r/HyperemesisGravidarum

Hi everyone!So I am at a point where I'm contemplating termination.This is very much wanted pregnancy but I am not sure I can go on anymore.My symptoms started at 7w and I have been put on Zofran,Metroclopamide and some antacids.

I am essentially bedridden and have missed work since around 8 weeks,I have been hospitalised (only time I felt better).Since week 13,my vomiting was following some sort of pattern (two days break and one day of vomiting once).While I still felt crappy,I could at least have those two days to think positively about the future but today I am in the worst of it.

I have vomitted 6 times in a day( the highest yet),I am very dizzy and hopeless.My Dr said there's nothing else they can do and I just need to toughen up. My partner is a medic so he managed to set up an IV for me in the house but I still vomitted.It's like it's getting worse and I have no bandwidth to survive.I am very sad because my partner and I planned this baby but even he is at a point of agreeing that perhaps termination is the last option to explore.

That would mean never having children of our own and that breaks my heart.

I’m currently 11 weeks pregnant, and I’ve noticed something really strange.
On Sundays or days when I’m home, I feel almost completely normal. Last Sunday I ate everything I wanted and barely had any nausea all day. I even started thinking maybe I was just not eating enough on workdays.
I leave for work around 10:30 AM. Today I made sure to eat breakfast. I had idli sambar (not too much, but enough), yet I still started feeling nauseous afterwards.
Im eating every two hour and following whatever being told.
It’s making me wonder if this is psychological, stress-related, or something else. Has anyone else experienced nausea that’s much worse only on workdays, even when you’re eating properly?
Would love to hear if anyone has gone through something similar or has any ideas……

I saw studies say 52,84,90% effective in reducing nausea can anyone share their experience with it?

I am 6w2d with a IVF pregnancy. I had HG with my first successful pregnancy in 2023. This time I worked with my REI and HG specialist to try and prepare my body to hopefully lessen the potential/severity of HG. I’ve been taking supplements for 9 months prior to transfer and I trialed taking metformin but it was stressing my body so much my REI wanted me off of it. I took it for 3 months and didn’t get past 1000mg (I had to actually get pregnant first and my body being so stressed was not good for an embryo transfer.) The sickness is really setting in and I’m having PTSD flashbacks and I am terrified. I thought I knew what was coming. I thought I did everything I could to prepare my body and mind to do this again. I am so disappointed that it’s already this severe again. I was so hopeful that the supplements and metformin would help in someway. I don’t know how I am going to make it through this again, with a 2.5 year old this time. A big part of the spacing we chose with IVF was so my daughter was older and I wouldn’t miss out on too much of her being a baby because I’m too sick. But I’m already a shell of a mother. I just feel so alone and no one understands. This baby and pregnancy is SO wanted, but I just want to cry and cry and cry. I feel like since it is an IVF pregnancy and I am so incredibly blessed to be pregnant with a second miracle baby that I just have to grin and bear it when I am crumbling inside.

Hi everyone. Like so many of you here, I suffer from debilitating HG. Unfortunately, I also struggle with severe prenatal depression and anxiety. I've read that people with HG are at a higher risk for prenatal depression.

The moment I find out I'm pregnant, it's like my brain completely turns against me. Even with very wanted pregnancies, I become convinced I've made a terrible mistake and ruined my life. It happened with my daughter too, even though she was planned and deeply wanted. The strange part is that the second she was born, those feelings disappeared. I was so happy she was here. It's almost as if something about being pregnant itself completely changes my brain chemistry.

On top of the emotional struggle, I've developed HG with each pregnancy. During my first pregnancy, it was milder, and I had a very understanding work-from-home job, so I somehow managed. This time, it hit earlier and much harder. I also have a high-stress tech job (still WFH), and a two-year-old who thankfully was in daycare during the workday. Even so, I couldn't be fully present for my job or my daughter. I felt like I was failing at everything.

The constant physical misery from HG, combined with the overwhelming depression telling me there was no way through this, ultimately led me to terminate the pregnancy before I sought the help I truly needed. At the time, I genuinely believed it was my only way out. I was 6.5 weeks along.

The hardest part is that as soon as it was over and the HG and depression lifted, I was flooded with regret. Now I'm grieving the loss of a very wanted baby and mourning the fact that my body and mind failed me in a way that had irreversible consequences.

Part of me wants to take a few months to grieve, heal, and try again, this time more prepared, with an HG treatment plan in place and a commitment to seek mental health support immediately. But another part of me is terrified of ever going through this again.

Has anyone experienced something similar? I'd really appreciate hearing from others who have dealt with both HG and severe prenatal depression. Right now I just feel incredibly alone.

I’m not a doctor, but I was experiencing the most god awful morning sickness, I was on diclegis, promethazine and zofran w no relief. Went up in dose on my mirtazapine and boom sickness gone overnight. You can be on a low dose. It also helps with sleep. It’s an antidepressant but also a antiemetic. There’s actually studies done on it for HG. Worth a shot.

The recommended 1.4-1.5 mg of thiamin during pregnancy is not enough if you have HG or are carrying multiples.

Thiamin is not a treatment for Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), but it sometimes helps symptoms. Even if thiamin does not improve your symptoms, you need to take it to protect your heart and brain and baby(s)' development.

Learn more at Hyperemesis.org/.b1. Be sure to download our Fact Sheet to share with your provider.

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Currently pregnant at about 5.5 weeks! I just had my son last year & it was not an HG pregnancy. But prior to him I had two HG pregnancies that resulted in an abortion bc it was so brutal & I wasn’t mentally ready then the other resulted in a miscarriage.

