Did anyone have severe m/s in one pg and none/less in another?

[Diamond Girl]

Thankyou so much for your responses. It seems that m/s does vary with each pg and for some with the opposite sex baby.

I still havent got much m/s at all so who knows what it will mean for me. Im just so glad not have HG right now because that was awful!

[Sagres]

If you haven't already I would google 'help her' and look on the forums there, there is a wealth of information from others who have experienced HG. I suspect you will find that the time that MS kicks in can vary from pregnancy to pregnancy but I haven't looked that up specifically so I am not sure.
I hope you have a lovely healthy non-HG pregnancy so you can be my inspiration that it can happen!

[Diamond Girl]

Thanks for posting that Sagres. I have to admit, reading that site made me so emotional and I cried and cried. It brought back so many memories from my last two pgs when I felt so alone. I remember the nurses laughing at me at hospital saying 'its only m/s', until they tested all my levels and found out it was serious. I wanted to die last time...I had forgotten just how bad it was...which is why Ive been so scared that something is really wrong this time because I just dont see how you can be soooo sick with two pgs an then nothing with the third.

Perhaps Im one of the lucky ones, or not. We will see on the 4th, when I have my scan.

[Pandora]

I thought HG was more commonly associated with girl bubs than boys.

I know my gf had it with both girls but not with her ds, and my mw said that it's more likely that way too.

[Sagres]

Yeah I have got a lot of comfort and sadness from that site - I only found it after I had my DD. So much of it made me say 'ah yes, that is what I went through' and realise it is OK or normal for a HG pregnancy. I have bookmarked a few pages to send to my DH and family when we get to that point again, we are TTC at the moment. Sorry it made you cry
If you need a laugh try and track down a thread called you know when you have HG when..... or something like that, it is an absolute hoot (as much as it can be!) and helps put some humor into an otherwise humorless situation.

[Diamond Girl]

Pandora - It is more common in girl pregnancies than boy, which is why I assumed mine were both girls. But clearly it is not always the case. My mum had HG with all her pgs boy and girls so it made no difference in her case.

Sagres - Yes, I'll need to read the humourous side, I bet it will make me laugh.

[~clover~]

Sagres - If only I'd seen that 9, 6 & one year ago.
I just linked the info from that site to face book, basically to say eff you to all my friends who thought I was full of crap.
It hurts so much when noone even tries to understand.

[Sagres]

Glad you could still get some use from it clover! Sorry you suffered HG all three times. It is hard when everyone thinks you are just being a bit precious about normal old MS when you are infact dealing with HG and actually being pretty good about the hell you are going through....

[~clover~]

I know. I had a friend (who annoys me no end) tell me that I just have to get on with it. Problem is I'm not a winger. I'm a suck it up & deal with it kind of person.
The tiredness was impossible. I was lucky with DS & was not going to risk another baby, because I knew I could have another girl, but DD3 suprised us.
I didn't leave the house for 5 months

[Sagres]

Problem is I'm not a winger. I'm a suck it up & deal with it kind of person.

YES YES YES - I hear you there! It was only when I read some of the stuff on that website that I really realised that if I do go through it again - which I expect I will if I get UTD again - I need to take it a bit more seriously and not understate things. My friends and family won't understand why I need help unless I am a bit more realistic about it. They aren't going to take it seriously if I won't.

Sorry to hear you were house bound for so long, it really feels like you have just lost months of your life doesn't it? So horrible.

[Diamond Girl]

I felt as though I lost months of my life too. I was so depressed as well but kept on taking my maxalon (and later zofran) hoping I would feel normal again. During the worst of it I could barely shower. With DS2, DH had to hold me in the shower because I was so weak that I could not stand up for 10 or so minutes and I only changed my clothes once every couple of days (yuk, gross!) because I was too ill and it took too much energy. I went down to 50kgs. A week later and I was in hospital for 4/5 days. Looking after DS1 was impossible. My mum looked after him for 6 weeks while DH was at work because I just couldnt. I felt like a whinger too but I didnt realise how bad it was.

Reading that site made me realise that I wasnt whinging at all. It is a real illness. I love the crackered section! I too wanted to scream everytime someone told me to just eat some crackers, or ginger, because ohh yes, zofran doesnt work on the nausea but ginger sure will. Yeah right!!

[Sagres]

I just love the term crackered and all that it means, so true! I was crackered so many times, more than I'd care to count.
Ah yes, washing ourselves, a tricky ordeal. I only bathed every second day because it just made me sick. I had a bath because standing for a shower was too much, and even then I did it with a bucket next to the tub. Oh the memories.
I think we need a HG support thread - what do you think? With any luck (?) I will be joining it in the next few months.

[Sagres]

Here, I created a thread: Support Thread for Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) Sufferers come and share your crackering stories!

[~clover~]

Oh, when pg with DD2 I tried so hard to avoid showering. The water smelt so bad to me. I couldn't drink tap water coz i could smell it, only bottled water.
Bread. The smell of bread was bad. Just the feel of some foods in my mouth made me vomit.

I was put on maxalon with DD2. They gave it to me through the drip & as a pill & all 3 times it send me sky high. It caused massive panic attacks in me (it is common I've since found out).

The guilt when you can't even look after your own kids When you decided no more coz you knew you wouldn't be able to take care of your kids, but it happens anyway. The isolation...

Oh I had people suggest ginger, ginger beer, blackmores morning sickness pills. Nothing stayed down long enough to work. Even panadol came straight back up.

I only put on a total of 4kgs in DD2's pregnancy & about 5 in DD3's coz of the amount of weight I lost first.

[Jacci PG]

I had 30 weeks of ms with charlie, even got put in hospitalwith it. But i was just complaining to my Belly budies that i have gotten thru this one quite easy! I am waiting for myself to become very sick........
I hope for your sake you get to go throug this pregnancy without the severe ms!!!!

[Diamond Girl]

Thankyou Jacci. I really needed to hear stories like yours at the moment. I hope I am lucky too.