Handhold and sick bucket needed. Is anyone awake?

[trottsgalore]

Why does diarrhoea always start in the small hours??!! Every bloody time. I woke up not so long along in a cold sweat with a weird prickly feeling all over my body, stomach cramps and feeling sick. The world has fallowing out of my bottom and I was clutching the bathroom bin to be sick into but thankfully no vomiting so far and I'm hoping it stays that way.
I am a single mum of 3 and have no one to help when I'm

We find farts hilarious in our house 😂 id say I win
For the loudest , especially once I get home in the morning after nightshift- like letting a balloon go hahaha. but yes, be a while before you can trust a fart !

I just crouch on the bathroom floor, sweating & thinking I'm about to faint.

@trottsgalore
Haha! I shouldn't laugh, but Norovirus always seems to come on in the small hours...
I have emetophobia, and absolutely DREAD being sick.
You lie there, can't get comfy,
Turn over,
Guts gurgle..Nausea is such a wretched feeling.
I had it during a wild storm, and opened the bathroom window as the smell of my own effluvia made me want to heave.. and lying on the floor as the wind ripped and tore at the neighbour's scaffolding made it sound as if I was in a sailing ship with unfurled sails..

The thing with norovirus is that one good ''empty out'' doesn't always do the trick, and it's a case of repeated trips to the loo.. Miserable.
BUT... Norovirus passes off quite quickly if this is what you have, and in 12 hrs time you should be feeling a lot better. :)

Painful stomach cramps can be eased with peppermint tea if you can bear it.

I have a colostomy, had it for almost 10 years now, and fortunately I've never had many incidents. Although there was the time I had diarrhoea, so much that the bag leaked. On dp's feet as I was shuffling awkwardly to the bathroom.

Diarrhoea feels weird now though. The cramping feels higher up than before, and more like nausea. The stoma nurse once told me to eat marshmallows. Apparently everyone should eat one or two a day.

@trottsgalore

Whoops, sorry. When I'm unwell and it sucks. I've got a hot water bottle on my abdomen and I am hoping this is quickly over. Thoughts of weight loss flitted through my mind as the northern hemisphere fell out of my bottom and this cheered me somewhat but really I just wanted to cry as the pain and sweats were terrible. If anyone is up please could you keep me company and regale me with toilet humour or stories of similar experiences that you can now look back on and laugh.

I had a septic finger and was prescribed an antibiotic. It was when Big brother was on, back in the early days, and I was wearing leggings. The antibiotic {Fluflox something} really made me windy, being alone that evening, I assumed that it would be ok to fart.

NOT SO.
I farted and followed through with literal liquid.Without any warning at all.
It was so bad.
Thank goodness the leggings kept it in place {I had to throw them and my knickers away} but it was just soooooo nasty.

I was just SO glad no one was in.
The squits were so bad I had to change to another antibiotic.

The pharmacist said ''This can happen''.
He advised a probiotic yoghurt drink which did seem to help.

@trottsgalore

Lateral flow test is currently cooking. My stomach has calmed down now. It's very odd and I can't think of anything different I've had to eat or drink. I'm very hot on hand washing and always wear a proper face mask when out and about as I'm CEV.

Recovering from a nasty bout of Noro once, I googled it, and it is hugely infectious. It only takes a tiny particle of the virus to infect someone, and if someone touched a door handle or hand rail or food.... then you touch the same, and even rub your eye {!!} that can be enough to get infected yourself. I think eating food out is how I caught it.. hard to be sure though.

Alcohol hand gels as PP have said don't kill norovirus, it just spreads it about on your hands.
Warm water and soap actually washes it down the sink.

Hope you are ok ..

I have a theory that 1am is the time that you always wake up ill. I call it the "witching hour". Poor you OP. Vomiting is my worst nightmare so I hope that it's "just" the other end.

I'm awake with toothache - night four. Which i would rather have than puking so here's a hand hold from me. Xx

Not the same but I have IBS so have sickness and diahorea regularly. I know by 9pm if I'm going to be up all night. I reconcile myself in the knowledge that it won't last forever and will stop eventually. Hope the worst is over and you've managed to get to sleep

If not, cocodamol and a hot water bottle will help.

This may amuse you in your hour of need. My hubby had one of those delightful procedures where they stick a camera up your bottom. As a previous poster said, they put air in to make the procedure more effective. He came out of the clinic and we had about 6 miles to walk (or so it seemed) through the empty echoing corridors of local hospital (since redeveloped). Every step he took was like a brass band practising badly, and fairly rhythmic as he was walking. Very very funny. He has a very high threshold for embarrassment (ex army) but even he turned a little pink after the first mile or two.....ok, slight exaggeration as to distance but it seemed like miles.

