r/HyperemesisGravidarum

My midwife mentioned the sickness might come back in third tri. I've been nauseous still most days but not vomiting. Trying to understand what to expect.

I am 8 weeks and this is my first pregnancy. I’m losing 3-5 pounds per week, I cant keep ANY food down, and I can maybe keep some liquid down here and there. I went to the ER for the third time this week two days ago. They gave me 5 bags of fluids. My ketones were >=160. They gave me IV zofran and Pepcid. I stayed overnight and through the night I did not throw up, only dry heaved. Come yesterday morning the APRN comes in and says that since I didn’t throw up for twelve hours I’m good to go. I told her I’m just going to end up back in the ER and she said “okay what do you want me to do, admit you? I can’t keep you your whole first trimester. Some people just get more morning sickness than others” and she told me to keep taking unisom and b6 (after I told her it does nothing) she said to take my phenergan suppositories and zofran sparingly and definitely not long term. So I get home and I’m okay for a few hours. Then I throw up and it doesn’t stop for the rest of the night. I woke up multiple times throwing up and then this morning I’m throwing up bile. What the hell am I supposed to do? I can’t work because of this, I feel like nobody is truly listening to me, and I. Am. So. Tired. Of throwing up. I’m starving ugh this sucks.

I’m desperate for some advice! I’ve been so miserable in pregnancy. Some days are really good for me and some moments are really good. I’ve just been so nauseous and there are days where I’m throwing up more than 8 times. I’ve tried to take Zofran and other oral nausea medication, but it just makes me sick. Sometimes I feel too sick to even take my prenatal.

I’m desperate for anything that works. Some days I just want to lay in bed and cry. What has been your experience with HG and does this sound like it? Does anything ever get better? I’m about 12 weeks now and thought I was over the hump but then my days got nauseous again and I’ve had a really terrible day today. Please let me know if you have any advice!

This is going to sound absolutely bonkers, but I definitely have seen people with HG say they felt nauseous before a positive test, so I’m asking the sub again for fresh input.

Ever since late late 6DPO-early 7DPO, I’ve had nausea that’s definitely on the moderate to more side. Nausea has NEVER been a PMS symptom for me…so it does make me wonder. I’m now 9DPO, still getting the nausea and food adversions. Other symptoms too I won’t bother to list, but yeah.

But that’s just crazy? Implantation usually isn’t even until 8-12DPO…so how can I feel nausea without the HCG? I’ve been testing since 4DPO (impatient lol) and negative negative.

There’s history of HG in my family so I’m definitely on the lookout, but I’m trying to not get my hopes up that this is pregnancy when it’s just so early. Definitely not asking if I’m pregnant, I know only think to tell is a test, but has anyone has nausea BEFORE their test even showed positive?

I can’t do this anymore. Im only 9+6 and i feel completely defeated. No medicine helps and i still have to work very demanding and hard 12 h nightshifts while puking constantly. On top of that i’m already so exhausted even when i stay in bed so everytime after a shift i feel dizzy from exhaustion plus i throw up for hours straight after finishing every time. HG destroys you completely. I feel like it’s not worth it.

I am nearly 7 months postpartum from HG pregnancy #3. After the first two, my PTSD was basically just in the form of when I got sick I would panic and absolutely fear throwing up. I just had an experience that made me question how far along I am (I’m definitely not pregnant). With my last pregnancy one of the things I absolutely could not do was brush my teeth. The smell and taste would make me so nauseous and half the time I would vomit while brushing. Well I just brushed my teeth which I’ve had no issue with since I gave birth, and I’ve been HG nauseous for the last 2 hours. My sense of smell is like it was when I was pregnant. I felt 100% fine before this but now I’m laying in bed and feel transported back to my last pregnancy.

My mom had 5 HG pregnancies and she told me after my first one that she still has extreme issues when she feels sick. She’s 70 😭 her youngest kid is 29. It just clicked with me that I’m probably going to be dealing with this for the rest of my life.

