All morning I was feeling a little ooky and not-quite-right. “Too much coffee” I told myself. “I’ll eat some pasta to soak some of it up.”
Didn’t work. So I lay down for a little while, thinking my tummy just needed some settle-down time. I started to doze off when I got hot eyeballs, broke out in a sweat and started swallowing compulsively.
“I will NOT puke” I said to myself. “I’ll just go get a sip of water.”
I got into the bathroom and then … pretty much everything I’d eaten in the last month came up like a freight train. And kept a-coming.
And it’s STILL coming in fits and starts. I feel awful.
I want my Mommy.
Deepest sympathies, hon- Vomiting is of the devil.
From what I can tell, there is one thing worse than vomiting, although it’s definitely vomit-related. Dry heaves. Ugggggghhhh, haven’t had them in years and am not looking to have them again.
No.
The only thing that’s worse than vomiting is vomiting and diarrhea at the same time, the infamous “don’t know which end to point at the toilet” Xtreme Stomach Flu.[sup]TM[/sup]
Keep hydrated. Put a pinch of salt and a pinch of baking soda in some orange juice and keep sipping it.
[channeling Your Mom]
Drink it! Because I said so! You haven’t been drinking this! I told you to drink this! Do you want to have to go to the hospital?! And have them stick a tube down your nose!? Because they will! If you don’t keep drinking!
[gonna keep this up until you crawl downstairs and get some juice]
[so go]
Vomiting isn’t so bad when it ends whatever was bugging your belly to begin with.
It’s when you turn your intestines inside-out and you still feel nauseated that’s the pits.
Oh, that and not having anything on hand to rinse your mouth out with.
And getting splashback from the toilet on your face.
This is starting to make me feel sick to my stomach…
Excuse me.
First, my deepest sympathies. Vomiting is awful, no question about it.
But I feel that the dry heaves are far worse - trying to bring up stuff, and turning oneself inside-out with nothing to show for it always seemed worse to me.
Though Duck Duck Goose has a point…
I was a former “vomiphobic” (that can’t be the correct word) and I gotta say this:
If one thing is worse then vomiting, it is waiting out hour after hour trying to prevent said vomiting from occuring.
When my entire family had food poisoning and was yacking up at morning, then sleeping it off, I forced myself to fight it for an extra 7-8 hours. That’s an awful feeling - your body won’t let you go to sleep, yet you can’t really move, concentrate, or even watch television. I’ve done the same thing when I’m drunk and/or hungover, and it really just makes things a lot worse.
You should just give in and take your relation with the toilet “to the next level”. 
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I dunno. I don’t mind the dry heaves as much as I mind bringing up a bellyful of meat and stomach acid. THAT’S the pits.
I’m weird, I know.
My sympathies, LifeOnWry. And take DDG’s advice and drink lots of fluids. Sprite and ginger ale work wonders.
Robin
The only thing worse than vomiting is not vomiting when you really want to. I by far prefer getting it over with to laying nervously still in bed for hours trying not to puke.
Vomiting sucks ( well, blows, I suppose…), but I’ve never yet been cursed with a stomach bug that didn’t let me have some peace once the expulsion was over with. If you gotta have a bug, I guess that’s the kind to hope for.
Hopes yours gives you a break soon. Drink lots, sleep lots, and good luck 
Hang in there, I was feeling like that for a week, and fortunately only had diarrhea for a week. Went to doc and they decided I was dehydrated (lost 5 pounds of just water basically). Admitted my sorry butt into the hospital for 3rd time in 3 months, oh joy.
Nice nurse there gave me something for pain (oohhh, ahhh, drugs) and something for nausea. Well that something that was supposed to stop that bad feeling only brought it out in me. I have never felt so ill, so drugged, attached to an IV, run into a bathroom and flip up the lid so fast in my life. If I had been timed, I’d be a record holder.
And my experience at that point was just like yours! OMG, where did all this volume of liquid come from? It seemed my stomach had rented special storage units for the last month and saved it all up for this very special moment.
