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

[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.