I'm 11 weeks now. HG started at week 7. I'm on a zofran/ phenergan regimen but despite taking it - it only prevents the actual act of vomiting. I still feel intensely nauseous all day from the moment I wake until the moment I sleep. It's really taking a toll on my mental health. I'm terrified this may last until the end of pregnancy... I get like one day every two weeks where I can function for a few hours but that is it... I feel like no one I talk to understands even when I'm telling them I've never felt this bad in my life. During any bug illness flu covid etc...I feel like people think I'm being dramatic... I'm stuck in the bed all day - can't really do any chores. It's really really rough.. I'm still dry heaving all day long, and feeling so so so terrible. I have no idea what to do and I'm losing hope.

Any of my fellow HG moms feel better after giving birth? I recently started school for nursing (all virtual or online) because I’ve been working as a dental assistant prior to becoming pregnant and had to quit my job because of how sick I have been. I’m 19 weeks and 5 days and I’m thankful I’ve made it to almost halfway but I am so fed up. I’m struggling to focus on school, I hardly have any energy to even want to workout and the zofran only makes me not vomit otherwise I’m still nauseous. It’s seriously affected my mental health and I just want to know that I have a good chance of getting my energy back and not feel so nauseated all the time.

Currently writing this from my hospital bed, today will be my 3rd night here after being in and out of the ER all week.

I didn't get any morning sickness with my last pregnancy until the end if the third trimester. My other pregnancies i never got super sick either (but only carried 1 to term) So I was especially unprepared for this.

This time is HELL. I'm currently 10w3d. I thought I was doing alright managing at home but a week ago something changed and now meds aren't doing it for me, this nausea is getting so unbearable how do you guys cope??

Current regimen: I have a port and get 8mg IV zofran and 50mg IV benadryl, both can be given up to 4 times a day (every 6 hrs) if needed. Thankfully I can also use it to give myself normal fluids at home, but that isn't cutting it anymore.

Last week I started taking unisom and b6 together, 3 times a day. I was given phenergan which helped a bit but now i can't keep the pills down even, so they switched the phenergan to a suppository which seems to be doing a little something at least.

I am allergic to comparing, Reglan and Haldol so those are all out. They gave me orally dissolving zyprexa in the er but it just made me sleepy.

They gave me a dose of steroids in the ER Friday and I think it may have helped a little? Didn't last long though.

I have also been getting IV pepcid while I am here. But no matter what I try, it seems I only get relief for an hour or 2 MAYBE 3 if I'm lucky, before the whole cycle starts again.

I have not been able to keep any food or liquids down since Sunday a week ago. I can sometimes stomach some ice chips here and there but even then it will come back up like an hour later. I'm so empty right now. I love this baby so much but I am terrified it's gonna get worse or something will happen to her because I can't take in enough.

Are there any other medications/treatments that people have tried here that I didn't mention? I would literally do a fancy jig in the street if It meant I got a little relief from this nausea

I’m being admitted for my induction in an hour. Right after finishing my phone call with the hospital, baby had to get me one last time and I threw up in the bathroom sink. Glad to know it was (hopefully) my last time for a while! Wish me luck!

Update: It was of course mind games. Period is here... And I realized just how much I want a sibling for our son.

We're trying but not trying for a second one. First pregnancy I had HG and it was horrible.

Anyways, I have not yet confirmed pregnancy (not yet 14 DPO, and negative early test), but the more time progresses I experience more and more nausea and fatigue. I don't recall these as normal pre-period symptoms.

My question is - did those of you with HG in the first pregnancy experience nausea as an early pregnancy sign the second time around?

I know I can just wait a few more days to find out, but I'm way too eager for that, lol.

I had HG in pregnancy and am concerned with my daughter’s development. She is 17 months now and not yet walking (close in that she can stand up while holding furniture and can walk if we hold her hands up).

Trying not to get worried, but she also had a delay in eating solid foods and needed to see a specialist. She also had some delay in developing some fine motor skills and needed some OT.

Not sure if they are all related in any way, but my mind keeps going back to HG and I’m curious if anyone has experienced anything like this with their child.

Just dont know where else to let this out without sounding like an awful human being.

Im 18 weeks pregnant with my second boy. My first son is the light of my life and i wouldnt change a thing about him, in fact i heavily debated even having a second child because i thought theres no way i can love another child as much as i love him.

