hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[Kitty23]

aww katy I hope you get the tablets and they help you eat some more

eugh I wished we all could eat as much as we liked and it actually stayed put. My dh means well but trying to push me into eating doesnt help.

Febreeze is actually my best friend at the mo, I spray it before I go into any room in the house lol, the smell of food is just vile!

Went to the doc again today, got some new druggies, cyclizine anyone had it? How did it go?

So starting that tonight, the joy! Managed to spew up my thyroxine tablets and stemstil last night straight away, very attractive projectile vomiting all over the leather sofa and cushions!!

The doctor only signed me off for a week... whats the point in that lol. She's a lovely lady but seems to think now I'm 12 weeks " the sickness will stop" ummm yeh lol. tah its not fun is it?

I just want to be back to being me again, I want to stop being sick and be happy again rahhh! How's everyone else doing?xxx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

Hugs katy i know it seems mind baffling how we can keep going on hardly anything at all, and even crazier how we can grow a baby at the same time but i was told the same thing...just concentrate on trying to get some fluids in you.

I had one very bad week where all i had was fizzy pop and when that got too much and was coming back up i just sucked on ice cubes. Then i'd have these random days when i could actually eat the weirdest of things, like mexican food for e.g. and i'd think "am i cured?!" but the next day i'd barely be able to manage toast again... It was so frustrating and i really feel for you.

It's good that your doctor has signed you off for a month though, in the beginning before we moved house, our old GP would only sign me off for one week at a time, so i had to renew my sick note and call work every single week and i would feel so guilty every time i rang even though i knew there was no way i could go in, people don't seem to understand hyperemesis at all, and basically though i was off for 10 weeks with "morning sickness"

That's the same as I get, when i did manage to go back to work for 4 weeks colleagues kept saying, so how's the morning sickness. I was like, erm, well it's not just morning sickness. Then one kept saying how she never had any time off even though she was sick every morning. I was just thinking, try being sick at least once every hour, every day! If not more.

My boss just isn't talking to me anymore I don't think. She doesn't phone anymore, just emails. Yesterday literally got an email just saying "Fine, email me the scanned sick note". Nothing I can do though.

Kitty- I have cyclizine at the moment, I'm not really sure it does that much for me in terms of sickness, it tends to work for a couple of days, but then I "get used to it" for want of a better phrase and it stops working. It makes me feel really sleepy and disorientated though, almost drunk, so it's good for helping you sleep.

I just find it really hard to get my head around the fact that if I voluntarily stopped eating for this length of time doctors would be going mad telling me how much i'm risking my health, yet when my body rejects food whilst I'm pregnant it's okay. Mad! xx

 

[teal]

Katy - I managed to go back to work from just over 16 weeks until I was 22 when it just got too much again. I hated that everyone kept commenting on how long I was off for with "morning sickness" I was going to the toilet a lot to be sick and my manager said I should really be feeling better by now. It's really frustrating when people don't understand that it's not just morning sickness.

I hate having to phone in work to let them know my doctor has signed me off for longer. My manager is always stroppy on the phone. I don't think I would feel so bad about being off work if my manager was more supportive.

Kitty - I have been prescribed stemetil but it's the kind that I put between my lip and my gum and let it dissolve. I think it must be doing something since I'm managing the water. Maybe you're doctor only signed you off for a week so you need to go back - she might want to keep an eye on you

 

[NIfirsttimer]

cyclazine is what i settled on for the majority of my pregnancy... it didnt really a lot for me but worked a bit better than the others, it did make me very drowsy tho. i found it worked best if i set my alarm for about 5am & took it & a tiny bite of cracker.. i usually woke up about 5.30am and was sick right away, so by trying to get the cyclazine in first it sometimes let me sleep until 9 or so, when i would be sick again (but beats starting at 5am lol)
my dr signed me off for 4 weeks at a time by the end.. initially he did it for a week or 2 weeks at a time, so that he could monitor me more closely, but by the end i usually knew better than him if i was too dehydrated etc so he just gave me 4 weeks at a time on the condition that i went to the day obstetric unit if i was getting too sick / dehydrated.
have any of you tried metclorpromide?

 

[Kitty23]

thanks girls

Yup NIfirsttimer, I've tried the metclorpromide and did nothing for me , thanks for the tip on when to take my tablets though

Hopefully these new tablets work, god I just want something to stop me being sick. Sounds terrible but I dont mind being drowsy, sleep is the only time I'm not sick ( until I wake up to be sick lol).

Yeh maybe she will lengthen the notes as time goes on, called my 2nd boss to tell her and wow she is just so lovely, told me not to worry about anything and if I need to be off till they are here then I need to be off. Almost made me cry lol.

