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Why would you want to? It's not healthy for yourself or your baby if you're that sick.

I don't know if you need meds or not, but my cousin recently went through extreme hyperemesis in her second pregnancy that was worse than she experienced with her first. She was hospitalized routinely like at least once a week for fluids. (mabye she got meds, but I don't know.) She also needed some kind of mental therapy. She's a tough girl, too. But she was passing out in public places (target and in front of her work). I hope you don't get to that point, but try not to hesitate to get the medical assistance you need. Best of luck with your pregnancy!!

@hony bologna: oh goodnesd, the vertigo is awful, and I didn't have HG. Zofran gave me really bad vertigo but was the only thing that made the nausea bearable. In order to keep the vertigo at bay, I had to take it while I was still laying down, and stay in bed for 10 minutes or so.

I hope that you can find something that works for you. The ladies over at helpher.org might have some ideas. That's a great resource for HG.

@hony bologna: most of the meds made me too tired to do my daily work. i didn't have HG, I was just throwing up about 3x/day, but i was able to maintain hydration.
i have a 3 yr old. at 28 weeks, i only vomit occasionally now (1 every 1-2 weeks).
i did need the B6 supplement very much, but the other stuff didn't help
it's doable but you have to be pretty vigilant about your hydration level and it can screw with your ability to work out, to stay awake, and to chase your big kid.

you really have to work hand in hand with your ob

ETA: i definitely did not have vertigo (only felt faint from low blood sugar and/or low hydration)--i would ask if you can get something different for that--any kind of treatment, whether medication or not. that puts you at a fall risk--not good for a pregnant mama who needs to chase around a toddler

@hony bologna: helping keep you from dehydration, is still helping and worth it. As far as I know, not much helps the nausea-- I never came across anything besides sleep to escape it. I have a support group on FB I can add you to if you'd like-- hang in there and hugs

@hony bologna: I think most HG sufferers have debilitating nausea even when medicating, so to the extent that your question is about that, I can speak to that. The reason why I was harping about medication is that I have found that lots of doctors don't have experience in medicating it properly, and I think that sufferers often have a hard time finding proper treatment - I use did! Even with tons of medication I had very very bad nausea with my first and extreme debilitating nausea with my second from about 5 weeks until a couple weeks after she was born. My first was 12 months when I got pregnant with my second. We were planning on having 4 close together because we didn't get started until we were in our 30s.

With the first pregnancy, it was really really awful and confusing because I thought that it would end at some point and I would feel better and get this wave of energy that people talked about, and then that never happened. With my second I was prepared to be sick the entire time, but misjudged how challenging it would be with a toddler. I was working, but was minimally functional at my office job, worked from home a fair bit, and went on leave early because I couldn't cope anymore. It was like being inside a nightmare for 9 months. It was so horrifying I have trouble really thinking about it. I felt like I missed out on almost a whole year of my first child's life because I basically couldn't do anything with her, and was cranky and felt just so terrible. I would just lay there, and try to get her to watch tv, which then made me feel guilty. I have really severe food aversion, like even seeing a picture of certain foods could set me off. My toddler would try and feed me things, and it would totally set everything off, so I spent a lot of time getting her drive thru and having her eat it in the car, which also made me feel super crappy as a parent. I am unable to prepare food with HG and I can't even really keep it in the house. Just knowing there was food in the fridge was enough to set me off. So I felt horrible that my kid was like totally unable to snack from our house. I am a really accommodating person who doesn't like to make a fuss, so I also felt like I got pushed into situations where I would overexert myself or not keep to the kind of regimented schedule that I needed to take care of myself. So yeah, it was so so bad.

So I think what I am planning to do differently this time, most importantly, is spacing the kids out a bit more. I need both my kids to be a bit more independent, especially with food and play, in order to make it go a bit more smoothly. If they are both able to play independently, then I can get more rest, or participate just by being there without really having to engage. We have decided to only have one other child, so that has helped a bit psychologically and gives us time to space out the kids a bit more. The other important thing I have decided is to absolutely not feel guilty about anything that I have to do to be able to make it through a pregnancy. If my kids have 100 happy meal toys because we only eat drive thru for 9 months, so be it. If I do a half-assed job versus being the parent I want to be, it's temporary and I will get it under control and get better once we have a new baby. I will absolutely do what I need to do to take care of myself, and not worry for a second about accommodating other people or being nice because I have a serious temporary health problem and I can go back to my regular self after. And I think the other main thing I would do is make sure that we have extra support - a regular baby-sitter for when I need the extra support. I think that last pregnancy we had my ILs out to "help" here and there, and they were not helpful so I don't want anything that aggravates the situation and I will just say a clear "no". My parents are not helpful and I expected them to be, and now I know that they won't be so we need to find someone outside of the family to provide that extra support when things are really bad.

my sister was really really sick with her second and the meds weren't helping - so they hooked her up to her own IV that she administered every night, and had the bolus (sp?) changed every couple of weeks. It helped her a TON! by 20 weeks she was much better!

@hony bologna: your nausea sounds like mine--not much throwing up, but terrible stomach pain and nausea 24/7. My first pregnancy, I only tried Zofran and barely made it through. I am not a "resilient" person when it comes to being sick. I think the Zofran didn't help the nausea at all (like you experienced) but literally just quieted the gagging sensation in the back of my throat a little.

My second pregnancy, I had the toddler to take care of, so I decided to come out gun blazin the second time and was on Zofran + diclectin (unisom + b6 in my case) by 6 weeks and added in Reglan around 9 weeks. Continued all 3 till around 23 weeks when I stopped Zofran and then continued taking the other 2 until 27-28 weeks when I was able to just use Diclectin occasionally till the end. I either responded different or just found a "winning " combo, because although I was still nauseous 24/7, I went from maybe a 10 to an 8 on the scale, which was just enough to make me feel like I was surviving.

SO hopefully you'll have a similar experience and some new combo will work this time that didn't last time. One key for me was upping the Diclectin. A lot of people can take just 1 pill at night, but I didn't notice an improvement until I was taking 3 a day.

I did have the side effects you've mentioned--dizziness and obviously extreme tiredness, since Reglan and Diclectin cause sleepiness, but my body adjusted after a couple of weeks and the dizziness and headaches got better.