hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[craftymum]

Hi how are you today?
I feel crap I'm just fed up and so done with this pregnancy now. I feel so sick today and I feel so hungry and fed up that I can't have something nice to eat - I just can't cope with the sickness anymore and I really hope this baby gets out soon, I'm 35 weeks on Thurs and it still feels like an eternity I guess if I'd got a wee break from it all it would be easier to deal with. I was at Docs today and my leukocyte levels were +++ so they've sent my urine off to lab they said it could be a UTI which would explain I guess why I'm peeing constantly even though I'm not drinking much, I mean I had 2 cups of tea yesterday and I was still peeing all day and all night, I haven't slept in weeks because of this and I've since read that UTI's can cause back pain and cramps or contraction type pains which I've been having lately, last time I was at Docs I had a real dunder brained nurse who couldn't even read the scales right so I'm wondering if anything was showing up in my urine then but she never tested it right as she was really thick (not just being nasty) I feel so tired, sore and fed up on top of the sickness I just can't cope with it all. When I told Doc about my hip pain and crunching groin she just said baby is prob putting pressure on sciatic nerve - some days I can hardly walk it gets so bad. I still haven't gained any weight and it worries me that baby is not growing right, I'm at hospital tomorrow but I think it's just for my 2nd anti-d injection so I don't know if I should say anything while there though if I do have an infection my temp may be raised so they may not give me jab then, I just really want to have some sleep and a decent meal and to not feel sorry for myself anymore, I really feel like all I do is complain these days, I don't know how Stephen puts up with me.

 

[claire99991]

aww what a awful day it sounds like your having!! it deffo sounds like you could have a UTI hun the back cramps and just general achyness is a symptom there really horrible i hope you can get that sorted soon, im sure your baby is growing i mean you probs wont have a really big baby but i bet he/she is still about 6lb try not to worry baby will take everything of you (making you feel even more crappy!) i no how you feel when it just feels like your moaning constant every day but we have every right to remeber that! your ill to dont be hard on yourself, im also really hungry and just want to eat sumthing nice, i have tomato soup planned as its not lumpy but im just so tempted to eat what i want and worry about it later when im being sick but i always think this now and then what it actually happend im thinking never again!

sending you a big hug xxx

kat carnt believe how big ruby is getting she is just so beatuiful, how does she sleep? xxx

 

[NIfirsttimer]

she sleeps SO well!! last 2 nights shes gone right thru, last night she was out cold from 10pm to 9.30am! so really cant complain!
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she had her jabs today and her big 8 week check up thingie.. shes perfect (bet we already knew that lol) and already more than twice her birthweight!

 

[NIfirsttimer]

hard to believe she looked like this 8 weeks ago isnt it!

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[claire99991]

awwwwwwwwww she makes me get so excited about when my baby comes im actually doing this for a reason she is gorgeous xx

 

[craftymum]

How are you today? Kat she is so cute it is so hard to believe how much she has grown though I still can't believe you want to do it all again already - crazy lady lol!

I had hospital appointment today and when I told midwife I hadn't gained weight since I was about 20-24 weeks she decided to scan me, the scan put me at 36+1 but my baby is measuring below average, even for my original date, especially the stomach so I have to go back for rescan in 2 weeks time but it has me worried now as if there is no change then they may have to induce me, I feel so bad cos I feel like I can't give my baby what it needs due to stupid HG and as much as I can try to eat more I can only physically eat so much as even a wee sandwich or toastie really fills me up big time as I guess my stomach has shrunk after all this time and if I try to force it in it'll only all come back up again. I had been worried that I wasn't gaining weight and I know these scans are never 100% accurate but it still doesn't help with the worrying.
Hope everyone else is ok today x x x

 

[Stilletto_Sam]

Loiuse, I hope everything works out ok with you and for the baby. Hopefully it's just a false alarm. How can the baby be measuring 36 + weeks, yet be small for dates? I don't understand that one. Your ticker shows 34 weeks doesn't it?

Hugs to the rest of you girls. Claire, congrats on your little boy. How lovely to have one of each! I'm sure you'll come round to the idea really soon. Hyperemesis doesn't happen with girls as you've just found out, as I had it with my last and he was a boy!

Kat, Ruby is totally adorable and is changing by the day. Who do you think she looks like? You or her Daddy?

XXX

 

[NIfirsttimer]

everyone says shes like me, but i see her like her dad, more so every day!!

 

[craftymum]

Hi Sam, my ticker says I'm 35 weeks today but I've always measured ahead on all my scans even the teeny ones at 7 and 10 weeks but they never changed my date as there's been less than 10 days of a difference, so I've no idea when I'm really due but I just have to go by the original 15th Oct. Baby's tummy is measuring small even for my given date on my ticker by almost 3 weeks and as I can't eat anywhere near enough food then I'm worried baby's not getting enough as i haven't gained an ounce since about 20-24 weeks when I'd really just regained what I'd lost at 28 weeks I had a scan as I was fainting a lot and baby was measuring spot on 50th centile but now it's fallen way below. I'm trying not to worry til next scan, she said she doesn't want to see it falling or staying the same so even a small rise will be a good sign, I did try eating a bit more yest but just felt terrible and had such awful pains - I physically just can't do it and I know I'm not eating anywhere near half of what I would need when not pregnant never mind while I am. Even a sandwich really stuffs me and I feel so sore and uncomfy after it. My back is breaking too but think it's from this infection, I went through 3 refills of a hot water bottle last night and was in bed by 8pm but couldn't sleep as up and down to loo so much, hopefully I'll find out today what's causing it for certain at least then it can be treated.

