WIBU to go to the gym tonight (diarrhoea)?

[Medea13]

I bought some reduced (so possibly suboptimally refrigerated) pre-cooked chicken yesterday afternoon and ate it in a salad; since bedtime last night I have been having stomach pains; i slept badly (but i normally do, albeit not this badly) and woke up feeling sick. I haven't been sick and i suspect i won't be, the nausea has passed, but i have been at the extreme liquid end of the Bristol Stool Scale since my morning coffee at about 8am, and have been to the toilet maybe 6 or 7 times so far today (just now 3 times in about 15 mins). Occasional apparently-for-no-reason diarrhoea is not unheard of for me, but i suppose on the balance of probabilities this seems slightly more likely to be very mild food poisoning. However these things never normally last more than a day for me.

How likely is it to be food poisoning versus innocuous diarrhoea?

If i have no more trips to the loo, or if they finish soonish (in the next hour or so) would i be unreasonable if i were to go to the gym this evening (yoga class)? (i would shower before going, i use my own mat, if i have more diarrhoea within a few hours of when i class starts i obviously wouldn't go). I know the 48 hour rule, but i'm not being sick (if i were i wouldn't question it!) and like i mention i do have the occasional episode of IBS-D in my history...

Thoughts?

Please don't. It's really easy to pass the bacteria on. I have Crohn's and am immunosuppressed and this kind of thing hits me like a hammer.
Be smug that your unselfishness will benefit your fellow yogis even if they don't know it

Please don't go.

If you have diarrhea you are at risk of dehydration plus as PP stated there will be people in the gym who are immunocompromised or have depressed immune systems you risk infecting.

Eeugghh! You seriously need to ask?

Honestly you may think that your stomach is fine and you don’t have anything left/won’t have diarrhoea again but imagine doing the downward dog (or similar) and exploding shit as you bend into the stretch!

On a more vulgar note, doing anything that involves putting extra stress on your stomach and more relaxation and less control of your rear end is going to end in tragedy when you have even mild food poisoning.

Don’t. It might be more serious than you think and you’ll need your energy. My son had campylobacter - it was ‘just’ diarrhoea with no sickness but lasted five days and made him very, very poorly.

Plus, no one will thank you for taking your germs to the gym.

Stay home, drink lots to rehydrate, do a yoga video if you feel you need to exercise.

Please don't not only could you pass on your virus you are putting you are already weakened body through stress . Btw don't buy iffy chicken it is really a daft thing to do.

Yeah, i know. I know! I just get so stressed out if i miss a class and there's a tiny part of my brain telling me "it's probably just IBS, you're making excuses to be lazy" when of course the larger and more circumspect part of my thoughts knows the sensible and society-minded thing to do is to stay away. Ahimsa and all that.

Ignoring the fact you don’t know if it’s contagious or not I think exercising with a dodgy belly could easily be a recipe for embarrassment!

Do a gentle work out at home instead. You’ll be even more stressed if you have to miss futher classes if you get iller.

Your thoughts are invasive you know full well you have been ill and not lazy! Also you could make hundreds of other people ill just keep that at the front of your thoughts

And yes their is the personal aspect of it. Stay home and near the bathroom

Urghh! Miss the class. You don't want a 'brown volcano'

There*

Are you mad?!

Well when you shart yourself at the gym in front of everyone and someone starts a thread on here about the selfish gym user who obviously had some sort of upset stomach and shit her gym pants don't come crying to us!

Nope don’t go. You could make other people really poorly. If everyone followed the 48 hour rule I swear these bugs wouldn’t run riot the way they do!

I know the 48 hour rule, but i'm not being sick (if i were i wouldn't question it!)

The 48 hour rule applies to sickness and/or diarrhoea.

Thanks all -- please be assured any explosions in downward dog will be happening from the discomfort of my own home this evening, if at all.

Just need to keep reminding myself I'm ill, not lazy.

Ok look, my son was sick last night and has been fine all today- I’ve been suffering stomach problems for weeks and weeks it feels like an ibs flareup (diagnosed years and years ago, camera up bum the works). I haven’t had a flare in years like this and I’m struggling to leave the house because when I gotta go it’s immediate. On top of that, with ds being sick my stomach is going crazy.

I’m not risking the break my friend offered me just in case there’s any level of contagiousness now with me, so please do the same and look after yourself at home today

Do. Not. Go.

Please - be kind to the people who are in your circle who choose to go to the class for wellbeing, not to catch illness

Your body needs recovery and rest. You don’t “need” the yoga class

Dear god no!!! Go to bloody bed!

Please don’t go for your sake as well as others.

A lot of the bugs that cause food poisoning are still 'contagious' so can be spread. So even if it is food poisoning and not a bug, don't do it!

I think you’re doing the right thing staying at home. I really like Yoga with Adriene on YouTube, if it will help you not to stress.

Why are you considering it? You are likely to shit on the machinery.

Unless you're squatting on the toilet it's not worth it.

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