hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[lilgemsy]

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

Yeah, Ive been told that by doctors.
But at one point I had severe anemia so had no choice but to try and take the iron tabs!
Couldnt do right for wrong because I was either letting my iron levels drop or throwing my guts up haha!

 

[Aaisrie]

Oh poor you

 

[TTC DH FIFO]

Hi there,

I'm 18 weeks into my pregnancy, expecting twins in August. Since 5 weeks I have been in and out of hospital suffering with HG. I have tried acupuncture and every medication that I'm allowed and nothing has 'gotten rid' of this awful sickness..but i have to say i'm a lot better than i was. I had to resign from work at about 12 weeks, from a job i really loved.

This last week I just seem to be going backwards and i am feeling very depressed and over this! I dont know how I will survive another 20 weeks of this!

Some words of support would really help

xoxo

 

[Aaisrie]

Fifo I'm feeling the same. The zofran have stopped me throwing up mostly but the nausea is so extreme I can barely function. I've been housebound [apart from hospitalisations] since 8w and am nearly 23w... it's so freakin' hard

 

[OliveMartini]

Mind if I pop in?

I'm 11 weeks preggo, with my second. My first was a walk in the park! No sickness, nothing. This time not so lucky. I have been perminantly nauseous since week 4. I just had my first weekend in hospital hooked up to several drips as I just couldn't get any food or liquid in me. It was pretty shitty to say the least.

I am starting to get really depressed, I can't cope with the constant nausea. It seems like every time I stand up or get out of bed I am light headed, weak and feel like I'm going to vom. My OH doesn't understand. I feel like he thinks it's all an act so I can get out of doing... anything! He says I don't contribute to the family but I just feel like a can't move!! I really hope this doesn't last straight through to the end cus I don't think I will last! Nor will my relationship with OH. :'(

 

[Aaisrie]

I had the same thing with my OH, he kept telling me that if I got up and did stuff that I'd feel better but I showed him the "helpher.org" website and he started to understand better. Now he looks after me a lot, makes my lunch and dinner, brings me drinks and looks after our 2 yr old as well as doing the housework. The dr's told me that for the majority of people it should be gone by 18-20 weeks, I'm one of the rarer cases that it's continued through. You can make it, I do understand how depressing, upsetting and hard it is but I'm here at 33w, still going through it and telling you there is light at the end of the tunnel. My GP organised for some free nursery care for my daughter to help me out through the day too

 

[hollyrose]

hi, i am 7 weeks pregnant and feel so ill! i'm not actually throwing up a lot but have constant nausea. i had this when pregnant with my dd too (she's 3 now). was off work for 9 weeks with her. it's so debilitating. i'm really starting to resent my dh cause he gets to go on as normal while i can do nothin but sit in the house sleeping and eating, or trying to! i am glad a few of you ladies have said that u feel alone cause i thought it was just me. i think my family r fed up listening to me complaining tho i'm trying really hard not to. i can't look after my dd either, i had to move in with my mum n dad. i feel useless!

sorry for ranting and sorry ur all going through a hard time too. xo

 

[rainyday]

Hi,
mind if I join? I'm 9 wks 4 days and have been sick since 6and a half weeks. Been off work for 3 weeks now. I had MS with my last pregnancy, but it never got this bad! I'm being sick 10 plus times a day, depending on whether I can stay still or not! The hardest part is that I'm looking after my 15 month old, so when hubby is at work I'm retching constantly from chasing him, and feel guilty that he isn't getting out as much as I'd like.
Tried cyclizine, prescribed by hospital, (that was a lovely afternoon sat on a hard chair in a ward, waiting to see doc!), but I had nasty side effects. Avomine knocked me out, so trying to cope without.
If anyone else suggests Ginger biscuits.....!!! They really make me sick!
I find poppadoms or salty fries the easiest to eat, and strawberries.
X

 

[Aaisrie]

hollyrose that sounds more like severe MS to me.. unless you've been diagnosed HG?

rainy ask your GP about free respite nursery care for your wee one. I have a wee one too, she turned 2 in March and the GP phoned and arranged for 12w free nursery care as I was unable to look after her I was so sick. Fortunately my family have all chipped together to keep funding the nursery care for both our benefits. I know what you mean about feeling guilty - I used to cry if she asked me for anything because I hated going in the kitchen and I felt awful not being able to care for her. The cyclizine didn't work for me because it made me really light/woozy headed. I'm on zofran [ondansetron it's called in the UK] now, [prescribed by the hospital] but they wouldn't prescribe it until they'd tried me on literally every other medication. It doesn't stop the nausea but it does help a lot with the actual vomiting. It doesn't help the wretching/heaving though which can be hard. I've had 7 hospitalisations so far, they told me it was quite rare that mine has continued this long as most people's goes by 18-20 weeks.

