Help me - sick in hotel **Thread contains references to upsetting content - Title edited by MNHQ**

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Not sure what exactly I want from this other than maybe distraction.

I’m in a central London hotel for 2 nights for major work meetings, DC are with a babysitter, she’s great but young.

I’ve started being ill as soon as I got here, I’ve been sick and crippling stomach pains. I’m basically trying to sleep in a hot bath to sooth them. Fairly sure next door think I’m having a good time from all the groaning but honestly feel like I’m giving birth it’s agony

I have no water, or painkillers and can’t leave the room to get any which is upsetting me. It’s a basic hotel so no room service to order from.

I am having to keep the bin near to be sick in and this is really really really upsetting me because last year I was raped and as part of the prelude to that I was forced to gag/vomit in a bin. And it’s just playing on my mind constantly now.

I’m worried about work. I’m worried about the DCs having whatever this is, the babysitter not coping and me being stuck 2hrs away.

And I REALLY need water and pain relief!

Sorry for the general rant.

Aside from anything she's already said I expect the OP thinks she'll be fine in the end and that whatever it is will pass.

OP, as a single parent especially have to seek medical help. You have to get better for your children. If something is really wrong this will not just pass.

After I gave birth I had a post natal infection. I felt grim - tummy ache, hot and a bit dizzy at times. To get to the maternity unit I had to walk from one side of the hospital to the other (15 mins). I thought I'd be fine. I damn nearly collapsed. I was holding onto the walls for support and fell into a chair as soon as I was there with everything spinning.

Just think about how you feel now and then imagine adding a journey into the bit. You think (i thought) that determination and willpower would get me there. When you're really ill it's not that simple and actually pretty scary.

What's your train journey home like?

Cab to station then train? How long is your train journey?

How about asking someone to collect you (you mention the dc's grandparents)

@Lilyrose77

Really?! 🤣

If that's not a joke then I'd wonder whether if someone is that severely immune compromised should they be staying in a London PI?

Op, you unsanitary hag - put a Haz Mat suit on your deliveroo order before you leave you room!! (seriously though, I hope you feel better now)

Really?! 🤣 I'd wonder whether if someone is that severely immune compromised should they be staying in a London PI?

No, they should be shut up inside a plastic bubble and never leave their own house 🙄 It's such a laughing matter.

OP please get medical attention this morning, don't delay until you get home.

Hopefully it will is nothing and the hospital or walk in centre can give you something to help you manage the journey but there is a risk that this is something more serious and delaying is making it worse. You need to get medical help sooner rather than later for your children. Go now and you can probably get home on schedule. They will be far more worried if you collapse on the way home and have to be taken in by ambulance for emergency surgery on a ruptured appendix or whatever.

Don't mess about with your health, enough people with knowledge have pointed out that your symptoms could point to something serious and your symptoms are continuing. Don't be irresponsible, go to the doctor.

Really?! 🤣 I'd wonder whether if someone is that severely immune compromised should they be staying in a London PI?

Don’t be so fucking rude. My daughter has a compromised immune system, we have to travel for her clinic every so many weeks (it varies) as in we have no fucking choice, we are away for two nights and three days in total, she has to sleep somewhere. We take all the precautions we can but ffs why did we allow her to live if she is to be kept in a bubble at home all day every day. People just need to have better standards and if you are unwell, then minimal touch to everything around you in a public space is advisable. My daughter will also be starting school, should we not bother in case she catches something? What’s the point in her being alive then if she can’t actually live according to you? In fact, hospital is where she catches most things but again, can’t avoid that either.

op I’m going to be blunt here, wise up and seek some medical attention. I’m similar and avoid the doctors etc until I can’t handle whatever pain I am in. For example, I couldn’t breathe etc and was hot all the time and eventually went to the doctors I have bronchitis, another time I went with a sore throat for weeks and weeks before getting it checked out and it was tonsillitis. Basically minor things but i could handle the pain so I didn’t seek any medical advice until it got really bad. My concern here is the fact you have gone so long without anything to drink, then you want to go home and look after your kids? This is stupid stubborn behaviour. Go and get checked or at the very least go and get some fluids into yourself. We have to use the premier inn fairly often and I always make sure I bring a few bottles into the room with me incase I can’t get out, I’m not really on my own as my partner is there but one time he had to head out, me and the kids caught something (turns out I had bronchitis) and thankfully, I had water with me as I couldn’t leave the room because of the two kids throwing up.

OP are you actually ok today?

People are actually worried about you now. Hope you are ok and can update today

Also worried about you OP. Hope you made it home ok and are on the mend.

