Support Thread for Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) Sufferers

[Sagres]

Wellllllll I think it is about time I came clean.........I am expecting baby #2 in October!!! Sorry for not spilling the beans a bit earlier (I am 12 weeks now), I just don't do the 'sharing details online before telling my family and friends' thing. Hope you understand. I realise the irony of starting a support thread then not posting in it at the appropriate time, but hey, I've been supporting others so I haven't just been hanging around making the place look untidy

So the big question is have I got HG? The answer is I'm not sure but I think perhaps NO!!!! I have had some pretty crappy times and have been pretty horribly sick, but it is way better than last time and I am already seeing the throwing up tapering off - woo hoo! I personally think I have just pretty bad MS and have had a few gastro/stomach upsets that have seen me have a few HG like days, but it has been a week or a few days here and there, not constant IYKWIM. I still have the nasty nausea a lot but hey, it's just nausea, I can deal with that. I am still on maxalon and when try to stop I get sick again, but again I can deal with that.

Sorry about the ME ME ME post. I hope all of you that are going through the dark days at the moment are getting close to some better days...x

[trishy]

Thanks lily dust I've had a couple of good days followed by shockers but at least there is some light at the end of the tunnel

Congratulations Sagres that's great news and even greater no hg

Hope everyone else is traveling well on my mobile so mind had gone blank on details

[Lily Dust]

Sagres, I am sooooo happy to hear you are expecting bubba #2 and you are 'relatively ok'. Its just awesome news and I hope that ms, tapers clean off and you can have a bubbly sunshiney pregnancy

Trishy Im glad you are getting a few good days, it does make it a little easier to deal with. Hang in there, youre almost 1/2 way through

[melsa31]

Hello, it's been a while since I've been here. I can thankfully say that the last two weeks have been much better for me. I'm now only throwing up a few times a week instead of a few times a day and I can handle the nausea now as it's not as severe. Yay! It certainaly makes a huge difference and DH has been much more helpful too :-) Thankyou DG and Lilydust for your kind words.

Sagres congratulations!! Hope you do have a comfortable not-feeling-horrible ride!

[Diamond Girl]

Congratulations Sagres!!! I bet you are thrilled to be past 12 weeks. Im so glad you didnt get HG this time, just bad m/s. So happy for you!!!

Melsa - Thankyou, Im glad your not feeling as sick now. I hope it continues to taper off for you.

Lily -My Avi is finally ready! The gorgeous Mylitta designed it for me. Do you like it? I love it!

Trishy - Sorry I didnt check this thread earlier. Im so sorry youve been so sick. It really isnt fair that you have had to endure this well into the second trimester. I am hoping and praying that your bad days are all replaced with good days. Thinking of you.

[trishy]

Thnks DG, I am having more good days now. I can get bad in the morning and need to watch what I eat but I think I have turned a corner.

Melsa I am like you throwing up a few times a week instead of every day is heaps better

[Sagres]

Thanks for the congratulations girls, you are so sweet.
I am glad to hear it is getting better for you Melsa and Trishy. I have also got to not throwing up at all many days and only once on the days I do, so that is a lot better.

[brogeybear]

Hello fellow HG sufferers. I am 11w3d with my second bub and today I feel especially like dying. I have a stupid cold on top of it all with a swollen sore throat which is of course exacerbated by vomitting, but like a catch 22 triggers my gag reflex even more
I have only come to the realisation this pregnancy that this is not normal. I just thought it was how I got m/s. I had it until 16w with DS and aside from a few hospital trips for IV fluids, never got any medication from anyone. Got really annoyed with the lack of understanding from people, and this time was lucky enough to have heard of HG since my last pregnancy, so at least I could tell people to rack off if they told me to eat a cracker and it will pass, etc.
So far, just one trip to hospy, but I think I'm headed there again soon with the added "help" of this cold/sore throat.
I keep telling myself that there is only 4 1/2 weeks to go, as I have that 16 week mark from last time as light at the end of the tunnel. I don't know what I'll do if it doesn't go away... I am so scared of it staying all pregnancy.

[trishy]

Sagres glad to hear your having more better days

Brogeybear I had sinus and throat infection before Easter and it set off my hg again so can relate. I did the whole grin an bear if 1st time round too and thought like you it was just part of pregnancy. I hope you do improve at the 16 week mark.

[Lily Dust]

Do you like it? I love it!

DG, it is gorgeous! Love it!

Melsa & Tishy its great to hear things are easing for you both. Fingers crossed you can both enjoy a few months of pregnancy

brogeybear, Im sorry you have had to join this thread but welcome Its hard when people dont understand and dont want to listen either. So did you stop throwing up all together at 16 weeks last time or did it just back off a little?

