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about at the end of my rope with this pregnancy can't go on

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ConnorTraceptive · 05/08/2007 18:36

my hyperemesis is so bad i've spent two weeks in hospital and i feel awful. The strain on us as a family is unbearable and i can't be a mother to my ds. I can't carry on i really can't

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Peachy · 05/08/2007 19:14

Ah yes, Snip after this one too LOL

brave no, determined and bloody pig headed absolutely.

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ConnorTraceptive · 05/08/2007 19:17

good for you!

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Peachy · 05/08/2007 19:19

I think if I ever found myself without anything to do / stress to put myself under I owuld curl up and die through confusion- am a bit of an adrenaline junkie in the most ahrmless sense

beansprout · 05/08/2007 19:37

This sounds so, so hard. Don't feel guilty - what have you done wrong? You didn't ask for this to happen! It's very understandable that you have thought about terminating the pregnancy, given that it is the one thing that would just stop all this now. It's a logical thought, but I suspect of course, that it's not really what you want to do.

I really hope that some of the options here can give you some relief.

derah · 05/08/2007 21:00

Hi Connor, I'm so sorry to hear you're having to go through this. Just wanted to let you know that the Due in March board are thinking of you. I hope you get the medical and emotional support you need. Huge hugs!!!!

turtle23 · 05/08/2007 21:32

Connor...thinking of you!

berolina · 05/08/2007 21:47

Connor, have no tips but wanted to pass on my sympathies. I have always got off very lightly sickness-wise but hyperemesis is a nightmare scenario for me. I was admitted with placenta trouble in this pg and there was a woman with HG in the next bed - poor thing.I really hope it gets better soon.

(Peachy! Congratulations!)

skidoodle · 05/08/2007 21:49

hi connortraceptive, thinking of you and just sending some good thoughts your way. sdoodle.

hunkermunker · 06/08/2007 17:24

How are you doing, CT?

HolidaysQueen · 06/08/2007 17:34

Connor - big big hug. You sound a little better on your later posts and I hope all these positive thoughts from us guys help just even a little bit.
Zofran is a bit of a wonder drug for all sorts of emesis so I think it would be a really good idea to push them to give you that.
Also, I'm not sure how easy it is but if you can try and put this into some sort of perspective at all when thinking and talking about it with your family - it is only weeks (months at most) out of your family's whole lifetime together rather than a permanent state for you all - then maybe that will help. It sounds like your ds is going to be well looked after over the next 2 weeks and hopefully that helps ease your worry as well as you can now focus more on just yourself. But when you're in the thick of things as horrid as this then I can only guess that this is really really hard to do.
Best of luck, and big big hug, and keep talking to us and we'll do our best to witter on at you and help where we can.
HQ xx

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imjin100 · 11/08/2007 18:10

just b ack from holidays to hear your news - no support possible but just to say am thinking of you and hope slowly but surely you're feeling a tiny bit better every day.
best wishes.....

imjin100 · 11/08/2007 18:10

just b ack from holidays to hear your news - no support possible but just to say am thinking of you and hope slowly but surely you're feeling a tiny bit better every day.
best wishes.....

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ConnorTraceptive · 13/08/2007 17:15

Hi guys just spent another week in hospital with the hyperemesis

but on the positive side i have finally been given ondansitron which i believe is a version of zofran and it seems to be making a huge difference. It was a struggle to get them to give me it but i basically told them i couldn't continue the pregnancy.

They gave me the drug for two days and then put me back on the stuff that didn't work and fortunately i was still in hospital when i went rapidly down hill so they realised that anything other than the strong stuff wasn't going to work.

What makes me so cross though is that they told me that the ondansitron is only available as an injection so there was no way i could take it at home hence giving me it for a couple of days then back on the rubbish stuff. Turns out this is bullshit as I have now been given tablets

Anyway feeling a lot better on these pills so fingers crossed.

Huge thanks for all your kind words as I was really struggling and was begining to think i would have to end the pregnancy.

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merryberry · 13/08/2007 18:42

Hey, the drugs do work! I'm so glad they are helping. And I'm wishing the time away for you til you don't need them anymore - I hope it stops at weeks 16ish for you again this time, if not before. xx

mummy2olivia · 13/08/2007 18:49

Zofran (ondansetron) is available as a 16mg suppositry which is absorbed very quickly and only needs to be used once a day. It is licensed for use during pregnancy.

And you don't have to worry about throwing it back up!

Have you had a scan? multiple?

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ConnorTraceptive · 13/08/2007 19:20

had two scans so far and got my 12 week one next week it's amazing the difference a couple of weeks makes to the baby's development

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PurpleLostPrincess · 13/08/2007 23:02

Soooo pleased to hear you've turned a corner...

HolidaysQueen · 14/08/2007 09:21

Connor - so glad that they gave you the drugs (and well done you for pushing them until they did!). I really hope everything starts to go much much better for you now - and good luck with the 12 week scan!

crokky · 14/08/2007 10:25

Connor - I wanted to write something to you, although as a sufferer myself I know that it will not help particularly!

I had it with my first pg and I am now 5 weeks pg with No. 2. Already I feel as though I am barely alive and my DS has got a shell for a mummy. It is hard to watch my DS being looked after by others. My mum is very good, but my stepfather is a wanker. DS took him 2 matching pieces of a puzzle - together they make a whole tiger, but DS is too young to put them together so he wanted my stepfather to do it for him. Stepfather did not know I could see them - he took the pieces of puzzle from DS and threw them across the room .

The only thing I can say which helps me a tiny bit is to think at least your baby is not suffering and all the time you are feeling desperately ill, the LO is thriving.

I did not recover from my first pg. I know that I can only recover properly, both physically and mentally when I have finished pregnancy and won't have any more. Once your LO is born, you can recover as well.

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