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Hyperemesis Support

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LucindaE · 16/03/2018 18:16

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.

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Boredoftryingusernames · 23/03/2018 13:02

Hotchocolate that is so stressful, I think what Lucinda said is the best way forward. I would be reluctant to change hospital too.

Lucinda I took a promethazine as well as my ondansetron last night, had stopped the promethazine a few weeks ago. Still woke up at 4 but not too nauseous so went back to sleep. Going to keep doing that I think for a little while.

Natsku · 23/03/2018 18:19

@Shehz21 Oh she is just beautiful! Just thought I'd check in to see if you had your baby yet :)

Mr. Justice has mild reflux - at least the constant puking doesn't seem to bother him like it did me!

nailsathome · 23/03/2018 19:13

Sorry to hear about your Mum endorra and I'm glad she has made good progress.

Hotchoc sounds like you're having a terrible time with meds, so frustrating!

I had Chinese takeaway this evening. And I ate it and I don't feel as though it's coming back up! I have also had half a bottle of gaviscon though.

I have definitely been much better since taking metclopramide. I can get through the days without retching although car journeys and sudden movements are still too much.

I hope everyone gets some respite from the nausea this evening.

hotchocolate86 · 23/03/2018 19:21

Thanks for the advice lucinda and bored. I was lucky today. The hospital asked me to go in and discuss the situation with them. The doctor I saw was amazing. She researched the situation herself and could see I couldn’t get the drugs through my GP so she has done me a prescription for all 3 of the medications I’m on for 28 days. She has also signed me off work for another 4 weeks and booked me an appointment to go back in 4 weeks for more meds. I hope that means I can get what I need for the next 2 months without too much difficulty. If I still need them after that I’m not sure what will happen as I will be on the cusp of being moved up to the antenatal ward and they won’t know the situation but I’m not going to worry about that yet. I’m just so pleased to have got my ondansetron for the next month.

nails well done on the Chinese takeaway. Glad to hear you are feeling brighter.

Boredoftryingusernames · 23/03/2018 20:19

Hotchocolate great news that you got the meds, so frustrating your GP can't prescribe them but at least you are sorted for the next few months.

nailsathome · 24/03/2018 08:53

I'm glad you've got it sorted for the time being hotchoc

RockinRobinn · 24/03/2018 12:14

@Endora44 sorry to hear about your mum hope she continues to make improvements and there aren't any long lasting effects.
@hotchocolate86 sounds like you've been having a stressful time as well. Fingers crossed whoever you're passed on to next will see sense and give you the medicine you need as well.
@nailsathome I'm glad to hear you are doing a bit better
Just a quick update got all the way to Somerset (I live near Heathrow) we drive up yesterday which was surprisingly ok with the cyclizine. However feeling awful today so we won't even be going to the wedding.
I think it was a classic case of doing too much the day before and then feeling worse the next day. Don't want to push through it as it just ain't worth it in the long run. Never mind eh

Endora44 · 24/03/2018 17:43

Thanks everyone for your kind words. My mum seems to be making small improvements and the Drs seem optimistic.

Just was too much stress, everything at once. Now I've got bronchitis on top of everything (prob because of everything...)

hotchoc so glad that it's worked out for you. gosh, what a story!

nails glad you enjoyed your chinese, sounds divine!

Aw12345 · 24/03/2018 19:22

Thing that drives me the most MAD about having HG... selfish, clueless boss making sly remarks about how other women at work cope so much better than me with pregnancy.
(They didnt have HG and I do, in and out of hosp etc)
Literally.
Drives.
Me.
Mental!

LucindaE · 24/03/2018 20:43

Welcome to AW12345. I don't always know if somone is new, or using another pen name, so I'm not sure if I should launch into the how do you find ice lollies and full sugar flat coke and the juice of tinned fruit and have you got kesostix spiel. But if you have been in and out of hospital, unluckily, then you'll have faced it at its worst already. Sorry your boss is so clueless as to make invidious, and wholly unjustified comparisons. That is like saying to someone with a broken leg, 'Oh,but so and so managed when she twisted her ankle'.
Angry

hotchocolate I am so glad that you saw an excellent and helpful doctor.
Bored I hope that routine continues to help.
Natsku It is great news about Shehz. And she had a labour of about three hours, the lucky thing! But she deserved it, after such an awful pregnancy.
nails Chinise? You brave thing. I am glad that, and the Gaviscon, stayed put. Gaviscon can produce a hideous special effect of pink foam, like something out a horror film.
Endorra Oh no, bronchitis, you poor thing. I hope that isn't acute bronchitis? I had that once through neglecting flu. Do take care. Much sympathy over your mother. It's good there is some improvement.
RockinRobin Sorry you missed the wedding. Very brave of you to do the journey.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.

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YuleABUnREASTIEable · 24/03/2018 20:43

I am going I promise but just saw chocs post about the medicine issue. Im glad you got it sorted out and you now have it. Can I ask how you find out which local areas have it as a red/Amber drug for GPS? I need to work all this out whilst I still feel human!

Oh, AF yesterday so it’ll be a few weeks yet for me.

hotchocolate86 · 25/03/2018 07:33

Hi yule I literally just searched prescribing guidelines for ondansetron in x county. I had to try a few different searches. I tried searching for medicines traffic light system and that sort of thing but eventually I found it for both counties. Hopefully that helps you. Sorry you’ve got to wait longer but I’m glad you haven’t got to go through HG yet. Hopefully not at all.

YuleABUnREASTIEable · 25/03/2018 08:14

Thanks choc, I’ve just spent ages googling and here is all I can find for my area and the drug but it doesn’t mention anything about pg so I’m not really sure what it means, does it make any sense to you or have I found the wrong thing? It’s all I can find for nausea and vomiting full stop.

