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.

I have been really really struggling the last few days. This is so horrid.

To top it all off, as well as the cyclizine and B6 I’m taking 3x a day, the huge pregnacare and omega-3 tablets I’m taking daily, and the low-dose aspirin I was told to take by the midwife, the hospital have just called to say based on my last tests, I have a UTI, and need to call in to collect antibiotics to take immediately. It’s hard enough keeping down the tablets I’m already taking. I want to cry.

Also I’m worrying about my rapidly developing Coke addiction. It’s one of the few things I can stomach and whilst I’m drinking it, freshly cold, I feel absolutely amazing. But I know I can’t just live on Coke all day. I’ve been strictly limiting myself to no more than 2 cans a day, but am still worrying about the sugar and caffeine contents.

I’m 11 weeks today. Onwards and upwards. Hugs and sympathy to all.

@TwoDrifters I had to stop the pregnacare I couldn't keep them down. I ended up taking folic on it's own which was much smaller tablets and a little less upsetting on my stomach! Could you try that instead?
Sorry to hear infection! Fingers crossed it clears up with a quick course x

It's started.

Oh no! Everyone seems to be having a hard time. YourHandinmyHand Sorry you haven't escaped. Did you say you had pre-emptive meds? It is very hard to know you haven't been one of the lucky ones who escape it in a subsequent pregnancy.
Bobbielee and BabyandBoo I am really sorry to hear of relapses after a good period - but some good days, let along some good weeks, are a sign of the turnaround. I hope this is a hormonal surge.
TwoDrifters Hugs about UTI. That may well be partly why you felt particularly foul. Can they give you antibiotics as drops? I am sure I have heard of that.

Oh dear everyone....must be the day for a relapse! I stupidly said (out loud!) that I had felt a bit better this weekend, promptly followed 24 hours of feeling terrible again! Hope everyone starts to feel a bit better again soon. Lots of sympathy to those in hospital/in the early days.
Hotchocolate work has been going ok thanks, some weeks I work 3 consecutive days and that has been harder, but everyone is being very sympathetic and keeping things as quiet for me as they can. How about you?

Elephant huge congratulations, glad you feel loads better. My little girl was 6oz 12lb - lovely size, get to have a little baby for longer without them being small enough to worry there is something wrong!

Nope no pre emptive meds. When I went to the GP to ask for her to send me over to the midwife team after my BFP she recommended ginger.

I've had my midwife checking in appointment come through today in the post but it's a few weeks away yet. I've spent all of HG awareness day alternating between sleeping and throwing up. Oh the irony!

I'm so so sad and scared. Can't believe I gambled about this, right now I feel rather stupid tbh.

YourHandinmyHand That is ridiculous about the GP Gingering you. . Can you see another? Do phone Pregnancy Sickness Support on 024 7638 2020 for advice about how best to obtain effective meds. Have you got keostix in, as at this rate you will soon be dehydrated? How are the liquids staying down? Do any of the list of the ones which have helped people - flat full sugar coke, the juice oftinned fruit, ice lollies, etc, help?
Bored Sorry you're having a relapse too.
Booandbump Sorry, I mixed up your name.
TwoDrifters One does feel awful about drinking unhealthy sugary drinks, and eating sugary foods, and there are all those scares about caffeine, but my goodness, when I think of all the babies on this thread who have been grown on coke and crisps and tinned peaches and their juice and suchlike, I am glad to say they don't seem to have been affected.

Thanks Lucinda for the reassurance

@LucindaE that's ok! Today is a bad day too. I did perk up towards the end of yesterday and even treated myself to a face mask. Felt awful when I woke up, thought I'll try and get ready for work, had to stop and throw up for half an hour. Now I'm sat on my bed worried that if I stand up again I'll just start throwing up.
Does anyone else get a little agoraphobic with this? Right now leaving my bed room makes me feel so horrible and anxious because at least if I'm sick at home it's more comfortable.
@TwoDrifters FWIW you can get caffeine free coke. I tried to curb my caffeine habit at the start but have been a bit more lax with it now. I figured the days of me not being able to eat were probably worse than a bit of coke x

i got out off hospital yesterday - done nothing but sleep. got let out with cyclizine and ondanestron together and a rantiacid. been told
to take the anti sickness 3 times a day- so far its worked but still feel in general worn out. my family keep bringing the fact up that they cant see me coping off my other halfs wage but im that ill to work its not that i dont want to work ive always worked since leaving school. its driving me mad being sat at home feeling like rubbish- this baby is very much wanted. i will get through the next couple of months with my partners support but my family dont help. i have said ill take 2 month off when babys is here then go back to working full time weekends while my other half works through the week. just feel awful. its causing me alot off stress. 😭😑😞

I’m struggling with work bored. It’s two long consecutive days on my feet and usually very busy. I had last week off so will see how I get on this week and maybe discuss altering my shifts after that if I struggle. I am lucky that I have a few days off in between to pick up a bit. I’m glad to hear you are not doing too badly at work. Even if it’s hard it is still quite nice to be out doing something.
I am having a lot more better days but feeling rotten today. I didn’t sleep well so I’m very tired and queasy. We are having a day I’m apart from well probably have to nip to the shop later. I wish I could put it off but we’re in desperate need of nappies so needs must.
booandbumpp for weeks I didn’t leave the house apart from the inevitable trips to the hospital for fluids. I was far too scared I was going to be sick while out to go anywhere. Even now on my bad days I tend not to go out if I can help it. I just want to be at home if I am going to be sick.

december how many weeks are you? I hope you start to feel better soon. It’s try awful to feel so rotten.