Started to think I may have been ready to TTC a couple of weeks ago then got a stomach bug and threw up, first time since I was 36ish weeks pregnant and it brought back so much I was so upset and scared to go to the bathroom because I didnt want to be sick. So I dont know if we will ever TTC again, I am just too scared

[brogeybear]

Thanks everyone. Yes it is great to have other women who actually understand what it is like. I was one of the lucky ones. I only vomited a few times sporadically after the 16 week mark. I actually enjoyed pregnancy after that point. I am hoping that it will be the same this time around. I want at least 3 children, hopefully 5. Luckilly I am young enough to space them out a bit, lol. But if I get hit for a full pregnancy with the HG I think that has the potential to really make me think twice. At least next time I will know to firstly look at some natural therapies *before* getting UTD, and then get on to a treatment plan really early on instead of waiting until I end up in hospital. *doh*

[brogeybear]

So as if the hyperemesis isn't bad enough, DS and I got a cold, and then DS got a squirty bum, which DH and I seem to have also. So now all I can smell is @rse and cr@p. And so I am burning a candle to help with the smell and it is giving me a headache. *sigh* Please let this stop in 3 1/2 weeks, please!

[fromscratch]

Hi to everyone,
Wow I'm so excited to have found real people who really really get HG.
Firstly before I head on into this I have read a few posts and am thrilled for those who Hg is easing, and (((HUGS))) for those who are still suffering. For the lady's who's HG is worse due to other illness double (((HUGS))) for you both.
About me I've had HG with both pregnancys now. ds 1998 for 1st and half way through 2nd tri.
dd 2005 sadly all the way through till two days post delivery. Boy that sucked!
We are activly trying again and I am terrified of HG again. I am crossing everything that there will be no HG this time around.
I so want another child but not looking forward to being besties with the renovated loo. I was great friends with the old one.
It's not just the vomiting I'm scared of also the serious constipation, blood shot eyes, broken blood vessels, vomiting blood, excessive tiredness, the people in the hospital who put the IV in who never could find my veins and the just jabed and jabed "Hay I'm not a pin cushion" all the trying of the different meds and none worked cause there is no point giving me tablets cause they don't stay down. Not to mention the people who offer "just try a cracker and a cuppa before you get up of a morning, worked for me" AGH! or my mil who is firmly in the "think positivly and it won't happen" camp.
Hay lady I'm taking my DR's advise and putting in place strategies and you really could help out your son one day a week without being asked every time. AGH!!! and take your darling grand son to his sporting game which is on a Saturday.
Oh and my little sister who is pregnant and has simple ms. Lucky duck! But she dosn't get it.
So I am scared stiff and simply thrilled to find you all who actully get HG. I am so sorry that you are all suffering with HG though and hope that one day, some research team somewhere will one day find better ways in helping HG sufferers.

[trishy]

Brogeybear hope the bug has gone and your feeling better

I'm back in hospital. Maybe because of a bug food poisoning

In really down in the dumps yesterday I kept crying wishing I wasn't sick or pregnant again. Which today I feel a bit silly about as I wanted this baby more than anything and went through so much to make it happen

I'm also getting scared about the birth after my experience with my daughter

I'm at a different hospital but scared if I go go through it

I know I have no choice etc and thing will be different this time I'm just on a downer

[Melania]

Hello everybody :-)

My daughter is now 5 and a half years old and I am shocked to have stumbled on this site and thread!
I was soooo ill during my pregnancy that I was signed off work at 5wk pregnant when the sickness started!
I was sick anywhere between 10-15 times a day. It was so incredibly exhausting and painful.
I used to bring up small amounts of blood, my head would spin, I was burning hot, and could barely breath
and used to wet myself everysingle time then collapse on the toilet floor :-(
When I saw my Dr and the hospital staff they all said the same thing...take nothing for it as it could harm the baby! I actually lost 4 stone during pregnancy and was in and out of hospital on drips for a total of 9 weeks out of the 38 weeks I was pregnant! I was unable to walk, drive, or do anything really, it was terrible. I hated my pregnancy and feared if my baby would develop properly since I couldn't provide it with any nourishment! My sickness continued right through my labour too! Then once Elanya popped out, I was cured! :-)
My partner and I are currently trying for another child but now I have found this I am really worried! The Drs here said I was unlucky having bad morning sickness so until seeing this that is what I have always believed! Now I am scared that this might actually be a condition that I could suffer again if I get pregnant again???!!! How would I look after my daughter or do anything if it is??? Advice please ladies xxx

[Diamond Girl]

Trishy, being so sick is very, very hard. You have every right to wish you arent sick or even pg for that matter, because all you feel right now is pain. It does affect you emotionally even more than you probably realise atm, which is why you feel so down even though you think you should not feel that way (at my worst I wanted to die), but you will get better and you will be holding your much loved, much wanted baby in August.

I hope you are feeling better now and not so down.

[Lily Dust]

trishy, well DG has summed it up perfectly so I dont need to add anything except this......
In regard to the fear you are feeling about birthing, have you considered hiring a Doula? You would be able to discuss all these fears and hopes for this birth and perhaps work out a bit of a goal/ plan. Just a thought.

BrogeyBear, hope you are feeling a bit better and fingers crossed its all easing

[brogeybear]

Yes, thanks! I am definitely improving and am down to just the zofran now. Am so relieved that it seems it will be gone by 16 weeks again. So thankful, it isn't so depressing to see the light at the end of the tunnel so close. I feel so much for women who suffer their whole pregnancy like this. It is not fair. It's not fair to get it at all tbh, but at least I will get to enjoy the most part of it. :hugs: to everyone still suffering.