hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[topsy]

It sucks. I would be happy if I never threw up again in my entire life.

Sorry you are having such a rough time of it

missmuffet, I think you are right about being prepared will definitely get some bottles

I have been throwing up again so looks like my few days grace were just that a few day I cant keep water down, but have been having nibbles of a melon and that has stayed down???No idea why, also froze some orange juice in Ice cubes as someone else suggested have only had 1, but better than nothing. Grrr thought I was getting there

xxxx

 

[angeldreams]

Dearest Topsy,

I did get your private message...I tried to thank you graciously, but your mailbox was full! You're quite the popular lady! That was really sweet of you to take the time out to share that link w/ me...very thoughtful! I have yet to dowload and make my signature as cute as you girls! I'm so excited you got to taste pizza...if only for a moment! Real food! I'm having more sick days over here, but I definitley know what's ahead so it does make it easier...I suppose! :s As far as no one understanding...my family thought I had a low threshold for nausea...no one understood why I couldn't function! Thank goodness for forums such as these...it feels really good to know you're not alone and to know it's not all in your head! Sad thing for me is, I didn't even know about meds until my 3rd pregnancy when I researched it and demanded medication...what does that say about doctors? I hope this message isn't all over the place...I've been away from the computer a few days, but my boys are ready to get up and out of the house! They are 10, 7, and 5 years old! I love them dearly, but they don't get it either! Ha!Ha!

I have yet to complete my profile...I'm here in California in the United States...the boys will be back to school September 8th! Oh, and, I'm a little embarrassed to ask Topsy....what's a jacket pot? ;p

Hi MissMuffet! Thank you for your response, I wanted to give a more meaningful response to both you ladies...I plan to log on later tonite when I have a moment to myself...just wanted to thank you for sharing your story! The hyperemesis for me definately lessened w/ each pregnancy, so I'm hoping this time around will be more manageable...I don't have to change any diapers this time around or give any feedings...so that's something to look forward to! I am six weeks today...and if I get myself in gear, I can dowload that adorable chart to see what fruit/veggie I am!

You girls are the best! Thanks for listening...hope your day is nausea free! Topsy, I'm really pulling for you...I did experience hg symptoms well past my 12th week so I know that it can take a toll on you mentally and emotionally...hang in there! xo

 

[topsy]

Sorry angeldreams, I am useless have emptied part of my inbox out! Yep I wholeheartedly agree this forum is great, and a huge support over this pregnancy I worked in childcare virtually all the time since I left college at 18 ( I am now 30) but feel I have no idea how to look after a baby!!!! I learn something every day. How anyone can function being so sick, I do not know, you girls with other LO are amazing. I am sorry you have had more sickness Aw I bet your boys are great fun ( when you don't feel poorly)

Pizza was lovely, mum made DH a birthday cake, a Victoria sponge ( with jam and cream) I had just a tiny bit of the sponge was yummy. We watched a James bond dvd ( one DH got for his B day) after the pizza and I didn't move at all for the whole DVD, in the hope the food stayed down

Sunny California I am sorry I have never been to the USA, is it always warm there? Dose the heat make you feel worse? We have Had a few warmish days here, and that makes me feel wiped out and I normally LOVE the sunshine, I always have more energy in the summer than winter-Not this year though!!!

Jacket pot- maybe you know it as a baked potato? Potato baked in its skin cooked in the oven ( or microwave if you want it quickly )? Sorry, I should think before i say (Ok type) things, I can sometime stomach them, as they are plain.

How long did your HG last hun? I can definitely eat more, not all the time but most days, so i think its slowllllly improving.

Thanks angeldreams

Well I had an awful day yesterday threw up virtually everything I ate am having porridge with raspberries this morning a tiny bowl and I have been eating it over an hour and I have half left!!! But so far so good. I am starving Have also eaten some jelly sweets, hardly healthy but good for some sugar and energy when I can get them down.

Take care you lovely girls. xx

 

[angeldreams]

Dearest Topsy,

I'm sorry to hear you had a rough day yesterday! I know how discouraging it can be when you're able to tolerate something one day, then you're down the next! My hyperemesis typically lasted (w/ the last 3 pregnancies) from week 7 to about week 16! I don't quite remember as I wanted to forget it ever happened...but I do know it didn't magically disappear after the 12th week the way books describe morning sickness!

