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.

Saw this on the PSS fb page and thought I'd share.

lynzpynz Welcome. Sinus and Hyperemesis sounds awful. It's not clear from what you said about the injection if the doctor gave you meds apart from that? I don't want to cast a damper, but usually people need meds to cope with working and this scourge.

seize I am glad you are taking it easy and not at all worried about being offered redundancy. I like that picture. Only 18 days to go is excellent!
TwoDrifters I did recommend those sweets a good while ago, but sadly, I can't claim the credit this time, I think I only spoke a couple of times of 'barley sugar' and 'Parma Violets'' and 'boiled sweets'. But it's wonderful you have got rid of that taste with them!
Gemsie I am glad the information has been helpful.
Foodylicious How is the hernia concern? Down with all those who dare pronounce the name of g***.
bored You are so right. Whyever do sufferers never think of that, so that they have to be told how easy it is?!!!
Apologies to anyone rudely ignored.

@LucindaE thankyou :) the injection was to stop me being sick non-stop that day and get it back under some semblance of control as I’d thrown up my cyclazine anti-sickness tabs they’d already given me previously for it. Gave me 6 hours of blissful ability to eat! Also given metraclopramide as tablets to try keep down too as option B . Working has been a challenge, I have to interview people a lot (think auditor type role) so regularly have to excuse myself !

I'm coughing less and just making sure I apply pressure when I do!
Got 16 week appt with MW tomorrow so she can take a look then I guess LucindaE
Thanks

Has anyone been prescribed Domperidone???

lynzpynz I am glad that you've got other meds!
Foodylicious I'm glad you'll get that early reassurance.
Star88 I was prescribed it for the vomiting with migraine, though not for Hyperemesis. It was variable for me. Several sufferers on here have found it helpful and here's hoping you do. The name always makes me think of champagne .

Me again, here for another moan. Bad day for me today. Nausea all day. I feel awful and we had a stressful weekend so I think that's taken it's toll on me.

So it gets to 20 mins before I need to get dcs from school and I decide to be sick...and not make it to the bathroom. Great. It's literally all over my front room and my clothes....even the walls. Frantically ring my dad to see if he can collect dcs as he's nearest and he can thankfully.

I feel absolutely crap and I'm there cleaning everything up, crying my eyes out. Then my phone goes off and it's my friend messaging 'why don't you name the baby after Kate & Williams baby?'

For some reason, this message made me really angry. I just wasn't in the mood. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled for William and mostly Kate - HG survivor - but I'm just not in the mood to talk about anything to do with my baby. I just want it over with now.

For some reason, I can't talk to this particular friend about my pregnancy and she is my best friend too. She has 2 dcs but never sickness in her pregnancies and she just doesn't get it.

I stopped talking to her the other week as another friend privately messaged us to let us know she was pregnant in group chat. Immediately bf asked her how she had been sickness wise and she said she felt sick but hadn't been sick. To which bf replied 'ooo it will be a girl then, if you feel really sick it's bound to be a girl'.

I just said my congratulations to my friend and didn't reply.

Next day, had 20 week scan and am having a boy :-) bf messaged to ask so I let her know and it was 'oh I am surprised, most people who have a bit of sickness have a girl'

Firstly, I haven't had a bit of bloody sickness. I'm constantly sick and I have a condition called hg!! Secondly, just don't speak to me as I can't deal with it to be honest. I didnt actually say this but I felt like it.

Now I just don't feel like replying to her latest naming the baby after the prince message. She just sent it at the wrong time I suppose.

I'm just finding it hard to be all happy and excited when most of the time, I feel crap. I so wish I could be one of those pregnant ladies who are like 'oh I can't wait to meet my little one, 19 weeks left to go'. I obviously cannot wait to meet my little man. I really can't, but I'm more counting down the weeks until I feel normal again :-(

19 weeks left to go lol. Meanwhile my living room is clean, but I don't feel I can even sit in there as it just makes me feel sick. Having a nice bath trying to relax. All I want for tea is some cucumber....

