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.

Hi nails. Yes, I'm a teacher, thankfully with a very understanding HoD. She was great during my last pregnancy. I'm worried about future time off as imagine it will be inevitable.

How many weeks are you? 8 weeks off is tough, you must be suffering!!

Oh, and thankfully my husband can work from home a lot and my parents live very close so I have a good support network. Doesn't help with the guilt when my little girl is crying for mummy but I can get out of bed.

12 +6 today and scan all good!

Hi all. As of Monday, I'm officially on Mat Leave. I haven't been at work since September, so not really going to notice a difference. I get my section date a week tomorrow. Can't believe it. Downside, all my horrible symptoms are back and I feel lousy but I'm counting the days. Other good news, my mother now accepts that HG is real as Philip and Holly talked about it. Is it any wonder I could bang my head off a wall sometimes?!?!
Foody good news re scan. It's great just to see the baby.

Sorry posted too soon.
Bergamot your pregnancy is not official until you've been gingered! My dr was very serious about ginger till I advised him never to mention it to an hg sufferer, if he wanted to live. Get as much help as you can. Meds are there for a reason. Hope you're feeling a bit better soon.
Waves to everyone else

Foody great news on the scan.
Seize sorry you still feel awful, but at least Philip and Holly have made your mum believe you're not making things up!!

Oh Christ @seizethecuttlefish really that's a lose lose situation. A dr said "oh so your just like the princess then" .......No, no nothing like it actually plus I was still vomiting at 40 weeks and she had no normal life worries. Not that she was likely without stress but just not the same.

I'm sorry it's taken two pillocks on the telly for your mums interest to peak.

Sorry all your symptoms have rested their ugly head again .

That's awesome @Foodylicious pleased if all went well.

Btw we always seem to have loads of teachers.. weird. I guess there is a hell of a lot of teachers so maybe it's just a numbers thing and not some weird predisposed to hg if you are a teacher thing lol.

Welcome to BergamotMouse. When not suffering from Hyperemesis, do you like Earl Grey Tea (the only common use I know for bergamot; but there may be more). I wonder what user name you had before? As you've been on before and are now a veteran (and already gingered this pregnancy!) I don't need to say my coke/the juice of tinned fruit/ice lollies/have you got kesostix spiel. I am so glad you have a good support network, and I am glad the doctor has given you pre-emptive meds. I believe c yclizine is an anti histamine and so is promethazine, and they are often first line treatments.
Some are really helped by it, some, like StatisticallyChallenged and I think, Bored didn't find it helpful at all.
Nails I was going to say 'Are you a clairvoyant?!' - but then I saw that BergamotMouse had mentioned it being Easter holidays! So I will say, Professional Magician instead! [winks] Lots of attention to detail, and all that; but I'm being scatty today...
StatisticallyChallanged Sorry, I was going to say that did sound embarrasing, No Warning Puking. Intrestingly, a lot of people on Ondansetron say it does nothing for the nausea, while controlling the vomiting.
Seize Ha Ha, but annoying! I watch so little television, I don't even know who those people are, would you believe? It once broke down. OH was away for a week. He came back. 'Didn't you notice the television's on the blink?' Me. 'Is it?"
Waves to Rockin Mustang and everyone.
I hope everyone has a bearable Easter. It is diffiuclt to have Hyperemesis anyway, but particulalry diffcult round all the festive food at Christmas and Easter...

My mum doesn't get out much. When we first met DH thought Phil and Holly were her neighbours, the way she talks about them. It's entertaining if nothing else. She also regularly informs me that when she was pregnant, she didn't eat so she couldn't be sick. I wish! Anyone who has enjoyed that moment of realising its bile you're throwing up, knows this is bull. But it's countdown. I get my section date next week and I'm heading there, all guns blazing. Wouldn't have believed when I found you all, at a horrendous 4 weeks pregnant, I'd be saying that. Thanks lovelies x

seize A pleasure to have tried to help ease your journey, and you'll soon be waddling over yon drawbridge to the fabled Pink Castle. On that - for newbies, on the idea of that Pink Castle, I got the idea of a fabulous Pink Castle at the end of the Hyperemesis journey as a Snakes and Ladders board my family had when I was little had a pink castle in the clouds on the last square. As Hyperemesis is so like a horrible game of Snakes and Ladders - bile run, go down a long snake, eat some cheap ice cream - up a ladder - I thought it seems an appropriate name.

Seize Yay for Mat leave and a section date. That is so exciting.

Bergamot I just haven't been able to face the planning and marking as well as actually going in to work and dealing with teenagers!

Does everyone get gingered at some point? Mine was from a pregnant consultant at the hospital who is clearly having a lovely hg-free pregnancy!

