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

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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?

Type b+ and rarely vomit maybe 3 times while pregnant and when I have a tummy bug I never vomit. Although my daughter is b+ and vomits all the time

I've never had a stomach bug in my life (I'm 32). Can pretty much count the times in all those years I've vomited - the worst was appendicitis. Usually there have been several years between occurrences.

O-. I could give Linda Blair a run for her money at the slightest stomach upset.

A+ and rarely been sick with stomach bugs (in fact possibly nearly 20 years ago)

I rarely puke. No idea what type I am. One of my kids is the same - has an iron constitution. And even if he is sick, it's once or twice then he is fine. One of the other sons can have the same bug and be sick for 3 days solid and then take a week after to fully recover.

I had hyperemesis with one pregnancy though and vomited day and night for 20 weeks. So no relation to that kind of sickness, I think.

b neg here i do puke but if i get a sickness and diarrhea bug i get the diarrhea more than the sickness sometimes i skip the sickness altogether

wanttosqueeze she's the same as me, B+

She pukes so much that I think she ought to put it on her CV. Champion Puker.

I'm O+ and I'm a horribly vomit-y person. Everything makes me gag and I haven't been drunk in five years because hangovers cause me to be sick constantly for 24 hours.

I had norovirus four years ago and I was sick as a dog, I phoned in to work the first day and just cried weakly down the phone to my boss I also pooped myself while vomiting but only me and whatever god was listening at the time knows about that

How did you all know you had Noro? Was it tested for and diagnosed, or just assumed as quite severe? Not a snarky question, I genuinely would like to know if GPs insist on labs.

I assumed as I had visited my DH's grandma in hospital on a ward that was closed due to norovirus (she was dying so we were allowed to visit)

O- and a puker rather than a shitter but last dose of Noro all preferences were out of the window! Since gallbladder op a few years back can go from constipated to free flowing lava in ten seconds flat.

Bet you're glad you asked now right?

Interesting! I'm AB+ and vomited with norovirus but nothing else. When I had food poisoning it was both ends

Blood type A positive here and I throw up for Britain with any stomach bug, in pregnancy, on ships the lot. Doesn't take much.

Dh is group O neg and is rarely sick although that seems to be very much a case of mind over matter. Hates chucking up whereas I find it actually provides temporary relief.

okay, so I did some tallying (SAD, I know). There is one striking result.

Usually bad Pukers:
A 10, B 2, AB 5, O13

(mostly) Non-pukers:
A 6, B 8, AB 0, O 9

Does it stand out to you? Okay, so small sample, but the Bs are WAY over-represented in the non-pukers.

Total proportions:
A 30%, B 19%, AB 9%, O41%

B & AB over-repped in the sample compared to general popn but it's a small sample.

(note to self, didn't get last 2 replies in tallying)

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puke with bugs. puke with pg. puke due to chronic pain. puke with stress. puke after eating chinese takeaway. but, touch wood, do rarely have stomach bugs. had noro about 6 years ago. me, dh, dd. it was horrific. dh rarely gets bugs, and only pukes when severely hungover (never these days). but even he puked with the noro. he is 0+.

I'm B+, I get everything.

I've had 8 stomach bugs in the last 18 months (2yo at nursery).

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I wasn't tested (I didn't even go to the doctor!) but I'd never felt so awful in my life and I knew it was going around. I worked on reception in a student accommodation at the time so I picked up every bug on the go I was vomiting every hour for four full days and I passed out briefly just walking to the kitchen to get water. Even after I stopped being sick it took two days before I could face food - I was out of sorts for about two weeks in total.

And j puke copiously every time I have a bug.

Hi op AB+ and could vomit for England

I'm O+. I very, very rarely get stomach bugs, but when I do it's floodgates at both ends, often simultaneously. On the loo with added bucket pretty much sums it up.

DH is AB+ and never ever catches stomach bugs.

DDs - no idea what blood type they are, but at 12 and 14 they have each had exactly one stomach bug in their lives, and they vomited like troopers then. They were bf though, which is suppose to be protective, so you have a nice confounding factor in the anecdote there - sorry!

Also wondering how you know if you had norovirus? I have never named any kind of stomach bug/upset/virus etc.

But to answer the question, I am blood group A positive and rarely vomit.

I'm O+ and also rarely get stomach bugs. Out of the handful I have had in my life, I've only vomited a couple of times.

Lots of vomiting with stomach bugs here!

I'm A+ and always vomit with stomach bugs, and did so horrendously with norovirus. Never really get the squits though.