Goodness, suffering all round.
Great advice from everyone to the new people.
T1mumtobe Welcome. That sounds awful, being back in hospital
for a second time in a week. Sorry, I'm not sure if you are type 1 or 2 diabestic, I suppose with the type 1 you don't need to keep sugar intake low, so many of the suggestions for drinks and some foo in my normal spiel may be possible to try. Hopefully, the Ondansetron will start to work, but if not they may add other meds or as others have suggested, eventually try steroids. I am glad you are getting treatment. If you go home with Ondansetron, do remember to ask for a laxative, as it does tie up the bowels. Here is my normal spiel, which I hope will help. Ignore the irrelevant bits: Sufferers find that they improve a lot at some point between weeks 14 and 20, or sometimes later. Even those who are unlucky enough to suffer throughout generally are not as ill later on as they are in the first part. A good anti acid can make a surprising difference to the sickness. Kesostix are worth buying online or from a chemists, as while they aren't they best test of dehydration, hospitals take them seriously. When reporting on the vomiting to doctors, remember to emphasize the number of heaves in each vomiting session, as doctors tend to count these as 'vomits' and this can lead to their underestimating the severity of your symptoms. Besides drinking through a straw, here are some drinks that have helped others: full sugar flat coke (if you don't find it too acid), ice lollies, the juice of tinned fruit, Lucozade, apple juice, Ribina, Dr Pepper, soda water, Elderflower water, tonic water, ice cubes, Iron Bru, lemonade, lemon squash, orange squash, orange juice (if not too acid), fizzy orange, 7Up, isotonic drinks, sips of chocolate milkshake (maybe soya), fizzy water, apple juice, Robinson's fruit drinks, Rubicon sparkling mango drink , raspberry Lucozade sport and frozen ice cubes of flat Lucozade sport. Also, pink lemonade , cloudy lemonade and Sprite. Foods of a sort include tinned fruit, cuppa soup, nibbles of crisps and chips, cheap ice cream, Scotch pancakes, bagels and biscuits, potato smileys, minature salty Yorkshire Puddings , dry cereals and slices of melon and mango. Protein drinks have also been mentioned.
Trying81 Welcome. Unfortuantely, there is an hereditary aspect to Hyperemesis. It is very possible to have it witout vomiting much. I am glad you have read the thread and found some advice on it helpful.
I hope your GP can prescribe you something which will help and I am so glad that s/he is helpful.
BlueSky57 Welcome. A stone is a lot to lose. It is certainly worth asking for other meds if Cyclizine and Stemetil aren't really helping.
I hope the normal spiel I copied for T1mumtobe might prove helpful.
Squiff70 Welcome. How horrible having to cope with an infection as well as Hyperemesis, while looking after a toddler. I hope it clears up soon and they can find a medication which is effective for the Hyperemesis. I am sorry about the loss of one of your twins. Great advice from Melleebacca about possible alternative meds to help.
PopGoesBang Eight is a really nice age, and certainly must make things easier. Nice she got that fun outing.
7Worfs Oh dear, poor you. I hope you feel better soon, how awful.
Melleebacca It's good that your father's women relatives suffered from it. That's very expert advice about Cyclizine and Stemitl being anti nausea, and Metalcopramide anti vomiting. Great advice from
abbs1 and from PopGoesBang too.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.