hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[shocker]

I was living in Whitechapel but had to move home to Ireland to be looked after when I was 14 weeks, just havnt gotten round to changing it on here! I find the aversions really funny sometimes, I've gone through the most ridiculous phases of eating, at one point all I could stomach was lettuce and rowntrees randoms I tend to exhaust the safe foods until I can no longer stomach them! Ive already crossed jellies, lettuce, marshmallows, soup and porridge off! How have you been doing?

 

[mummySS]

Aha well I'm right on the other side of London so ireland is not too different lol!

I'm ok thanks hun - tried some Singapore noodles tonight - only managed to eat a few but I'm already dreading them coming up

How are you - did you get your hands on more zofran? Hope you're better.

Jess how're you today hun? X

 

[shocker]

Yup gp has given me 2 weeks worth and just have to call for a repeat prescription when they're done thank god! Pretty rubbish one today, OH took me out for a lovely dinner and I spent the following two hours being sick, now I'm stuck in bed while he plays Xbox so not quite the romantic evening we'd hoped for really wish I could fast forward these last 12 weeks!! Hope your noodles stay put!!

 

[mummySS]

Oh boo to that. Can't wait to go out for dinner again! Not that this is a regular occurrence when you have kids though lol.

 

[CarliCareBear]

https://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Care-pregnancy/story-17267774-detail/story.html

looks like the UK may be catching up!! hope you ladies are hanging in there. i am thinking of you Xx

 

[Jesss123]

After spending a lovely night in hospital... AGAIN... I've had enough. I went through 4 900ml drips to get me even remotely hydrated. HG is.. not what I expected. I hope this pregnancy goes past fast, LO will be here and all will be well! I'm beginning to think this is never gonna end.

 

[shocker]

Sorry to hear your having a difficult time jess, it does start to fly after 16 weeks I think, im nearly 30 now and never thought i'd make it this far! Have you joined the facebook group? Theres lots of ladies from around the world on there and offering great tips and advice on medications and just things that helped them feel better, also a good place to let off some steam on a bad day
https://www.facebook.com/groups/162154430519226/

 

[mummySS]

Oh Jess i know it can be so so hard and you can be ready to give up. Think how far you've got already - shocker is right, I started to feel better last time after around 14 weeks I found I could gradually eat a little more, and by 20 weeks i was down to 'normal' morning sickness. Really hope it eases up for you soon. You must feel a little better being hydrated I promise you the end is in sight and it is SO SO SO worth it. xxx

Shocker thanks for the FB group, i have requested an invite. I never could join the helpher forum as it asks you a security question when you try to register to stop spammers (what does the H in HER stand for, and I typed in hyperemesis), and it told me I had entered the wrong information - WTF?? So now I can't join! Am i being really thick?

 

[wilbz]

After spending a lovely night in hospital... AGAIN... I've had enough. I went through 4 900ml drips to get me even remotely hydrated. HG is.. not what I expected. I hope this pregnancy goes past fast, LO will be here and all will be well! I'm beginning to think this is never gonna end.

Stick in there honey, I have suffered with all three of my girls have been in hospital with all of them the last one was in 2 1/2 months so know exactly how you feel, have the consultants mentioned steroids at all as I was given these after 10 weeks.

 

[mummySS]

Anyone been on stemitil (prochlorperazine)? I've just been switched to it from metoproclamide. Only been on it one day so far but i'll be honest i feel shocking. Has it worked for anyone, and how long does it take to kick in? Thanks xx

 

[shocker]

Anyone been on stemitil (prochlorperazine)? I've just been switched to it from metoproclamide. Only been on it one day so far but i'll be honest i feel shocking. Has it worked for anyone, and how long does it take to kick in? Thanks xx

I took it for several weeks in second tri and it worked better than cyclizine,zantac and zofran for me, i dont know if it was a coincidence or what but i had a period of about a month where i was barely sick at all! It flared up again at 22 weeks and the stemetil could no longer control it, it took about 2 weeks before I felt a noticeable improvement, hopefully it will help! I never joined the helpher forum either, im on here too much as it is i dont need another addictive forum Got my iron sorted out today aswell, tests came back and its dropped even further (as i knew it would with them dithering ) so now its hospital twice a week for injections for the forseeable future, but at least i'll have a bit of energy im a bit excited about that prospect!

 

[Jesss123]

Anyone been on stemitil (prochlorperazine)? I've just been switched to it from metoproclamide. Only been on it one day so far but i'll be honest i feel shocking. Has it worked for anyone, and how long does it take to kick in? Thanks xx

They gave me in hospital when I was getting hydrated and.. it made me feel ten times worse. The ONLY thing that worked for me so far have been the cyclizine injection but boy that hurt.. my arm still hurts days later Nothing else works with me but I have some more cyclizine tablets and if I take them as I wake up and with a glass of water, they take some of the vomiting away.. even though I still feel like I need to throw up and still feel nauseous.. it's better than nothing. I'd rather vomit 5 times a day instead of 20!

 

[mummySS]

Thanks ladies, well i've given the stemetil 3 days now and i've felt shocking, so i'm going to give up and go back to the metoprochlamide, which wasn't great but better than this! Back to the docs next week to see what else we can try...

Shocker - i know what you mean about addictive forums! Aargh iron injections dont sound nice but you will feel fab after them. I had low iron through my last pregnancy too, which I think i didn't cope with too well as I had to have a blood transfusion after Leo was born. (but i felt great after that!). Oh, the things we go through...