I had a lot of siblings and wanted him to have that sibling relationship too, and ultimately decided that a moms heart grows and fills with equal love for all her kids and this is a fear many moms go through. Thus decided to try.
I got pregnant fast, and found out the gender via blood test at 11 weeks. And ive been pretty much depressed since then.
I realllyyy wanted a girl, ive known i wanted kids since before i was a teenager and always always pictured it being a baby girl.
Due to my HG and financial constraints this is our last child and a third is not an option.
So now i know girl is completely off the table.

And over the last few months/weeks we have found out that not one, not two, but THREE of our close friends all in their baby making era of their lives are all either just had a baby girl (as their second after their first was also a boy) or are currently pregnant due around the same time as me with a girl (both also had a boy first, this is their second and both girls)
And it just makes me so…sad and angry.

I know i sound horrible.
I KNOW ill love this baby when hes here but. Honestly i dont really tend to bond with them much when im just pregnant. I didnt have that intense motherly love and bond with my first until literally the second he was on my chest. But before then for 40 weeks i just didnt. So i know when hes out this feeling will fade away. But right now its so strong.
I keep wishing the tests were wrong and that at every ultrasound we go to suddenly its going to show he’s a girl instead. Which i know sounds horrible as well.
But why does it seem im the only one who suffers so much in pregnancy in our group, but also the only one who wasnt able to have what she’s dreamed of for a decade plus.

Idk how to even feel or process this for the next 22 weeks until he gets here and i can get over it when i hold him..

The smell of my *unscented* laundry detergent just caused me to vomit violently into the sink 😅

T minus 6 weeks until due date - the fact I'm counting down the weeks now and have survived 7 months of nausea and vomiting means I can access some dark humour about it all.

With my firstborn the nausea subsided as soon as the placenta exited my body and it's looking like that's what it's going to take this time too.

That first large glass of cold water that I gulp down and keep down is going to be GLORIOUS.

Love to you all x

Im currently 14 weeks pregnant been sick since 5 weeks and yesterday I went to er after throwing up 3 times in 20 minutes, and 7 times within 3 hours.

Anyways ER diagnosed me with HG, hey besties..

I received fluids and a zofran prescription for under the tongue instead of my regular zofran that I couldnt keep down..which seems to somewhat work, but I only got a 4 day supply?

Everytime I stop my zofran its 100x worse and I just don’t understand whats next. Like am I gonna have to take zofran everyday multiple times a day. Im exhausted 🫩

All I do is sleep, survive, repeat and ive never been so depressed in my life. People keep calling it morning sickness..this is not morning sickness!! If another person tells me to go on walks or eat ginger ill lose my mind.

Before I went to the ER yesterday I called my mom, and she yelled at me saying I need to take better care of my baby, i was honestly shocked because me being extremely ill has nothing to do with me not taking care of my baby.

My labs came back and I'm not surprised I have low iron, so my doc is having me start supplements. I'm looking for iron supplements that don't make HG worse than it already is, which is probably too much to ask. I've heard liquid iron supplements like Mary Ruth's are easier on the stomach, but I've tried it and it tastes like straight blood, the aftertaste was awful, the smell was strong, and I couldn't keep it down. I can't swallow the pills because if I open my mouth too wide or swallow too much I gag and then some. Iron also adds to constipation and I don't want to add that problem on top of all the zofran I'm already taking. I'd love to hear advice or stories about how y'all survived taking iron supplements while dealing with HG, I need your wisdom 🙏

I am 9 weeks today and suffering alot. Started a new job today (im a nurse in the hospital) and havent told my manager yet. So i secretly go and puke when i need. Anybody else working and how do you do it?

So I had mild-moderate HG with my previous 2 pregnancies. I don’t remember nausea starting until about 5.5 weeks though and by 6 weeks the vomiting absolutely kicked my butt. I went on medications early and that helped to keep me semi functional, spending only about 2 days in bed each week. Both pregnancies I was able to sleep about 2 hours during the day with made a huge difference.
Yesterday I found out I’m pregnant again as I expected my period but woke up with nausea and tested. This morning I’m struggling to eat and have mild nausea. I’m feeling anxious as I don’t Remember feeling anything this early last pregnancies. Has anyone had experience where they felt symptoms earlier and ended up with worse HG? I have a 2 and 4 year old who don’t nap so also won’t be able to sleep. Did most of you find your HG worsened with subsequent pregnancies? I’m feeling so anxious about what lies ahead!