PICC line- HG

This may be long but, I will try to be concise. This is my second pregnancy with HG however, the first time dissolvable Zofran managed it okay once it was introduced at 18 weeks.

This time around, I’ve been on Zofran since 6 weeks along. I was managing okay at first, still needed fluids at triage occasionally. Then they added phenergan suppositories when things escalated around 11 weeks and it’s been awful ever since. The oral and suppository meds are NOT working. In a week I lost over ten pounds and hadn’t kept any liquids down at all. I’ve been in the hospital now for a week.

They had Zofran and Phenergan in my IV for the first 5 days and I felt amazing! I was eating well, had an awesome appetite, and wasn’t struggling at all. Then yesterday they transitioned me back to oral and suppository and I immediately lost my appetite and started vomiting the little I could eat again. They tried a feeding tube my first night I arrived which was truly torture and made me vomit. Now, they say I’m a candidate for a PICC line. I really really really don’t want that. They said it would be only for nutrition and my meds would still be oral and suppository so, I’ll still be vomiting, it will just keep me from being malnourished.

I’m so frustrated. It feels like they just want to get me out of here, they don’t actually want to help me feel better and stay better. I don’t know what I’m expecting, honestly. It’s so insanely frustrating to me that I feel so great on IV meds and I feel like trash otherwise but, obviously there’s no realistic way for me to be home and get the IV meds. I guess I’m just venting here but, I feel like such a nuisance to my doctor and I desperately want to go home to my toddler. At the same time, I’m worried that I spent over a week alone in the hospital and away from my family (and spent a fortune) just to put a temporary bandaid on the problem. I’m afraid to go home and vomit every few minutes while my toddler watches in horror wondering if Mommy is okay. It’s genuinely heartbreaking and I can’t continue to do that to her but, I’m at a complete loss.

Thanks for reading, I just had to get this out. If anyone has experience specifically with a PICC line with HG, please share.