06Dec glad you are home but sorry you are having a tough time with your family. I think it is really hard for people to understand just how debilitating HG is, even when not being sick the exhaustion/dizziness etc make functioning impossible. At least your partner is supportive about you not working whilst you are so poorly (not that you'd be able to in that state), getting tired makes things so much worse too, so if you try too soon you'll make yourself worse.
I wonder if Pregnancy Sickness Support may be able to give you some advice on financial help - someone posted their number on one of the last pages. They will call you back with really good advice about medications so have probably encountered people in similar positions.
Hope the meds continue to at least help with the vomiting, really feel for you.

Hotchocolate glad you are having some better days, totally agree if I don't sleep well I am very queasy the next day. Hope you find work easier this week, I would like to swap to non-consecutive days but can't due to childcare arrangements.

I need to get some other drinks in the house. All I want to do is drink a gallon of water but even a few sips don't stay down, nothing is. I generally drink "no added sugar" drinks so lots of sugar free cola, lemonade etc in. Need to try the full sugar versions I think. Tried ice lollies yesterday as I lived on those in last pg on my good days, but they wouldn't stay down either.

I will order some ketostixs. When should I go to GP? When I do go I will try and book with another member of the practice.

Yourhand I think you need to get back to the GP ASAP (as in today!), take a urine sample with you for them to check. If you aren't keeping anything down you are going to get dehydrated and possibly ketotic too very quickly. I don't think there is any point delaying, you definitely need meds!! It can help to keep a record of how often you are being sick so they take you seriously. Please get help straight away.

hi everyone.. im currently 9 weeks and its not getting easier the sickness off it. ive been told because my partner works full time we are not entilited to anything. i am going to go to my doctors to get signed off for my pregnancy as im struggling and lost my job through it- hoping i can make a claim for esa either with my hypermesis or depression.. with me having depression it makes things ten times worse. i got taken of all my medication when i found out i was expecting so i do think im having alot off withdrawal symptoms- cant help feeling like a failure to my family they all keep saying you need to sort yourself out but if i said i would be in work working if i could handle the dizzyness and sickness but i cant ive worked as a care assistant for the past 4 years and loved it and im upset i got laid off but the baby has to come first now. hopefully my family will stop jarring my head in its making me feel like i dont want them to be apart off the pregnancy because they get me so stressed out.

Hi december at 9 weeks I was really poorly and in hospital at 10 weeks overnight for rehydration and IV meds but after that I slowly started to pick up and haven’t needed rehydration since. There is light at the end of the tunnel and it may come sooner than you think. I hope this gives you some hope that things may pick up a bit soon.

DECEMBER Sorry you feel so down. Do phone the 024 7638 2020 number and they should be able to advise you (there's a retired doctor on the team) about options for depression when one has Hyperemesis. It is insensitive of your family to be judgemental - to be honest, so many people seem to be, unless they have had it themselves. Some OH's do empathize and I am glad yours is one. There are special sections on the websites I've linked in the introductory post intended for friends and family and I believe the HelpHer website has one too, but unfortunately, they will probably be unwilling to read that. Much sympathy. Things will almost certainly get better. Almost everyone improves as time goes on and the majority take a turn for the better sometime between 14-21 weeks.
Boo Congratulations on skin treatment.That will give you a boost, anyway.That's a good idea about decaffinated coke.
Much sympathy to Hotchocolate and those who fear those Public Puking episodes. Some people are able to hold on somehow until they get to the nearest loo. I was NOT one of those...
YourHandinmyHand Do get an emergency appointment. You will be dehydrated if they fob you off too long. Say you are pregnant and have been unable to keep down liquids for over two days - which I think is the truth. They should treat it as a medical emergency.
Waves to everyone. Sorry, have to rush off. Will soon be back.

Got gingered at work again yesterday

But saw my lovely gp today who has given me enough Promethazine for 4 months (I'm 20 weeks tomorrow) and we discussed moving up to omeprazole from ranitidine and agreed to try gaviscon regularly on top of ranitidine twice daily.

Work is still shit and I'm exhausted and been crazy hormonal and emotional (but not so anyone at work would notice).
Other nurse in my team should be back end of next week so work might start approaching something reasonable soon.
and once she's is back properly I might just have a week or two sick myself

Sorry to all those who are really suffering.
It's shit.
yourhand did you manage to get another appt?

December what meds were you in for depression? I decided to stay on citalopram as I know I would not have been able to cope without. The benefits definitely outweighed the risks for me. There are meds which are considered safer so ask your gp. I don't know what I'd have been like having hg as well as having to keep on top of the depression.

Omg the constipation the Ondansetron and hg has caused me is horrific! Not been for 7 days now on lactulose, Senna and Dioctyl and hoping they have some effect on me soon. X

songbird Sorry to hear it. I try and type in 'get something for the inevitable (almost) constipation with Ondansetron' whenever I hear it has been prescribed,and to be honest, doctors must know how common it is, so why don't they prescribe somehting safe routinely? But I may have missed you. I hope one of those works! There are those jelly suppositories from Boots,but they won't sell them to pregnant woman, though they use them in hospitals for pregnant woman with constipation, so you have to get someone else to do it.
Foodylicious Sorry about gingering, and I hope you can get some rest. You shouldn't be working so hard when ill.
nails Good advice for DECEMBER.