Would we get hospitalized for sever morning sickness?

[tinytoes]

South of Ireland

 

[Mellymoomin06]

Ahh wont move there then xx

 

[redbear]

the whole paying for prescriptions get me - my hubby didnt buy his inhaler because it was £14 something and he was skint a few week later he couldn't breath so went to a and e was put on a nebuliser for hours had tests got him breathing all free - she how much did that cost the nhs for the sake of giving him his inhalers? (this was a few year ago and he had never been bad with his asthma before) :S

 

[evie_smith]

We don't pay for our prescriptions as my husband works part time and I don't pay for the kids things as most thing I can get on minor alememts same as me and hubby loads of things you can get on that if you ask in pharmacy and while pregnant you also do not need to pay for your meds we just went into asda yesterday and got paracetamol and cough syrup for the kids and cough syrup for my husband all free

 

[redbear]

yeh i wasnt pregnant we didnt have any kids and he worked and i was at college but over the age limit so there was nothing for us.

 

[evie_smith]

Age limit? My husband is 37 and can still get his things free

 

[mirime]

I have every sympathy for Kate, just having ms as bad as I had it was horrible

What has upset me though is finding the Pregnancy Sickness Support website through all the media attention at the moment and finding out the GP I saw was even crapper than I thought at the time. I went to see her because I couldn't keep fluids down between meals and could manage maybe 2-3 mouth fills with a reasonable sized meal. Couldn't keep water down at all (still can't) and I was worried about becoming dehydrated. I was probably managing 6-7 mouth fulls of liquid a day supplemented with wet foods (chicken stew basically) and if possible an orange or some melon. If I was awake I felt sick, was being sick (only 3 or 4 times a day) or was dry heaving.

GP said there was nothing they could do unless I became dehydrated, seemed offended when she made suggestions of things to try and I said I'd tried them, and snapped that I couldn't expect to drink large amounts in one go. She mentioned anti-nausea drugs but recommended I not take any and left me feeling it would be unnecessarily risky to do so.

I was in tears yesterday when I read on the support website that the above was completely wrong and it would have been safe to take something. Luckily I never got bad enough to go to hospital, but if I had when it could have been avoided... Of course I might still have decided against medication, but at least it would have been based on correct advice plus it often makes things easier to bear if we know there is something we can do if we can't cope. I could have weighed up whether any risks were worth the reduction in stress and upset the situation was causing me.

 

[Sue Clare]

It sounds like an awful condition & I feel sorry for anyone suffering from it!

 

[BunnyN]

I don't think I quite had HG but I had really bad MS. The only way I could drink water for a couple of weeks was to do it at night. I took a bottle to bed with me and drank as much as I could every time I woke up, which I did lots because I kept needing to get up to pee. It was annoying but at least it stopped me from getting dehydrated because when I drank in the day it would come straight back up, along with any food I had managed to keep down. It also meant I didn't have to pee so much in the day time which was good because pretty much every time I tried to get up during the day I'd be sick.

 

[Bonfire Bride]

I feel very sorry for anyone with such severe morning sickness.

She is so very thin, it would be extremely unhealthy for her and the baby if she were to lose any more weight.

We get all prescriptions free in Wales..including our travel vaccinations??? strange..

But we have to pay for ALL plastic bags.

 

[redbear]

its free if your in full time education age up to 19 after that your meant to pay.

 

[Linny1989]

You not got an excepmtion card? x

 

[redbear]

no it was a few years ago we where not on any benefits so not except im afraid. x

 

[Linny1989]

I think anyone gets them? My sister works and so does her partner and they got 1 x

 

[redbear]

oh them u pay for? no we didn't get one because we only need refils every few month it was more to buy the card. i have a card now but only since i was pregnant but wasn't at the time.

 

[Linny1989]

Oooh ok yea. x

 

[mirime]

But we have to pay for ALL plastic bags.

I'm so used to that now that when we go visit family in England its weird not to have to pay. When they brought it in BBC Wales news filmed in the store my dh works in and he got filmed charging a customer for a bag!

I think the idea of free prescriptions was to save money overall as people would get things treated early rather than them trying to save money not paying for a prescription and then ending up in hospital.

 

[Bonfire Bride]

Yeah, it felt really strange when we were shopping in Tamworth and I had loads of bags for FREE!!!

I do think though, that is wales, scotland and ireland get free prescriptions, then England should too.

I have been so rough with MS...no chance of me losing weight though...eating is the only thing that suppresses it...but the nausea is with me ALL day at the moment. Think everyone in works thinks i'm coming into work every morning with a serious hangover because of all the dry heaving...NICE! X

 

[Mrsyogibear]

By some of the comments on here it's clear that some of you ladies have been LUCKY enough not to experienced severe sickness!!!

And no it's not just royality that gets hopsitalised, it's anyone who's sickness is so bad it makes them dehidrated and very ill.

when pregnant with my first i had bad sickness that lasted the whole pregnancy.
my second sickness was easy to deal with and went at about 11weeks.

with my youngest i had hyperemesis (severe ms) i was so ill i couldnt keep anything down food or water. i was hospialised as i couldnt stop being sick even when i had brought everything up there was the lining of my stomach, i had a awful headache with dehiration, i was really really ill. it lasted the whole pregnancy but first 20weeks most foods i ate i threw up.

its nothing like normal sickness!

 

[littlemonkey]

I haven't read this post for a day or two and now you're talking about 5p carrier bags and free prescriptions?! Wtf?! Ha ha!!

Everyone come and join me in North Wales - the free prescription haven!