I will say though, if you ever plan on giving this sweet baby a sibling, that the hyperemesis wasn't as intense w/ each pregnancy...it definately made itself known and was debilitating nontheless, but I didn't have to spend any time in the hospital w/ the last two pregnancies the way I did w/ the first! I don't know if that gives you or anyone else any hope?

Ha!Ha! Baked potato! Thank you! That sounds like something that would be tolerable! I ate toast, Starburst candy (which is a soft chew candy), sherbert ice cream, and dry cereal! Real nutritious huh? By my second pregnancy, I added cabbage soup to the menu (gross! Not sure why I was able to tolerate that?) and my mom would make biscuits for me out of pancake mix! Unbelievable! I really do get your pain! Sorry!

The weather in California is beautiful! We haven't had a dreadfully hot summer so it's been especially nice! We're so spoiled here...I think in November around the Thanksgiving holiday we're still able to wear our summer clothes!

Amazing how such a teeny, tiny baby can make you feel so terrible! I swore I'd get my tubes tied after baby #1, but look at me now!

By the way, I'm a sweat pea! Thanks for the link...can't figure out how to copy and paste it into my signature here on this forum, but I have it downloaded and I'm a sweat pea! Love it!

Take Care Topsy! I hope you were able to eat a little more today...it's a cruel joke to be so hungry, but unable to eat a thing! I may have about 6 days and counting before Hg strikes for me...I'll keep you posted! It's like a horror film...waiting to be the next victim!

 

[angeldreams]

Hi Mama!

You poor thing! I'm not trying to be funny, but have you tried meditating? I feel so badly for you...and I'm not just saying that! I swore to my mother when I was experiencing my worst case of Hg during my first pregnancy that when and if I got out of it alive, I was going to devote my free time to helping women w/ hyperemesis! I wish I could help you!

How was the hyperemesis your first pregnancy? Could it have been worse than this time? It doesn't seem anything could be worse than what you're experiencing now! So sorry!

Soda doesn't sound comforting in any way? Probably not b/c of the sugar? I wish I knew! I mentioned peppermint tea before...I'd ask your healthcare professional if you can have it b/c it is an herbal tea! It was recommended to me by my aunt who drank it when she was going through chemotherapy...it helps some people w/ the nausea!

Which part of the country do you live in? I'm sending 'get well quick' vibes your way...18 weeks is long enough!

 

[MiissMuffet]

Hi ladies

thought this stuff was getting behind me but i've thrown up 2ce this morning. SUCKS

I don't mean to discourage anyone, but just what you were saying before- i am the opposite i was very sick with my 1st bub, but I was way worse this time. i didnt need hospital or iv intervention with my 1st. Now i'm petrified of doing this again, so i ust don't know Everyone is different though, most people are lucky and have it the other way around!

it's a lovely day here today for once but i feel so rotten i just want to go to bed

x

 

[topsy]

Hi girlie's,

Back on the toast and had a tiny bit of plain pasta with sweetcorn for tea last night, some of it stayed down.

Angeldreams the Dr's are now saying 16 weeks ( although they said 12 Weeks until they realized I was 12 weeks so not to sure I believe them!) too so hopefully it should slowly improve! You have given me hope though knowing your ended at 16 weeks

Yuck cabbage soup, I don`t think i could tolerate that even if I wasn't sick ha ha. It is funny the things your bodies like(...Or don't!) when we are pregnant.

Summer clothes in Nov, I am so jealous, by then it will be coat, hat and scarf Its miserable here today and raining.

AW sweetpeas, glad you can see what you are, i couldn't work out the whole signature thingy, took me ages. I see you have an avatar now Hun. xxx

I really hope the HG is kind and misses you this pregnancy Hun.

It seems that everyone reacts different as to weither it gets worse or better with subsequent pregnancy's. We are unsure to be honest if we will have another one, we have a 3 bedroom house, but the 3rd room is tiny! I think we would have to move if we did have another LO and wouldn't be likely to get much more on the mortgage we did try last year, and even though I paid of £25,000 of the mortgage with my savings ( i now have none ) in 2009 when DH (OH then) moved in with each other they wont give us more. We will see.

