To think most people with norovirus don't make a "full recovery" in a couple of days?

[Acky123]

And that that is pretty stupid advice to give out anyway, as you can still be infectious for up to 48hrs after you stop puking and pooing? Hence why you shouldn't go back to school/work straight away?

Oh the hell :( I feel dreadful and have done since Saturday morning. At least the projectile vomiting has stopped.

This is the second bout of this I've had in three years and it's hideous.

I just want to ring up the NHS Choices website and tell them that no, most people don't get over this in a couple of days.

Anyone else poorly today? Let's feel sorry for ourselves together :( = puke.

I do wonder if some people are more susceptible to it. People i know seem to fall into two camps, those who have never had it and those who get it every year, often more than once.

Noro mutates constantly like a cold virus does and can circulate in multiple strains at once, so you can get it in milder or harsher versions, and any immunity is very limited and short-term so you can re-catch it again very quickly.

Interestingly some people are more susceptible than others and there is some research suggesting that this may be linked to blood type, with type O being the most susceptible (IIRC).

I had noro 6 years ago. Noro was rife. About this time of year. Will never forget it. Came on suddenly, dh and I within 30 mins of each other. Diarrhoea and vomiting, temperature. Couldn't walk. Barely move. DS 6 months old already in bed. Only time I have ever called my mum over to look son while we have been there, it was horrendous. I would not have been able to even pick him up safely. We came down with it in the evening, 1 terrible night. Next day by afternoon was up and about. Day following we were recovered. It was violent but quick. It's the only time I have ever thought myself seriously ill. Shudder. Touch wood nothing ever like it since.

Yes, I remember feeling weak for days afterwards.

Very true cherub and some people ( typically have a genetic mutation) are immune.
Lots of research going on atm

One of my work colleagues gets it 2-3 times a year.
I have never had it nor have my DC.

^You're probably A or AB+. DM was the latter, and she just used to have a bit of flatulence for about 6 hours. She was sensible though, and quarantined herself for a week each time.

Im actually O pos !

There is a different theory being researched atm.

alpaca what's the different theory? Am really interested!

As far as I'm aware I've only had it once and it was awful. I remember suddenly coming down really shivery on the Friday night, threw up on Saturday morning and I think I was sick at least 15 times that day. I remember being sick every hour during the night, and my stomach hurt so much from the retching and I was barely bringing anything up by that point. The diarrhoea started on the Sunday - I sat up in bed to be sick and I couldn't stop it from coming out so I basically shat my bed. Nice! I can't remember how long it took for me to feel completely better, I think it was about a week. I do remember being convinced I was dying and that I was never going to stop being sick.

My sister has had it a few times and we're both the same blood group, O positive. She works with children though so I guess is more likely to pick it up.

I work in a hotel, and managed to catch what I believe is the norovirus on Sunday. I came home and just felt really tired so had a lie down, but then that night I was running backwards and forwards to the toilet vomiting. It was horrible, went on so long I started crying because I was feeling so weak and didn't feel like I had anything else to come up! I starved myself on Monday, was sick a few times but I mainly had the runs by this point! Tuesday I felt like maybe I could eat - big mistake, vomiting again. I took Imodium and I stopped going to the toilet completely. And yesterday I had no symptoms, so thought I would try to eat, I was fine the whole day but yet again I have woken up to pains in my stomach and have been vomiting. So if this is the famous "24hr" bug it must feel like my body is a holiday home and it wants to stay for longer. I feel exhausted, I would go to the doctor but I've been told they won't see me and will just suggest bed rest and water for hydration. Has anyone got any advice please? I've also lost about 6 pound from this, maybe more as I'm too scared to check again! I also don't know if Imodium was a mistake because I can't seem to go to the toilet at all now. Anyone who is suffering from this with me I feel so terrible for you! Especially those whose young children are going through this xx

I had this shitefest courtesy of my dear parents who arrived for a pre-christmas get together on the 19th Dec . On the 22nd Dec I collapsed in the bathroom. I was sitting on the tiles feeling like the world was spinning away and shouting my eldest daughter. I passed out. On coming to I was just about able to say. "Give me Arsenicum 30c every ten minutes" to my competent children, as we use Homoeopathy. It began resolving this horror with the first tablet. A word of warning though, if you take it be on the loo as it shifts the virus out of the system much like an enema. I did puke but only once, into the nice bin from IKEA which thankfully has handles. I shrink with horror as I write this recalling the faint stream of pee ambling across the tiled surface from oh my God ! Me ! And the squelch of poo in my pants as I came to from the first faint. Yes my kids stood over my ghastly form and thought I had passed on ! Dropping Arsenicum 30c every ten mins into my mouth until I could manage, on my hands and Kees, to strip myself, deposit all in an opened black plastic bag which I made them pass me through the door, including the hapless poohed on bath mat, as by now I new this fiend had passed from my mum and dad to me. I declared a state of emergency and quarantined myself. Foraging in and out of the bathroom with a bucket of bleach solution on my hands and knees. Would not allow anyone to use THAT loo and I only used the bath taps. No teeth brushing. No water for four hours. No food for two days. I was determined this f*** was not claiming my family and pets and the £40 luxury turkey was not going to come hurriedly out of the back and front ends of everyone. Emancipated, I gulped dariolyte salts towards the end of the second day. The back of my head felt flat !
I appeared in the kitchen Christmas morning, combatant-style with blue disposable gloves, the skin on my hands white beneath them from incessant hand washing over the bath. I remained in blue gloves and touched no food directly, merely barking turkey cooking instructions and telling the dog that I still loved him even though I was not able to stroke his ears. I bleached the sink after the turkey was prepared. Thankfully, I did not pass it on. My family took arsenicum 30c prophylactically at the first threat of a fart or nauseas sensation. We held the field. I still feel wiped out. I tried to console myself with a marathon of House of Cards on Netflix but the waft of the base to Wham's Last Christmas through the bedroom floorboards brought the only small drop of liquid out into my tear duct left to squeeze out of me. I knew my dear husband was rescuing Christmas for me but Christmas Eve in my quarantine hell was a solitary bleach-fest I never wish to repeat...

