To ask for your sympathy if you're awake? Lighthearted!

Didn't sleep well at all and have only been given co-codamol now which isn't touching the sides ! How are you feeling today?

Oh rubbish, op! Hope you’re feeling better soon.

It’s lovely your DD is looking after you but I would keep her away as much as possible. Norovirus is highly contagious. When DD2 had it a couple of years ago, within 12 hours DD1 was throwing up too. I had to call my mum in the middle of the night to come over as neither DH or I could look after her or DD2 (crying in her cot) as we were both throwing up ourselves.

Sure enough, mum got it not long after that. Then MIL when she looked after the kids. Spread so fast!

I've gone down with the lurgy everyone's got atm, have literally felt too poorly to sleep as my body aches so much 😫 My temperature is currently 38.4 45 mins after having paracetamol.

You have my sympathy. My husband and I had norovirus whist staying in a B&B. I have a lasting memory of him on the loo clutching a bucket our host had given him (she also had noro a couple of days before, but hadn’t told us that) and then I was about to explode, so I sat on the bidet next to him and threw up into a vase. I had chucked the dried flowers out first though.

It was definitely one of those bonding moments.

Apparently norovirus going around - hope you feel better soon

I'm awake because I woke up with diarrhoea about 4am, praying it's not the start of a bug and it was the takeaway I had last night.

Sounds like you have norovirus OP, it's horrible. I had it one year just before Christmas, it spread throughout my whole team. Wiped me totally out over the festive period, but luckily no one else in the family caught it.

Sorry some of you are also having a rough time. Gentle hugs to you all.

Oh no OP, that sounds rough. Your daughter sounds lovely and glad your sense of humour is still with you. Hope it passes soon.

My worst recently was getting ill at the end of a holiday with friends and spending all night on the loo. They had an earlier flight, so left at 5 but I still had to leave for mine before shops opened. Had to clench in taxi to airport only to find no pharmacy, so had to approach people in the airport to see if they had any meds. Thankfully it had calmed down by the time we boarded and the steward had some diacalm. The gutting thing was I’d used points for a business class upgrade and could only sip water whilst everyone around me sipped champagne and ate nice food 😭

hope it eases soon

Always prioritise the shit! You can usually aim a vom into some kind of nearby receptacle whilst on the toilet (I have thrown up in the cat’s litter tray before now; it is handily next to the human toilet, and cleanup was remarkably easy due to the clumping litter 😂) but you have very few options for directing your stream of shit if you don’t park your arse on the toilet.

I hope you feel better soon, please try and sip water as often as you can!

I heard this described as 'the human Catherine Wheel'... 😂 I'm laughing at the term, not you - you have my every sympathy, as does everyone not feeling well tonight! 🤗

This will get better, you won't always feel like this! Hang in there!

Oh dear you have my sympathies OP and all! I am sat here with my DD who also has the dreaded lurgie.

I got suddenly sick once at an airport. I spent over an hour in a toilet, trying to alternate which end of my body was over the bowl. It was Christmas time and the airport was rammed. I’m feeling shame and horror even now years on thinking about it.

You have my sympathy OP, it sounds awful and very like Norovirus.
Sympathies to everyone else ill or recovering.
Im just awake because I suffer from insomnia, often go through the night without sleeping.

Poor you! Hope it passes soon 🤞
im up as I had a tooth out earlier in the week and am in so much pain I can’t sleep. Sat with frozen peas trying to get it to stop hurting so I can be up at 6 for work
Not sure which I’d prefer of our situations (less cleaning up with a toothache though!)

I think you’re amazing to be so upbeat. I have terrible emetophobia and this is my absolute worst nightmare. People don’t believe me when I say I’d rather die than be sick but it’s true. Your daughter must be terrified. When I was a kid my mum used to get a lot of migraines and my bedroom was next to the bathroom. I’d hear her go in there and I knew what was going to happen and I’d be trying to sleep with my fingers in my ears! I really do hope you feel better soon

So sorry you’ve been through the wars

I remember pooping on the toilet and being sick in the sink thankfully close by

every time I felt the gurgling I had to sprint cos I’ve missed before.

bless my husband he matter of factly stripped the bed fresh sheets and cover (thank the lord for spares.) found it it was norovirus doing the rounds felt drained for weeks after. This was last year.

now I’m awake as I’m under the weather and slept earlier after the danger zone now wise awake. Will nod of at about 5.30 most likely and back up again at 7

You have my sympathies. I had this recently and elected to shit in the bog while projectile vomming into the bath. They are mercifully close. I improved the second time round by selecting the mop bucket.

Oh gosh @Hopethisendswell that sounds pretty grim. Hope it passes quickly and you can rest. I've got endo and adeno related pain so treated myself to the latest episode of Wolf Hall to pass the time!

Oh Op, and Mummy to a miracle, you both have my sympathies
I had one awful night a few years back where it was both ends, i'd never been so ill. I got in the shower, which is in the bath, and i got stuck there as i couldn't physically stand up and attempting it made me so nauseous and light headed.
I had a lot of cleaning to do that night.....

Now I have visions of her marking a target on them and scoring you on your aim!

She sounds really sweet and caring despite her being challenged by it. I don't have a phobia but I really struggle with people being sick and smells. I invariably end up adding to the mess by being sick myself and have nerve damage causing incontinence. So I get the leaking at both ends problem. We have a dedicated bowl that used to be the baking bowl. Funnily enough it's been retired from its first purpose! 😂😂

Sympathy to ill people.

i had a nightmare (i often do) and woke up screaming. Now scared to go back to sleep as i sense a continuation lurking.

Oh no, poor you! That sounds grim.

I can’t sleep tonight. I have no idea what’s going on. I was so tired earlier that I fell asleep reading and woke myself up when I dropped my book. But now I can’t sleep 😩