Oh Missmuffet Its horrible when you think you are improving and then it comes back Glad the weather is nice, assume you are going into your spring now? We have family in NZ on the South Island.

Take care girls. BIG HUGS xxxxxx

 

[MiissMuffet]

yea almost spring now. i'm in the south island too- christchurch. Will reply properly tomorrow, am off to bed. nunght x

 

[topsy]

Night sweets.xxx

We have some family in Christchurch or just outside, I have only met them once. My dads cousins ( 3 of them and there families) live near Blenheim, and we see they a lot more. They come back once a year as there mum (Dads aunt) still lives here in London .One of his cousins (from NZ) is coming to see my Grandad tomorrow for the afternoon, and my aunt has said she will come and pick me up if I am well enough ( he lives 10 mins up the road) and I can go and say hello, FX I really hope I am well enough. Will be first time I have been out other than Dr's and hospital!

Was really sick this morning, but have done better this afternoon.

Hope everyone is doing ok. xxxx

 

[angeldreams]

Dearest Topsy!

Glad to hear you had some food...pasta and corn...that's a step up even though not all of it stayed down! Congrats! Were you able to see your aunt yesterday...hope so! Slowly but surely you'll be able to join the real world again!

MissMuffet...I was so hopeful that it was behind you...what a disappointment...please stay strong and you're right, everyone is different...I'm sorry the Hg was worse for you this time around...I've read in so many resources the opposite...but we're not all textbook examples, so hang in there!

Do either of you ladies take anything to help you sleep at nite? I'm in the stage where I feel sick throughout the nite...do any of you remember how/what your initial symptoms were? I'm really nauseated at nite and toss and turn to alleviate some of it...then I experience "morning sickness" several times a day, but haven't hit rock bottom yet...I'm being really hopeful, but this is usually how it starts out for me!

Topsy, I understand the 3 small bedroom house...we're currently in a tiny 2 bedroom house and are in the process of moving up to a 3 bedroom, but the 3 bedroom houses that we can afford are extremely small! I worried about it enough, but when I look at my boys (who all share a room w/ bunkbeds!) it doesn't matter to them...they have so much love and attention...they don't know the difference! I know Hg makes you want to curl up and disappear...I remember wanting to be put in a medically induced coma until it was all over... (I bet MissMuffet is feeling that way now!), but the love you get back from them and the feeling you get from being a family is priceless!

Best wishes for improvements today ladies....you deserve it! xo

 

[topsy]

Angel dreams you got your signature

Yep I saw my aunt and met her new hubby only for about half an hour, I didn't dare eat anything all morning as knew I would be sick, but I made the effort to go, was so tired I ate toast and then slept for an hour when we got back home.

Just got back from the hospital, my nan, who 94 and still lives in her own home, had a fall they not sure why, they have her hoked up to a heart monitor.

2 hours after I take my anti sickness tablets I am zzzzzzzzzzz for at least an hour am taking them every 8 hours so they help me sleep! But am so worried about driving on them. Mine first started out like morning sickness, It seemed to be worse if i dint eat every 2-3 hours, I remember eating rice at 10 am even though I had had breakfast at 7am, then I started being sick in the eve, then in the morning and eve then all day! Oh I really hope it doesn't get to bad for you.

Yep I shouldn't worry so much, your right as long as LO (S) have love and your time that's all they really need. I shouldn't worry about the amount of space we have.

Take care girlie's. xxxx

 

[angeldreams]

So sorry to hear about your grandmother! I do hope she'll be okay and that her hospital stay will be nice and short!

You sound tired Topsy so I'll make this quick! I just had a phone conversation w/ my mom this morning and told her that I had just had breakfast at about 7:15am or so, but needed lunch by 10am! Identical to what you're describing! Dum, dum, dum, dum,.....dummmmmm! (it's supposed to be the sound of doom!)

I have Zofran, but it doesn't induce sleep...I wonder when/if the time comes what else I could ask for? I'll have to get the name of your meds later! Glad you got out if for a little bit!

