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AIBU To Ask How To Sleep Tonight

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ElderflowerWaterIsDelish · 20/03/2018 00:57

I'm posting here for traffic,

I felt ok until lunchtime Monday, then started to feel a bit tired, the tiredness by dinner time turned into exhaustion and I've vomited three times (once before dinner and twice after)...i also have had diarrhea since this evening too...my stomach is sore from the vomiting and my head feels cottonwooly and sleepy, but at the same time how do I settle myself enough to get some sleep tonight, I don't want to be awake all night, but I don't want to be vomiting in my sleep either..Blush

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DaisyInTheChain · 20/03/2018 04:38

Sleep on your side, you'll be ok. If you're worried but a towel under your head. This will help you stay on your side & catch any sick if you are sick in your sleep, but I think you'll wake up heaving before hand usually. Hope you feel better soon.

ElderflowerWaterIsDelish · 20/03/2018 09:46

Hi everyone, I managed to get some sleep (I kept waking up a few times) but when I did sleep it was a deep sleep..I feel a bit more alert today (yesterday I felt exhausted and like my head was in a fog and cottonwooly) I'm still nauseous though...I've vomited once today...but I do feel a little better thank goodness

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DaisyInTheChain · 21/03/2018 06:00

I'm glad things are slightly better. As a person who is sick quite a bit, I discovered a market for emesis bags. To be honest I think they should be a staple in every home. You can get a crazy amount fairly cheap. Especially if you have kids, have some in the car, some in your essentials bag, some in the cupboards upstairs and down, plus a few in your drawers and bathroom so if you're bad again, say you have a 'both ends' situation, you literally just discard these. Fabulous idea.

I took some on a holiday years back where DC both went to a restaurant, driving back it was swervey A roads and ex drives like a JC wannabe, heard the words of doom, both kids got a bag each. Plus we had one time when there was some post cold sickness, DC after being ill was fascinated by the disposal instructions, taking their mind off the fact they'd been ill. They were able to stay in their room with an adult, over being in the bathroom.

As a seasoned pro on this subject, I'm sure if you're in the bathroom looking at the toilet, you're guaranteed to be bad. You can't take your mind off it.

One cupboard resembles a chemist with my meds, but there's also everything you'd need from a headache to sore throat spray to anti bad stomach tablets to plasters and various creams, cough syrups etc. For vomiting you can get buccastem over the counter, you dissolve it under your lip. I think it's marketed OTC for migraines. But it's meant to be good.

Hope you feel better soon OP.

If faced with it again, I keep old towels to cover pillows and mattress, then have water, polos and a sick bag or 3 near by. They do Imodium that has buscopan in to stop tummy cramps, I think they're melt in the mouth. So again you don't need to worry about it staying down.

EmNetta · 23/03/2018 15:11

Good news about today's improvement Elderflower, and hope it continues.
Thanks to Daisy too, particularly for news of suitable bags - Now I could have used them when suffering for a few years and GP only suggested A&E, ditto nurse specialist who explained I'd get necessary tests too, aiding diagnosis.

Present GP also prescribed Buccastem, only for use when nothing would stay down,because of side-effects, wish I could remember details but might be danger of Parkinsons, but luckily not needed to take these yet - be careful!

Thanks for all information Daisy, - wish I'd had it years ago, and hope your own illness has past. (and DCs).

GrannyGrissle · 23/03/2018 21:06

What the hell will 111 do? Send someone to apply cold compresses and hold her hair back as she pukes? Get well soon OP. Grin

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