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‘Sick, pregnant women are having to advocate for their medication’
by Amanda Cassidy
26th Jan 2023
26th Jan 2023
The reimbursement scheme for Cariban (an eye-wateringly expensive miracle drug which treats severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy) comes with a catch which creates needless access inequalities and means some women are spending weeks hospitalised as a result. Hypermesis Ireland have called the system "cruel" and "illogical". We hear from the women who are suffering.
“My reality on near daily basis consists of severe vomiting so bad that I have ended up vomiting blood and wetting myself. It’s so bad it’s left me hospitalised.” Sabrina Hill is a Cork-based hair salon owner and influencer. When she was seven weeks into her second pregnancy she began feeling horrendous. “I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I was curled into the foetal position, I thought I would die I felt so...
