Yeah it's happened to me too. I try to make sure that I go to the loo every few hours, even if I think I don't need no. Horrible weak bladder with 1st Hyperemisis. Wore pads sometimes...it happens. You shouldn't be embarrassed around us becuase we all know that the violent vomiting can cause that!
TMI but when I have Hyperemisis and vomit, my body totally shuts down on everything except puking, I literally cannot focus on anything else, or move, or run to a loo or anything...hence the bags.
Ok, time for my HG experience. It was bad for me, but not nearly as bad as so many others have experienced. To anyone who is going through this; you are not alone, but please do seek help.
DS1: Started at 5 weeks. Vomited so many times on the very first day that I cant remember how many, and it continued this way until 18 weeks. By 10 weeks I had lost 8kgs, was vomiting up blood because I had ripped the lining of my osopeogus, and later bile. Never medicated because doctors didnt believe I was sick enough. By 20 weeks I felt normal again, but continued to vomit every now and again. M/s returned at 36 weeks and lasted until delivery.
DS2: Started at 5 weeks. My mum started to look after DS1 because I was too sick. Did not leave my bed/lounge until 14 weeks except to go to hospital or Drs. Demanded (not asked) for medication and was put on Maxalon and later zofran, though I continued to vomit. Got bad anal fissure from severe constipation, sent to hospital to have IV fluids, had keytones in the urine, wet myself while vomiting daily, vomited bile, blood, food, water, medicines..., bones sticking out because I lost nearly all of my fat stores, no baby bump till 14 weeks, no energy to care for myself, absolute depression. Thought that dying was a better alternative than living with HG (luckily that thought passed quickly). Normal m/s from 14 weeks - 25 weeks. I was one of the VERY lucky ones with HG to have it pass before the 3rd trimester.
Baby 3 - Very mild m/s. I cannot believe I am 7 weeks and have not vomited once. I have felt sick from time to time but it passes if I eat a cracker or something (which makes me laugh because NOTHING worked for me last time). I am convinced that I will not see a heartbeat at my scan on Tuesday. I know I should be grateful that Im not sick, but I am petrified that I have lost my baby.
Last edited by Diamond Girl; January 2nd, 2011 at 06:27 PM.
Its unbelieveable how much you forget, I read everyone elses stories and then the horror of vomitting blood comes back! I had forgotten about that part, I guess its a way of coping with trauma?
DiamondGirl, I can imagine that terror, I had 2 hours where I wasnt sick and I was terrified and certain I has lost DD sending you oodles of sticky vibes for Tuesday
Yes, I had forgotten so much too, but when I sat down and thought about it, it just came back. I suppose because I had it twice, the memories didnt fade as fast.
Thanks Lily Dust for the sticky vibes. Im going to need them.
OK, back to post my story.
Reading this I can see I didn't have it as bad as many of you, I suspect that may be because I don't have a very good sense of smell, and I've read things that say smell plays a very big part in HG.
Anyway I've only been pregnant once so I don't have different experiences to compare.
I started feeling really obvious MS at about 7DPO and then started throwing up constantly at about 6.5 weeks I think. At first I thought I had gastro because I just thew up solidly for 3 days and couldn't keep anything, even water, down, and then on the 4th day I felt better. But this pattern just repeated itself over and over again so I realised it was MS.
I thought the vomiting was par for the course so I didn't see a doctor or anyone until I had my first ob appointment when I was 8 weeks, she weighted me and I realised I had lost 5 kgs in 1 week. She gave me maxalon which actually did help me to a degree. On the days it worked it made me throw up less (perhaps only 4 or 5 times a day) and made me sleep most of the day, but more often than not I would throw up the water I had with the tablet and it wouldn't do anything.
I remember my DHs 30th birthday when I was about 14 weeks. I wanted to make it a bit of a big deal so I decided to make this special chocolate mud cake recipe. I didn't have the ingredients for it. Mum was staying at my place but doesn't drive so I drove us to the supermarket, sat in the car with a bucket and chucked my guts up while she went and got the ingredients, then we went home and cooked that damn cake, doing one or two steps, throwing up, doing another couple steps, throwing up again etc etc. Hope he appreciated it!
I don't really remember the exact times but I think it eased to about 3 spews a day on the sick days (which were probably 3 out of every 5 days) around 25ish weeks, then later it twindled out to perhaps only being sick once a week or once a fortnight, but the nausea remained the whole time and I felt only a few minutes away from being sick all the time up until delivery day. Actually funny story, I had an epidural towards the end of my labour and THAT killed the nausea. Who would have known? I was actually 10cm dilated but because I didn't feel sick I suddenly felt ravenous and was begging the midwife to feed me! Don't think they would consider that option for treatment in the first trimester though!
So, to respond to some of your posts.....
clover - the impact getting pregnant again will have on my DD is something that weighs on my mind soooo much. I just don't want her to go for weeks with me just laying on the lounge doing nothing. My mum lives 6 hours drive from me and I don't have any immediate family any closer than 4 hours away. But I am trying to come up with a plan.
AAS - the hospital bags sound good, I mostly used freezer bags which were good cause I could always have them in my hand bag and after use I could tie the top and throw it away. They also passed the 'simultaneous throwing up and driving' test a few times!
fionaw - sorry you are living through this now. I remember occasionally having some bladder issues when throwing up. I was wearing liners most of the time because I had major fluid leakage from every possible orifice the whole time so I just wore that and pretended I didn't know what was really happening.
Diamond Girl - I have absolutely everything crossed for your scan on Tuesday, I am sure everything is going well in there. I guess that is one thing about HG, you never really go through that doubt about if things are still happening down there.
Lily Dust - I thing you are right, I think you do forget to get over the trauma. I had totally forgotten about the shakes, headspins and heart palpitations after every vomit until I read it here.
WOW I wish this thread had been around when I was pg with DS3 it's brining tears to my eyes reading through and I feel lucky I didn't have it as bad as some of you ladies
Actually even if the thread was here I wouldn't have been able to read or post, that was something I couldn't do, I couldn't read anything, and trying to look at the computer screen was impossible! After 5 months though, when I started to get better I would have loved this thread!
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and I feel lucky I didn't have it as bad as some of you ladies
After 5 months though, when I started to get better I would have loved this thread!
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