The best thing I can say is that it does go away....eventually!!! It really doesnt seem like it ever will at the time thats for sure.
Found out I was pregnant at 3 1/2 weeks gestation, started throwing up at 6 weeks on the dot- spewed 12 times that day and from there it just kept going, finally stopped at about 36 weeks. DD was born at 38+4 weeks. Had heaps of problems getting any medication at the Dr as many of them believed that HG is 'physcological' (sp?) and it was only after the IVF clinic convinced them to write me a script for Zofran that they did. Tried maxalon with no effect except becoming non responsive and uncoordinated. Did not leave the house from Valentines day until May 15th the only left when I could be in the vicinity of a toilet Think the only thing I could eat from about 10- 20 weeks was peeled green apples. Tried every m/s remedy known to man kind and nothing worked. The guilt of drugging my baby with Zofran was overwhelming and on many occassions cried without being able to actually produce tears I was so dehydrated. Everything ached so badly.
I hated everyone saying 'it will be worth it in the end' cause whilst it was I could have produced the same perfectly healthy child without the constant spewing and being pretty much unresponsive!
HG just sucks in everyway imaginable, it cruel, unfair and badly misunderstood!
Totally unmedicated first time...lost 12kg, couldn't eat, In hospital heaps for dehydration, the usual. Puked 10 times in one morning when I was 36 weeks and thought I was going to die, it was so violent. Stupid me thought that amount of vomiting was normal in pregnancy and it was what every woman went through, so I never mentioned it to Drs until after the pregnancy. I hadn't even heard of the term Hyperemisis!
This time...the ONLY thing that kept me sane was just biting the bullet and spending the required $150 a week on Zofran. It wouldn't take away the sick feeling but it did stop the vomiting. Maxolon sent me batty with shakes, sweats and pain.
Another lifesaver - buy some hospital vomit bags. Available in packs of 3 from servos and chemists, or from the supplier in packs of 50. I have one in every room of the house, in the car, 2 or 3 in my handbag. Until I bought them, I was vomiting into plastic shopping bags...most of which have tiny sneaky tears and holes in the bottom. As if puking violently in public isn't bad enough...you get covered in it! Buying the proper bags really helped.
Note about Zofran: If you start taking it very early in your pregnancy it has apparently been shown to actually reduce the time that your hyperemisis lasts (helps stop it for good). I'm 25ish weeks now and not puking every day, just a few times a week, so it's worked for me.
I feel for us all, ladies...Hyperemisis is HORRIBLE. I would have rather had normal morning sickness anytime! Does anyone else find the vomiting so violent that it's just physically exhausting?
Only put on 5kg last pregnancy (after the 12kg loss) and haven't put on anything yet for this one...still 7kg down on my post-preg weight.
The vomit and stomach acid ruined my teeth so much in the first pregnancy that my dentist asked me, very seriously, if I was bulimic! Hello $5000 dentist fee. Both pregnancies, after weeks of constant puking, I could literally 'bend' and dent my teeth with my tongue...they have gone that soft. This time is better, as the Zofran has helped, but I can still dent my molars now.
I wish I'd have thought of that AAS. The bags I mean.
The number of trolleys i left to run to the loo. Walking across the woollies car park & having it hit there & then & having to bolt for the loo. Everyone saw it
Its embarrassing, even when you make it to a toilet, coz everyone can hear you.
& yes, the violence of it exhausted me. I'd get the shakes, head spins & heart palpitations after every vomit.
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