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Handhold and sick bucket needed. Is anyone awake?

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trottsgalore · 26/01/2022 01:15

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

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overthehillandsofaraway · 26/01/2022 07:03

Also a vote for take the drugs. I came down with D&V last year and didn't take immodium immediately, and was all kinds of sick and miserable. Game changer. It was such a relief.

Was quite put out that I didn't lose more weight - it felt like I'd passed half my own body weight. The scales disagreed.

Spend the day very, very close to the toilet (if not in the toilet) but yes, drink all of the water. As PPs have said, you will need it.

Hope you feel better soon. It's a special kind of hell.

TeddySteady · 26/01/2022 07:10

My mum’s elderly friend went on a trip to India a few years back. It was a package tour, driving around the country by bus. One day, the group was out on the road when one of the passengers took ill with diarrhoea and proceeded to commandeer the only toilet (with all the accompanying sound effects). Then half the group gradually succumbed to whatever it was they’d eaten and the bus driver had no choice but to stop on the roadside while all these dignified tourists squatted along the verge. It wasn’t the first stop either… it’s such an awful image!
Luckily my mum’s friend didn’t take ill but it was bad enough pretending not to see (and wondering who would take ill next).

wsbts · 26/01/2022 07:24

You have my sympathy Diahorrea is one of these illness's that when you have it no one seems to remember that it has happened to them also. Over the last 4 years I have had two bad occurrences one was on a bus travelling back from Scotland to South West England which took 13 hours and the other recently when we were on holiday a few months ago. I had never tried Imodium before but they did the trick and they had the opposite affect for about 5 days!

Hope that you feel better soon.

Northernsoullover · 26/01/2022 07:26

I went to a mum and baby group many moons ago. At the time my baby was around 3 months old. I had the all too familiar gurgling stomach accompanied by clammy skin and my hair stood on end (so it felt like). I had to wheel the pushchair at lightning speed to the loo. I was still in there when the group came to an end. I thought I would never get out. My poor baby. It was like a farmyard in there. Eventually I had to pop my head out of the loo and attract the attention of a church volunteer and begged her to get me some immodium because I didn't think I'd be able to leave otherwise.

Workin8til6 · 26/01/2022 07:32

My friend got a stomach bug on her honeymoon. One morning lay in bed on her side and thought she felt a bit windy, she was knicker-less as they had DTD the night before. Her DH was asleep still so she thought she’d just let out a little fart, but instead her arse exploded with such violence that it all went up her back and on the pillow behind her head 😯 she had to wake her DH and he had to wash her down before she could go to the bathroom as she was literally dripping with shit 😂 then she spent the next three days on the loo bless her.

Must have been awful but it gave me a good laugh when she told me 😆

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trottsgalore · 26/01/2022 07:49

Thank you for the funny stories they have cheered me up. I fell asleep sometime after 2 and so far no more diarrhoea.
I'm a nurse although no longer working as one and used to work on the gastro ward. The smell is ingrained in my memory.
I'm so grateful I've not been sick but I'm not counting my chickens just yet. I'm having a cup of tea then going back to bed.

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jumperwoops · 26/01/2022 07:58

I can offer a further humerous poop story.

Was travelling India with a group of girls I didn't know that well, staying in a room with a girl id known 2 days. Staying in a really dodgey hotel. Ate a (and the last ever I will eat!) chicken roti for tea.

Awoke at 2am with the worst diarrhoea I have ever ever known. And the power and water to the room had gone off. I literally filled the toilet top to the bottom because I couldn't flush it. And it was so dark I couldn't even see what was going on. And this poor basically stranger I was sharing a room with was witness to it all.

And when the water went back on in the morning and I tried to flush? Well the story gets even grimmer, let's just say that.

Liv999 · 26/01/2022 08:03

DH had the most horrendous case of diarrohea just a few days before Christmas, I honestly thought he would end up on a drip in hospital for Christmas never seen him so sick, immodium was useless, thankfully day before Christmas Eve he started to recover, the pharmacist recommended Lucozade Sport, not sure if it was food poisoning or not as we had been away for the wknd and ate out a few times, anyway hope you feel better soon

jumperwoops · 26/01/2022 08:10

@FateHasRedesignedMost

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!

I was on my elective in my woeful tale, but I was not prepared like you! Had left it all at the base hotel

that taught me.

MintyGreenDream · 26/01/2022 08:11

Not illness related but a couple of years back I took one laxative in the morning as I had been bunged up.I was walking home from work and I got that strange panicky feeling when you know you're going to need the toilet URGENTLY.Got halfway down my street and shit myself there and then.

DrinkFeckArseBrick · 26/01/2022 08:24

It's just circumstances. Most people I know in your boat have friends from different aspects of their life rather than one group.

The only people I know that have one big group of friends are those who have grown up and stayed in the one place. But I'm not sure if being friends with people just because you happened to be born in the same year in the same place is an amazing basis for a friendship tbh, I find people get pigeonholed in the roles they had in the group when they were 10

Otherwise people who join a hobby with a big social side to it, like they move somewhere and join a running club and all their friends are from there

Recycledblonde · 26/01/2022 08:37

We seem to be a totally iron gutted family. Kids are now adults but they never had a proper 24 hour tummy bug and I haven't had one for 35 years apart from alcohol related vomiting.
I'm a paramedic and have been in close contact with norovirus numerous times and never caught it. One of the lowlights of my career was kneeling at a patients feet putting ECG dots on whilst they were sitting on the loo with a bowl emptying both ends! I was sure I'd catch it then as I couldn't wash my hands until we got to hospital but not even a gurgle.

