Youn know how every flu season, the symptoms and effects of the flu seem to take on a different form? Sometimes it’s puking, sometimes it’s a horrible sore throat, sometimes it’s diarrhea?
I fely just fine until about 5:00 this morning. I woke up with a stomach ache that felt a little bit odd, so I found a plastic bucket, just in case. A few minutes later … BLARRRARRRGH! Loud, forceful puking, practically throwing my body into a seizure. At 7:00, again there was a little stomach ache, and BLARRRARRRGH! The vomit looked like it came from the deep reaches of the small intestine. 9:00, like clockwork … BLARRRARRRGH! More greyish/brownish chunks. After abot six or seven gur-wrenching hurls, I felt fine. 11:00 came, and … BLARRRARRRGH! There were no chunks left, apparently … just a thick yellow fluid.
So, was that part of this year’s flu? Food poisoning? Something else?
What you describe is most likely not influenza. Perhaps a gastro-intestinal virus or food poisoning.
The symptoms of influenza are pretty consistant. Sudden onset, high fever, terrible body aches, and a very nasty, pretty dry cough. And it lasts for a good week or longer. In adults, GI symptoms are pretty rare.
For me, if it was the flu, it came as a surprise:
Was feeling great last Sunday, until about 6:00, when I started getting a sore throat. Throat so sore by 12:30 I couldn’t swallow. Throat better by morning, but I was achey and just could not get up. Slept all day Monday, Tuesday. Tried to go to work Wednesday, couldn’t stay awake. Went home, slept all day. Developed a cough some time between Tuesday and Wednesday. Went to Mom’s for TG, but slept most of the day and ate only a little. Never felt sick throughout the week, but didn’t feel like eating. When I did eat, was OK, but never wanted to eat. A little better Friday, but slept most of the afternoon. Saturday, it feels like a head and chest cold. Sunday, same. Still no hunger, but no sickness either. Able to stay awake all day so far. Will likely work tomorrow.
Like clockwork, I had 1:00 and 3:00 dry heaves, then nothing. My body was sore from the vomiting; it was as if my body literally went into a seizure every time it happened.
I slept most of yesterday. Went to bed at 10:30 PM, got up at 6:30, called into work sick, and stayed in bed until 1:00 PM. I feel fine for the most part, except very, very sore, and little appetite despite my not having eaten in about 40 hours.
I’ve had that. Only with diarrhea along with the vomiting, every 45 minutes. Didn’t know what end to put where first. Only felt good for about 5 minutes after it was over, with my face pressed on the cool tile of the bathroom floor. Horrible aches in between explosions. Didn’t eat or drink normally for nearly 72 hours, but the worst was over in 18 hours.