Oh bitzy12 that sounds like a shitty shut day

I know what you mean re tolerance for other people.
one of the girls I work with got ridiculously giddy about my pregnancy a couple of weeks ago.
She literally sat thete squealing yippee!! And clapping hands .
For context she is a well built 6ft woman in her mid 50s. And we are not that close.
Disproportionately happy and excited for me.
Made me simultaneously want to hit her and run away at the same time.

Hope you have had some cucumber and are feeling a bit better?

lynzpynz it's so true that working is so hard with HG :-( I also swear there is absolutely no way I'm ever deliberately getting pregnant again after this... I've even researched adoption (extensively!).

Gemsie I love this group too, it's just so nice to have other people who know how you feel. DH and others try but only fellow HG sufferers really know.

seize congratulations on being almost there! So exciting!

The ginger thing is the single most annoying thing in the world, it's like saying to someone with a broken leg "just drink milk, calcium is good for bones".

bitsy what an awful day :-( I'm so sorry for you :-( also completely know how you feel about people with non-HG pregnancies being all smug. My 'friend' keeps going on about how she was brilliant at being pregnant, a natural mother, coped better than anyone else DESPITE having an instrument delivery blah blah blah. I avoid her now. Not once since she had her baby 4 weeks ago has she asked how I am. Also a few weeks ago when I was 21 weeks I literally cried 24/7, I thought I was genuinely depressed, almost went to Dr to see if I need meds for depression. Felt exactly the same, absolutely like I couldn't cope at all anymore...let lone for another 19 weeks. Honestly can say that randomly overnight I just stopped crying and have barely cried since. You've done amazingly well to get this far and I hope you get some relief soon :-)

I've been put on 4 weekly growth scans by consultant now as some concern about low birth weight of baby due to my weight loss. :-(

Sorry to hear about your shitty day Bitzy and your super insensitive friend - 'a bit of sickness!!!!'. Hope your cucumber stays down ok!
Foody hope the midwife could reassure you about the ?hernia.
Aw hopefully they are just being cautious with the growth scans, appears most babies seem to thrive despite their mum's poor diet etc with HG. I had to have scans last time as I measured small but am tall and just didn't show that much. Hopefully all will be well, and at least you get some more glimpses of baby. I cried the first time they booked me in for one as was so worried so do appreciate how you feel.

I feel awful today too, not actually been sick so won't complain too much, but the nausea has been off the scale, mouth taste worse than ever and completely exhausted. Hoping I don't spend each week like this recovering after work, only to go back and it happen again. Luckily my MIL came to help with my little girl today so rested this morning having been up feeling awful since 4am, then had a 3 hour nap with my little girl this afternoon!! Downside - she is now full of beans and not looking like bedtime will happen any time soon!

Sorry to hear you've had a shitty day bitzy. I hope you've had some rest and that tomorrow is better. I felt significantly less nauseous after hitting 26 weeks so fingers crossed you are also nearly over the worst of it.

Much sympathy to bitzy and Foodylicious over insensitive people. Aw I so agree with others, this has happened to women on here where they are anxious about weight loss/low birth rate, and most of the time the baby is a fine size, so very likely they are just being extra careful.
Much sympathy all round.

Hi everyone. Sorry I have been so quiet recently.
bitzy sorry you had such an awful day yesterday. I hope today is better.
bored I’m glad to see your return to work went ok. That must have been a relief.
foody has the midwife been able to put your mind at rest about the possible hernia?
I hope everyone is having a relatively good day.
I am doing ok on the whole. Struggling a bit today and SPD is kicking in I think. Much earlier than last time so I’m really hoping it isn’t going to be worse. It turns out i am back at work this week rather than last but they are allowing me to do reduced hours this week. I managed a day out on Sunday and I suspect that’s why I feel so rough today but I’m very glad I managed to get out.

Hotchocolate I'm pleased you're back. You know what Mother Hen will say about going back to work if you must. Remind me what area you work in. I hope you can take it as s-l-o-w-l-y as possible...

I meant to say, poor you about spd. That is horrible.

I work on a deli counter in a supermarket lucinda. They have offered to move me departments if I struggle but hopefully that won’t be necessary. I will take it as slow as I can. Slow seems to be my default mode anyway at the moment!