I also go so sick so hard, I (I guess fortunately) only peed myself while throwing up. I did feel better after but was insanely traumatized by the whole experience. About an hour later I had a light repeat and it was all over with.
Do try to drink some gator aid or something similar or you’ll wind up in the hospital. All doctors are evil. Avoid them. I’m about to finish my 3rd gallon of the stuff in the past week.
puke n’ rally… really… It just doesn’t get to me anymore. I’ve seen it all… and it just doesn’t get to me.
Along the same lines - Dysentery. Absurdly high fever with the uncontrollable vomiting and unconrollable diarrhea.
They just put me in the bathtub until I stopped.
Upon reflection, I realize it was the only logical solution. It’s just you were more or less covered in it while it continued.
[sub]Aaaahhh. Memories. sigh[/sub]
Awww, poor thing. ICK.
Well, there is one thing worse, the hours of agony preceeding an “episode”. But other than that, yes, worse thing to hit a person. UGH.
Easy solution - sit on toilet with a garbage can in your lap. That’ll work until you get lightheaded.
Having dual point ballast throwing AND feeling like you’ll pass out - bad feeling. I have IBS and have learned to a) keep a can of regular soda under the sink for those blood sugar/electrolyte emergencies and b) as soon as I know it’s going to be a Bad Bathroom Visit to wet a washcloth - wiping my face seems to keep me from fainting.
Fainting while on the toilet and coming to on the bathroom floor - now that’s a warm bundle of suck.
I had this last year. It was the first time in my adult life that I’ve vomited from illness. Followed up by the 103 F fever - I just wanted to die.
LifeOnWry here’s to hoping you get well soon.
Although I do hate vomiting, I just want to say there are things that are much much worse. I doubt hearing about them will make you feel much better but here’s few on my most unpleasant list.
The smell of gangrene; necrotic infected wounds; parasitic infestations including lice, worms, maggots, guinea worms; GI bleeding, either upper or lower; and things too gross to mention here.
I have dealt with all these things on my job (except guinea worms of course) and sometimes it takes a strong stomach. I love being a nurse.
Good lord, you ARE channeling my Mom. I’m sipping lukewarm water. Juice is too acidic. I woke up this morning and tried coffee (I love coffee) and the second it hit my tummy I realized THAT was a bad plan. So I’m sipping lukewarm water.
You have my sympathies. As one who is reluctant to vomit (5 times, my whole life, really!)–to me nausea is worse, but vomitting is a close second.
The worst attack of emesis I ever had was when I had labrynthitis–a viral infection of the inner ear–you know, the part that makes everyone seasick.
I clung to that toilet bowl, let me tell you. It was horrific. Dizzy, carsick feel, nausea, hunger and vomit all at once…
Rigby’s Rx for what ails you:
Disclaimer: I’m not a doc. If you have any bloody anything, anywhere, get thee to a doc, stat. Ditto with persisitent fever or dry heaves that last longer than 24 hours.
Take sips of lemon lime pop-not diet. If you really can’t handle the sweet of pop, take ice chips(not whole cubes), a cup an hour at least. Alternate with ice chips mixed with lemonlime pop. You need the sugar and salts available in the pop, the ice serves as a rehydrator. REST. did I mention REST?
If you have a kind person nearby, have them make you some Jello. then alternate ice chips, iced pop as above and a small serving of Jello.
Rinse and repeat as needed.
YMMV.
Good luck!
BTW, thanks for all the suggestions, but PLEASE DON’T SUGGEST LEMON LIME POP ANYMORE. (See my entry in the “food aversions” thread in Cafe Society for the why of that.)
Gingerale, I can do, and I have some - I hadn’t thought about needing the sugar and salt, so thanks for the reminder. Later, if I’m feeling braver, I’ll have some chicken broth.
Yikes!
hope you feel better soon!
the only thing worse than vomiting is the dry heaves…shudder
8 years old…must wash brain again
ugh