Vickles20 · 26/01/2022 08:37

Poor love. Horrible being ill like that and alone. Big hugs for you love xx

I have a poo story!!
Center parcs longleat.
Woke up, like you, but found myself in a lake of my own runny poo!! I had massively poo’d the bed!! Luckily it hadn’t reached hubby!! Yuck! God the smell!
Spend most the night on the loo and scrubbing sheets in the bath as no washing machine anywhere on site! Massive rip off!
Looked at myself. Looked grey as fuck! And felt like I was going to pass out. Was scared as I had a small baby and toddler and was terrified they’d get it. But they didn’t. Nor my hubby. Just me.
God I’ll never forget it
Haven’t been back there since!!

To wake up in a lake of my own poo!!! Haha!

Parpophone · 26/01/2022 08:40

@DrinkFeckArseBrick

I think you have posted on the wrong thread.

Warblerinwinter · 26/01/2022 08:44

@thegcatsmother

Flat coke helps.

Coke is very acidic…if she is vomiting you don’t really want to be adding to stomach acid.

FelicityBeedle · 26/01/2022 08:49

You have my sympathy @trottsgalore
I’ve just come off night shift (on the gastro ward funnily enough) and been sick into my bag on the bus. Never been so embarrassed, had to dig through the bag to get my clinell wipes and try to disinfect my seat.

There’s noro on the ward so I’m assuming I’ve got that
Hope you’re feeling better soon

FelicityBeedle · 26/01/2022 08:54

And in terms of embarrassing I also just shat my brains out in the changing room loo while all my colleagues were changing and could hear, full on onomatopoeic squits…

Gonnagetgoing · 26/01/2022 09:26

@trottsgalore

Hello and thank you for keeping me company. Dd is at high school and can make me a cup of tea before she goes to school and hopefully I can get someone to take ds to school as he's only little. Better out than in so I'll leave the Imodium for now but I do have some if need be. Anxiety is ever-present lately but my response to that is bad dreams and headaches. This will be a bug or something I ate although I've not had anything unusual or dodgy. Diarrhoea and vomiting is my most hated illness because it always starts at night and I can't then sleep during the day to make up for it. Plus my pelvic floor gives up when I vomit and I pee myself so it really is good fun 😩 The cramps and nausea have eased off now and I am hoping they stay that way. I was exceptionally tired by 7pm so maybe it was brewing then.

I've name changed for this just in case anyone is suspicious. I've just remembered the poo troll is a thing. I'm a regular on various boards and have been around for years under various names and I'm sure HQ would vouch for me.

sorry to hear you're unwell. Luckily only once I've woken in the night with this!

Peppermint tea or water or nothing would be good for your DD to make you.

If someone can take your DS to school could they nip to the shops for you and get you what you need re illness?

Benjispruce5 · 26/01/2022 09:31

Oh dear my teen DD is not alone! She started vomiting at 1am and it kept up every 30 mins until 8am and now the other end is joining in. I’ve been awake most of the night napping between bouts. It’s hell. I hope you can get some rest and help. Hopefully it’s a 24 hr thing.

Benjispruce5 · 26/01/2022 09:32

As for Imodium, if you get by without, I’d let it flow! Better put than in. Unless you must leave the house obviously.

Gonnagetgoing · 26/01/2022 09:32

@overthehillandsofaraway

Also a vote for take the drugs. I came down with D&V last year and didn't take immodium immediately, and was all kinds of sick and miserable. Game changer. It was such a relief.

Was quite put out that I didn't lose more weight - it felt like I'd passed half my own body weight. The scales disagreed.

Spend the day very, very close to the toilet (if not in the toilet) but yes, drink all of the water. As PPs have said, you will need it.

Hope you feel better soon. It's a special kind of hell.

@overthehillandsofaraway

Interesting what you say about D&V - some people say don't take the immodium as it can clog you up inside.

Norovirus a few years back was the killer for me, I'd have happily died.

For weightloss try a nice stitching bridge/crown operation I had just before Xmas last year, nice drugs but couldn't/didn't want to eat much apart from soft foods. I did lose a few pounds...

PurpleDaisies · 26/01/2022 09:32

I thought I was through the worst of it until a trip to the bathroom with a sick bucket just now. I feel worse than when I had covid.

Nothing is staying down including water. Really hope this is over soon.

BoodleBug51 · 26/01/2022 09:35

I always have Buscopan in the house, it's an anti-spasmodic and I was prescribed it for gall bladder pain. I then realised that if you've got any form of abdominal pain, it's way more effective than painkillers and I never take immodium.

Flat full sugar coke is great for killing bugs out of your system, and keep drinking water little and often.

Benjispruce5 · 26/01/2022 09:36

Hopefully it’s good related and not norovirus. Then at least there’s a chance it’s not contagious. At least face masks are coming in handy. I’ve got windows open in bathroom and her bedroom and I’m spraying down the loo and sink after every visit.

Benjispruce5 · 26/01/2022 09:36

Food not good

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