Hypermesis! Please help

[Eviejackxxx]

Hello everyone. So I'm 15 weeks on Friday. And for the last couple of days my sickness has heightened. I've literally not been able to keep a thing down for the last 48 hours. I'm so depressed. I feel like I can't go to the doctors as they don't take me seriously. Trying to look after a 7 year old and 4 year old. This is so hard 🙁 any advice would be greatly appreciated or just to know that I am not alone lol 🌸

So sorry to hear you’re suffering so badly. I also have HG and it’s utterly miserable. Some days I get so down but I just try to take each day as it comes and remember that it will all be worth it in the end.

We have a support thread here where there are some lovely ladies who are further along or previous sufferers with great advice and support

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3285523-Hyperemesis-Support?watched=1&msgid=78954585#78954585

If you can't keep anything down inc water, call your gp back and make them take it seriously! X

Oh and forgot to say but you should definitely go to the doctors f you can’t keep anything down - I also thought that at first that they would just dismiss it as morning sickness but they took it very seriously and immediately sent me to hospital for a drip, at the hospital they gave me injections to help the sickness and also scans and checks for the baby. Now I’m on medication twice daily which doesn’t completely stop it but it helps massively in managing the vomiting, now only sick a few times a day as opposed to 20+ Before meds

Yes, do come and join us on the hyperemesis support thread.

If you haven't kept anything down for 48 hours you really need medical attention as you will certainly be dehydrated and may be starting to get ketones too. If you feel the GP won't be helpful can you call your EPU, I had to get treatment via A&E when I was really bad with it but was 8 weeks so too early to go to EPU directly at our hospital. As a minimum the GP should see you and check a urine sample so if it would be easier to get there rather than hospital you could try them first, is there anyone that can go to advocate for you - it's so hard when you feel so utterly terrible to argue your case for further help/medications.
You can get Ketostix from the chemist to check your own urine, but given the length of time you haven't kept something down I think you need more urgent medical attention.

Good luck, it's seriously horrendous

Thank you everyone. I'm in the doctors at half past 4 so shall see what they say. It's just so hard trying to explain to people what your going through. I've done nothing but sit and cry lol. I just feel so helpless. I have been prescribed buccastem but to be honest there doing absolutely nothing..

I wouldn't actually mind if I was sick and then felt better lol but it's the constant nausea and gipping 🤢 hopefully something good will come out of going to the doctors because as dramatic as it sounds I feel like i can't go on much longer feeling like this 😢

I keep telling myself that it's worth it in the end which is absolute true but you know what it's like.

Thanks xxxx

Currently on a drip in hospital :( 3 ketones. Still feeling crappy but managed to
Keep fluid down 😀 x

Thanks for letting us know - at least you got treated seriously! Glad you feel slightly better and have kept down some fluids. I hope they sort you out some more effective medications and that you get home soon.