hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[Aaisrie]

That's okay, I'm back in hospital with ketones +4 again so hoping I get out by Tuesday as it's dd birthday

 

[BABY76]

I'm so sorry to hear your back in hospital. You on iv?

I've just got back from hospital and I ketones ++, so been sent home with new anti sickness tablets (buccastem). Fingers crossed. If I'm still being sick in 3 hours got to go back.

 

[Aaisrie]

Yup, 2+ is okay, I was at 2+ all week this week some places will admit at 3+ but it's automatic admission at 4+.
yea I've got my hartmanns going now, then saline then pabrinex then see whether I need more. Normally it takes at least 5 bags before I get home...

 

[Creep]

Ahh hun, I'm so sorry you're back in, that sucks. I started puking last night as well so crossing everything I'm not headed back. Luckily I have a great consultant who let's me go in when I feel things are starting to spiral out of control, regardless of of whether I have ketones yet or not. You must feel dreadful with ++++, I know. Hopefully you'll start feeling better and be out for your LOs birthday.

 

[Aaisrie]

Well all 6 admissions have been +4 for me!!! I've forgotten what it's like to NOT feel rotten!!! I think the difficulty with baby only being +2 is she's not dehydrated enough to even diagnose HG whereas you're already diagnosed so they obviously know how you go. I think going to my 20w scan on Friday put me back in here. Controlling +2 all week and then the worry/excitement of the scan knocked me off the rails again!
Hope you regain control and don't end up back in. The girl in the bed next to me went into labour last night and the 2 opposite me are in early labour now so there's major gas and air going on over here!!

 

[MilosMommy7]

i'm a little late coming into the thread. i've had it with both pregnancies and it was hell so i guess i'm just joining to lend some support

 

[lilgemsy]

I managed to go like a week without spewing but today its back and worse than ever atm.
Hoping that in the time I havent spewed then Ive consumed enough food and drink to keep me hydrated though, if you get me!
Dont fancy a trip to the hospital... Im contagious (with shingles) so not really supposed to go there anyways.

 

[Aaisrie]

I'm back home again... thank God. For lent I'm giving up HG.

 

[Sideways 8]

Aaisrie I love it, lol. I had a good week too, lilgemsy, until today, now I'm getting payback for that ugh. Sorry this is so short but I really need a nap!!

 

[lilgemsy]

ive been admitted with +4.... isolation room ftl!

 

[Aaisrie]

Hope you get out soon...

I'm so constipated.. eugh zofran is evil to my bum... I have an angry pile and rectal spasms... NOT HAPPY PERSON.. as if the nausea/vomiting isn't enough for my body to handle!

 

[lilgemsy]

Im home again now. They got my ketones down to 1+ so were happy enough with that to let me go

Aaisrie - hope youre feeling better soon... try drinking orange juice to loosen you up a bit lol.

 

[Aaisrie]

I'm on lax already but the hospitalisations screw it all up so im just getting reestablished again

 

[jessshakespea]

Hello ladies. Never seen this thread before!! I've had the dreaded HG. Was off work until I was 18 weeks, and tried a variety of drugs. Including Metoclopramide which didn't work. Cyclizine works for me. I still take one a day because if I don't it starts up again. I could probably get by but to be quite honest, I have had enough feeling rubbish to last me a lifetime and if one tablet keeps me at just very easily tired then I'm happy. I hate feeling sick more than anything, and I don't see why I should! Thankfully only wound up in hospital once - went from feeling tired after a long week surveying to puking every ten minutes in less than 24 hours. BP through the floor and dehydrated. They let me out after two days on a drip - so I think I've been pretty lucky.
My first pregnancy I wasn't diagnosed, but probably was dehydrated given how much I was being sick then, lost alot more weight and kept nothing down.
I'm 29 weeks now and feeling human (Yay) I think it's come back a little but nothing like before so fingers crossed.
I feel for everyone who has it especially if it was worse than I've had. Hope you're all feeling better and cuddling cute babies soon xx

 

[jessshakespea]

Just thought I'd mention, the cyclizine made me feel quite weird and have fairly extreme dreams and sweats at first, a bit spacey and palpitations - it wasn't nice. But I did seem to get used to it and the effects gradually decreased. None of the other drugs I tried worked, but as it did work, I didn't try an endless risk.

 

[Aaisrie]

The cyclizine made me really woozy and messed with my head, zofran is the only thing that's worked for me... the prochloropramide worked for about a week but suddenly stopped for some reason. I still relapse even on the zofran though..

 

[jessshakespea]

Poor you Yeah woozy definitely. Fortunately like I said it seemed to wear off. I just slept my way through it, in a kind of weird doze until after a couple of weeks or so I was ok with it. Don't know if you can get Zofran here, I was never offered it but I know it's one of the drugs of choice in the US. I'm only sick a couple of times a week now, if I do too much. And my dose is a third of what it was. When I started being sick I got flashbacks from the first pregnancy - can't believe I'd forgotten!! But I think in some ways, getting sick enough to be admitted to hospital meant it was managed much better this time. I went months last time just trying to keep a sip of water and a yoghurt down for 20 minutes at a time.

 

[Aaisrie]

It is available in the UK, they just call it ondansetron most of the time. My GP wouldn't prescribe it, they gave it to me in hospital... even since then I've still had repeated admissions

 

[lilgemsy]

Do any of you throw the anti-sickness tablets back up?
Ive had about 4 different types and with all of them they tend to come back up almost as soon as theyve gone down!
Same goes for iron tablets alot of the time.
My sickness is getting worse by the day again.
Only 5 more weeks to go though and then all of this will be over!

 

[Aaisrie]

I have done! Not nice!! Apparently iron tablets make HG worse from all the blogs I've read online!!