Hotchocolate my best friend had spd. I can't imagine what you're going through. She was in constant pain. Hope you're managing ok.
Bored your mil sounds like a keeper! I think the nausea is worse. With ds I was sick constantly but didn't feel nauseous. Threw up, felt ok for an hour and then threw up again. But this time, I'm constantly dry heaving and feeling terrible.
Aw I'm using that calcium quote! Love it.
Bitzy hope today was better.

Sympathy hotchocolate - my spd has returned earlier this time too. As soon as you feel that first central twinge it's like "oh.balls. i remember this"

Hyperemesis has stayed later so they've overlapped this time. Fun!

Thank you for the spd sympathy. Thankfully it is mostly niggling at the moment. It concerns me though as that’s how it started last time but much later on.
I think I am having a bit of a hyperemesis flare up. I have had bad nausea now since Monday and completely exhausted. I suspect it’s because I went out at the weekend but also I am trying to wean off my steroids and maybe the dose is too low now to make me feel as good as I was.
statistically I hope you are coping ok. Overlapping spd and hyperemesis is not fun.

Sucks doesn't it. I'm fed up of constantly having to think about my body, if that makes any sense. I'm overweight but otherwise normally fit and healthy and used to being able to just get on with whatever I fancy - whereas now it's "Can I go out, or do I feel do sick", "I probably shouldn't walk in to town as I'll get really sore if I do" and so on. Driving me bonkers!

Makes for a damn long pregnancy - 15 weeks today and my god it's dragging

I know just how you feel statistically. I’m used to just being able to get on with things and now I can’t. I’m either too sick or in pain and not wanting to aggravate that and risk making it worse. Even though I’m feeling better overall it’s getting me down. I’m 16 weeks and it’s dragging.

Much sympathy to hotchocloate . It is very brave of you to return to working on a deli counter, my goodness. Much sympathy to Statiscally and all those suffering. Dry heaving is worse than anything.

This is such a rollercoaster. I am so sorry for every women on the planet that has to go through this. After two days of feeling amazing and thinking: Ha! it is better this time, I can function at 10weeks and that is incredible. I even went to work like the idiot I am. That night it came back with a vengance. Finally got Ondansetron so hopefully that will help. Just wanted to tell all of you worrying about baby outcomes what my Obstetrician in Boston told me after I was distressed I could not keep prenatal vitamins down. She was adamant that feeling sick leads to better baby outcomes. I don’t know the statistics but it was very reassuring. I measured small with my second one and he came out 3.05kg and was perfect. So that is what keeps me going but this is it for me. I always wanted four children but don’t think I can possibly do this again. DH is away this week so my mother is here to help, she thinks she gets it but I can tell she does not really. Very few people do unless they have experienced it first hand. I have been tempted to tell this one colleague about the pregnancy because his wife had horrendous HG throughout, just to get some actual understanding at work but we don’t work on the same team so it would be weird. Right now I am telling the only those who need to know. They all probably think I am in bed because I am a little bit queasy 😬 should have never gone in on Monday....

And yes, dry heaving is the worst. My 4 y.o. thinks I am coughing so keeps telling me to cover my mouth like we have drilled him on... poor guy. Mum in bed everyday is super confusing 💔

Lissi82 Welcome. Sorry you are suffering. From your post I see you suffered the first time, so you are a veteran, and you don't need my advice about kesostix and flat full sugar coke, the juice of tinned fruit and ice lollies. Were you on Ondansetron last time? If not, do make sure you invest in some anti constipation medication like lactulose (I think I heard you can get it over the counter). Some swear by those gell suppositories you can get from Boots, but you have to send someone non pregnant, as they won't sell them to pregnant woman, though they use them in hospitals with people with Hyperemesis in who have locked up bowels. Unfortunately, I never heard of anyone getting over this by 10 weeks, that can be the worst for most people . When did you get an improvement in your first pregnancy? Many people get a turn around at 14 weeks or so, some at 16 weeks, some as late as twenty weeks, but almost nobody, even the unlucky ones who suffer throughout, feels as bad as they did in the first tri.
As your doctor has given you Ondansetton, I take it s/he is fairly understnanding? A really good anti acid can make a huge difference, too. Waves to all.