hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[NIfirsttimer]

morning all.. ok day here. ive not been sick so far, but did have to take a cyclizine this morning to keep my antibiotic down!
took a bump pic today so thought id remind you all whats up ahead! i dunno why but i feel like my bump is small even tho they tell me ruby is big?

louise.. love the pram, bet you cant wait to get it home to play with! i parade mine around the house daily!
hope you are all having an ok day xxxxx

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[craftymum]

Kat your bump is amazing I'm sure you can't wait though til it's gone. I'm having a really crap day today been throwing up bad and just feel really horrible. I've sat and cried most of the morning, I can't even go and lie down in bed as stephen is painting up there.
My in laws were round this morning and they're going to pay off the balance of the pram for us!! Yay. Only thing is they're gonna pay it monthly which means I wont get it til October I want it now!!

 

[NIfirsttimer]

do u think i look small for almost 36 weeks? felt like all the ladies at antenatal where huge compared to me!

thats fab that they are paying off the rest of your pram, just a pity it means u have to wait longer to get it...but beats paying it yourself! just think louise.. this time next month you will be in double figures for days remaining!

 

[Rebaby]

Aww that's a lovely bump!

I had an awful day friday, threw up all morning and then felt like crap the rest of the day. Had a good day yesterday though, i got quite a bit of unpacking done and ate quite a bit without being sick at all. Today has been a bit more wobbly, but i am taking it easy so have so far avoided actually being sick, just feeling a bit bleurgh.

I am starting to feel really guilty about being off work now, i know they want me to start my work placement at another hospital tomorrow for 5 weeks but feeling like this i just can't face it. I know i will be able to get an extension on my sick note and they can't really say anything, i just feel bad and it's bothering me.

 

[craftymum]

I don't know what's a normal size for your stage but I know my friend who is due a day after me is almost that size so either you're small or she's going to be really really big if she keeps growing. Mil said to met today I was on the downward slope now as I'm halfway there but it doesn't realy help as the thought of another day like this is hard enough never mind another 4 months!
It's just so crap being unable to function especially when a lot of people just think you should be up and getting on with things as you're only pregnant etc etc
Sorry you're having such a bad day too rebaby, it really is so crap being sick all the time.
Stephen said we could maybe pay pram off ourselves a bit early and then just use the money they give us for other stuff so we can get it home a bit earlier even by August. My mil was going to pay by credit card but then she decided there was no point in doing that when I didn't need it until October
people just don't get it that I want it home to play with and spend hours looking at it or seeing how I look pushing it. silly I know but I know you'll understand what I mean. Just thrown up again, so fed up. Feel like crap I just want to feel normal and be able to eat something or drink something but nothing seems to stay down and as soon as I take a drink it just makes me throw up really quickly and it really hurts

 

[claire99991]

NIfirsttimer - i think your bump is lovely! it looks around the right size i would say i wouldnt worry about them saying Ruby is big they did a growth scan on me at 38 weeks and told me hollie was already 8 and half pound and was likely to be between 9-10lb born, well i was terrified about pushing out a 10 pounder! and when she was born she was 6lb130z so god knows where they got the measurments from.

Im so scared today i was being very sick at lunchtime and there was blood in it, has anyone had this? im to scared to go to the doctors i dont want to be taken into hospital as i have my daughter to care for and i dont want things pushed down my throat as im already feeling so bad havent been sick since so dont know if its sumthing thats going to carry on but its scared me so much

 

[NIfirsttimer]

yep hun ive had it......was it red blood?
quite a few times when i was at the height of it all i had this, the dr wasnt overly concerned and said it was most likely just from my throat with all the retching and vomitting. it was like flecks of reddish blood in mine. she said that its only if ou are throwing up what looks like coffee grounds that you need to be properly concerned, that can mean internal bleeding in the stomach.
dont worry too much.. i think its par for the course for us poor girles..

i know hospital is horrible, and more so with a toddler to look after, but dehydration is dangerous so if you feel really bad it might be what you need hun.. keep an eye on those ketones xxx

 

[claire99991]

thanks for the reasurrance im still managing sum food and fluids so i will keep a eye on it, yes it was red blood like what you get if you brush your teeth to hard. I will try calm down a bit now then xx

 

[NIfirsttimer]

yep thats exactly what i had.. infact im pretty sure the second time i was in hosp i had it too, and they werent bothered either. as long as its red then its just coming from your throat xx

 

[Rebaby]

to claire. Being so sick is awful, i can only imagine how difficult it must be with a toddler to look after too.

I braved some toast at 6pm and just spent the last 20 minutes being sick into our living room bin I can normally make it to the bathroom but this time i just knew there was no way i could sprint up the stairs in time...so that was pleasant. OH went back to work today after a weeks holiday to get us moved, and i feel like a lazy lump as while he has been out i have done precisely nothing! I hung up a few bits of clothes in the spare room and did one load of washing but that is it. He is never bothered, i just feel bad.

Does anyone else feel a little bit cheated sometimes? I had an early miscarriage in February right before falling pregnant this time, so i spent the early weeks of this pregnancy petrified the same thing would happen again, then literally just as soon as i started to relax the sickness started. I want to be able to enjoy the pregnancy and get that 'glow' that everyone talks about in the movies!

 

[craftymum]

Hi, I get that too, it really scared me at first too but like Kat says it's just the constant retching and vomiting that does it. You are better going into hospital if you need to, I know it's horrible and I know it's hard with your daughter but your other half will manage if it comes to that as dehydration is really dangerous for both you and your baby. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though.
I've had a crap day been throwing up all day, just eating a sandwich now, haven't ate anything since this morning as just so fed up with everything I eat making me throw up. Feel really depressed was really nasty to Stephen, told him I wished I'd never got pregnant and I also said I hated him and his family and just everything, I feel like such a bitch but I can't help it, I just feel really really hopeless and fed up.

