YIKES! I hope YOU are feeling better too.
LoW I hope your episode is over as well?
Checkin’ in again. LifeonWry, you feeling better yet?
I also wanted to say that whenever I do feel pukey I seriously envy my pet rats. Rats are unable to vomit.
However, they can have diarrhea. Oh boy, can they ever.
MUCH, thank you! Seems to have been a bug that was going around. I actually ate dinner last dinner last night, and I’m currently sipping coffee with no apparent ill-effects.
Sorry you’re sick Life but looks like you’ve had some good advice.
I had an episode several months back but it was from food poisoning, not illness. The bad part about that was that your appitite hadn’t been compromised beforehand and the material available for reassignment can be prodigious. I felt a bit like a wild dog on the Kalahari laying out a meat trail for the pups back at the den. Yuk.
I always hated barfing but it was weird the way I would always cry afterwards until Mr. Cotta finally asked me why. Without thinking I said, “Because I am angry!” And the truth dawned bright and clear on me.
Terror to stomach: "How DARE you!"
Throwing up and dry heaves after having your tonsils out = OWIE.
Note to self: Codeine makes you puke.
Evidently you didn’t also get the vertigo and the never-ending stream of diarrhea. 
I had the vertigo, although I’ve had that worse. The other… well, I just don’t wanna talk about it. For whatever it’s worth, it was NOTHING compared to poor Shodan’s experience.
I hope YOU are feeling better now too!
No shit. Or rather, lots and lots and lots of shit, and still true.
Glad you’re better. 'Twas an odd bug.
Tuesday night and Wednesday - death would be a merciful release.
Wednesday night and Thursday - can’t look at food, but as long as I don’t try anything beyond a half cup of water at a time, only vague nausea. I actually got some work done.
Friday - fine. I even went to the gym on Saturday. And cleaned the bathroom, with bleach.
Regards,
Shodan
There is definitely nothing worse than vomiting. I should know. I literally have a phobia of vomiting, not only when I do it, but when someone else does. There is a name for this phobia as well, and it’s a much more common phobia then you might think.
Ms Cyros here.
I’ve been experiencing the joys of the inappropriately named “morning” sickness for just over two weeks. I roll over in bed, I might vomit. I turn to look at something, watch out. I smell pretty much anything and I start to gag.
I used to think food poisoning was the worst feeling ever. I take it all back. At least I knew stomach bugs would likely be gone in 48 to 72 hours.
I’m six weeks pregnant and I’m already positive this will be our only child.
17 weeks pregnant here and things are only getting worse. I am totally sure that only an extreme case of amnesia would make me have another child.
Dry heaves, the wrath of hell.
Write this down now. I promise you, children have this bizarre talent of inducing amnesia.
[hijack] Is it you who had a thread awhile back about TTC? If I’m remembering correctly, congratulations!* [/hijack]
*Well, congratulations regardless of whether I’m remembering correctly or not.
Dear Pregnant People,
Congratulations. I now give you (from experience) my only words of nausea-related wisdom: do not get dehydrated, no matter what, even if you are so sick all you can get down is a teaspoon of water every ten minutes. Really, I mean it. Nausea can lead to dehydration,which can lead to more nausea, which can lead to hyperemesis. What is hyperemesis, you ask? Constant, unstoppable puking and the inability to even keep the anti-nausea drugs down. You don’t know misery until you’ve taken a compazine, then watched it bounce whole into the toilet ten seconds later. I ended up hospitalized on IVs and overhearing doctors mutter things about low blood pressure and emergency C-sections for three days. Fortunately, I recovered, but it was pretty damn scary.
STAY HYDRATED.
Never been preggers, but I have a fibroid tumor, and until my gyn put me on the birth control patch, I got cramps that would leave me incapacitated for three days. Once I got them so severely that I started vomiting. Stay hydrated? Big laugh. I’d take a sip of water and puke it right back up again. Taking ibuprofen or anything else for the pain was out of the question. I finally had my mother take me to the emergency room, where I was given IV fluids, demerol, and an anti-emetic.
I went home with a prescription for anti-emetic suppositories (I still have one in the 'fridge, just in case), which have come in handy on more than one occasion. Sticking a pill up your ass is gross, but compared to writhing in agony on the bathroom floor not being able to take pain medication because you’re puking your guts out, well, I’ll just bend over and smile.
It’s called emetophobia, and I have it too.
Glad you’re doing better, Lifeonwry. I had something like that last winter, and it sucked. I always go outside to throw up (weird, I know, but it makes me feel better). So last January, I was leaning over the porch rail at my mother’s house puking into the snow in her garden while I froze my butt off wearing only my pajamas. I was, essentially, out there all night. Blech.
I think I’m another emetophobe. If I’m experiencing nausea I will try to avoid moving until it passes lest I actually have to throw up.
This morning I had to give in to my fear. I was feeling fine, I had a bagel and cream cheese, both fresh. I then took my vitamin and washed it down with iced tea. A very short time later I was felt like I was going to throw up. There was no time to even lay down and fight it. I ran to the bathroom and heaved but nothing but spit came up, even though I had recently eaten. I don’t know what the heck that was about. I had to lay down for a while and shortly after my temp. was 99. I’ve been rather headachey today too, so maybe I’m just coming down with something. I hope there isn’t more vomiting ahead.
Yep, that’s me. Which brings us back to “be careful what you wish for…” 
Good Gawd! I had this happen for the first time last week, and it scared me to death! I woke up feeling okay, except with a runny nose. So I went to the bathroom, blew my nose and started a chain reaction that nearly knocked me out. The nose blowing somehow made me start coughing really hard (I’ve got one of those wounded seal barking bronchitis coughs, and it was set into full force), which suddenly set off my gag reflex and I found myself violently dry heaving for about ten minutes! Jebus, I thought I was going to puke up my spleen. I was completely exhausted and had to go back and lie down, but my whole body was shaking and I was terrified to blow my nose again. Then, inexplicably, the cat coughed and did the exact same thing!!! :eek: It took me a few days to dare to blow my nose again.
Oh, and I hope everybody here is feeling better again. Odd that we’re all so fascinated with our own barf stories.
I think this thread made me sick. I’ve had a bad headache all day, still fighting nausea and now I have the runs. I have too much to do to be sick this week!
I just had a cold around New Years, can’t I at least have a whole month without an illness?!