Ive got sun stroke

[Littlebyerockerboo]

.... sat in the garden with a few beers for a good few hours midday till early afternoon didn't realise I was burning stupid amounts.
Fell asleep late afternoon, was woken by my DP having friends over for beers in the garden after he finished work. Ive lasted two glasses of water and a take away pizza for admitting defeat.

I'm now laid up in bed, feeling burnt, sick and a little bit dizzy and not able to sleep, whilst I can hear the fun outside.

Feeling a bit sorry for myself...
Ive had much worse sunstroke in the past,

so what are your sunstroke stories!?
Any quick remedies to recommend me, im feeling bloody awful - phone light isn't helping (in dark room) but also can't get any rest due to feeling like I'm about to be terribly sick (not envy)

Water, or isotonic drinks. Salty food if you can stomach it. Something like chicken noodle soup or ritz crackers. Cool shower. Sleep.

Sunstroke is awful!

Large glass of water with ice, cold flannel on head lying down in a dark room- it’s the worst, you have my sympathies

Gosh, OP, this has just reminded me of my first time abroad.
I was on an exchange in Europe, I was 17yo. Lovely family. Went to the beach with my exchange and her pals. All good. I had never been abroad. Or really on holiday, I wasn’t a sun worshipper. They recommended sun cream and I remember thinking, “I’m here for a tan, no thanks!”
Spent all day on the beach, in spain, in summer, no sun cream.
As we were heading home I was starting to feel not so good.
I became so unwell. Spent the next day in bed, unable to move, swollen up, red raw, shivering...I was really really burnt.
A family member was a nurse and brought special creams etc. But I was in agony. I couldn’t bend my skin. Moving was agony. I lay under wet sheets on the bed.
After two days I was able to dress-just about. Couldn’t put shoes on as my feet were so swollen. Oh, it was so awful!
I recovered but never forgot it. I was vomiting as well.
And then the peeling! My exchange loved that. She’d pull whole sheets of skin off me...
Hope you feel better tomorrow.

I was in kos , Greece on one of those 18-30's things . We literally didn't know what day or time it was . It was non stop when we got on the plave .We went on a party boat to an island on one of those ' drink what you can " excursions My mate at the time brought up neon green stuff . It was literally luminous. I just laughed drank more beers and passed out .. 3 days later we woke up ... dunno how we got back.. we lost 3 days .. it was the sunstroke that finished us off

I was hoping it would get better, but I've been in bed for about 3 hours now and its actually getting worse.
Even worse, my bathroom is downstairs by the back door, so im holed up upstairs, and if i want to get a drink, cool flannel etc, i have to been seen by DPs friends in the garden.. which will start a whole

"Feeling better Littlebye? Come have a drink" etc etc

Times like this im desperate for an upstairs bathroom!

No sympathy from DP either.... kicking myself for drinking alcohol in the sunshine, which I'm absolutely positive didnt help! Urghhhhh....

Lots of water with a pinch of salt and sugar in (don't worry about rehydration stuff as that's all this is), and cover yourself in a damp towel with a fan nearby to get your temperature down. Take paracetamol every 4 hours (up to 8 in any 24 hour period). I'd go careful with food, I just threw everything back up.

I had this 2 summers ago, I felt awful for about 4 days afterwards.

kicking myself for drinking alcohol in the sunshine, which I'm absolutely positive didnt help

Yep, it never ends well. I'd take a couple of ibuprofen and try and sleep it off.

Oh . It was 103degrees as well one of the hottest summers they have ever known
Try lucozade???? I have no answers.. is there answers or you've just got to ride it out.? . water ... and paracetamol maybe?
Lesson learned.. take care

Ouch I feel for you. I had sunstroke just once (on a cloudy day in bloody Tenerife). Found it a bit like a hangover in terms of recovery - lots of water sipped slowly, and some sleep. Cold things jist make you shivery. So maybe a light sheet on the bed if you have one -

I got sun stroke on a sea day whilst on a Caribbean cruise. I'd barely drank all day even though it was red hot because we were distance away from the bar and I was too lazy to walk around the pool deck. Went in the shower that night to get ready to go down for dinner and didn't feel good. Got to the restaurant and just felt so poorly couldn't even face food so just ordered a starter as my main. When it came I put the first mouthful in and went dizzy and really nauseous and just burst into tears. I've collapsed before and it was the same feeling I had before I collapsed as I did then so it freaked me out a bit because there was loads of people there. My Mum has to take me back up to my cabin and put me to bed. She made me drink 2 glasses of ice cold water first though and take a 3rd one back to the cabin with me. Got into bed and just laid there shivering and shaking like mad until I fell asleep. Woke up when my exH came back in after a few hours. By this point I was hungry and knew just eating a little something would help but too scared to go to the horizon court buffet area to grab something so asked if he'd go with me or go get me something. He wouldn't just said I could starve until the morning cos it was my own fault for not eating my tea when I first got it.

