When did your hyperemesis start?

[Maggit]

Name changed for anonymity!
Am 7+2 with my third child (very very strange to be writing that down!) Last week, I had two days of extreme sickness- not holding anything at all down, even water. This passed and I've been fine for 5ish days- but just threw up again.

It's been a long long time since I was pregnant, but I did suffer badly with hyperemesis with my first, and I seem to remember being very bad at 5/6 weeks and for a good long while thereafter (I was hospitalised very early but can't quite remember the timings.) I didn't suffer at all with my second!

I'd love to hear from others who have suffered hyperemesis- when did it get bad for you? I am in a very different position now to what I was in with my first two, and am crossing everything that this is just normal pregnancy sickness and not hyperemesis...

Mine started from the day after I got pregnant. No one believes me, but I knew I was pregnant. I felt so awful. I felt awful for the full pregnancy, but the relief of giving birth was amazing. I weighed less at full term than I do now and my daughter is 9! I would say just try not to worry. I hardly ate or drank but the doctor said baby will always get what they need. Try and see if there is anything you fancy and have a really small amount. Thinking of you x

Thank you Pearl and yuk- I'm so sorry you had to endure that. I also lost LOADS of weight when I was pregnant for the first time, and I really really hope that the fact that I'm 7+2 and not feeling too horrific means that it's not going to go that way again.

About six weeks in

From 7 weeks to 24 weeks... Then it started up again after I gave birth!!!!

From about 3 days before my period was due. And then didn't stop until I had my section at 39+4. I lost 3 stone.
With my first it didn't start until about 8 weeks and finished at about 18 weeks though!

Thanks all. I thought seven weeks was late but it seems it could still be that... Aaaargh. Did any of you take any tablets? Last time, I couldn't keep any tablets down but had some injections in hospital, to varying degrees of success...

Mine was from 8 weeks, nothing helped

6 weeks exactly, the nausea started (I can be very precise, we had IVF). I felt progressively worse and found the nausea debilitating from about 7 weeks. At 8 weeks, the vomiting started, and did not let up until I finally got some anti-sickness drugs that worked when I was 14 weeks. It was Christmas Eve - the relief was something else.

By that point, I was severely dehydrated, my blood pressure was through the floor, and I had lost almost 20% of my bodyweight. How I didn't end up hospitalised, I do not know - I absolutely should have been.

The drugs were great, but even though I didn't actually feel sick, I could still tell I wasn't 'right' - a bit knowing there something unpleasant lurking behind a curtain, even though you can't actually see it. That feeling didn't lift until 20 - 21 weeks.

Started a week after conception, so 3 weeks until about 24 weeks.

Thanks all. Am going to phone the doctor tomorrow, I've been throwing up all day, including bile. I'm just crossing everything that I get drugs that work. I'd forgotten how completely debilitating sickness is.

@Maggit Good luck! Insist on getting something to help, you really don't need to put up with this. And if what you get prescribed doesn't work, go back and ask for something else. Before it happened to me, I had no concept at all that not every drug works for everyone - but they really don't. I actually got my first lot of meds prescribed at 9 weeks, and they did absolutely nothing. But I was so fixed on the idea that drugs must always work that instead of asking for something else, I just assumed that they were working, and it would have been a lot worse without them!

The difference when I got my second prescription at 14 weeks was amazing.