anyway...

Praying for a more smooth next 20 weeks

Hope everyone is doing ok - heartburn is kicking in for me now which really is not doing my sickness/nausea any good what so ever x

bitzy12 congratulations on the scan! Very exciting :-) my heart burn kicked in around 20 weeks too... drinking gaviscon like there's no tomorrow atm!

Foody really sorry to hear you're having such a bad time with it :-( really hope the nausea/exhaustion/acheyness passes soon, horrible combination.

bitzy and Aw Sorry to hear of heartburn, it is miserable. I found Gaviscon sometimes made me vomit pink foam, though the doctor swore it was the only safe anti acid in pergnancy then, there are several now. People on here swear by Ranitidine and Omprazole.

Foodylicious That does sound miserable. I do hope you get some good days soon as the sign of a turnaround.

Bitzy great scan news. I'm also glugging the gaviscon.

Ugh
After an early night of going to bed at 8pm, I just kept waking up and have now been awake for 2.5hrs.
Forgot to take my Promethazine but remembered an hour and a half ago, but have just been sick

I know I am much better than dome at the moment, but I just hate not being able to do something to make this better.
Am now going to be shattered tomorrow and likely more sick.
Grumble grumble, moan, winge

Bitzy and Aw I really recommend omeprazole! I had awful heartburn in my two previous pregnancies and the omeprazole was life-changing. Gaviscon did nothing for me. I've been assured that omeprazole is totally fine to take in pregnancy.
I'm taking it this time around although the heartburn is not so bad - this baby is sitting incredibly low so maybe not putting so much pressure on my oesaphagus! But because it's so low I've got lots of pelvic pain.
Nausea has been minimal for last 4 days but I've been SO tired. I don't care though - so glad to have the reprieve.
Bitzy - congrats on your boy!
And twodrifters I hope getting into the meds early keeps the HG manageable. That first trimester uncertainty and anxiety is horrible

And foody I went through an achey exhausted and really sick stage around 13 weeks and then the aches and exhaustion eased off. Until this week! (Week 23)

Morning, I took rantidine last night and it was great. I've always been prescribed it in pregnancy and forgot how good it was. No heartburn at all through the night so all good. Just another tablet to add to the daily medication list lol. Hope everyone has a good day, least the sun is shining - it is where I am anyway :-) x

Bitzy congratulations on your little boy! Pleased the ranitidine has helped, enjoy the sunshine.

Foody sorry you are feeling so awful, hopefully it calms down again quickly for you in terms of the sickness. My bump is much bigger this time round than with my first too.

Woke up at 4am again feeling really sick and then vomited loads of bile at 5.30, first time of being that sick for ages, usually now is just retching/a little fluid regurgitation. Not sure if it is the 20 week relapse, antibiotics, or a bit of both. Just in time to go back to work tomorrow....!