Katy- Maybe you should go back and make them listen, its not healthy not eating as little as you do
xxxx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

Kind of different angle on it, the actual sickness I can mostly deal with. But is anyone else feeling really lonely and down all the time? Or is that just me I almost started crying at the doctors yesterday because I just feel like crap all the time. I spent about 3 days last week just crying. And Have felt the same all day today. I literally feel like I could burst into tears at any second. I literally only leave the house once a week on sunday because I go round to my mums. I have a friend who comes to visit me every other week. But that's it. I'm so lonely all the time xx

 

[Kitty23]

yup the lonliness is terrible. I feel a shell of my former self, I can't go out either Katy

I almost feel like my friends have abandoned me now, I'm not fun enough anymore because I can literally do nothing. xxx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

It's horrible isn't it. I don't know what to say to try and cheer you up because I feel exactly the same xx

 

[Kitty23]

aww bless you lol, it will be over one day thats what is sort of keeping me going. That and you've been framed lol.

Started my tabs tonight, feeling drowsy, and I've already cried twice in the last hour about the cat jumping on the coffee table. Good times lol xxx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

I love you've been framed. And those tablets make me feel so weird and just generally drunk xx

 

[Kitty23]

Lol you've been framed is pure nonsense but it makes me laugh

I'm only "allowed" one tablet a day so the drunkness hasnt happened. How am I going to cope on one bloody tablet a day! I'm going to phone her tomorrow and ask to increase my dose. xxx

 

[teal]

You've been framed makes me laugh sometimes too. Most of the time it's nonsense though!

I also feel down a lot. I think it's just the feeling weak being mixed in with feeling guilty that I feel so awful all the time. I was just about in tears the last time I was down seeing my doctor when she asked how I was feeling

Hope you girls are doing ok today xx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

I'm exhausted today. Had to walk to my midwife appointment which took over half an hour, and then it started tipping it down on the way back so I got soaked. All is well with baby so as usual it's just me feeling like crap. Was mega violently sick as soon as I got in too, think it was all the walking.

How is everyone else today? xx

 

[darcys]

Hello everyone,
Im new to the HG forum.
I too am just about getting over HG having been admitted to hospital 4 times, in N Ireland. I have read nearly all the posts here and tears were running down my cheeks cos it is all so real to me, i was so sick and lost so much weight like you all, I am now 17 weeks and the last 3-4 days i am slowly getting back to the old me,trying to build my strength up again.
I started vomitting at 5 weeks .
Anyway my saviour has been Zofran melts and steroid tablets which were a last resort for me but they worked, vomitting has stopped and I just has nausea which i control with the zofran melts
if anyone needs any advice please feel free to ask
thinking of you all
Darcy xx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

Hi :wave:

It's nice but not nice at the same time to see a new face. Hope the rest of your pregnancy goes a bit better and you can build your strength up again xx

 

[teal]

Hello darcys

Katy that's horrible you got caught in the rain. How are you feeling now? xx

 

[Sugarmuppet]

hiya,

never posted on here before but reading through this all is very very real to me!! Have been sick since the word go with my pregnancy, am now 23 weeks. Been in hospital twice, tablets etc etc, been so depressed, not bothering with anything or anyone...all the things you ladies are going through, didn't know it was possible to feel so bad, and i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy!!!

HOWEVER!! There is hope, or there was for me anyway! Two weeks ago I went for a session of acupuncture, the drive there was terrible, sick constantly, but can hand on heart say that since then I havent been sick once!! Even on the drive home! Eating was terribly painful for the first few days but am getting there now. Not feeling 100%, still feel a bit sick, but nothing like it was (could barely sip water). Lost nearly 3 stone in total, but putting it back on now!!

I have never spoke to any other sufferers of this before so don't know if acupuncture works for everyone, but I only know that I would have tried anything! Mine cost £28 for 20 mins session but I would have paid 10 times that!

Sorry for the essay but if I can help one other person from suffering like I did then its worth it!!!

Good Luck xxxxxxxx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

Hello darcys

Katy that's horrible you got caught in the rain. How are you feeling now? xx

Bit better now. I'm dry at least Not really tried to eat today, so don't know how the sickness is. Liquid always tends to stay down okay, it's food that does it, so I shall have to see how I am after dinner.

How are you today? xx

Sugarmuppet- I would never have thought of accupuncture. I might have a look into that. xx

 

[teal]

Katy - being dry is always a plus! I've managed some toast today but that's about it. I was sick after dinner and I still feel awful now. I seem to be ok with water lately but only if it's really cold for some reason.

I've not tried accupuncture either but I'm willing to try anything just now. xx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

Strange about it having to be cold, at least you've found some way of keeping it down though. I'm the opposite, tend to find hot drinks stay down.

Sorry you didn't manage to keep dinner down though xx