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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To be annoyed with friend

75 replies

Sienna333 · 17/10/2017 18:19

Who compared my 3-4 week food poisoning to her DD's on/off sickness bug
and to also compare it to 'Harry' (Kid we both know who has been a little sick (24 hour bug). I am really pissed off at her lack of understanding at just how
ill I was and to also assume 'You are better now.' (I am not completely, she didn't ask, just assumed.'
I would be so worried if the situation was to be reversed and it hurts how little interest and support she has shown towards me.

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RebelRogue · 17/10/2017 20:03

Are you seriously a grownup stamping your feet and whinging that your illness was worse than a child's?

BulletFox · 17/10/2017 20:08

Elevenswan how did you manage with nutrition?

Op sorry you've been ill, but let it go

dontbesillyhenry · 17/10/2017 20:15

Blimey OP you are ever so dramatic about this stomach bug. And the stool sample clear but the GP saying she thinks it's E. coli?

calamityjam · 17/10/2017 20:28

I don't know why everybody is surprised about the duration of ops illness. Last November I had gastroenteritis, I was horribly ill for 3 weeks in agony with stomach cramps, bloating and sickness. I refused to go to hospital because I am phobic of them but I have never felt so bad. The doctor said viral gastro can go on for weeks.

Original poster

Sienna333 · 17/10/2017 20:36

E coli leaves the body quickly and the stool sample was done too late on. You don't just get bloody diahorea with a simple bug.

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dontbesillyhenry · 17/10/2017 20:39

You've told Mumsnet about 50k times you had bloody diarrhoea. It happens. Move on and stop trying to compete with a child

Mollie85 · 17/10/2017 20:51

So essentially you've told people it's E.coli when actually your stool sample was clear but you've assumed it was E. coli because someone suggested it in the last post and you've based it also on the fact that it leaves the body quickly and you had bloody diarrhea?

Whilst two weeks of diarrhea is not pleasant ( I had ten days of it when I had actual diagnosed campylobacter in 2009 so speak from experience), it feels like there is a reason you need this to be a bigger deal than it is.

I think it would be healthier to explore that than to argue who was sickest...

I think you'll probably take the above the wrong way as I am being blunt, but I think you need to actually break this down and make sense of it.

Original poster

Sienna333 · 17/10/2017 20:57

Point I am making is you do NOT get bloody diarrhea for simple gastroenteritis. The DOCTOR told me she is very sure it was E coli.

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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 17/10/2017 20:58

Yanbu

It's not the kids and the comparison it's the lack of empathy when you have been really ill

As I said to my DS2 sometimes you need to take a break from your friends and play with someone else !!

Ecureuil · 17/10/2017 20:58

Agree with Mollie85

Mollie85 · 17/10/2017 21:00

OK. You don't want to listen. I'm bowing out.

OP I sincerely hope you find a way to get your anxiety sorted out and can move forward.

Best of luck with everything.

elevenswan · 17/10/2017 21:01

Bulletfox I just forced myself mainly but lost weight anyway. Was never really sick just had acid reflux/slow stomach emptying that meant I felt sick constantly. Small meals often rather than big ones, high calorie foods like peanut butter, oatcakes, plus bland stuff like bananas. Can now eat full meals again and only have to take antiemetics once or twice a week instead of three times a day

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Sienna333 · 17/10/2017 21:06

Exactly stopfuckingshoutingatme

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Ecureuil · 17/10/2017 21:10

Ok so you just wanted sympathy and you didn’t get it.

Starlight2345 · 17/10/2017 21:14

I had hyperemesis gravidarum during my pregnancy. 9 months of puking you could compare more severely than your bug/ food poisoning.

I think you sound like a martyr..It is all everything you eat going down the toilet.

gamerchick · 17/10/2017 21:26

Ah OP to try and be as gentle as possible your anxiety took your squits well out of proportion. I’m now thinking you’re telling everyone you meet bairns being ill is a lot more concerning because they can get dehydrated a lot quicker than adults and can’t really tell us how they feel the way we can. You can’t compare it. Your friend might have been trying to give you a poke to stop talking about it.

Time to put it to bed and focus on sorting your anxiety out.

FreeMeNow · 18/10/2017 12:02

starlight wins! Nine months of puking is wayyyyyyy worse than BLOODY DIARRHEA

Scrumptiousbears · 18/10/2017 12:40

Is it a competition though OP?

My bug is better than your bug?

ZZZZ1111 · 18/10/2017 14:08

If her daughter has had an on off sickness bug then he time and energy has probably been taken up dealing with that, and she has realised that you would have liked more sympathy etc!

ZZZZ1111 · 18/10/2017 14:08

Her*

Hasn’t realised *

RebelRogue · 18/10/2017 16:19

* My bug is better than your bug?*

ConcreteUnderpants · 18/10/2017 21:45

YABU

Was going to share my recent hideous crippling toilet troubles with your all and commence a 'Bug Off', but won't bother after starlight's clear-winner puking!
Unless someone can raise it and have 9 months puking with bloody diarrhoea as well?

lookingbeyond40 · 18/10/2017 21:56

Mollie85 is spot on.

You need to start exploring why you want people to acknowledge the severity of this bug. Why does it matter to you? This would be my main worry rather than your friend tbh.

Other things are at play here - please try and focus on what is important.

Nandoshoes · 18/10/2017 22:01

I'm quiet sure you would be in hospital with severe dehydration if you had all those symptoms for 3-4 weeks. 🙄

I imagine if your friend had told you she went to Tenerife. You would have instantly told her you went to elevenerife.

Osirus · 18/10/2017 23:20

In my teens I was being sick every day for two and a half years. It was really terrible and I lost huge amounts of weight. Doctors couldn't find a cause and I just had to live with it. My mother was terribly worried and would have been much happier if I'd been sick for a mere four weeks.

OP, absolutely time for you to grow up.

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