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.
It has been suggested that I add some practical tooth cleaning advice: a lot of sufferers find using a child's small toothbrush and strawberry toothpaste far less nauseating.
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.

@silversplodge huge congratulations xx

silver that's fabulous news :) congratulations to you!

Hopefully I won't be joining you in the pink castle too soon, tho my membranes have ruptured early! So I'm back in hospital for at least 48hours to monitor me for full blown (very early 31wks) labour, and to do all the things to make bambino stay put. Ive had a good cry. Now im being pragmatic and grumpy.

Good morning!

Massive congrats to you @silversplodge! Enjoy all the snuggles & the respite from the sickness.

Oh gosh @eallison88. You must be so worried. Hope the intervention manages to slow things down. Plenty of time to get those steroids in to the baby, so important at this stage.
Hoping you are well looked after at the hospital & thinking of you xx

Hope everyone else is ok? I’ve woken up with a stinking sore throat. Grrrrr! But I did manage to take ds to school without being sick, so winning so far!

Cattaxi boo to the sore throat. I’m just getting over a cold so know what joy that can add!

Eal oh gosh you poor thing. Rest assured that you’re in the hospital and being monitored carefully. I’ve found they can be rubbish with issues with me but have always been great with the view from the baby and keeping it as safe and healthy as possible. Are you ok for food whilst in there? Can dh bring you stuff?

Silver huge congrats. At least you didn’t have a huge hospital duration in labour but to being 8cm when you arrived!

Did some arm weights this morning. Only about ten mins but more than I’ve done in a week or so due to cold. I hope I don’t regret the activity later.

Congratulations silver!!

Congratulations @silversplodge! I had a similar 8cm arrival at hospital with my son so feel your pain, literally! Enjoy all the snuggles and not feeling sick 🎉

reastie hubby is gonna sort a food Rota with his sister, who lives 2mins walk from hospital, and a good friend of mine, who lives 2 mins drive. So it won't all be on him .

I'm sat waiting in the waiting room for an ultrasound to measure fluid levels and do a full check of baby. We were told it would be this afternoon for the scan, so I sent hubby home to sleep (we've been up since 5am). So I'm gutted he's gonna miss it; I wanted to find out sex. But I don't without him here. I'm feeling very emotional and teary, so not really enjoying sitting here on my own.

@eallison88 I have everything crossed for you that it isn't labour. Good that you have a food plan. Keep us updated, thinking of you. You are in the best place 👍

Congratulations silver ! I know the pain.. got to the hospital 9cm doubled over in the lift crying... They thought I'd maybe be 3cm if that. So glad the sickness went quickly for you too. Enjoy the food freedom!

I've run out of tablets. Today is day 2 without them but I'm coping ok at the moment. Food intake has dropped however. Managing mango slices and small amounts of dairy... but there's certain smells that are putting me off of things and I can't tell what they are. Either way I seem to be very tired and very off of food in general.

Starting to feel the baby kick though now.

@silversplodge congratulations!!!💕

@eallison88 I'm so sorry you're having such a shit time at the minute!

Braving a meal for our first wedding

I dropped my phone 😂😂😂

Braving a meal out for our first wedding anniversary which was yesterday but I was working and had to nap after.
Work are doing my head in now asking me to do more hours with an utter nutjob and go to other packages on my days off it's pissing me off.

Doing my makeup for the first time in a while and my hair is coming down instead of it's now signature I can't be arsed pony tail 😂

@DeadDoorpost I forgot to say I'd get more tablets if you can! I'm still not brave enough to go without and I have a back up supply of them for a bad day!
Glad you can feel it kicking it's proper blizzare isn't it?
Also yazoo chocolate milk has been a lifesaver for me recently when I can't eat.

silversplodge (flowers] Oh lovely news about baby arriving and your being at the fabled Pink Castle at the end of the Hyperemeiss Horror Run (though not about you screaming). Good to hear you are eating and drinking again. Do tell us what you decide to call Baby Silver Splodge. Goodness, you and ElkieMacjibe and DeadDoorPost must have been brave to get to that much dilated without pain relief.
eallison That must be so worrying for you. Hopefully, they can defer labour for a while. A horribly nerve wracking time for you. Thinking of you.
Reastie Weights? Mother Hen flaps in consternation, but don't I always.
cataxiWell done about taking DD to school. about throat.
avocadoo I do hope dinner is OK. Congratulations on literally letting your hair down My goodness, your workplace sound unbeliievable. They want you to work on your days off unpaid, then? Do you have a Citizen's Advice Bureau near you, as they really seem to be behaving outrageously. I am so glad that chocolate milkshake is helpful,and slices of mango for DeadDoorPost.

Take care @eallison88 I do hope that they can do something to help x

I second the chocolate milk suggestion - I haven't had any for 2 weeks and then in some bizarre twist I'm not back in bed feeling awful with a pint of nesquik and waiting for DD to go to bed so I can sleep. The joys!!! This is all because I optimistically bought myself some nice food this week...

I have my 20 weeks scan tomorrow. I'm just hoping things are all ok and that I can at least not worry that the last 5 months of barely anything nutritious has mattered! Hugs to everyone and enjoy your anniversary meal @avacadooo 😀

I know HG is different for everyone but does anyone else have a ‘reaction’ to any foods with added sugar or natural sugars like fruit juice and fruit?
I’m usually ‘ok’ now after feeling/being sick all morning if I can keep my tummy full, but not too full.
But
If I eat anything containing sugar I get super sick again! I figured this out a while ago but because I had a cold I then developed an awful cough and was swigging cough mixture all day and feeling awful, then it occurred to me that cough mixture is basically liquid sugar.
It’s weird how I seem to reject sugar. I miss having a sugary cup of tea, and it’s my birthday soon (and the kids) I’m gutted no cake for me!!
I’m basically living on potato at the moment. The dr called to come in and discuss my blood results aswell (they didn’t lose these ones) so I’m obviously lacking something. I wonder what it is.