Jess how are you feeling now? I'm really hopeful for you that it gets a bit more manageable soon! Have you told all your friends & family?

 

[Jesss123]

Everyone knows now. We announced the pregnancy just before 12 weeks as a friend of mine seen me in the antenatal clinic and blabbed it out on facebook that I was pregnant, long story short, we told everyone first before they found out through her.

As for the sickness, it is indeed getting worse, not better. I haven't had a good day in weeks.. It's getting stronger and even more unmanageable. I take cyclizine tablets everyday but they only take some of the vomiting away, I still feel like crap & throw up, just not as much. I can't wait till May for LO to be here now. I hope this eases off or goes away soon. I'm rather fed up but it's worth it.

 

[mummySS]

Gaaah i'm sorry hun. I can't say anything but just Hang in there. It will come to an end!!

And how annoying for your friend to blab! Oh well, at least everyone knows now I think that makes the sickness a bit - well i wont say easier because it never is - but a bit more tolerable at least. xxx

 

[Aaisrie]

Already worrying about HG this time... It didn't REALLY kick in last time until 8w ish. Mouth is watering like crazy and feel like I NEED to vomit in order to feel better. Don't know if mentally I'm prepared for another 9mo of sickness. At least this time I know what I'm dealing with.
The cyclizine injection made me really dizzy and dropped my O2 levels for some reason so they wouldn't give it to me again after the first time. Ondansetron was the only thing that worked for me, coupled with movicol to make me "go" lol Need to check the ondansetron in the house to see if it's still in date from the last time but I doubt it is...

 

[junemomma09]

Hi ladies!! Can I join?
I suffered with hyperemesis with my first pregnancy and it seems I'm suffering with it again with this pregnancy
I'm currently 7 1/2 weeks pregnant and currently in the hospital due to severe dehydration and a stomach bug. Apparently I've been getting sick so much lately because of hyperemesis and the stomach bug
I was admitted very early this morning. I'm hoping I dont suffer too long with this as it sucks constantly throwing up and now I can't work as much as I was working. Dr says I'm doing too!

 

[Micha2]

Hi junemomma! All are welcome here! Im so sorry for how badly you are suffering I hope you feel better after the fluids and they can prescribe you something to get you through.

Well ladies, im very scared at the moment. I managed to say goodbye to the evils of HG a few weeks after the first tri. Now Im 25w and I fear it might be coming back! Ive heard of this happening but never thought itd happen to me as it didnt with my first 2. But ive been getting that all too familiar horrible feeling & yesterday while grocery shopping, the smells were killing me! I gagged the entire time & left with tears streaming down my face. So far this morning ive been laying low but i feel its creeping up on me and i did not enjoy my coffee which is normally my favourite moment of the day. In the next 15 weeks before my little girl arrives we have christmas, loads of christmas parties, a wedding, we are getting married too! How will i get through all this if i get sick again? Not to mention i have to work and i well & truly exhausted my leave entitlemts in the first tri.
Anyway i just needed to get this off my chest. I cant believe how ive gone from so happy to feeling so depressed as soon as i started to feel sick again.
Thinking of all you amazing ladies every day xxxxxx

 

[Jesss123]

Hello ladies, how are you all doing?

I hope things ease off a little for you, Aisrie

Junemama, welcome! Sorry to see you're also suffering with HG It is nasty!

I'm 15+4 today, got moved up on the scan a little forward

I have to now go in every other day to get hydrated. I had my antenatal appointment yesterday at the hospital at 9am and they wouldn't let me go home until they flushed my system. I had a lot of ketones in my urine and in addition to that, I threw up in OB's office and then collapsed (which happens to me almost every time I vomit as my BP drops dramatically and I'm out) He certainly wasn't impressed and admitted me. I'm back in Monday again. Thankfully they let me go home around 5pm but boy it was a long day.. The scan also had to be rescheduled because our (sonographer's guessed) girl wouldn't move. I was in and out of the u/s room, jumping around, moving around, dancing and drinking caffeine drinks (for the first time in the pregnancy, oh it felt so good, but vomit after wasn't so nice) and nothing! She just wouldn't move! They couldn't get any proper measurements at all, even the CRL was off a little so I could be even further along But anyway, I'm gonna be seeing a few specialists in regards to the vomiting and HG itself because it is not easing off in the slightest - quite the opposite actually! And my thyroid levels were completely off too - which apparently can be caused by the vomiting too. My MW tried to 'pick' me up when I collapsed a got a handful of my hair before I got a chance to mention that it's falling out more and more. They've given me another anti sickness pill which I can take twice a day on top of the other stuff I take - Ondansetron, I've just took one so let's see how it goes (since I just woke up at 6am to throw up and can't fall back asleep :/)

Anyway, hope all are well!

 

[mummySS]

Oh Jess that sounds horrific, ondansetron is meant to be a wonder drug so i really hope it works for you, sometimes it's the only thing that works for a lot of people. xx

Micha really crossing my fingers that your sickness isn't coming back! How unfortunate once you've had a taste of 'normal' pregnancy it must be even harder. Maybe it's just an off day and you'll be ok?

Aaisrie how are you feeling now? Did you manage to find your odansetron?

Junemomma - welcome hun, sorry to hear you're feeling so poorly. Hopefully once the sickness bug has gone you'll feel a little better?

Well i'm just about getting by, I think the metoproclamide is keeping me out of hospital as it's enabling me to eat a little. But i still feel so sick all the time. I'm only 8 weeks and wondering how the hell i'm gonna get through the rest of it.... I've been quite patient so far but it's really getting to me now.