Hyperemesis Gravidarum

***Disclaimer: Detailed & Graphic!***

Well it looks like my luck ran out on my "Schizo" medicine -aka- Compazine. Saturday I started getting sick again & it just didn't stop!

Monday night, John woke up about a quarter til 11pm to drink a bottle. I felt terrible. I was super dizzy, hot & I had that tight bulging feeling in my throat. John's formula is by far the WORST at making me nauseous & almost always makes me vomit. Well, I managed to get John out of his bed & I brought him into the living room with me so that I could lay on the floor to feed him. I started to feed him sitting up & this is when I got a big whiff of the present he had just left for me in his diaper; the #2 culprit for sending me to the bathroom!

Well, with the formula & now his dirty diaper, my body just had it. I quickly took his bottle out of his mouth (he hasn't quite got the hang of holding it steady) & replaced it with his binky & took off running to the bathroom. I obviously had my mouth covered so I wouldn't spew anything onto the carpet but little did I know that this was going to be projectile vomit. So, having my hands over my mouth caused me to inhale it up my nose & breath it back in. Seriously, scariest 20-30 seconds on my life! I could not breath. I could gasp in but not out because I was still vomiting at that point. Talk about utterly disgusting. To top it all off I had a screaming baby on the floor because he's hungry & has a dirty diaper. So I had to call the house phone to have my mom come take care of John while I cleaned up my mess. UGH.

I felt absolutely terrible. I sneezed & was blowing my nose for the next 2 hours!! I couldn't breathe at all, my chest felt like it was on fire & I was just a hot mess.

After getting on my knees & begging to be able to breathe so I could get some kind of sleep, I felt really prompted to google inhaling vomit. What I found; aspiration pneumonia, chemical pneumonia, etc really scared me but I stumbled upon "home remedies" for relieving symptoms. I felt prompted to go take a hot steamy shower. Anyone whose pregnant knows this is a big fat NO. But the prompting just got stronger so I did.

30 minutes later, I had food coming out of my nose whenever I blew ( like the size of my pinky ). Talk about putrid!!! But, I was so grateful to be able to breathe & sleep well.

However, yesterday I couldn't hold anything down. No food or any liquid. It was 1pm & I hadn't even had to use the bathroom yet. My lips & mouth were dry, I had a headache & I was really light headed. Into the ER I went. I was so lucky I didn't have to wait. I walked up to the desk, told them what was wrong & they sent me straight into Triage. I stepped on the scale & was down 3 lbs from my Prenatal appointment last Monday.

A couple of nurses came to help me in Triage & they just loved John. One nurse got a big kick out of his nick-name being "Pickle". She came by a lot just to talk to him & when he was fussy the last 40 minutes or so of my ER visit, my mom walked the hall with him & I could hear all the nurses come over & talk to him. He was loving all the attention; cracking himself up & being a little show off! At least someone had fun in the ER lol.

I was diagnosed officially with Hyperemesis Gravidarum. I could've told them that a while ago because I had suspected I had it with John too, just not as severe. This is not just "morning sickness" or even "bad morning sickness". Women are often hospitalized because of this & lose weight through out their pregnancies. Not healthy for mom or baby at all. A lot of ignorant women think "Oh, I'd love to lose weight during pregnancy!"... they don't think about how that happens. On a GOOD day I'm in the bathroom about  3-6 times with my head in the toilet. Nothing stays down. I get super cold, shaky, I get headaches, lightheadedness, dizziness, and even more nauseous from having an empty stomach all the time. Also, the lack of energy. I know that most pregnant women don't have energy but this is in a league of its own. Not only are you pregnant tired but now your body is completely worn down from not getting nutrition or hydration. Okay, rant over... It just really upsets me when people say "Oh, I wish I could lose weight like that being pregnant." No... no, you really don't.

 In the ER they listened to the baby's heartbeat, which was 150 bpm... much slower than it was last week. I felt like that was my fault for not being able to provide adequate nutrition but they tried to assure me that the baby could just be sleeping. Anyways, they also took a chest X-Ray since I had inhaled a good amount of vomit the night before, took 5 viles of blood, urine & hooked me up to fluids & Zofran through the IV.

It was wonderful to get some relief from the sickness! I've been sick since about 6 weeks gestation & have lost 15 lbs now. I'm back in my pre-pregnancy jeans; zipped & buttoned & use my belly band to hold them up, actually. I asked for suppository anti-nausea medication since I can't keep anything down & the doctor who treated me agreed. So, I'm now on Compazine in suppository form. Nice, huh. So far so good. With the pill form of Compazine, I went 5 days without getting sick (by far more successful than Zofran or Phenergan), so we'll see if the suppositories are the answer. If those don't work I'll have to have a PICC line inserted to receive injections.... not good!

That's what's been going on with me; never a dull moment, I tell ya. Nathan's leave was FINALLY approved (we've been waiting like 3 weeks!) and he will be here in 5ish days! I am so excited! Well, that's about all really... I'll update Friday since that's my weekly pregnancy update day.