Hello all. Sorry you are still so ill @meg232xx though I'm glad you're in hospital. Yes it's ridiculous to try to put you back on oral medication when you can't even keep fluids down. What are they thinking?! Hopefully another doc tomorrow will overrule it . . . You need several stable days with everything going in IV, during which you manage to eat and drink with no vomiting at all before they even consider trying to switch back to anything orally.
I'm 5w5d now (I'm pretty sure) and now feeling really rough, it has stepped up a lot in the last 48 hours. Haven't yet thrown up: I'm desperately trying not to until after the 6w mark! But it's definitely imminent. I've got cyclizine from the UK and the GP I saw here (I'm in France) gave me doxymaline, which I haven't had in previous pgs. I tried it a couple of times but it makes my heart race really badly and I feel very agitated for the first couple of hours after taking it. Has anyone else experienced that? It's odd because it's supposed to be a sedative and the pharmacist warned me it would probably knock me out. So for now I'm sticking with cyclizine which I had on prescription from the UK and which I know I can tolerate, though it does make me really woozy out so I'm not taking a full dose yet.
I had a blood test last week (this is standard here) and my HCG levels at just over 5 weeks was 40,000. From what I can tell, this seems really high. I've never been given this result before because my previous pgs were in the UK, though I know HG can be linked with elevated HCG. Does anyone else know what their HCG was at a given point? I'm guessing because it's high they may want to do an early scan to check I'm not out with my dates (though I'm sure of them).
As for the whole girl/boy thing, @Catconfusion I think there is more evidence for girls being worse for some women, though one doc told me that boys are worse, and overall it doesn't seem a very set rule. I have two DSs. I had severe hyperemesis with long hospitalisations with both, but DS2 was a good deal worse. Two of my sisters have a mixture though and were roughly equally ill with all of them. So I think sex makes a big difference for some women but not for others.
@abbs1 I sympathise. My earlier pregnancies were also very traumatic which is why we waited a long time before deciding to try for a third. I was more traumatised by the first, even though the second was actually a good deal worse (sadly despite all the prep we did and pre-emptive medication). We went for a second because I desperately wanted another and my husband very much did too. My husband was more traumatised by the second pregnancy, and he's finding it hard to stay calm right now as we enter the worst phase again. Whereas I actually coped better with the second one and even though I am daunted of course by the next couple of months (if this pg continues) I know I will get through it.
With severe HG you feel like you are dying because physiologically you would die quite quickly in that state without a drip -- before IVs it used to be by some margin the leading cause of death in the first part of pregnancy, even though obviously it's a rare condition.
@thingymaboob I think it is very normal for HG to impede bonding during pregnancy, and this is normal and you shouldn't worry about it. Do watch out for signs of pre-natal depression though -- I had that with DS1 and then I had a bad post-natal depression with him, too, so I think if you are feeling really low it's worth accessing some support if you can. I think the second half of a bad pregnancy can be such a struggle: even if you're a bit better physically, by that point you've just been ill already for so long.