Rehydration sachets if you have them, sugar and salt in water if you don't a couple of ibuprofen and a cool shower, lather yourself with after sun if you have it, direct a fan at the bed and try and sleep.

@lozz22
That's awful 😥

Water, cold flannel, cool room, dark and try to sleep.

@Lozz22 I can see why he's an ex! I have only ever had it once as a child. I was hallucinating fish swimming around the room and I also wet the bed

I must have been about 14 on holiday with my dad for the first time. He didn’t really have any experience with children having only spent a couple of days at a time with me up to that point.
I hadn’t really been abroad before and thought it was fine to sunbathe for the whole first day with no sun cream on which he let me do while he sat inside
That night we went out for dinner and I stood next to the fire extinguisher in the lift and I was the same colour as it was

I felt absolutely horrific for a few days after that. My mum definitely wasn’t happy with his panicked phone call in the middle of the night

Maybe look up the difference between heat exhaustion and heatstroke ,just to be sure. If you could get someone sympathetic to fan you it really is lovely.

To those who have suggested salt and sugar in water - thank you! This didn't cross my mind, nor the rehydration drinks - which I've realised we haven't got and made a mental note to restock-

Ive braved the downstairs, of course bumping into one of DPs friends, because, of course, no way could I manage to sneak downstairs, get supplies and return unnoticed...!!

Ive returned with paracetamol, after sun type cream (aloe vera), a jug of water, a pint of salt/sugar water mix - and got a half arsed hug from DP when I complained of sun stroke (which he never has suffered)

luckily, this is a mild(ish) sun stroke as im able to write this and feel sorry for myself.

In my yoof I went on the sunbeds, and spent way too long on them, after -again- consuming alcohol, I was only about 18 and obviously very stupid. I got burnt all over, head to toe. Like a lobster, thus started horredous sun stroke, shivering, sickness, headaches, the soreness was unbelievable... parents actually contemplated hospital at one point.

Since then ive always used sunscreen, until for some stupid reason today?!... burnt face, chest, shoulders, arms... thank god the rest of me was covered otherwise sunstroke would be much worse im sure!!

I thought I'd died then wished I had

then I came within a nat's whisker of shitting myself

It wasn't too bad really

I burn hideously! Last year was the worst, I looked like a lobster. I usually find either a wet towel put in the fridge for half hour then apply it to my skin helps a lot or a bottle of coke that’s been in the fridge! I’ve put a bottle of moisturiser in the fridge before too and applied that. Sounds silly but really works for me. Anything that cools down the skin really. Factor 50 all the way!!

I burn really easily so have become very cautious over the years. Unfortunately I’m also very sensitive to heat so get heat stroke without the sun burn. It’s awful- you have my sympathies OP. The thing that works well for me is putting some ice in front on a fan if you have one- it creates a bit of a cool mist. That and lightly damp sheet. If you can tolerate and it is safe for you - ibuprofen is also good Option for pain relief.

I got burnt really badly on holiday in Greece as a teenager. The man who brought me room service up recommended a cool bath with vinegar to help take away the sting.

Now DP and friends have moved to living room and are all singing to "lean on me" - I actually want to tell them all to bugger off home! Also have the soothing sounds of next door kicking off, which seems to be a hobby of hers around about this time.

Its a stupid terrace house so my living room is literally a short staircase away.... grrrrr....

I wish i had a fan
Unfortunately, I brought one last year, put it on the bed, and DP knocked it off and broke it.
It had been in our house for a total of 5 minutes.

My bedroom window is also broken so nice stuffy bedroom to top it off ...

Sugar/salt water mix has seemed to help, plus of course reading stories of others who have suffered!

My DH had it last year and shit the bed, while I was still in it. Yep not pleasant. I always tell him to wear pants in bed now if he feels a bit ropey.

Op, wear pants in bed tonight.

In my thirties, annual family reunion trip to visit my grandpa and give his house a good spruce up. I spent the afternoon cleaning windows on the hottest day of the year and ended up with sunstroke.

Like you, OP, it got much worse before it got better. I can still remember how ill I felt. Headache, vomiting, nausea, dizziness, shivering... I slept on my parents' bedroom floor as I was afraid I might die! You have my sympathy.

Aww, OP, I hope you're asleep now and will feel better tomorrow.

My worst was on the day of Charles & Di's wedding (I'm old). My friend and I wanted to avoid the whole thing, so we took our bikes to the beach. It was a boiling hot day, early 80s so nobody gave a shit about slip-slap-slop or whatever. We got home and I was lobster red and obsessed with the idea that a cold bath would help. It didn't (was torture). From 29th July 1981 I have always been super-careful about sunburn. Thanks, Princess Di.