hyperemesis sufferers unite!

[Pixoletta]

I feel like this is never going to end! It goes in circles and when i think i'm a little better, i get all sick again...aff.. feels like i'm never going to be able to go back to work or shop for baby or do anything for that matter!

 

[NIfirsttimer]

awh hun i really feel for you.. i havent forgotten xxx

mine never went away, but it did get a little easier towards the end, there were a few hours in the afternoon where i could do stuff, which really helped... although i did ALL my baby stuff shopping online,
try to stay positive, its really important xxxx

 

[dellaseren]

Really really agree with that NI! I got so down with it all in the first tri, it's been so much easier to deal with in the end of 2nd/beginning of 3rd tri though. The symptoms aren't as bad and I know it'll be over soon! I mainly worry now that when I feel better I'll be really lazy from all the laying down I've done while ill lol. But staying positive is the most important thing I think. xx

 

[NIKKI16JAN]

hiya, ladies, haven't been on here in a while as been throught bit of a bad time of it, after being admitted to hospital for the 3rd time and basically breaking down in sheer exhaustion and frustration the consultants admitted they hadn't really kept an eye on me and put me on steroids and ondansetron, this has helped the HG massively, you would think after the HG easing and actually being able to eat due to the steroids that I would be on top of the world but for the last 10 weeks have been suffering really bad anxiety attacks that can last around 3 days, doctor has had to put me on a low dose of diazapem to try and break the cycle, so now have a blimming anxiety disorder to deal with!! thinks its due to being scared that the HG is going to return and will be housebound again and also anytime I have to go to a midwife appointment I just cant cope with this pregnancy, does anyone know of anyone who has experienced anything like this as an after effect of HG???? Hope you are all having good HG days xxxx

 

[Aus_Amy]

Well I haven't been on here in awhile either.. 8th time at hospital... So over it! More drugs.. Onsdansatron and Maxalon and something else too now that's supposed to settle the stomach before going to bed.. uh... And I've lost another 3 kilos... 7 weeks to go.. Hope everyone is ok.. and staying healthy.. (Altho got told off the dr's today that the baby takes what it needs and we can live without food for a few days...) As long as we keep fluids down.

 

[Aaisrie]

Hi everyone, new HG sufferer. Just got out from my 2nd hospital stay [in the last 3 weeks] after being rehydrated.

 

[nikkip]

Hi ive just discovered this thread!! im so happy to find it because now i can see that there are others who are as bad or worse than me. this is my second pregnancy (made past 12 weeks). with my little boy i suffered HG and was in hospital twice and it finally eased around weeks 14- 16. i am really bad again this time been put on cyclizine which didnt help and on another one which hasnt done much. been in hospital once for 6 days where i was on a drip but was suffering headaches so they gave me a paracetamol drip which caused me to have a panic attack and ask for my iv to be removed.

this has now made me feel so uneasy i refuse to go back to the hospital. my sickness started to ease a bit just before christmas and i thought i was getting better, however its come back double now and i keep being very sick.

with my son i suffered antenatal depression whilst suffering HG and im scared im going to get it again. i cant go out the house. i feel so ill and just keep crying some days i cant go on at all. wish this would pass now....

just to add to this - does anyone else find that people dont seem to understand how badles HG can affect a person or what it entails? it really annoys me when people have the attitude of its morning sickness get over it

 

[nikkip]

i am re posting this thread here incase any of you dont see it in first trimester...

Its not just sickness as most people see it and that makes me irrate. people just dont understand and I dont feel that there is enough awareness out there.

Please have a look at the following whether you are suffering or not...

https://www.helpher.org

https://www.pregnancysicknesssupport.co.uk/012.asp

this is so that anyone who is suffering can know that there is support out there and it is well recognised.

I want to help raise awareness when I am better because right now I am completely at my wits end and having days where i feel i cant go on... Ive shed a lot of and somedays feel depressed but am fighting on...


