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.
On my image of a pink castle: that is an image I use because when I was little, my family had a Snakes and Ladders board with an image on the last square of a pink castle in the clouds. As Hyperemesis is so like a grotesque version of Snakes and Ladders - eat a meal, go up a ladder, first thing in the morning bile run, down a snake - I have used the image of that pink castle on the last square of that Snakes and Ladders board as a metaphor for the happy end of Hyperemesis.

Eal I feel the same with my dh, he spent most of yesterday cleaning/hoovering/getting dd to do her hw etc whilst I lay on the sofa feeling too ill to do anything wishing more than anything I could help. If it helps I think I have sympathy insomnia with you! Past 4 nights ive been awake more than I’ve been asleep. It’s so miserable and is even worse that when I wake up I feel so sick (as if insomnia isn’t bad enough as it is). I’m literally waking up more than every hour and struggling to get back to sleep. I hope it doesn’t last as on top of everything else it’s just making me feel so defeated. I’m glad your new way of medication fingers crossed helps.

Hoping to go back to my usual badness today rather than the extreme after getting to scan on Saturday.

I hope you have a gentle day reastie

I hope that you ladies can rest today and recover from the weekend. I started the day with DD having a 45 minute tantrum about me going to work, wanting a picnic breakfast sandwich, her sandwich not being cut up, it being cut up "not straight", lack of TV privilege because of previous tantrums, and many other issues that are really non-issues to everyone except her.
I am so god-damn glad to be at work this morning!

Oh toddler tornadoes are such fun...! Glad work will feel like a rest sasseh :)

I've got a mate coming round with her 7 week old this morning, which I'm looking forward to.

Ohhh I love squishy baby cuddles. Need to get me along to a bumps and babies group to sneak cuddles with newborn and "rescue" their mum's for 15 mins.

I genuinely don’t know how to do another 20 weeks of this. I’ve not kept a full meal down in a week. They say I can’t have steroids any more. I’m managing to drink so not dehydrated and no ketones so nobody interested. I still weight 12lbs less than when I got pregnant and after an initial gain on 3lbs on the steroids haven’t gained anything for 3 weeks (infact lost a lb this week). Work is a struggle but I don’t want to be off either. I don’t know what to do.

Thanks guys, I don’t think I’ll go for any private scans but I’ve got my 20 week scan 21st Dec so hoping all is fine and lack of movements is just where placenta is or bit later this time. Tried no ondansetron again today, been feeling ok til I tried to have a pot noodle (which I’ve been enjoying so far) and now can’t get the smell of it out my nose!! But hey ho it’s an improvement. I think I’m very lucky compared to some. Hope everyone is doing ok xxx

Bean, sending lots of love xxx

Oh and on the weaning 3 year old, I’m 17 weeks now, no signs he is going off the milk. Perhaps I won’t have an option but to tandem but I really don’t want to haha. Will have to see how he goes. My friend came over with her newborn and he was very loving. But every time baby wanted a feed he wanted a feed 😂

beanhunter I'm so sorry you're having a bad day. I think you need to go back to your consultant about the steroids - I was told that I can be on steroids for the duration of my pregnancy, if that is what I need. So surely that should be the case for you. Best of luck!

forever An improvement is an improvement. Keep tryingto smile. And try super noodles. Less smelly.

beanhunter Much sympathy over lack of interest as you have no ketones. Like eallison I don't understand why your consultant insists you must be off steroids, and eallison doesn't object toher staying on them. Good advice from eallison.
eallison I am glad the insomnia was better and your son goes to bed at a bearable hour.
Reastie Much sympathy over insomnia. It seems to be common early on, and often vanishes. Sorry; remind me how many weeks you are?
SassehMonsta Forty-five minutes is impressive. My daughter could carry on that long - usually in the park, with other mothers saying, 'Mine doesn't have tantrums' - but I didn't have Hyperemesis then, and you deserve a medal for enduring it. Here's a anyway.
foreverblues Congratulations on noodles. I am so glad you feel an improvement. Some women do seem to have that with the placenta masking movements.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.

Last night in bed I felt a flutter or 2 for the first time. Quite exciting! I'm almost 14 weeks, and I felt DD at around 14 weeks last time too. It almost makes the sickness worth it.

Had reflux last night that kept me awake for a bit, but eventually drifted off with the dog. DD got up 5.30 and tonight I'm out to the cinema with a friend -long day! Maybe I can fit in a nap between work and collecting DD from nursery.