 

[craftymum]

How are you today Claire? I'm just sitting loafing around on laptop as can't sleep, I feel so sick especially when I lie down and getting up actually seems to have relived that a little but I am shattered and could really do with the sleep. I'm in agony lately with my back and nothing seems to relieve it no matter how I sit, stand or lie. I feel like an old woman and like a hypochondriac cos I just seem to always have something wrong at the minute you'd think with having HG we would be spared from all the other crap. Lets hope all this hard work now means we will have great little ones who sleep great and eat great and behave great - we can only but dream! Got my results today and apparantly there's no UTI, bit confused though as to why my white blood cells were raised to 3+ if there's no infection, they just told me to see how I was over the weekend and call on Monday if it hadn't settled - I'd thought that was the reason for my aches etc and running to the loo 12 times a night ( I actually counted so I could tell them)

 

[craftymum]

Oh God I feel awful I've just been sicker than I've been in a while, it's horrible and it's so unfair I just want a break from this even for 1 week I've got 5 weeks left and I just feel so depressed at the thought of them being like the last 29 have. I'm just so tired of throwing up and not being able to eat properly, I can't do anything or go anywhere cos I'm so tired and sore. I'm sorry for moaning so much but I really just feel like crap.

 

[claire99991]

awww im so sorry your so poorly today this is just awful for you, i feel really guilty as mine seems to have got a bit better havent been sick or even felt it (other than the odd wave of nausea) for 3 days. I just hope that your a bit further along than what you think and this is going to be over really soon xxx

 

[craftymum]

that's great hun, hopefully it stays away for you and you can enjoy the rest of your pregnancy now and your time with hollie too.
I just feel so crap, and so fed up and I really really hope that I am further along or that I go a bit earlier cos I just haven't had a break since I was 6 weeks, some days I can deal with it better than others but last week or so it's all been really getting to me and I've been so depressed and miserable I feel so sorry for Stephen too as I'm no fun to be around at all these days and he has had to live through this nightmare with me knowing that he can't really do anything to make it better for me but I have told him that him being here for me is enough. I'm just so scared I'll be left with permanent fears of eating etc and that I will feel resentful and depressed once baby is here as it's been a hell of a long and rough journey

 

[craftymum]

ps claire don't feel guilty for being happy that you are feeling better enjoy it you deserve to we all should be able to enjoy our pregnancies and it's just so cruel and unfair that we have to suffer like this at all no matter how long it is for. I think if I had been getting good care from my GP I would feel a wee bit better she has been crap and has not once been of any help to me throughout this entire pregnancy, when I was at the hospital the other day the midwifes there were so understanding and concerned about me and my health as well as the baby I just wish I could've seen them all the time instead but at least I'm up with them again on the 25th.

 

[NIfirsttimer]

. I'm just so scared I'll be left with permanent fears of eating etc and that I will feel resentful and depressed once baby is here as it's been a hell of a long and rough journey

honestly, you wont.. i was was really worried about those things, REALLY worried about them, but none of them even crossed my mind!

 

[Stilletto_Sam]

Loiuse, you are on the home straight! I know you feel crap, but you're very nearly there. Just think how far you have come and survived. A couple more weeks is nothing - and your hubby still obviously very much loves you, is sticking by you and is waiting patiently for his baby too. Hang on in there girl, not long until we are reading your birth story like Kat's and doting over your new little boy or girl.


Big hugs pet.


XXX

 

[claire99991]

i can understand the worries about never being able to eat again i was feeling like this just the other day so hungry yet so scared to eat but as soon as the sicky feeling actually goes so does the fear, i really think you will be bk to enjoying your food very soon and im really hoping this is over for you soon so you can enjoy your kids and your hubby xxxxx

 

[craftymum]

well I hope you are all right as I cannot wait to enjoy some proper food again though think I'll break myself in gently as I don't think my tummy will hold that much straight away, was really sick again last night and all I'd eaten was toast as I'd been so sick in the afternoon I didn't even feel like eating but knew I had to try to get something into me for the baby but that didn't last long and I couldn't eat anything after that. Very tired today and feeling generally unwell, also noticing a lot more slimy discharge (sorry I know it's gross) and aches and pains are getting worse so maybe this is my body starting to get ready now as even my belly has changed shape a bit and I actually almost look a bit pregnant now!! Please hurry up and come out LO!!

 

[Stilletto_Sam]

Lou,

Are you starting to lose the plug do you think? Is your body gearing up for labour? Wahooooooooo!


XXX

 

[craftymum]

not sure but I hope so!! My belly just feels like a rock at the minute and it's so sore everytime baby moves as my ligaments haven't stretched enough so there's no room in there. Starting to get breathless again too.