I hope this helps you. xx

 

[Aaisrie]

That's really good, I didn't have HG with my dd so when I was diagnosed with it when I was admitted to hospital for IV rehydration I kept telling them I must have picked up a bug, when a week later I was readmitted for IV rehydration I thought they probably knew what they were talking about. When I first started feeling ill this pregnancy people at my OH work kept telling him I was being lazy by not getting up and doing housework etc I was so upset. After reading helpher.org I felt so much better especially the FAQ where it said about the easiest comparison for a non-HG to understand is like having food poisoning for weeks or months.
I still have no meds, am seeing my GP on Tuesday to hopefully see if she'll start me on something. They tried me on cyclazine and metrochlorpramide in hospital but the cyclazine gave me a fuzzy head and made me really dizzy and the metro just did nothing but make my tummy eat itself.

 

[Lea8198]

I found it!!!!!!!!

Nikki, I know eactly what you mean. People tell me to eat ginger biscuits or try sea bands or just eat for the babies sake. As much as these people care for me (and i love them) I could hit them. They do not understand the moment the food hits my stomach it either a) comes staright back up or if on meds b) makes me go into a nauseas merry go round. Room spins, hanging over loo, panic attack etc. They do not understand HG is your body rejecting everything. I have not eaten a meal in 6 weeks. I have started nibbling things to keep myself out of hospital and sipping water mainly due to the strong meds I am on which actually seem to be working at the moment. I am taking Ordanestron and metoclopromide 3 times a day and at full capacity I think we have got it under control (for now anyway). I have been in hospital once for 4 days at 8 weeks and ALMOST got sent in New Years Eve but i promised I would do better in 24 hours to prevent it as I did not want to leave my kids and I managed to get some water down.

I know in terms of what HG can do I am lucky. Mine has gone with both previous kids at 20 weeks so I can get through half the pregnancy not ill. I know some women are so much worse than me so I feel lucky in comparision but it makes me feel like a failure to be so poor at carrying babies. I did not fare well on my ante natal questionnaire either but the docs says this comes hand in hand with HG. Who would not feel depressed feeling like we do????

I am here to help you and I am sure I will need more help too over the coming weeks. It will end I know it but it does not stop the pain right now. At least today i have felt slightly human and nibbled on some potatoes and a tiny piece of turkey and I hope this continues. I just want to be human again!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take care xxx

 

[Lea8198]

That's really good, I didn't have HG with my dd so when I was diagnosed with it when I was admitted to hospital for IV rehydration I kept telling them I must have picked up a bug, when a week later I was readmitted for IV rehydration I thought they probably knew what they were talking about. When I first started feeling ill this pregnancy people at my OH work kept telling him I was being lazy by not getting up and doing housework etc I was so upset. After reading helpher.org I felt so much better especially the FAQ where it said about the easiest comparison for a non-HG to understand is like having food poisoning for weeks or months.
I still have no meds, am seeing my GP on Tuesday to hopefully see if she'll start me on something. They tried me on cyclazine and metrochlorpramide in hospital but the cyclazine gave me a fuzzy head and made me really dizzy and the metro just did nothing but make my tummy eat itself.

Hi Aaisrie. Sorry to hear you are suffering too. Cyclizine did nothing for me and made me very drowsy. They injected me with stemitil in hospital and that made me want to jump out of my body and run!!! I had very restless legs on that. they need to get you onto something. Try for ordanestron....it's zofran in America and they swear by it. It's hard to get in the UK but you could try it if they would allow?

This condition is blummin horrible

 

[Aaisrie]

They gave me the cyclazine injection in hospital too and omg not only did it hurt like he'll but the dizziness and headiness with it was so bad I nearly passed out just going to be toilet and they had to put me oxygen because I became short of breath!
There was a girl who was in the same ward as me who was on baby 4 with HG for the 4th time and she got put on zofran straight away they basically just told me to come back if I couldn't keep anything down for 12 hrs again!!