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hotchocolate86 · 25/03/2018 08:29

Hmmm well it definitely says it’s a green drug but in my area ondansetron is green for some conditions but red for pregnancy. If you don’t mind telling me what area you are in I can see if I can find anything else?

YuleABUnREASTIEable · 25/03/2018 08:36

I will pm you hot choc Thanks

hotchocolate86 · 25/03/2018 08:37

Ok no problem. I’ll let you know if I manage to find anything.

Aw12345 · 25/03/2018 09:16

@LucindaE thanks so much for the encouragement :-) I really like your broken leg analogy! I'm new to the group, was desperately looking for fellow sufferers who actually know how awful HG is and don't give advice such as "eat ginger"!!! I'm 21 weeks, have had HG for 18 very long and horrific weeks now!

Did anyone elses stop/slow down?
Did anyone else see the BBC news article about the women who still has some HG symptoms years after the pregnancy?!?!

Thanks so much :-) it means a lot to me :-)

Aw12345 · 25/03/2018 09:18

@hotchocolate86 I think some places are reluctant to give ondansetron because it's so expensive? I checked with my consultant and they said it is perfectly safe for baby though :-)

hotchocolate86 · 25/03/2018 10:01

aw12345 I saw that BBC article. It was frightening really but I hope those people are very much an exception to the rules. I think it can linger around in some ways. There are things I can’t eat since my first pregnancy 11 years ago. I have never been able to touch them since but thankfully that’s the extent of it so far for me.

I have read ondansetron is expensive. I suspect that’s half the reason I find it so hard to get hold of and why the hospital try to get me to go to my GP every time I need a new prescription. I’d much rather go to the GP that’s five minutes away than the hospital that’s nearly an hour if I had the choice.

I hope your HG eases up soon. Mine has eased slightly but I am only 12 weeks so that doesn’t really help you.

yule I have PM’d you back. Hope you see it.

LucindaE · 25/03/2018 10:53

Just dashing on to saw to "AW12345* - it does get a lot better for most people somewhere between 15 and 21 weeks, for the lucky few, even before that. Even for the unlucky few who suffer badly throughout, it is never as bad as it was early on. An effective anti acid along with the anti emetics can make all the difference. What meds are you on, and what
drinks and foods (of a sort) can you stand?
Glad you enjoyed my broken leg analogy, Grin so here's another. Trying to stop Hyperemesis with ginger is like trying to stop a charging elephant wiht a catapault!

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Anatidae · 25/03/2018 12:40

Mine is easing a bit now at 18w, thanks goodness. It’s still there but it’s manageable - 3 ish sessions of vomiting a day and feel queasy all the time but it’s not as bad as it was previously and I can cope.

I unfortunately did experience a ‘hangover’ of HG from ds1. I found symptoms returning for a week each month after ovulation, which is very distressing. My GP was about as dismissive as it’s possible to be but if it happens again after ds2 I will push for investigation.

Aw12345 · 25/03/2018 13:35

@LucindaE I can eat a few nuts and baked potatoes... anything else anyone has found good?

Am on ondansetron ATM and that's it really. Maybe I should ask Dr for antacid too. Thanks for the advice.

@Anatidae really sorry to hear you still has symptoms after ds1, hope you don't after ds2, good idea to push GP if you need to.

LucindaE · 25/03/2018 14:02

AW12345 Anitidae and others,that article sounds distressing for current sufferers. I couldn't find it, though. I have to admit that a very tiny amount of the woman on the threads have the symptoms continue whilst breast feeding - I was one, and there have been about six others - but I have never encountered anyone who had the symptoms years later on this thread - which has been going for about seven years - or any other. I must admit my menstrual migraine to be worse, though I had had it before. There was violent vomiting rather than nausea. I put it down to being by then in my late thirties, when menstrual problems are meant to get worse, but who knows if there was a connection?
Aw12345 On liquids, the juice of tinned fruit, flat full sugar coke, ice lollies, ice cubes, soda water, orange squash, Lucozade, Dr Pepper, fizzy orange, Robinson's fruit drinks, sips of chocolate milkshake, Elderflower water, lemonade, and for some, despite its acidity, orange juice have been found helpful. On foods of a sort, nibbles of crisps and chips, cuppa soup, cheap ice cream, slices of melon and mango, for some, as you say, baked potato, tinned fruit, cornflakes and jelly have helped.

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emelsie · 25/03/2018 19:02

Hi sorry to gatecrash this thread , think I might just have severe sickness rather than HG but don't know where else to ask , have had bad nausea and sickness past few days , am 6 weeks and 1 day today , been sick today at least 20 times , can keep some food and liquids down , hard job , literally have to eat some carb heavy food with some sips of whatever I can stomach and then rock back and forward on bed trying to hold back throwing up for as long as I can , when I do eventually throw up I don't think the quantity is as much as I digested so hoping that some is staying down. I just feel so terrible , can't sleep from the nausea , barely have the energy to even walk to the toilet.

Have a doctors appointment Tuesday morning, what are the chances of me getting any medication to help? I really don't know if I can continue like this without any help Sad

hotchocolate86 · 25/03/2018 19:12

Hi emelsie sorry to hear you are feeling so rough. That does sound like HG to me to be honest although pregnancy sickness is sort of on a sliding scale from not so bad to horrendously bad. I don’t think there is a specific cut off point between severe sickness and mild HG. Do you feel like you can cope until Tuesday morning? If not I’d definitely recommend going to A&E. I did that at 6 weeks in a similar position to you and they kept me in overnight for rehydration and iv meds. It was a massive help. Certainly you need some meds to help you through. If what they prescribe first doesn’t help don’t be afraid to go back and ask for something different. Also lucinda has posted a list just before you of foods and drinks that people have found helpful. Is there anything on there that appeals to you?

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