Get well wishes for your sweet nan...sorry again!

p.s...yay! I did figure that ticker out...thanks again for the link...it's nice to be reminded what all the pain and suffering is for! xo

 

[topsy]

Sorry Hun, i posted and went straight to bed, I am still Yawning this morning.

Aw, well that's how mine started, FX yours isn't the same.

I am on 50mg of cyclizine and I soooo struggle to stay awake on this stuff!!!!,

Nan had an ok night, thanks for her wishes.

I love to watch the tickers change

I was sick as soon as I woke up have Just swallowed a table with the minimal amount of water, so we will see what today brings.

xxxxx

 

[angeldreams]

Hi Topsy!

Don't be sorry! You're a delicate flower right now!Did you mention you worked w/ children? What do you do? I'm currently a "slave-at-home" mom right now...while I do love every minute of it, sometimes you don't feel like anything but a maid and/or a nanny! Ha!Ha! My husband seems to be appreciative...ha!ha!...he should be, I couldn't imagine how much money in childcare we'd have to spend if I worked! I went to college to be a teacher and did that for one year before starting my family...that's when I discovered Hg! I did not know it would be so debilitating...so I substitute taught which gave me the freedom to take a job...or not! I've been home ever since!

Thanks for the name of your medication! I thought peaches were bigger than lemons! I did notice you're a lemon! Anymore scans for you? Are you and hubby going to find out if you have a boy or girl in the oven?

Talk w/ you soon! How's MissMuffet?

 

[angeldreams]

p.s...sorry you woke up sick! Do you notice you feel worse when you do more in one given day? Meaning...you had a busy past couple of days w/ your aunt and nan...take it easy today!

 

[Sweedot]

well, I stupidly ran out of my prescriptions on FRIDAY and I called into the Midwife, I thought I had a refill on them, but apparently not, so I missed a dose Thursday night, Friday morning and Friday afternoon...I havent missed doses before and at 25 weeks I did not think it would be a big deal but BOY WAS I WRONG, i was sooo sick, I think I must have vomited about 10 times that morning, I was lying on the bathroom floor at work and someone had to drive me home....

I finally got in and had my friend call my midwife for me to tell her I really needed the prescription, luckily they refilled it and my husband went to collect it for me, after double dose I finally stopped vomiting, I cannot believe how reliant I am on the medication still...I mean, the nausea has never really gone away and I was still being sick ocassionally on the meds, but after missing 3 doses my whole body went nuts...Im definitely convinced I may need the medication right up until the end now...

its really quite depressing.....is this the case for everyone?

 

[Sooz]

Hi Sweedot,

Just read your post and thought I'd tell you that I finally stopped vomiting at 32 weeks. I reached a point like you where I thought it would last until the very end and even my MWs stopped asking if I was still being sick eventually, as the answer was always yes! I was diagnosed at 12 weeks (started vomming at 6) after I was hospitalised and had to alternate Cyclizine and Buccastem throughout the day to stay on top of things.

The next time I threw up after 32 weeks I was in labour and mid-contraction!

Everyone is different and I really hope all of you in here get to enjoy at least part of your pregnancy like I eventually did.

 

[NIfirsttimer]

havent caught up for ages but popping in to send survival vibes to all you new girls... hope you are all doing ok xxxx

 

[angeldreams]

Hi Sweetdot!

Just read your post and I have to admit that although I had hyperemesis w/ three pregnancies, I didn't realize how mild they were until I read this and other posts on this site! My worst case was w/ my 1st pregnancy....I didn't take meds for pg 1 or pg 2, but discovered Zofran for pregnancy 3! I couldn't imagine having to rely on them at 25 weeks! Sorry you had such a rough weekend!

How do you feel/perform when you do have your medication? I am currently 7 weeks pg and am preparing for hyperemesis...again! I'm trying to remain positive and hopeful that I'll be blessed and only experience "morning sickness"...haha!

Fingers crossed that you'll be able to enjoy the last part of your pregnancy!

 

[topsy]

Hi Girls, sorry i haven't been around much i am really struggling with the HG at the mo. Hugs to you all xxx