 

[claire99991]

crafty mum does your doc still know your being this sick? can they up your meds? or try sum differnt ones? i feel so sorry for you i hate coming here to whinge when you sound so desperate, i feel so sorry for you xxx

 

[claire99991]

rebebay sorry your feeling low, i wouldnt worry to much about housework i used to be a clean freak now i couldnt give a shit, i had to chuckle when you mentioned the glow your meant to get, ha if you culd see me now sat here hair all scruffy baggy jumper on eating a dry cracker retching at every mouthful letting my daughter trash the house, far from blooming lol we must all be having girls with this sickness, its meant to be worse with girls and its proving to be just as bad as my pregnancy with my daughter. I did want a girl like

 

[craftymum]

going to docs on Tuesday so going to ask if she can give me something different as I'm already taking 3 cyclizine a day, just so fed up with it all as I thought it would be starting to ease off even just a little bit by now. Don't be worrying about coming on here to moan that's what it's for and we are all suffering I just hope that it passes for you quicker than it is for me.
I feel like the biggest moan in the world right now and that's even getting me down, I just seem to never feel happy these days and I feel like all I do is moan and complain.

 

[craftymum]

rebaby I'm sorry you're being so sick today too. You should do what I do I have a bucket that has to go everywhere around the house with me cos there's no way I could make it to the bathroom in time, it's gross having to clean it out all the time but def better than being sick on the floor and having to clean that up instead.
I haven't enjoyed one single moment of this pregnancy apart from maybe the first week I knew I found out at 5 weeks and my sickness started at 6 and hasn't eased up since. I wouldn't wish this on anybody but it is really hard when you see all these other women who just sail through pregnancy with better health than they ever had, it's so unfair.
I just can't wait until it's all over to feel normal again, I can't even remember how that feels anymore.

 

[Stilletto_Sam]

Sincere heartfelt to all you girls. I had the bleeding too, in both pregnancies. The docs said that it was just a little blood vessel bursting in the throat due to heaving and straining. It really is completely alarming at the time and horrible and my thoughts are with you Claire. Maybe a night in hopsital on a drip will sort you out. I know it's terrifying, but sometimes it's the lesser of the evils rather than suffering at home. Please make sure your doc keeps an eye on the ketones in your wee.

Kat-marvellous bump. I think you're lovely for 36 weeks and not big at all!

Louise, hope you get the meds sorted out tomorrow and just you make sure that you tell your doctor everything and don't underplay just how bad you are suffering as they have no idea how hellish it really is unless you keep them in the loop, so to speak.

I'm not feeling too bad. I went to bed yesterday afternoon and slept for 4 hours solid! I couldn't even be enticed out of bed to go for a curry! Still feeling a bit queasy, but nothing like I was and nowhere near as bad as you girls are now. I'm having an early night as the tiredness has crept back again

Take care girls and please look after yourselves.


XXX

 

[craftymum]

Hi Sam, that's great that you're starting to feel a bit better, really hope it continues for you, just sleep as much as you need to your body needs it. Think that's my problem I don't like other people outside my close family to know how bad I feel, I probably do play it down when I'm at the docs as I feel embarrassed complaining. Think Stephen's taking morning off though to take me in so if he actually comes in with me t might be easier as he'll prob tell her all the things I wont! It's Tuesday morning I'm going so hopefully I can get something sorted out. It's the silly things that are getting me down too, Stephen painted our room and I hate it, it's not the colour or anything it's just the walls are crap, we had wallpaper up before and every little scratch and bump in the wall seems to be really obvious since it's been painted. I told him I want to get paper for it after we get it carpeted and get all the other rooms sorted. We have paint for the baby's room too and now I'm worried the walls are going to be really bad in there when the paper is stripped. I just want everything to be nice.

 

[claire99991]

just thought i would update and say i was sick a lot this evening but there was no sign of any blood so thats a good thing i guess. xx

 

[craftymum]

Morning everyone, Claire sorry you were so sick but at least the no blood is good as it probably was just from your throat, I know it's not much of a consolation but at least it's something less to worry you, I hardly slept last night, my back was killing me and I think I just feel so fed up, all you have to do is look at at me at the minute and I start wailing, I feel like such a whinge but hopefully the doc can do something for me tomorrow. Hope everyone else is feeling ok this morning so far.

 

[NIfirsttimer]

louise.. i wish there was something i could do.. something other than say ive been there.
i have been there tho. ive wished my pregnancy away, and im not ashamed to say that if someone had come to me that first time i was in hosp, and asked me if i wanted to not be pregnant anymore, id have broken their arm off for it. once i got past 12 weeks the only thing that stopped me from saying it is the fact that id have to do it all again if i wanted to have a baby. i can tell u for sure tho that ill never be doing it again after this one!
i too said some horrible things to dave, i told him countless times that this was all his fault, and that i hated him for doing it to me. i told him i would never forgive him
but stephen, like dave will know that you dont mean those things, and its just desperation at how unbelievably bad you feel. dont be giving yourself guilt to deal with too.. you dont need any extra stuff to be carrying around right now. xxxxx
claire.. sounds like your HG is in full flow now with all the throwing up you are doing. glad its not scaring you so much, but sorry you are feeling so bad.. i hope your midwife takes you seriously and can maybe give you something to help.
sam... did you not get the same benefit from your second accupuncture session as u did from the first?

im feeling ok. been sick a few times this morning, and am feeling that horrible hungry but cant eat feeling now.. ive found that really fizzy coke sometimes helps.. has to be super fizzy tho so cans only, so im supping that in the hope it sorts me out.
i had a terrible nights sleep last night.. was awake and uncomfy every half hr, so am planning a very lazy day today!