Hope everyone is doing ok. Thinking of you eal, fingers crossed baby stays put a little longer!

blii not sugar for me, but it's not unusual for us sufferers' bodies to decide react to certain things. For me it's dairy.

My sugars are all a bit high. My post dinner sugar was too high, but then the hubby of the woman next to me gave me an ice lolly, so I'm afraid I've been really naughty and eaten it. It will be good for my hydration levels. That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!

Baby seems to be pretty settled, I've just got a fairly steady, low trickle of fluids. I've had the steroid injection, my consultant decided. Bloody hell that hurts, right in your butt!!! No contractions, really. The odd pain and q bit of bump tightening, but really sporadic, no pattern whatsoever. It seems to be a wait and see. So I'm bored out of my skull.

avacadoo have a lovely meal out, congratulations on your anniversary.

avodaoo I can't do milk. It makes me feel really sick.
Lucinda I didn't have a choice. Once I got there I got the gas and air and it was magical

@Blii sugar is a trigger for me. I'm not as bad as you, so fruit is ok, and I can do a small amount of cake until about mid afternoon - but evenings anything sweet is out and really sweet stuff like chocolate I can't have at all. I'm feeling rubbish this evening, I think because I had some cake someone brought into the office post lunch - I'm dreaming of a post baby chocolate binge....

@eallison88 fingers crossed everything goes well for you.

@DeadDoorpost I had a few weeks where about the only thing I could drink was cashew milk so non dairy milks can be a good option too.

Lucinda I had no idea there was a 20 week hormone surge, thank you! I feel less pathetic now because it would make sense (I’ve been having other general symptoms of higher hormones but being pregnant I just draw a line under these kinds of things normally as part of being a bag of pregnancy hormones ). At least now it feels like a reason, and not just a random regression. I’ve heard some people’s nausea/sickness can pick up again in third tri for similar reasons so I’m sort of prepared for that (begrudgingly). And I shall heed Mother Hen and no rushing to work!

silver HUGE CONGRATS! How lovely, I hope you and baby are well

eallison You deserve a medal for all you’re going through. Really hoping you and baby are well looked after and taken care of and that everything is fine

Blii I have something similar, but not sugar specifically, it’s actually with chocolate. I can have chocolate in things, like a bit of chocolate biscuit (and thanks to everyone else I may be trying Nesquik again for the first time in years ), but just eating chocolate normally ends up making me feel sick. The funny thing is, before I got pregnant I was on a low carb (so also low sugar) diet and sugar usually makes me feel sick, tired and breaks me out in spots. Well the pregnancy has already given me spots, but sugar isn’t making me sick and tired right now (at least, it doesn’t seem to make it worse!).

I do struggle a bit with meat too, I can’t always stomach it, although I’ve never been a huge meat eater and can easily go a day or days without it, that feeling is enhanced now. It’s the same when I’m ovulating, I have weirdly strong ovulation symptoms and always have done, and one of them is that I go off meat for a few days. Just seems to be the impact those hormones have on me, so I suppose it’s not much different with pregnancy hormones/whatever concoction leads to HG (although thankfully I don’t get horrible nauseous when ovulating!).

@eallison fingers crossed small one can cook a little longer. I guess they won’t let you go to due date now regardless? My friend had similar and was induced at 37 weeks in the end.
As for me had a bad day yesterday (unfair at 39 weeks!) but did manage a sweep and very crampy today. Walking round a farm park with our big girl hoping maybe that’ll start me off. Induction tomorrow if still no sign so at least I know I only have a few more days of vomiting left. Silvers description of immediate disappearance of symptoms is keeping me going!

Oh bean fingers crossed baby makes movements today!!!

My bambino seems to have decided to stay put for a bit at least, which is a relief!! Still a slow trickle of liquid and a little bit of blood on wiping, but I reckon that'll be me til the end now. The plan seems to be to do everything they can to keep baby in til 34 weeks, then we keep him/her as long as we can, but they're not talking about 40 weeks any more. 37 weeks seems to be the goal now due to a combination of things. That was a long sentence, well done if you followed it!! They're keeping me in now til Friday morning probably. This is due to the extra steroids for baby's lungs etc (the just in case ones) and the impact they're having on my sugar levels - which is normal, but needs monitoring.

Presed post yoo soon...

beforei I do hope things settle a little for you soon!

Blii milk/dairy makes me sick, as do tomato products, vinegar 😭😭 and often a whole host of others but right now I'm spending more time trying not to be sick to take much notice.

avocadoo forgot to say that I've had DS so I'm used to the kicks. For months after I had phantom kicks as well, and during the beginning of this pregnancy. Tbh the phantom ones are weirder.

Feeling pretty crap today but not been sick so far without the tablets. Appetite has pretty much vanished though but still trying to eat some mango and other plain foods when I feel I can stomach them.

Hope you get through the walk and that baby decides to get moving @beanhunter!
Also hope that things continue to stay settled @eallison88 😀

I just got back from the scan which was ok apart from the head circumference- measuring small so we have to go back which I'm now worried about. Baby was in a breech position though and this made measurements really hard, plus she said not to worry at all which I'm hoping she really does mean! Anyway, apart from that we have a boy! DD will be gutted as she wanted a sister but I'm sure she'll get over it 🤞

Ah, that's lovely norbert congrats on the girl. If they're telling you not to worry, then I'd do just that. Like you said, being breech makes it hard to get the measurements so I'm sure they just want to double check just to make sure. At least they're taking precautions and not just fobbing you off.