hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[Aaisrie]

Yea there's a colour chart on the side but sometimes I was like is it 3 or 4 butttt I did find with a +4 it comes up dark purple STRAIGHT AWAY, like as soon as you dip it whereas a 3 is slower... lol I know that sounds random but you learn very quickly!!
I was told by the Dr to eat whatever I could keep down. All I could stomach for the whole first tri was haribo sweets [I used to eat a couple every few hrs] and all I could drink was vimto in lemonade - apparently it's because I had such low intake that my body was craving sugar all the time.

 

[topsy]

Will remember that about the ketosis sticks. I guess its a case of whatever you can keep down.

I think some of the tablets must have got into me yesterday, not sure how! I had a bit of toast and that stayed down, as soon as I woke up this morning, it was straight into the bathroom again

I really want a shower, but I just don't have the energy.Think I will have to wait till DH get home, i fainted the other day and don't really want to do that again.

We ordered a hi bebe Doppler last night, i know everything I have read says baby is fine but I just cant stop worrying, so hoping that may help a bit, at least it will if I can find the HB.

xxxxx

 

[Aaisrie]

It's you that HG wrecks, the baby takes from you which is why HG sufferers end up with calcium deficiency or iron deficiency because it's our bodies that are drained not theirs. I worried at the start but trust me, my 9lb 7oz baby proves HG can be bad and not affect them!!

 

[topsy]

Thanks Hun, aw glad your lo was such a healthy weight. xxxx

 

[MiissMuffet]

hi ladies. i have been so sick i havnt even managed to get on. OH is away for the weekend, i know im terribly dehydrated again but rehydration is not an option right now as i have LO on my own till Sunday

 

[topsy]

^^Oh sweetheart, sending you massive hugs. xxxxxx

 

[MiissMuffet]

thanks huni. I feel so rotten. i've been throwing up bits of blood again. Last time it was this bad i was in hospital for 4 days That was 2 weeks ago, then i was on a drip last weekend. i am about to check my keytones (I took a couple strips from the hospital), if i have to go back on a drip thats too bad, i'm home alone with my LO this weekend till Sunday night, i'm just gonna have to suck it up I'm not sure if the strips will work for me though, i used one last week and coz i havnt kept them in their specific case i dont know if they are still all good, coz the last one i did didnt work, then i went to the doctor and my keytones showed up straight away extremely dark. i can only but try. :S

 

[topsy]

Yep just try it hun. I don't know enough about the ketosis stick, I only got mine today. Do you have any friends near you sweets who can come and look after little Ella for you, so you can get checked out hun, or even if you don't want to leave her, can they stay at your house and look after her there so at least you can try and rest, I know that wont help with the dehydration hun though. xxxx

 

[MiissMuffet]

yea there are a few people that can help but unfortunatly those people smoke cigarettes, and they have already been over to help and it ends up just making things worse as the smell is just horrendous They smoke outside, but when they come inside they touch Ella and she ends up stinking, and even after they leave i have to leave the lounge as the smell just lingers. It's a terrible filthy thing, and it really is getting in the way of which friends i prefer to see right now. Funny thing is i was a smoker before this pregnancy. I am so ashamed i must have been such a horrible person to be around! Although i admit I can smell things more strongly than the average person right now as you can probably relate with. pregnancy nose :nose:

 

[topsy]

I have that pregnancy nose too, so I know what you mean hun, builder nest door were smoking yesterday and I had to shut the window, that smell dose hang about, and not good when you are already so poorly. Well well done you for giving up hun, i don't imagen Its a easy thing to do. How did you get on with your stick thingy?

xxxx

 

[MiissMuffet]

Thanks hun, it was easy to do, coz I'm growing a bub and i started feeling nausious staright away so it was really easy for me to stop. yes i shouldve given up when we were trying, i tried to but we were trying for 11 months and i sorta gave up thinking it would never happen. how wrong was I lol. I cannot find the sticks i really need to go to bed it's 2.20 am, thats not good, im gonna pay for this tomorrow :S

i hope you feel better huni xx

 

[MiissMuffet]

Found the sticks- very dark purple, just as i suspected

 

[topsy]

Oh sweets, will you go to hospital as soon as your OH get back? I hope you get some sleep.

