Hyperemesis Gravidarum questions, suffered once now terrified :(

[Lily Dust]

You are more than welcome in there, hun. Im not pregnant nor are a few of the other girls, just nice to have some ppl who know what its like

By your ticker looks like your DS isnt much younger than my DD, must have been head down in the toilet around the same time

[~*Niadalla*~]

I was one of those lucky buggers who had it the entire pregnancy. Zofran did nothing for me, so I just threw up up to 20 times a day and sucked it up really.
It was worse with DD too...

I hope that I'm in the minority and lots of people have much better stories than mine.

[fromscratch]

Hi, Go over to the thread it dosn't matter that your not pregnant atm, you have suffered and are scared it will happen again. Legitimate reson enough I recon.

From what my doctor told me Hg has more to do with your/my hormones and almost like an alergic reaction to pregnancy hormones than partners. ALthough saying that just cause you've had it once dosn't garantee you will get it again.
You know no what it can be like so put into place strategies to help you cope if it was to happen again in pregnancy.
My fingers are crossed that everything will be fine.
My best advise is to sit down with your doctor and have a chat about your concerns and worries about it. There may be something new.
Try the help her site they may have something new medical wise.

[willow5]

Thank you for all your replies I'll definitely be talking to the doctor, and an acupuncturist, and I'll check out that site. I didn't know there was such a site!

[willow5]

I heard somewhere that HG was an over reaction(hyper - obviously) to the pregnancy hormones, but that your brain and body get stuck in a loop. So where the MS would normally subside, you're kind of wired to keep being sick. Don't how much truth there is to that theory, I'm guessing they really don't know, but I'll be looking into lots of areas before TTC.

fromscratch I'm working on strategies too

[~clover~]

I had HG with all my girls. Not with DS.
It lasted til 20 - 22 weeks with the girls.

I will never risk that again. I thought I would be safe after DS. I still survived when pregnant with DD3, but my kids were pretty much without a mum for 4 or 5 months. I can't do that to them again.

[Diamond Girl]

Hi there,

Im sorry to hear you had the awful HG. I had it in my first two pgs but not in any of my m/cs (just really bad m/s during parts of them). Im interested to hear about it being allergic reaction because I have often thought this.

[willow5]

Clover, That is one big concern I have DS1&2 are old enough to look after them selves for a few months (they're 20 and 18) but I'm worried about DS3