 

[Lea8198]

They gave me the cyclazine injection in hospital too and omg not only did it hurt like he'll but the dizziness and headiness with it was so bad I nearly passed out just going to be toilet and they had to put me oxygen because I became short of breath!
There was a girl who was in the same ward as me who was on baby 4 with HG for the 4th time and she got put on zofran straight away they basically just told me to come back if I couldn't keep anything down for 12 hrs again!!

Grrrr this annoys me. Why should we have to fight to get what we need? I just suggested Ordanestron to the consultant and she agreed so I was really pleased but it is working. Give them hell this week. You need help! How are you doing now? Are you vomiting everyday? My tablets have stopped me being sick. I really think they need to help you and I never understand why they hold back! When do you see the doc next?

 

[Aaisrie]

Well I booked to see the GP bexause the hospital sent me home with nothing. I am having severe nausea, I'm an emetophobe so vomiting for me is difficult anyway, it's gettin as far as my mouth and I'm swallowing because I've found once I let myself vomit that's it I can't even keep water down, hence the two hospitalisations. Both times I spent 3 days on the IV with ketones at +4 but nausea builds and builds until I can no longer swallow it anymore. The nausea makes me dizzy and literally unable to carry out normal tasks, my dd is nearly 22mo and I can hardly make her toast for breakfast bexause of the smell.... I feel like such q bad mother to her.

Sorry for typos, using my iPhone!

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

to you all. I've been there and I'm thinking of TTC #2 and am terrified I'd get it again. My posts will be in this thread, this time last year I had about 6 weeks of it left to go!

helpher is a great site, unfortuntely I only found it when I was 38 weeks and I delivered at 39+6 x

 

[nikkip]

whats frustrating is that mine started to go and i had days without any sickness just slight nqausea and its come back double???!! i refuse to take any medication as the two ive got make me more sick and im fed up of being at home off sick from work!! arghhh

Lea8198 thanks for your support its really helping me and everyones stories make me feel a bit calmer

 

[DollPosse]

I had H.G with my other pregnancies, I haven't had it so far(fingers crossed). I went to hospital a few times because I was so bloody sick. I feel for you ladies.

Hugs

 

[nikkip]

argh cant believe it all my gp did was give me buccastem and told me to have cyclazine with it.

im now being sick without having even eaten anything ( ihavent even taken the tablet yet as i OH had to get it from the chemist) im sicking up acid and its burning my throat out im in agony and have even had a little bit of blood in my sick. what on earth is going on?

 

[Aaisrie]

^^ I was like that, I had to go to hospital. The Dr told me if you can't keep a sip of fluid down in 12 hrs go straight to hospital, if you wait longer they'll have to keep you longer.

GP has given me promethazine and told me to take it at night because it'll make me drowsy so will take the first one tonight and see how it goes...

 

[babz1986]

argh cant believe it all my gp did was give me buccastem and told me to have cyclazine with it.

im now being sick without having even eaten anything ( ihavent even taken the tablet yet as i OH had to get it from the chemist) im sicking up acid and its burning my throat out im in agony and have even had a little bit of blood in my sick. what on earth is going on?

this happened to me with my hyperemesis! I started been sick with what I thought was a bit of blood in and left it - the next day I was been sick pure blood! (really not nice!! lol) and ended up in hospital with dehydration and a ruptured oesophagus from been sick so much

I was already on the buccastem which helped loads to keep the nausea and 70% of the sickenss at bay during the day but not really at night!

I got a bit obsessed with it, and once forgot my tablets on the way to work so had to turn back as I had such a panic as to what 'state' i'd be in if I didn't take them!

In all honesty they became my best friend lol, and after Ellie was born I was rooting around in my bag to find a half used packet and felt all sad that I didn't need them no more (very weird I know, but they almost became my lifeline for 9 months!! lol)