These new tablets seem to be doing there job, but then so did the other ones in the first few days. I have only been sick a few times and can keep my water and lemon down and some dry toast, they knock me out though, which isn't a bad thing.

Take care xxxxx

 

[rosie5637]

wow so glad i found this thread! everybody i know just doesn't 'get it' about hg.

i had it in my 1st pregnancy and have got it again but this time it's worse

i have been throwing up since 5-6wks and at 7wks was vomiting 15times a day. i couldn't keep water down and couldn't move, except to crawl on my hands and knees if i HAD to move.

i went to the docs and he gave me some tablets. they took a couple of days to work but have been a lifesaver this last week. however when i got up this morning i felt really ropey. i haven't moved from the sofa all day apart from when i had to go to the corner shop (my poor boy needed feeding) and i puked in the bushes on the way. i've been sick 3times in the past 5hrs now, i can't believe it's come back and the tablets aren't working anymore

i feel so guilty. my son is 6yrs old and he has been so helpful and kind. but it's meant to be his summer holidays and we've done nothing.

not sure at what point i should go back to the docs i don't know if there is anything else they can do for me

sorry for the moan

 

[topsy]

MiissMuffet, how doing are you doing today?

Rosie hun, I would go to your Dr again, and maybe see if you can get some more anti sickness tablets, my first ones helped for a few days then it all came back, the ones I am on now are a lot better-at the mo, but time will tell I guess.I am sorry you have been so poorly. Your little boy sound like a star. Take care.

Again I was sick first thing, had tablet and can just about handle some toast. I am now trying to drink some water and just know I am going to be sick, I can feel it I am hoping tablets will kick in and I will just fall asleep soon, as they seem to make me so tired.

I have to speak to work tomorrow, I am not looking forward to it, cause I know I am really letting them down by not being there. I feel so guilty about that.

xxxx

 

[topsy]

I feel so ill I ate some strawberries, yuck, they were not good on way up I just have NO energy. I feel so bad DH is having to do everything all shopping, cleaning, banking, he ordered our new kitchen with my dad the other nite cause there was no way i could have made it up to DIY store, and sat there while they designed it, as it was a sale weekend, so they had to do it. This is horrible xxx

 

[MiissMuffet]

hey topsy- i'm doing ok, had a huge fight with OH today- he said even though i'm sick i could be making an effort and do stuff instead of moping around feeling sorry for myslef. f-ing males, gosh i wish he could get a taste of what this felt like. We had many words swapped between us and now we are not speaking. he just told me right now he's sick of hearing about it aaaarrrrgh i HATE him sometimes.

Sorry you are feeling really bad today hun Not long and this should all be over with and we can enjoy our pregnancies

 

[topsy]

Sorry you had a fight with OH, I hate to say it but they don't understand how yuck, exhausted and crap we feel. Although I am luck as DH has sorted the house out this weekend, I think the only thing I have done is put 2 loads of washing on.But almost need them to fell how we feel just for a few days, then they would understand. I have been in bed or the sofa all weekend, I think you are doing amazingly well to look after little Ella as well hun. I hope you are feeling a little better.

When did it go away with Ella hun?

xxxx

 

[topsy]

Trying to ring work in between being sick but they are not picking up! Wish they would just answer there phone! Grrrr!

xxxxx

 

[topsy]

( I am going to use the symbol you used miissmuffet, think your OH and my DH could do with there heads banging together!!!!) Ok, think DH has had a complete turn around! He basically turned round and said I was really sad and unhappy at the mo and no fun! ( No i love throwing up, and generally feeling like crap!) I just told him to "leave me alone please", cause I could even be bothered to try and explain myself, and he kind of started an argument but my only words were again "can you please leave me alone, I am going to try and get some sleep" he went downstairs and I got up and shut the door. He turns the stereo on, its not deafening, It will go a lot loader, but to load to sleep through. Thanks DH xxxxx