The stomach bug sucks!!

I seem to have gotten the stomach bug maybe only twice in the past 10 years or so. It's going around where I work. A little over an hour ago I woke up after a few hours of sleep with my stomach feeling really bad. I got up and tried going to the bathroom, then after a few minutes I could feel the pukes coming on and I purged. My stomach feels a little better, but I feel like crap otherwise. Just really achy and flu-like. Needless to say, I called out for the night.

Well, I guess the plus-side with the stomach bug is that it only lasts a day. I have a pretty strong immune system, so I am hoping to get over it fast without experiencing anything too severe.

When is the last time you had the stomach bug?

 

Raw garlic and raw ginger...

I have not been sick in very long time

 

About 3 weeks ago.

It got so bad with the diarhea and throwing up I started to get dehydarated and had to go to the ER for an IV. The bug only lasted 2 days though.

I hate getting sick, but at the same I love being babied.

 

i don't even remember what normal feels like

 

I only recall having flu-like symptoms when I was a small child. It has easily been 20 years.

 

yeah, i also haven't had the famous 24 hour flu since probably sometime in elementary school.

last time i threw up was about 2 years ago, but that was just the first day of a severe cold. i was at work when i puked. i don't remember why, but something weird was going on, so i was stuck there later than usual (and this is when i was working nights anyway) and suddenly i had to run out the back door and puke in the snow.

before that, i think finals week in my sophomore year of college (2003) was the last time i puked for a reason other than alcohol. i was sick as hell for basically the entire week that time.

 

I had it about 4 years ago. I felt fine when I woke up but as soon as I got out of bed it started coming out both ends. It was violent.

...Yeah, I know that kind of sexiness is irresistible

 

I think its Novovirus. I didn't throw up from a virus for maybe 15 years or more. Now its common for people. There was sthg on TV today, saying that people shouldnt visit their doctors if they have it, because it spreads it.
(Bit of a strange thing to say but...)

Maybe its antibiotics fucking up our immune systems. Dunno..

 

High fever, and watery stuff propelled violently from both ends, last night.

And I'm stupid enough to be drinking coffee and eating chili-lime peanuts today.

 

I am sorry to hear of your illness, Pressed_Rat. Get well soon!

This year, I have been sick 3 times. I also have been sick for 6 weeks (and still). Returning home, and I caught influenza in the aircraft. It was so terrible, I was coughing blood from my chest, throat and nose.

I had 2 infections, virus and bacteria. Infection spread to my eyes, ears and I was sent to the hospital with fever. Hospital were afraid infection would infect my lungs (I had pneumonia 2 times, I only am age 28), or worse, could cause me meningitis. After 4 weeks of the treatment, I recovered from this.

3 days after, I woke with head pain, and could not hear from my right ear. I had pain in right side of my back, vomiting, and stomach pain. From this time, even to now, I am waking and not certain of my health for each day. I can be perfect, but after the 3 days become sick again. I have tests for my immune health, there is no problem. Hospital said to me I have exotic diseases from my travel, my photography in abandoned places also is not good to my health (I know this, for many years). However, I have done this for many years with no problems of health!

 

I was very sick last Monday night, both ends sick...really not good. But I still felt good enough to go to work all day Tuesday. I was only really sick for about 7-8hours.

I hope you get well soon.

 

I haven't been really sick for years, other than the odd cold. We've had flu go through the house a couple of times in the last few years and I never get it.

I don't have time to get sick.

 

I had a stomach bug maybe a few weeks ago.
I didn't run a fever but i did get slight body ache and really bad diarhea and there were a few days i felt like i couldn't move and definatly couldn't eat any food. After a few days i was able to nibble on crackers then work my way up to eating meals.

My boyfriend had it for like 2 days and just had body aches and a upset tummy.

 

Last time I threw up was a few months ago after getting too hot and drinking a little too much a little too fast. Last time I was sick from something other than drinking was at least 3 years ago. I had food poisoning and all our friends were over and in the living room and I had gone to bed early because I felt weird and woke up and only kind of made it to the bathroom before I started imitating scenes from the Exorcist. The sounds I was making apparently freaked them the hell out. And then the last time I got the stomach flu was the summer I was 16 years old. I have an aversion to carrots and substitute milk for kittens because we were fostering a baby rabbit and feeding it kitten milk and tiny bits of carrot then.

Right now, I have fucking insane allergies. My eyes look like I have been crying and smoking bowls all day and they burn and my damn throat's all itchy. I'm pretty sure it will be fine, just really annoying.

 

I guess the big thing going around here the past few years is the 72 hour stomach bug.

Luckily, I haven't gotten it and I haven't had a stomach bug in almost 10 years. Although, I have stomach issues anyway and ulcers caused me to puke every day for about a year, which was loads of fun

 

sorry to hear that you have been sick Koryssa

I urge to seek a second opinion. hopefully you can find a good doctor.

just saying "you have something exotic" and not treating you is not good enough. even if what you have is exotic, that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be treated

it seems to me that you may have had an infection that was inadequately treated

hope that you can feel better soon!

 

I feel your pain and I hope you get better soon!

I hate the stomach bug more than almost anything else. I would so much rather have the flu even though it lasts longer. I just really hate throwing up. I am like Jerry Seinfeld in that I try to see how many years I can go without doing it. I am on year 9 at the moment.

 

The nine years was when I had food poisoning and I still have not recovered from that. I really thought I was going to die and I just wanted to die. I am still scared of food.

 

I won't eat the panini sandwiches at work because that's what i think gave me food poisoning. It was my own fault for leaving a sandwich with mayonnaise out all afternoon and then eating it. That ham is revolting these days.

 

I don't get them. If I eat something off, or I drink too much milk, I might feel a bit queasy. Other than that...