Oh, what a fun thread!
I puke a lot actually.
Lots and lots of experience with that.
Aside from stomach viruses that I used to get as a kid, and very very occasionally a norovirus as an adult, I had a real problem with puking in my teens and early twenties that no, it was not bulimia related, it was migraine related.
When the migraines triggered, so that the vomiting.
Yes I was under doctors care, and thankfully I finally grew out of migraines.
I also vomited a lot the first day of my period. That was a terrible day. Despite keeping track on a calendar, I never knew exactly what day the first day was going to be and heaven help me if it was a school day or work day or anything else that I had planned to do because I usually lost the entire day. Yes I had problems. No I didn't get them sorted until I was in my early twenties because my doctor seems to think there was nothing wrong with a woman getting sick even that sick, on her period especially if it was only for one day. (Yes I know that was wrong, I knew it was wrong then too. But I didn't have a lot of options because you can't just switch doctors that easily)
Oh that first day... I could start a thread just about that.
But let's just say vomiting was part of the package. Thankfully for the most part, I've learned enough tips over the past 36 or so years to know how to stop the terrible period problems in their tracks. (And yes, I've been for biopsies, ultrasounds pap smears etc, I have some cyst and fibroid issues)
Then of course there's drinking too much which I have done on occasion. That one I haven't grown out of, but it happens far less frequently than it used to.
Okay so back to the puke question. Well of course, in an emergency you puke wherever you can but you said that if you're at home and if you have the opportunity to choose.
More often than not, I am feeling so awful that wherever I have made myself comfortable is where I want to stay. So a very large bowl or bucket is my preferred vessel. Because if I'm very comfortable in bed with multiple hot water bottles positioned just in the right places, I don't want to have to get up.
Sometimes you feel like you want to puke or you have to puke but to puke just won't come, and you feel like jeez if I could only puke, I think I feel so much better. That's usually when I will go to the toilet. There's something about the harsh sensory reality of kneeling on a cold floor hugging a cold bowl with your face hovering above that helps to bring on a puke. And of course, there's always the convenience of flush and done. And if you've got a fever at the same time, it is a relief to lay out on the cold bathroom floor for a while until you start to shiver and then you need to crawl back to the bed to try to warm up.
Other places I've puked in the last year aside from bucket, bowl or toilet include coffee cup, hard hat, empty fish bowl and out the car window.
Thank you for the most interesting conversation topic
(Edited for a spelling error)