Ah well happy 34w to me!! Only 6w of sickness to go lol

 

[rainyday]

Thanks for the info on nursery care, I may look into that, he is already 2 days a week with local childminder, as I'm meant to be at work, the only problem is that I'm not allowed to drive at the moment, and the nearest nursery is 10 miles away. I've asked me childminder and she doesn't have any more availability, and the only other in the village is fully booked. I think it may be time to call onthe grandparents!
X

 

[Aaisrie]

Yea, you definitely need the support - that's the only thing that has got me this far!! My MIL and mum both take DD a night or two each as well because well they selfishly want more time with her [and yes I miss her but I know she needs more than I'm capable of] and then she goes to nursery so I feel like I've hardly seen her and I know she misses me but at the same time her care is the most important. I don't know what the respite thing is called, I just know my Dr arranged it through the social work team - I don't have a social worker and you don't need one but it was something like social team in the community or something.... Hope it helps!!

 

[Fenix]

I'm currently 38+6 so have gotten over the most part of my Hyperemesis but I suffered well into 33 weeks, even with it easing off after about 25 weeks! Being sick is how I knew I was pregnant, so that was from about 3 weeks.

I was made to feel like a liar and there was nothing wrong with me. Baby's father disappeared shortly after conception and I lived 30 miles away from family so I was left to my own devices... I can't explain how miserable this whole experience has been and thinking back to it, I feel myself getting depressed and miserable because of how I was made to feel!!!
I was in and out of hospital with dehydration and even started to suffer with chest pains and shortness of breath. I lost about 20lbs in weight at the beginning and would sleep for 3 days at a time and not know what day it was!
I am so looking forward to my lb being born but I cant help but feel bitter towards the MW's I had at the beginning. I feel myself wanting to cry at how alien I felt at the time!
I moved area when I was about 27 weeks and saw a new MW at 28 and she was brilliant... She sent me for consultancy care and helped diagnose the HG, but why couldn't the first do anything about it?!

I know I've seen the worst of "morning" (pah!!!) sickness, and I will never consider getting pregnant again for fear of feeling like that again... I had no support =[

 

[Sweedot]

Just found this thread, I've had hg since 5 weeks, I'm now almost 17 weeks and still on maximum dose of zofran ....even on the drugs, I'm still sick everyday, whenever I feel like it's getting better, it just gets worse, will I need to stay on zofran the whole pregnancy? Does the sickness let up? Has anyone tried zofran and phenegran?

 

[Hayleyn]

Hi all,
I've gone through 2 moderate to sever HG pregnancies and have 2 girls. One is 9yrs, the other is 3yrs. When I was 33 week pregnant with my last one I made hubby get a vasectomy. I was at the time 100% done. I know most of us HG suffers feel that way.

Well in Jan. 2011 I had a chemical pregnancy. So since then I have had wanting another baby on the brain. I just don't feel like my family is complete. If needed my husband is willing to go in for a VR. I know I'm nuts, but I also know that Hg women can understand what I am feeling when others don't. My family thinks I'm nuts. HG in a way robs us of our lives and our chance for all the kids we want.

As for those women suffering now, hang in there. HG does end. I ended up with a picc line and on IV only fluids from week 7 to week 25+ with DD#2. Zofran sometimes stop the vomiting but did not touch the nausea. Some women have had luck with steroids. Remember to go in for fluids to fight off dehydration. I always felt at my worst and wanted to give up when I was dehydrated. Hugs to all you gals...

 

[Sweedot]

I agree about the Zofran not touching the nausea, blah!!! BUT it really has helped curb my vomiting, big time! I'm really interested to talk to my midwife about combining the zofran with another drug to help with the nausea, Ive heard good things about it being used in combination with phenegran and also at a slightly higher dose than what I am taking, Im on 24 mg per day, which they told me was the max, but ive heard of other ladies taking up to 36 mg per day!

anyone tried any alternative therapies?

 

[Aaisrie]

I'm down to the lowest dose but if I don't take it it's like a smack in the face of being back to the insaneness of the illness. I think for most people HG ends around the 20w mark but it just depends. I'm still suffering now at 37.5w!! The end is in sight!!

 

[Creep]

I'm still on one injection a day of ondanstron/zofran at nearly 30 weeks! I try to do without it for a day or two but begin to struggle. Stop work in 2 weeks so hoping that may help. Not actually vomited for a while now, just nausea. Think I might have developed a real phobia of vomiting now, the thought of puking so violently as I did from weeks 6-16 terrifies me!

 

[Sweedot]

vomiting scares me too, and also ive learned to associate certain things with the vomiting, now there are things that just the site of them, instantly start my gag reflex....

Ive had so many bad days lately, yesterday I didnt reach the bathroom at work in time, as they had stupidly gone offsite for a meeting and left a sick, pregnant woman all alone to mann the building, well, they wont make that mistake again, i vomited all over myself, the bathroom floor the hallway, they have cleaners in today shampooing the carpets...I ended up at home again! nursing a migraine too...worst day for a long time. today I have taken a good dose of the zofran and dealing quite well, only vomited this morning, no vomiting in the day so far.

 

[Aaisrie]

Creep I'm 38w on Monday and still on it... [facepalm]

Sweedot omg about the vomiting everywhere... well they won't do that again anyways!!

 

[Pixoletta]

Mine didn't stop until bubs was born...But after that it's all goodbye sickness!! ^^ There is a light at the end of the tunnel.