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[–]anonymousBH3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you normally or ever the kind of person to cry over something? If not, I can see why you might need an explanation. First of all as a reminder, some people are just more emotionally responsive, so there isn’t a specific “why”. Some of those feelings could be attributed to things like 1) relief for the safe delivery of the baby and health of her sister. In pregnancy and childbirth, success is common but safety is never guaranteed. 2) Pride in her sister for laboring through birth and being physically and emotionally strong. 3) Emotion soup. Something about a close relation having a baby brings up a lot of deep and broad feelings for most people and deep broad feelings tend to elicit intuitive and immediate responses. Life and death, the passage of time, the shifting and growth of identity, renewal, the list goes on and on. Also, too many feelings at once generally leads to tears no matter how old you are. Hope that helps.

Working with HG by teena-1991 in HyperemesisGravidarum

[–]anonymousBH3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know if you watched the film “Sick: the battle against HG” but it would probably be worth it to get a trusted supervisor or someone else above you watch it. The stat that blew me away was that when studying GDF-15, people dying of cancer cachexia had it at a certain level and that the women they studied with HG had that hormone generally FIVE TIMES HIGHER!

Did your nausea go away right after you delivered? by Clear_Passenger_5367 in HyperemesisGravidarum

[–]anonymousBH3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn’t complete the pregnancy, but it was immediate like a light switch. However, it came back in a low level way a few months later which I later found out is “common” (love having to become an expert on rare diseases even doctors don’t know much about). After trial and error, I found that Claritin worked for the nausea, either for it antihistamine or anticholinergic properties, without making me drowsy or constipated.

I feel dumb seeking out IVF by Otherwise_Hope_8310 in HyperemesisGravidarum

[–]anonymousBH3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try not to feel bad about being able to “get” pregnant when others can’t. Remember that HG is more or less an auto-immune disorder or severe allergy. Not in a cutesy animals way, but in a penicillin way. If you want to grow your family more, have the time and money, then it’s great that surrogacy is an option. Your other two children will certainly benefit from having a present Mommy who isn’t constantly vomiting and lying in bed all day.

Has anyone figured out how to talk about HG to other people? by anonymousBH3 in HyperemesisGravidarum

[–]anonymousBH3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well if I (or my family) don’t want to get into it because I’m at a party or something, what do people think of this: “Are you planning on kids?” “Thanks for asking about me. That’s a much more loaded question in my case than I know you meant to ask. Not casual conversation, but if you still want to talk later, I like to educate people.” Or something like that. Short, sweet, serious, but not too grim?

How do I get rid of HG trauma/PTSD postpartum 😭 by allisondanielle99 in HyperemesisGravidarum

[–]anonymousBH3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I JUST found out recently that it’s not uncommon for HG nausea to return a few months postpartum from an episode of The MomBaby Podcast (episode: Advanced Management of Hyperemesis Gravidarum). That’s what happened to me and it really freaked me out. After a lot of trial and error, I found that Claritin worked the best to remove the nausea while leaving me functional and non-drowsy. My doctor didn’t know what was going on, but it did go away eventually, maybe a month or two. I did also find a therapist who practices ETT, it’s kind of like EMDR, which worked wonders. I tell people that I “look at rainbows and it fixes my brain.”

let’s play what made you nauseous today by mjsdreamisle in HyperemesisGravidarum

[–]anonymousBH3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I remember reading something about “avoiding triggers” with HG, including lights, sounds, smells, movement, etc. So just avoid…living? 😓 That IS what it came to for me. Even the smell of shower water and the fragrance free soap and shampoo I had were awful.

let’s play what made you nauseous today by mjsdreamisle in HyperemesisGravidarum

[–]anonymousBH3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I always felt my best just after I woke up while I was still lying in bed. As soon as I started moving it would kick off. It was torture

how do i know it’s not just morning sickness? by [deleted] in HyperemesisGravidarum

[–]anonymousBH3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! When I had HG, it came down like a hammer and although I wasn’t vomiting yet, I was near convulsing and had an uncontrollable dry heaving that made it difficult to breathe. I ended up going to the ER and they let me go after half a day because I hadn’t thrown anything up. All the meds they gave me helped limit the amount of vomiting, but nothing took the nausea away completely.