The non-morning sick version. The laying gently without moving so you don’t make it worse, the seep of the funky tasting saliva, that feeling of ‘oh shit, can I make it to the bathroom or should I use the bucket …’
When I was doing chemo we moved a 3 gallon stock pot into the bedroom. Oddly enough, it is still in the bedroom - we use it as a waste can, it is easy enough to dump out the collection of tissues and torn up junk mail if there is a sudden need for a bucket. Stainless steel, so it is easy to dump and wash out.
I would much rather spend quality time sitting on the john. We keep a small stack of books there, so in between the cramping we can read. Unfortunately this bathroom isn’t as convenient as the one we had in Virginia, there one could sit on the john and hurl into the bath tub, here the bath tub is about 8 feet away from the toilet.
Vomiting is waaaay worse. It takes me forever to vomit, because my stomach is too strong for my own good. So I get that feeling, I need to vomit, need to vomit, need to vomit, and it gurgles up part way and doesn’t come out. Then a couple minutes later I do it again. Each time it comes a little bit farther giving heartburn in a new part of my esophagus. After four or five cycles it finally comes out.
Whereas with the runs, sort of by definition, everything comes out at once and in a hurry and then it’s over.
Oops, didn’t realize this is a resurrected zombie thread.
Anyway, I had some diarrhea yesterday (with back pain on top of it) and still don’t feel 100%. And I just can’t quench my thirst, so I must have lost a lot more fluid than I realized at the time.
Another thing is if you have diarrhea and must travel, you can get medication that will plug you up for the duration. Sure, it’s not good to do that, but if you must travel, it can be done. But if you’re having a vomiting fit, you’re not moving.
When I read this I thought of the infamous “Family Guy” puking scene, except with diarrhea.
I vote vomiting as worse; diarrhea doesn’t come out your nose, it doesn’t require you to stick your head in the toilet, and there aren’t many OTC anti-emetics that specifically address vomiting instead of nausea.
I remember it as quite unpleasant (though I was certainly relieved when it was over).
I’ve had diarrhea any number of times since then, including once when it was a case of food poisoning that had my gut spasming and excreting several times an hour for a week. Imodium didn’t touch it. Wasn’t the runny kind either, just severe cramping and basically extruding a pencil thin poo.
And I’ve had 4 colonoscopies, i.e. a lot of experience with gottagonow!.
If offered the choice of which to have, yeah, I’d choose the trots.
I’d have to vote for diarrhea being worse, but I’m biased. In my early 20s I had an intestinal blockage form slowly over the course of a few years (I didn’t know that until it was removed), and during that time I vomited just about every day.
By the end of that time I had pretty good skills. I could usually dump the whole contents of my stomach in one shot, at will, and get a minimal amount on my teeth.
[Buddy from Night Court]
But I’m feeling much better now.
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