Yep, fingered by a colleague yesterday morning-
"Have you not tried ginger biscuits?"
She asked incredulously...
I must say I just laughed in her face

Arrhhh
that should say gingered!
Not fingered **

Foody at typo. Same thing happened to me on the predictive text. Told hubby I'd been fingered by a colleague and I was raging! He called me at work, hysterical laughter...sod forwarded the message to his brother and my sister as he thought it was hilarious. Sod that he is. I asked if he knew what I meant? He said no but he knew it wasn't what I typed.
Well done at resisting the temptation to hit said gingerer with a ginger nut.

seize nailsand Foodylicius about 'fingered'. Well, a laugh is the best tonic, and everyone on here could do with a tonic (not a ginger one) given the awful or non existent diet everyone's on.
Seriously, if I hadn't had similar comments for many years over migraine: 'Have you ever thought of taking paracetema?l' I would be incredulous that such ignorance still exists.
Much sympathy to all who can't eat Easter Eggs.

There's me joining in with typos of my own - I meant 'paracetomol'.
And today, that message should be about hot cross buns.

Totally agree that ondansetron does nothing for nausea... But is good for the vomiting!

Thanks to the advice of everyone here my boss is now being "sorted out" by HR (if you see what I mean) for his bullying behaviour. Thanks so much for the advice :-) also 4 people have complained about it not just me so I don't feel stupid!

BergamotMouse really glad you've got a good support network, you must need it with a little one as well as HG!

nailsathome being gingered is the worst, makes me feel like people really undermine how awful HG is thinking that some herbal supplements will solve it?!?!

AW12345 I am so glad about that. His behviour was disgusting - complaining that you were 'wasting time' being sick into a waste bin!

Hi,
I have been recommended this thread by a friend as I have been suffering really badly with vomiting and nausea and got very depressed. Just feel so isolated as I can't go about and my partner is away a lot at the moment 😩 I've not actually got HG so I hope people don't mind me joining in? I have been given cyclizine but it hasn't done much ... anyone else had any luck with it?
Also ... don't get me started on the 'gingering' !!

Oh I'm getting the isolation and depression too @Ktn35
Was invited to the pub last night to do quiz and I cried because I couldn't go and my entire family went and my DP was out! And I was in bed and throwing up the tea and toast I'd just had.
Hope it gets better for all of us. With or without any ginger (god, I wish ginger did cure this I would eat ginger 24/7 if it did)

@booandbumpp It's so miserable isn't it?! People keep trying to come round to keep me company and I just don't want them here. So feel isolated but actively seek being alone! Have been really really struggling eating anything unless it's beige. Just went around the shop earlier and told myself I was just going to put in anything that looked vaguely ok. I have come back with a really strange selection of things but I have managed to eat something other than cream crackers tonight even if it is just a jumbo munch pot 😩!

@booandbumpp @Ktn35 completely relate to how you feel :-( really hope you feel better soon. It is very lonely and isolating to have HG sometimes... you can't get out of bed but you're depressed staying in bed. Can't win.

@Ktn35 the most exotic I've got with my food in the last two weeks was having a bit of jam on my toast. It was very nice but unfortunately did not stay settled. I watched master chef earlier and could have cried at how amazing the food looked. I would kill for some colour on my plate and as soon as I feel better I am never eating toast again!
@Aw12345 I am having such a love/hate relationship with my bed atm. Obviously I love it but also I hate being in it for so long. Also hyper sensitive nose means I need to change the sheets SO OFTEN. seriously I changed them yesterday and today all i want is clean sheets on 😭 would be v happy if I could have some sort of turn down service at home.

@booandbumpp I said exactly that to my mum yesterday as I cried down the phone that I just wanted to feel like I had consumed something fresh in the last 8 weeks!! I have been squeezing half a lemon into ice cold water which as helped a bit. At least it's a fresher taste if it comes back up!

Hello! Just found out I’m pregnant for the third time. First one ended in miscarriage, second full-term baby, but with both I was really miserably sick all the way. My second pregnancy I was on cyclizine then stemetil then metaclopramide then ondansetron, then ondansetron and cyclizine together which worked the best. Sickness went the day after birth.

I really struggled the last time because drugs kept the vomiting under better control and midwives etc clearly thought I was overreacting about the awful crippling 24/7 nausea and inability to eat without throwing it back up again. Horrible experiences of getting told by midwives “well if you’re that sick we can’t help you, phone maternity” and maternity saying “that’s just normal morning sickness, we’re here for the women who are REALLY ill.” Anyway got referred to consultant care at 20 weeks and got ondansetron which helped.

Anyway, I’m not even 4 weeks this time yet but I’ve been feeling nauseous for the past few days. GP prescribed me cyclizine when I was first planning to TTC again so it’s ready to go. But I don’t know if I should start taking it yet? Sickness is not yet that bad (just nausea) and after all the treatment I got in first tri last time for being a drama queen (midwife telling me I should really stop taking antiemetics, “try ginger tea”) I am nervous it’ll be the same again unless I can prove I got ‘really’ sick first. And part of me of course still wants this to be the pregnancy where it doesn’t happen, but that’s not looking great so far