I had a colonoscopy a few years back, the prep was not the most pleasant experience I’ve ever had, but the farting after the procedure was absolutely mega. I honestly would not have believed anyone could pass that much wind.
There were several other women in the recovery area with me, not a sound came from any of them. I was literally continuous, and when I got up to walk through to a seating/kitchen area to have a much desired cup of tea and sandwich, I continued to fart with every step. I kept apologising, but the nursing assistant was wonderful, said I was the best she’d heard in a long time. That of course made me laugh, and in turn fart even louder.
My daughter came to give me a lift home and I farted my way to the car. And trust me, it’s a fair walk from the scope unit to the front door of the hospital. Mid afternoon, the concourse was packed with visitors, etc. My daughter refused to walk beside me, the coward 😂

Theoldwrinkley I know exactly how he felt! I’ve honestly never heard anything like the sound my backside made that day. They really should put exit doors directly to the outside in these scope units where possible.

I was once prescribed some crazyyy strong antibiotics for a widespread infection (on reflection I was probably septic!) and it broke me out in a hideous rash. I felt, as a HCP, I could deal with that mild allergic reaction and planned to chat to the GP the next day. Well, later that evening my lovely older sister took me out for a drive and to get some food from the local supermarket, where I reached up to grab something and promptly shat myself through my leggings. Cue shuffle walk outta there rather rapid, only to 'poo sick' (shit myself and vomit at the same time) all over my parents' cream landing carpet as I never got to the loo in time. I was 28 at the time. The horror. I just remember my poor mum going 'oh noooo' through tlher bedroom door...

I know how sudden it can all be.

The one and only time I got noro on a cruise ship it came on with lightening speed about 3am. I woke up and knew if I didn't launch myself into the bathroom I was in deep, deep trouble.

I could not get out of there for a couple of hours. The vomiting was epic. Poor DH stood outside the door and plaintively asked if I was OK. No.

I ended up quarantined and missed the two best ports in Central America. Iron guts DH was fine.

I did enjoy the room service once the symptoms subsided but before they let me out.

So DH has suspected IBS and gets unexpected bouts of the trots periodically. Not often but it does happen.

A year or so ago he had to dash back home with DS before having a chance to drop him off at Reception class at school. I met him in the road to hand over DS so I could dash DS back to school and DH could make it to the loo by sprinting to the house.

Luckily it worked!

My DM collected DS from school and had unexpectedly been asked by the very concerned teacher how DH was feeling. Apparently DS had arrived mid registration and loudly announced that he was sorry he was late but "Daddy had had to rush home because Daddy had an emergency gigastic poo explosion". Apparently the teacher just replied 'Oh!' and left the classroom for a minute.

I know it was talked about in the staff room because over the next week various teachers asked how DH was doing. Thank God it wasn't me

Also, this is an absolute scream of a toilet humour description of the prep for a colonoscopy...

Hang in there. You will feel better

It is actually your immune system that fights infection, so there is no need to leave diarrhoea to run its course. Take the Imodium.

@MotherOfGremlins - that made me giggle but rather wondering why tablets as prep not the bucket loads of Moviprep or similar - that is worse than the procedure itself

I started with this at 4am. Currently dashing between the sofa and the loo.

Hope you’re sleeping op. It’s utterly miserable.

Oooh, snap! I have a horrendous case of the shits today. Almost shit my pants whilst changing DD's nappy. Lovely way to start the day.

I don't have a bad tummy, just a cheeky toddler so I'm up.

You wanted toilet humour? My kids love this very childish one

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Europe...
No I'm not, how dare you?

I would take an Immodium just for the sake of dealing with the cramps.

At the end of the day, if something wants out, it's best it goes but you need to have a bit of control over the ''when''.

And certainly don't trust a fart at this point in time and have some undies on, just in case. (speaking from experience).

Don’t want to play game of oneupmanship but;
India, 5 days, both ends every 10 minutes, which even by day 5 had only gone down to hourly. Whole Imodium packet used, no difference! struggle to find doctor, thought I was going to die. Cockroaches running over the bed, I didn’t care.
I can’t write in more detail as it makes me feel ill even now, 10 years later.

Hope you feel better soon! I have HG and spent most of the night crouched on the bathroom floor throwing up bile so you have my sympathy!

Worst D&V experience was in India, friend I was sharing a room with both had dysentery hours before a 7-hour bus journey! We took turns rushing to the cockroach infested bathroom (at that point we didn’t care, just banged the loo seat to make them scarper!) whilst desperately self medicating with everything we had. We’re both medics so when loperamide and difinoxylate failed we resorted to tramadol and codeine with an antibiotic just in case (we were travelling off the beaten track so had all sorts with us!) And stemetil for the nausea. I remember consulting the Merek manual at 4am by torchlight (power cut!)

Ended up making it to the bus but we were so zoned out we spent most of the journey trying to play magnetic travel chess and forgetting the rules, much to the amusement of the local people!

My advice is starve the bugger for 24 hours and it will all be over. Make sure you have rehydration sachets.

My doctors advice is lucozade and cuppa soups as well as immodium.

Pick your choice. I have 3 kids (not a single parent but husband has 2 jobs so while not the same on a practical basis for illness I am often on my own with it). Are any of them old enough to help a bit? Pasta for dinner. Rest when you can and early nights. TV and colouring.