I am hoping with everything this pregnancy is like my last and there isn’t HG especially since I would have to postpone medical school and be bed ridden since it was absolutely brutal and extreme before (lost 10 pounds in 1.5 weeks in first HG pregnancy).

When did your symptoms start to show?

Edit: currently about to be 6 weeks and zero symptoms. I’m hopeful it isn’t an HG pregnancy🤞

I need help. I’m 3 maybe 4 weeks pregnant I’m a week into morning sickness and I’m dying. I’m a Christian woman who dreams of being a mother but I don’t feel like I can take even 5 more minutes. Please help me. I’m already taking zofran, emetrol, b6 when I can. I’m genuinely scared. I’m also 22 married 2 weeks ago, we “can” afford this stressful but we can do it and while it’s earlier than I thought I can have this baby but I’m sitting here losing my mind and feeling horrible and scared it’s going to get worse everyday for months also my mom had HG sorry for typos I’m not doing well. Please help me

Update. Telehealth visit getting the prescription B6 and unison told to power through for a few days before they’ll consider anything else because they don’t want to risk me or the baby. Fucking exhausting I cried on the visit only a man could say this to a woman and of course I cannot say how dire this is because if I mention the word abortion in Texas it’s well…

Update it was fucking NyQuil he is a POS telling me I need to stick it out. Waited ours and we’ve now spent $600-700 out of pocket

I've been in the hospital twice, taking two different meds, and having at home IV infusions. STOP RECOMMENDING THINGS. yes i've tried, smelling lemons, ginger chews, peppermint, those dumb ass drops, cold showers, saltines before getting out of bed, oyster crackers instead of saltines. I'm so sick of everyone thinking the have the magical remedy. Like even different culture remedies are getting overwhelming to be recommended. how do i kindly respond when all i want to do is start punching throats

Has anyone experienced slight spotting just one time with absence of symptoms for two days and everything was ok? I’m debating on going to the hospital since it’s a weekend and the office is closed. I’m so worried!

Talking to a friend at a fireworks show about my hellacious pregnancy nausea when an acquaintance butts in…”oh have you heard of the preggie pops?” i’ve been hospitalized twice and have a rotation through 4 prescriptions but preggie pops are for sure a cure (obviously tried and failed)

So as the title suggests I need advice.

Bit of back story - I am 20 years old and this is my first pregnancy, it wasn't exactly planned but when we found out we were very excited. I found out very early like around 3-4 weeks, I tested on the first day of missed period as a joke and it came back positive. Weeks 3/4 to around 6.5 were a bliss I just had tender breasts nothing else. Then I started throwing up out of no where and couldn't keep anything down even water and got admitted to hospital at 7 weeks and diagnosed with HG. I've been on cyclizine and metoclopramide and am now 12 weeks, meds helped a bit but it comes and goes in waves, today has been the worst in about 2 weeks and I've tried everything I can think of - ginger biscuits, crackers, teas, eating smaller things, staying hydrated but these don't help on the bad days or at all tbh.

I need your most unhinged things that helped you guys even just a tiny bit, eg I have found that sometimes (not all the time) lemonade or sniffing lemon juice can make the nausea go for an hour so, I need things like this. Please I am begging. I have considered abortion and prayed for miscarriage it's been so bad but in my heart I really want this baby and just want to push through and I feel awful about this I'm desperate

Thanks guys and I hope you're all okay :)

This is my second pregnancy with HG but first baby (hopefully) I've been a lot better at advocating for myself. I'm 7 weeks and already fought to get IV infusions at home. i had my first one yesterday and oh boy it helped me feel a lot better when it comes to bing dehydrated. I'm on zofran and Doxylimine and am still just always nauseous. I can eat though so i'm considering that a win! i'm going to talk to my DR about a more permanent situation than a new IV every three days so hopefully there's more options there.
i feel like doing my research ahead of time and being determined to not be fucking miserable this time has helped flipped this experience completely.

for anyone struggling there are options, and yes i mean multiple options. find what you think would work for you and don't let your dr tell you no

What did u ladies use to feel normal? I’ve had raglan that didn’t work, zofran 4mg didn’t work either! i was smoking weed but i eventually couldn’t take the smell so i stopped that too! please tell me there is something that can be used to feel normal and want to eat and drink! i can’t take this anymore i can’t do it! im thinking of terminating and just not having kids at all

I’m 20, in the UK, and suffering with HG for the second time, i’ve tried cyclizine and 2 different forms of stematil, i started to feel a bit better but have gone downhill again. I’ve had to quit my job because i can’t cope (i was a teaching assistant), i haven’t been able to get out of bed apart from to go and hug the toilet, i’m absolutely miserable. i’m already on 2 antidepressants and i just feel absolutely hopeless, part of my wishes i never got pregnant, i’m struggling to be excited for this baby when all i feel is nauseated, i’ve been living off of Pringles and crackers and water, i’ve lost around 6lbs in a week, i’m just really stuck. any advice would be greatly appreciated♥️

To the nurses and doctors that have been CARRYING me through this shit thank you. My three times a week IV and vitamins are life savers and the consistent effort to make me feel better with meds. Just feeling very grateful.

This is my third pregnancy with HG and it’s been beating me up. I am on diclegis 3x a time since 5weeks and still experienced symptoms. Sometimes throwing up 8x a day with the meds and haven’t been able to leave my bed. I just turned 9 weeks and haven’t thrown up once the day before and today feel 1/3 nauseous of what I typically do. Is this something I should be concerned about? I’ve been sick until the very end with my previous two pregnancies.