Very exciting about flutters sasseh! I remember first flutters with my son and how awesome they were. I also remember a few weeks around 20 weeks where his movements gave me motion sickness...

I've never felt movement until around 17 weeks, which is also when Braxton Hicks started in each of my previous pregnancies.

36 + 4 today. Feeling like utter rubbish. Coming down with a cold I think 😡 Sickness is back in full force :( Ondansetron doesn't seem to be doing the trick like it used to.

What do you ladies eat out of curiosity ? I literally have no appetite until around 8 o clock at night because of the constant nausea but I know that eating something will make me feel better throughout the day.

X

Need to vent I literally can’t cope anymore I’m at the point of not wanting this pregnancy.
I have cyclizine which has definitely taken the edge off but I am still puking and the thing that’s getting me the most is the smell of everything especially my house and husband, he’s doing everything he can to help but I can’t take it any longer. I’m only 7 weeks and this is unbearable I just can’t do it I’ve had a total meltdown today and just can’t stop crying I feel so ill and lonely. Arghhhhhh

@Lostnames

We've all been there so your not on your own. It truly is awful :(

Mine started at 4 weeks. However I'm
Now 36 weeks and I can honestly say looking back yes it's been horrid but it has flown. X

eviejack current safe and appetizing foods include: toast with goats cheese and pear (actually my favourite thing in the world right now!), super noodles (chicken), rice crispies with koko 'milk, strawberry poptarts, mini potato waffles (McCain's only, all others are crap). Also melon.

lostnames you need more than taking the edge off. Cam you go back to doc and ask for something else? I'm not actually objecting too much to hubbys smell this time, but last time there were times when I had to be in a different room from him. I have such a vivid memory of sitting on the floor in Tesco last time, systematically opening and smelling all the blokes deodorants, desperate to find out that I could cope with and would allow him to sit near me!! It's really shit and I'm sorry. But please go back to GP.

My dh has to have a stick deodorant as I can’t cope with spray deodorants! I figure that’s the least he can do

Lost o completely sympathise and I’m with you. Time is going so slowly for me and every hour is a lifetime. The only way I’ve got through is taking it a day at a time, ticking off another day that I won’t have to do again.

Today is a really bad day, the worst since I’ve been on ondansetron. Have had to lie down all afternoon and can’t even watch tv as the movement of the camera makes me worse. I hope this isn’t the start of it getting worse. I remember with dd from 9 weeks it became a little intermittent but when it striked it was worse than before. I couldn’t even talk to dh earlier as thinking and speaking made it worse. It’s so depressing when I was hoping I should start feeling better soon not worse. I have the whole ‘I can’t do this, I can’t cope’ inner speak going on. This morning I wrapped some Christmas presents so not exactly overdoing it... if only they could knock me out on drugs!

Btw does anyone know how many times a day I can take ondansetron? I take 8mg 3 times a day but my instructions say 8 hourly which would mean I could take 4 times a day but I’m not sure if that’s too much (would only do that if I felt I needed it and it was within of dose). Have read online stories of people having over 40mg a day under medical supervision whilst pg so assuming 8mg 4 times a day would be ok...

Im pretty sure the max ondansetron dose is 8mg x3 times daily. Say 6am, 2pm and10pm - that's 3 doses, 8 hours apart, then back to 6am.

@eallison88 toast with goats cheese and pear sounds amazing 😍

Sorry, when I said 8 hourly I meant 6-8 hourly, so 6 hourly would be 4 doses. I usually take it about 5am, 11am and 5 pm.

Max 24mg per day. Please don’t take more.

Ok, thanks, will keep at 3 times a day. It’s so hard just getting through when you feel bad isn’t it.

Lostnames I totally get how you are feeling. But as has been said you probably need something alongside cyclizine as it really should stop the vomiting I believe or cut it right down.
I am nearly 8 weeks and the nausea just has been unbearable. I came off cyclizine as I actually think the side effects made me feel worse and I had two good days where the nausea went right down, I was even able to take my toddler to the park.
But this afternoon it has picked up and now I feel so so sick. I spoke to a GP last week, literally sobbed my heart out in desperation and his only advice was he would switch me to another anti-histamine which I would take once a day (not with cyclizine instead of)! I was gobsmacked as I said surely that won’t cover me all day?! He didn’t care really. Last preg hyperemesis hit me literally over night just after week 9 so I am absolutely dreading the next few weeks. I also cry daily too so know that we are in the same boat! X