Wow, zombie thread from 2012! but so sorry to everyone who has been hit by this this year.

Mumsay, your post was so funny! I'm sorry you're ill and I really hope you feel better soon, it does wipe you out.

YWBU to have handled any food while you were ill though, very lucky nobody came down with anything.

I am going through this absolute bastard of a virus at the moment. Vom and diarrhoea about 5 days ago and I STILL feel awful - fatigue, general sicky feeling, achy. It's the worst I've felt for a long, long time. And the horrendous vomiting/poo stage I can only liken to when I was in labour with DS ( as in please let me die, I can't take this anymore).

I'm O+ and not sure I've had norovirus. I've had a couple of incidences of being sick once, having a single bout of diarrhea and feeling washed out for a day or so. I've even escaped it when DH has had it (touch wood).

I heard that not only is the virus mutating but that immunity to a specific strain is short lived.

I think we have just started using the term norovirus to describe any old stomach bug, when it isn't. It is a separate, more serious illness, which can leave you feeling queer for a long time.

Without a clinical test you have no way of knowing whether you have had norovirus or not. How do you know it wasn't salmonella or campylobacter or rotavirus?

A D&V bug which clears up in a few days is likely to be norovirus over the winter months in this country, and some people will take longer to recover than others, but given there are so many pathogens which cause similar symptoms it is pretty hard to tell which one you have had.

I had it once - 17 years ago, it came on very suddenly, high fever, shaking, cold symptoms, then the projectile vomiting started. I was sick for two days, feel queasy and couldn't eat for a week, very tired the second week and it was probably a further week before I felt normal. On the first night I was so hot and ill I honestly felt as though I wouldn't have cared if I died that night, I have never felt so ill before or since - touch wood.

Dear Acky123, I have had a good chortle about it all now, of course, but sadly I vipered my parents with a few unforgiveable, delirious shite-fest texts for which I am still apologising as they did not create this monster and even as its hosts they are still my darling parents. It was with trepidation, however, that we discovered in the dust of Christmas, on a shelf, a basket of lovingly gathered choccy favours, hand-arranged with neat red bows tied by my fair mother. I duly sampled them as my status of fart-immune-guinea lasts for several months according to the research. The choccy's were cleared but not after I had tested a thorough baker's dozen, a most solid insurance; including all the purple ones !!

I can't see on here about the cramps in getting?? I was referred to hosp on Monday with this. The sick feeling started sat night and the last time was last night but the cramps are still so bad is this normal??

so glad to read this I was beginning to think it was someting more sinister, never have I felt so Ill its like flu, and though vomiting stops no appetite you feel utterly drained and can barely walk wityhout an effort and still got the headache joint pain. Lots of fluids.......get well everybody else and do not visit people at all - it could cause a lot of problems for people with children too, or expecting babies it takes all of you to keep yourseelv hydrated imagine putting a whole family through this, so if you have had it STAY IN BED at home .

sorry for everybody else witht his but glad to see they match my symptoms as my partner was angry I would not go to the doctor - plus I have had it twice - short burst, then it returned friday after christmas till yesterday- even hard to get to the bathroom and back upstairs again - please keep away from everybody not only families and pregnat ladies (for which this is a disaster goes withoiut saying) - I have never felt so ill its worse than flu.

Norovirus is awful, but having had both, campylobacter beats it by miles.

With norovirus, I didn't actually want to die and felt fine after 4 days. When I had camplobacter, I felt like I could possibly die and would have welcomed death with open arms. It took well over a fortnight before I felt ok.

@belindarose, I hope your baby is better soon and back home with you.

I do wonder if some people are more susceptible to it. People i know seem to fall into two camps, those who have never had it and those who get it every year, often more than once.

I think you're right, @spoonsspoonsspoons. I've only had 2 stomach upsets in my life, which must be a bit of a record for someone of 64. I used to be famous for my ability to drink several pints of real ale that was a bit cloudy and follow it up with a curry and never suffer with bad guts afterwards, and I drank tap water in Mexico City without any ill effects.

I get every cold going though, and they hang around for ages. DP is very prone to mild stomach upsets and hardly ever gets colds or flu.

Maybe some people are squitty people and some people are snotty people?

Totes agree. Five days in & still vomiting. The big D didnt even join the party for 4 days. So yes the advice that its all over in 48 hours is rubbish. Norovirus is the bug from hell & Im going to move mountains to avoid ever having it again.