Hope you feel better!
Be glad you skipped that hotdog eating contest last night.
runs to washroom
I had a wicked stomach thing a few years ago (no vomiting, just diarrhea). I ended up in the emergency room with dehydration, even though I thought I was drinking enough. It cannot be stressed enough - HYDRATE! Take how much you’re drinking, and double it. Drink pedialyte. Drink gatorade. Drink whatever you can keep down so you don’t get dehydrated. (But no caffeine. The last thing you need now is caffeinated beverages.) Maybe try some watered-down fruit juice - the fruit sugars seem to be more appetizing than straight water when you’re sick.
I don’t have any good stuff for drinking like juice or gatorade so I’m just trying to drink water. Temperature is still at 99.5 (I wrote it wrong in post 19. I don’t understand how I can still have diarrhea when there’s nothing in me. My stomach is turning a bit but so far I’m keeping water down.
Hope you feel better soon food poisoning sucks. (But I have to add your nickname kind of sums up how you feel, eh?!)
If you’re keeping water down, I think you’re on the road to recovery. I also recommend pedialyte. Then clear liquids like broth.
Went through this 3 times last year, once this year. Last year, when the vomiting and diarrhea wouldn’t stop for a full day, I went to the ER. The first two times, I went on my own and was admitted pretty quickly. The third time, I went to the doc-in-a box a few blocks away. He said my blood pressure and heart rate were at “stroke-out” levels and recommended me to take an ambulance to the hospital, which I did. (It’s probably why I was admitted so quickly the first two times.)
Our medical bills are staggering. The first time they decided it was my gall bladder and took it out, so I was there for a week while they tried to up my potassium and magnesium and lower my BP. The second two times I was there for about a few days but all they did was try again to get my BP down and replenish my potassium and magnesium. I apparently don’t absorb them very well.
Then I started reading stories like this about people who waited it out for more than 12 hours (I’d only ever waited 10 hours or less) and got better. So, the fourth time (few weeks ago), the puking started at 12:30 p.m. on a Friday, I waited it out, couldn’t hold water down and dry-heaved until about 8:00 p.m. when I began to hold water down. Was miserable all night, but kept sipping water, did not sleep at all. Almost exactly 24 hours after it started, I began to feel better. I had anti-nausea meds from the last hospital stays but couldn’t swallow them or I’d puke them back up. I couldn’t even brush my teeth or I’d gag, and that was just… ugh.
And let me tell you, when you’re dehydrated, the most beautiful thing in the entire world is a bottle of ice cold water that you can’t drink. It’s also the best tasting thing ever, when you finally can. I celebrated my recovery with a cherry slushee that day.
Hope all goes well for you. I know how it feels.
Congratulations, you have IT. Our family had IT in October… in fact most of our county had IT in October. I know that people one state over had IT around the same time. I’m surprised that IT hasn’t run through the whole country and burned out by now.
If you’re down to dry heaves the worst is indeed over. You won’t feel like eating for a week. Then you’ll only eat bland stuff for another week.
I hadn’t thrown up in twenty years, but IT made me throw up. I also had to sleep in Depends. My husband was disgusted for 24 hours. Then he got IT and also slept in Depends.
Have fun.
Shiver. I still remember. Yeah, that was my first thought too!
Have some soup. Something soft on your tummy like mashed potatoes. Lots of liquids, whatever you have at hand. Stay warm and try gravol for your tummy, if you have any. Take some tylenol if your body or head aches. It could take some time.
So sorry about your luck, sending you the very strongest ‘get healthy’ vibes only.
Ugh, the world’s most disgusting lawn sprinkler. The dry heaves make the back end explode, and the cramping stomach pain, oi. All so vile. Sympathies.
Try some ginger tea with a spoon of sugar and a dash of salt. It will help settle your stomach and replace electrolytes.
To make it even cheaper, combine gatorade in a 1:1 solution with clean drinking water. Gatorade mixed with water worked well for me when I had the Stomach Flu.
Ugh, I remember that. I ended up sticking a sleeping bag in the bathroom. I think my friends helped me get something for the dry heaves, but those three days all blur together. I didn’t eat real food for a week.
There’s a Kevin Bloody Wilson song for your experience. Lyrics put this in the NSFW category.
Hoping you feel better soon.
Sending out a wish for a speedy recovery.
Ah, those days when you are grateful beyond measure that there is another piece of sanitaryware within easy reach of the toilet. So not fun.
I remember catnapping on the throne while resting my head on the edge of the bath. Not the kind of thing I would previously have thought possible, never mind that it would seem preferable to going upstairs and getting into bed.
But oh so advantageous a position when the 5-nanosecond warning of attacking liquids arrives.
Since those would require a trip to a store, you could always mix up some homemade oral rehydration solution using salt and sugar:
One “recipe” mentioned there is
30 ml sugar: 2.5 ml salt : 1 liter water
30 ml would be about a fluid ounce, or two tablespoons in 'Merkin cooking measure. 2.5 ml would be about a half teaspoon, and a liter is just over a quart.
I expect it would taste vile, but you do need to worry about the electrolytes if you keep dumping fluid, and you don’t want too much sugar.
Oh, and my sympathies. I’ve never had a gut thing that bad (one dose of food poisoning had a single bout of “northbound” followed by all-day “southbound”) but I have heard tales… :(.
I’m feeling a bit better today, thank goodness. It’s weird to not feel hungry when I haven’t eaten since Wednesday. I have some little Dole containers of peaches in juice that I might try in a bit. All water is staying down. I stayed home again today though, I’m still very shaky and weak. I did manage to get 13 hours of sleep last night which seems to have helped a lot.
On Wednesday I was lazy and didn’t make a lunch for work so I just got something in the mall. I did notice that they were using the same tongs for different things and briefly thought about cross-contamination but I (foolishly) thought to myself “ohh I’ve got an iron stomach, I never get sick!”, maybe it was from there.
I’ve thought I’d had food poisoning in the past, you know you eat something that doesn’t agree with you and end in the washroom for a while. I now realize I’ve never had food poisoning before because holy hell I’ve never had anything like this. It felt like I was being stabbed in the stomach with a burning hot knife. I was worried there was something seriously wrong with me.
A few times I just wanted to lay down on the floor but I thought if I did, I’d never wake up and my budgies would feast on my body.
Anyway I’m on the mend, thanks for the sympathy and good wishes!
Glad you’re feeling better. It most definitely was norovirus. I’ve had it three times in my life and your symptoms are bang on. You’ll be 100% by Monday. Well, 95% maybe.
Also glad you’re done with the throes of it. I’m convinced it’s the same bug that everyone in my area had last month. I did ask my husband to take me to the hospital when I was five or six hours into it, and he talked me out of that, saying he’d had giardia in Kathmandu and not gone to a hospital and I didn’t know what really sick was.
Thirty-six hours later, he was over the initial 12-hour throes of it himself. He muttered “just like Kathmandu. Sorry I didn’t take you to the hospital.”
When vomiting,if you feel something hairy come up, swallow it. It is your arsehole.