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.

@ElkieMacjibe - I’m breastfeeding DD 21mo morning and night and am on allllll the drugs. Wendy @ The Breastfeeding Network (find on Facebook) is a pharmacist and a lactation specialist and has reassured me the all the drugs in pregnancy are safe for bf too.

On the flip side, metoclopramide also has the side effect of stimulating lactation so my plan of weaning DD off during pregnancy before the twins arrive is probably not going to work because I’m making gallons of milk!

In other news, I bloody got gingered by a consultant gynaecologist yesterday. Advised me to eat little and often and said it’s very unusual for sickness to last beyond the first trimester. Great.

Thanks Lucinda they're currently trying to decide if I actually have HG or whether it's just a bad reaction to a UTI. Either way it's not fun.

To the lady who said about going home early to me... I'm staying in hospital for now. Still doing tests, still trying to decide what's going on. Currently feeling ok and have managed to eat a biscuit and a jelly without being sick but I'd rather be sick free for 12-24 hours than just basing it on the last few...

Mumoftwo I’ve suffered a lot with constipation issues related to ondansetron. I rang Karen at pss about it and she said to try different laxitives before stopping ondansetron. Touchwood movicol is working generally well and if you have a blockage you may need to initially take a few sachets to clear it. Worth maybe seeing a nurse at the gp for advice as I believe they can be a lot more knowledgable with laxitives than gps as they see more people about it.

Saw consultant yesterday. It wasn’t the consultNt but a student doctor person. I’m good news she was totally happy about the ondansetron and even said it was good I was on it as it was helping me and that I was managing it well (I had convinced myself they would say I couldn’t have it any more). Other parts of the apt weren’t so good and despite crying I’m the apt and saying I was struggling mentally she wrote ‘mood is good...coping well’ so now I’m wondering what I need to say for them to hear me that I’m not coping well. Maybe I don’t acknowledge to them how bad I am in reality and shrug it off thinking they don’t have time to get into it but I thought I was being clearer and more upfront about how much this is affecting me than last pg because I know I need more help than last time where I thought what I went through was normal.

Dead I hope you’re feeling a bit better this morning and have managed some food.

Just poking my head in to say hi - I'll be 24 weeks tomorrow and I only have nausea/heaving when I climb into my car now! I suspect its the way I throw myself into it, but could just be association. After 3 hospital stays for fluids (October, Dec, Jan), various medications (ondansetron, cyclzine, stemtil, ranitdine, fybrogel) and further complications (gestational diabetes, cold and cough, ear infection), I finally feel almost human again. The kicking is worth it to know he's OK in there, my 4 year old is back to asking me to play with hope in her eyes (when I was ill that went!) and I am back to being unfocussed at work (oops - concentrating helped keep the sickness at bay maybe?).

It gets better, even when it doesn't feel like it will ever end. Promise. x

Everyone, the new thread is on:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3501892-Hyperemesis-Support
I am off to visit my mother in Buckinghamshire today.
Lovely SeaEagleFeather - a twice over veteran of Hyperemesis -will be keeping an eye on the thread in my abensce. Normally, I would only start a new thread when only 10 or so posts are left and there are 70 posts left now, but as I will be away approximately four days, the thread may well run out in my abscence, so I am urging people to stagger over to the new thread on this link.
SassehMonsta Thank you for your encouraging message. I am so glad you are feeling better. So sweet you can play with your DD again.
DeadDoorPost I hope they get something very effective sorted out.
CalmberComber' Very brave of you to breastfeed when suffering.
Waves to all.