With respect I'm not surprised that the op hasn't come back on the thread. She's been called irresponsible and many have insinuated she's daft. I wouldn't be arsed to come back to update a bunch of strangers who have (although well meaningly) been pretty rude while I was recovering from illness.

I know people are trying to help but there's ways and means. Hope you're ok op x

@SoupDragon @Aaarrgghh

The 'laughing matter' was a random internet urging an unwell person on the internet not touch the reception desk in a random London PI!

So don't be so 'fucking rude' yourself! DM is having chemotherapy at present so I'm more than aware of the risks of a compromised immune system - I just think the request was ridiculous.

The request is not ridiculous. There are so many people that make others ill by spreading their germs. Be thankful you don’t have to worry about it as much as others.

I really struggle with threads like this...

OP : "HELP"

Everybody (including medically trained posters) : You need immediate medical attention

OP : "I'm fine"

What happened to the work colleague who was coming? Surely they'd see that medical attention was required? What does work say, you're on a business trip? It's utterly bizarre. I do wish you well OP and hope that this is nothing serious but I do wonder why on earth you haven't done a thing about it!

Right sorry it’s been a bit of a trek, and yes it’s ridiculous but I was a bit avoidant of the thread I’m sorry.

I’m home, I woke this morning, hadn’t been sick for a while and the pain had subsided so I went home. I am conscious and totally appreciate the concern over immunity, believe me if I’d been home I would have stayed in but that isn’t realistic. So I made sure to have as little contact as possible and washed my hands thoroughly.

My colleague came yesterday sorry I didn’t say that, and he brought water and painkillers and told me I’m a knob, so much like you lot really. He has also texted tonight and instructed GP. So very like you lot.

Why haven’t I gone before? Well I guess a bit avoidant for reasons stated, a bit thinking it’s something that will pass and wasn’t as severe as the first night which also made me think that. A bit just the desire to be home.

But I am going to go to my GP tomorrow, the pain isn’t excruciating like that first night when I panicked, and where I guess the bin thing has made me a bit less rational than I normally am. I used to be quite health sensible I promise. But the thing is last time I had lefthand arm and chest pains and totally convinced myself I was having a heart attack, went to A&E and the Dr basically made me feel like a total idiot who was obviously just giving into my anxieties and having a panic attack. So yes I avoided, it’s stupid and irrational but there we go. I need to speak to my psychiatrist I think maybe about this specifically.

Anyway I’m rambling, the excruciating pain has gone but I’m still getting cramps, bloated tummy and when the kids touched it it’s bloody painful. So I need to be seen as it’s not a bug. I have no D&V.

Bet it’s trapped wind or something and they think I’m a dick again though.

It does sound very much like gallstones. I felt the desperate urge to pop and sometimes was sick but that was from the pain.
Please don't be sorry for talking about the bin trigger.
I hope everything goes ok at the Dr's tomorrow

OP I hope your GP listens this time, and that you recover swiftly.

I had a bug with these exact symptoms the other week. Excruciating stomach pain and bloating, constipation, vomiting, dizziness. The following day I was still in pain and bloated but within 3 days I was fine. I have to say it never crossed my mind to seek medical attention - I’m a bit surprised at everyone suggesting it. You know your body best but personally I’d give it another day or two and if the symptoms persist then think about seeing a doctor. It sounds identical to whatever I had which cleared itself up within a couple of days

I think that the advice from a couple of nurses that Op should seek immediate medical attention might explain why many people were on at Op to go and get that. If a nurse told me to do that without delay I'd bloody well do it.

I hope the gp can find out what’s up. I have anxiety and can eat myself worked up but it’s always best to get things checked out sooner rather than later. I need to start taking my own advice too to be honest.

To those quibbling about phoning 999 based on the symptoms OP has provided I did the "right" thing. Phoned 111 and my GP who dismissed my systems as norovirus. Turned out it was a bowel obstruction. Recently had an apology of the GP.
Op I hope things have sorted now.

I have to say it never crossed my mind to seek medical attention - I’m a bit surprised at everyone suggesting it.

there's a difference between being at home with assistance generally available, and stuck in a hotel with no assistance, though, isn't there.

I can understand why you've been reluctant to go, I'm a bit like that with doctors. But I def think you've made the right decision to call and find out what's wrong. They wouldn't (or shouldn't) laugh you out the door even if it was trapped wind (I dont think it is though).

Good luck

What was the GP’s verdict OP? Hope you’re feeling better now!

Any update?