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Original poster

To ask how many of you have actually vomited with a stomach bug/norovirus?

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Cheersfrasier · 14/06/2015 18:27

I have had countless stomach viruses over the course of my life. I've known they were stomach viruses because everyone around me also has them. The symptoms have always been diarrhea, stomach cramps, temperature, feeling like utter shit, nausea but no vomiting.

My DH, my father, my BIL and my FIL are the same (we've gone down with it as a family before.)

I heard it's something to do with being a secretor or a non secretor (don't ask me what that is) but if you are a non secretor, you are apparently more likely to have blood type B or AB which gives you increased resistance to norovirus. And if you do get it, less severe symptoms.

What are your experiences?

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gamerchick · 14/06/2015 19:09

Well to be fair noro virus isn't really your bog standard bug. It works by paralysing the stomach so it can't do its job. So depending where you are in digestion what is in there has to be ejected at speed.
I've never had it and hope I never do me. Scares me half to death that one, in the same catogary as flu in my head.

Silvercatowner · 14/06/2015 19:10

Emetophobic, haven't vomited for 30 years. No idea what my blood type is.

ChuffinAda · 14/06/2015 19:13

AB+ here and I tend to go from every orifice when I've got a stomach bug.

blacktreaclecat · 14/06/2015 19:14

Type B+ and I tend to get diarrhoea but don't often vomit unless I'm really bed.

madamedesevigne · 14/06/2015 19:15

I'm AB- and I puke with the best of them. I'm not sure if what I had last summer was norovirus, but whatever it was, I was sick about 4-5 times a day for four days or so. Utterly miserable it was.

TwentiethCenturyGirl · 14/06/2015 19:25

I'm O+ and had horrific vomiting when I had Norovirus. I could keep nothing down - it was awful. Completely different to any other stomach bug.

Littlecaf · 14/06/2015 19:27

AB+ and both ends.

Yuk!

FanjoBean · 14/06/2015 19:30

I'm O+. Usually starts with puking and works its way down.

Bunbaker · 14/06/2015 19:34

O- here and I am hardly ever sick. I have IBS and everything travels south very quickly in me so if I have an upset stomach it is nearly always just diarrhea.

poisonedbypen · 14/06/2015 19:39

A+ here. Have vomited maybe 6 times in my adult life (over 50 now). Had the squits more often, but not very freqhently. Never had norovirus as far as I know (touch wood)

Eastpoint · 14/06/2015 19:42

B Rh- and have never had noro, nor have DH (A+) or any of our 3 dcs (all teens now). DH & I caught e-coli from the water supply in a hotel when I was 32 wks pg with dc1. Haven't had any bugs since.

LobsterQuadrille · 14/06/2015 19:47

I'm O+ and a vomiter - through bugs, stress, oesophagitis etc. Someone once told me that people tend to be affected via the head or the stomach but rarely both. I can't recall if blood types were the defining factor but I can say that I can count on one hand the headaches I've had in my life.

intheenddotcom · 14/06/2015 19:47

Type O - fingers crossed I rarely catch stomach bugs and often just get the runs. Have on two or three occasions vomited because of a bug.

FuckitFay · 14/06/2015 19:49

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TattyDevine · 14/06/2015 19:52

I think I'm A positive blood. When I get a bug I vomit. Sometimes twice an hour for about 12 hours till it stops. Then it hits the other end. Unless its one of those extra special viruses that hits you both ends at once. And you have to decide which orifice to point down the loo. Once I misjudged it and stuck my face in the loo and the force of the retching meant I shit myself

This other time I was sitting on the loo and realised I needed to puke, so I leant over, still on the loo, and puked in the sink. I then spent the next half hour poking the chunks of carrot down the sink. Not my finest hour

wanttosqueezeyou · 14/06/2015 19:53

O- I favour vomiting (often soon after onset of early symptoms such as feeling a bit grotty) but with a bad enough bug will do both.

Love this topic couldn't possibly do it with friends - not enough people and perhaps slightly odd!

namechangefortoday543 · 14/06/2015 19:55

O+ emetophobe - last vomited in 1997 when pregnant with DS2.
I wash my hands about 50 times a day

namechangefortoday543 · 14/06/2015 19:56

Never had Noro

TattyDevine · 14/06/2015 19:57

My brother is/was a proud non-puker. Hadn't puked since 1996. Lives in Australia. So one day he wanted to skype and I said you've got 50 minutes, because I'm puking every hour on the hour as I had a virus. So he skypes me and then bangs on about how he never pukes, and how he hasn't puked since 1996. At the time he had a 3 month old baby. I so wanted to say "wait till that baby is in daycare" but I restrained myself because nobody likes a parent with children older than theirs telling them how shit is going to be, even if they are right.

Fast forward 2 years later and he was doing one of the big Wagner operas (he's a muso) and he'd managed to catch a stomach virus of his daughter. He had to go in because they can't just cover you with someone else if you've done all the rehersals and stuff. He had to nip out stage left between acts and spew, then dash back on and play. So funny.

FretYeNotAllIsShiny · 14/06/2015 19:58

Both me and my eldest are B+.

I rarely vomit. The last couple of stomach bugs I've had, I vomited with neither. I haven't vomited for several years through any illness of hangover. And I can count on one hand the amount of times I vomited through four pregnancies.

DD on the other hand... vomits when she's in pain, if something disagrees with her, when she's pregnant,when she's in labour... I think the hospital stocks up on emesis bowls before her due date.

RocknRollNerd · 14/06/2015 20:02

I have the gene that makes you more likely to be norovirus resistant, but am o positive blood. I've had one stomach bug in my entire life but when I had food poisoning I threw up everything for 48 hours and had morning sickness when pregnant ending up on a drip at 36 weeks.

wanttosqueezeyou · 14/06/2015 20:12

Oooh yes fret I also vomit with pain/Labour. What blood type is your daughter?

MagicalMrsMistoffelees · 14/06/2015 20:13

When the Norovirus went through our family a few years ago, 6 of us went down with it. The only two who avoided it and had been around those suffering were my mother and aunt - both B+. We were told at the time that B+ offered some kind of resistance to the Norovirus.
I'm A+ and it was the only time since childhood (apart from when drunk!) that I'd been sick. The vomiting lasted 8-10 hours and was followed by awful muscle ache. I've never felt so ill in my life, though it does pass relatively quickly. Hits you from out of nowhere like a ten ton truck then disappears just as fast!

MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 14/06/2015 20:14

Never had Noro but I've had a few stomach bugs and I erupt from both ends. I'm A+

cleanmyhouse · 14/06/2015 20:15

I'm proper puker, wretch at the slightest thing, puked the whole way through both pregnancies, and with hangovers.

Me O- and my 2 sons, both O+ all got an horrific stomach bug a few years ago. One boy spewed like the excorcist, me and the other boy had chronic runs.

No pattern there.

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