Sick with a stomach flu at 5:23 am

[vercetti2021]

I swear to God I spend all of last year avoiding covid. Avoiding every other sickness and I finally succumbed to a stomach flu

Never have I ever felt pain like this in a few years. Anything that's going into my body is automatically coming out. I have no idea how I caught this.

[multigraincracker]

1. Sounds a lot like food poisoning?

I had that once and thought I was going to die.

[duforsure]

2. I had food poisoning just three weeks ago,

And it was horrible for 4-5 days. It felt like 4-5 weeks.

[samnsara]

17. i have had food poisoning 3 times...Im so dang picky about what I eat now. The last time......

..I got it was at a 5 star resort hosting hubbys Pharmacy Conference. A year afterwards I chatted with one of the Pharmacy hosts and I mentioned the food poisoning and he smiled and said 'oh yes several ppl got sick'. Dang it!

it literally wipes you out for days....


Hope you feel better soon..drink lots of OJ!

[vercetti2021]

6. I hope that's all it is

Because we all have it apparently.

[Duncanpup]

3. Get to a doctor

[CottonBear]

4. It's probably food poisoning.

In my ServSafe food safety certification class, I learned that illness commonly called “stomach flu” is usually food poisoning.

[vercetti2021]

5. Guess everybody in my house got food poisoning then

I mean I just had a humongous episode of just vomiting and I feel better now

[Rorey]

9. If it is food poisoning

It could be from something you ate days ago. A lot of people just assume that it's from the last thing they ate, but that's not necessarily the case.

[CottonBear]

10. Oh dear. Vomiting is the worst but it's good you feel a little better now.

Be sure to hydrate. So sorry y’all are sick.

[samnsara]

18. oh with food poisoning the humongous episodes of vomiting comes in waves

.. also with runny diarrhea. All this follows a stomach ache. Its the type of thing where you just sleep on the bathroom floor for hours. I always make sure my toilets are worship worthy..

[Rorey]

8. When we were kids

We used to get sick at least a few times a year, and my mom always called it the stomach flu. The entire family would be sick at the same time. I know now that it was much more likely that we had food poisoning.

It was a common practice for my mom to leave food out on the counter for hours, and sometimes all night, in case someone wanted some more after supper. Also, I don't recall her ever instructing us about cross-contamination and hand washing, so I'm sure none of us followed good practices.

As an adult I got food poisoning once when I was in my early 20s, and I didn't think I was going to live. It really took weeks to fully recover.

The threat of food poisoning is the biggest reason I don't enjoy eating in restaurants, and I'm very picky about eating anything at something like a potluck. I'm fine when I go to my kids' houses to eat because I know they follow the rules that I drilled into them their entire lives.

[2naSalit]

7. When did you get your (second?) vaccination shot?

I was horribly ill, like the stomach flu with mild fever, that hit me 7 days after my first shot and everything was coming out both ends at the same time for a couple hours. I was miserable all day, I slept most of the day and my energy level was really low for a couple days after.

Only drink clear fluids, try to find something with electrolytes like (ugh, I now) Gatorade and sip at it. Also, If you have tea and some cooking thyme, make a cup of tea and add a quarter to half a teaspoon of thyme to it and just sip at that to help you stop vomiting.

Hope that's all it is.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Oh, I am so sorry, vercetti!

There is nothing worse! I can deal with most other kinds of pain, but nausea and vomiting are the absolute worst. I hope you recover soon.

Do you have any ginger tea that you could sip on? That usually helps with the stomach upset and nausea. There is also an OTC medication called Nauzene. You can find it in most pharmacies and it works pretty well

Take care and feel better!

[rownesheck]

12. Hey!

My 2 year old is still fighting it, my wife is still fighting it, and I had issues yesterday, but woke up fine this morning. Our son's daycare informed us Thursday that a lot of kids were sent home with it. It's been an awful few days.

[SheltieLover]

13. I hope you are feeling better, V & All!

I use homeopathic nux vomica, if anyone is interested. Any health food would have it for around $5.

Havent had stomach flu in some 20+ years.

[vercetti2021]

20. We got it wrong

Its norovirus

[SheltieLover]

21. Feeling better?

Not sure of difference, I'll go look.

[vercetti2021]

22. Mostly everyone is

I'm still recovering

[Rorey]

23. As a physician....

As a physician, which I'm not.....

But I did check with Dr. SearchEngine, and you should be feeling better in a day or two. Hopefully that day is today.

[Ocelot II]

30. You got it right. Norovirus is a form of food poisoning.

Norovirus is one of the many causes of food-borne illness, aka food poisoning.. Others include salmonella, E. coli, botulism, listeria, etc. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/food-poisoning/symptoms-causes/syc-20356230

[Best_man23]

14. Be sure to hydrate

Pedialyte and Gatorade are the best, but also water.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

15. Here's hoping you and yours get better soon

It does sound like food poisoning, no fun indeed. My last bout was 10 years ago. Was at a meeting an hour and a half drive time from home. They brought in a boxed lunch, I picked the roast beef sandwich. Should’ve had the fish.

Three hours later it struck with a vengeance. Was still driving and was lucky to have an off ramp to pull over. Came very close to making a horrible mess in the car.

[vercetti2021]

19. Norovirus

We found out today

[Ocelot II]

26. That's nasty. Hope you feel better soon.

It's spread through contaminated food or surfaces. But it usually lasts only a few days, and at least it's not covid.

[Aristus]

16. It's viral gastritis. There's no such thing as "stomach flu".

I’m not just nit-picking. The misunderstanding regarding gastritis and what some people call stomach flu leads people to decline their yearly influenza immunization.

I’ll encourage a patient to get their flu shot, and they’ll say “The flu shot gave me the flu.”

I ask what their symptoms were.

“Nausea and vomiting.”

Influenza is respiratory in nature. What they had was gastritis, but they thought they got it from the vaccine.

I set them straight and they usually go on to get immunized against the real flu.

But it’s important to public health not to confuse patients with regard to what is or is not the flu.

[CTyankee]

24. I sincerely believe that no one really thinks they have "stomach flu." It's just a polite way of

saying you have diarrhea. And everyone knows it and solemnly nods...

[Aristus]

25. That hasn't been my clinical experience.

I have patients telling me they had the flu and then declining the influenza immunization.

They’re confused by the word “flu” which is a respiratory illness, but they’re having digestive symptoms. I don’t want patients declining vaccines at all and especially not over misinformation.

[CTyankee]

27. Oh, yes I believe they wouldn't say it in a clinical setting. They know that "stomach flu"

is a social "nicety" and in a clinical setting incorrect as to what was really going on.

I think your situation is different in that way. What you tell me is that there is a real misunderstanding of what influenza is.

[Aristus]

28. Yes.

I’ve got to convince patients to get their immunizations when every shitweasel with a wi-fi connection is telling people vaccines will turn them into syphilitic armadillos.

The less misinformation I need to address, the better...

[CTyankee]

29. I'm with you, Aristus. I have no patience any more with these dumbasses unless, as in my

next door neighbor who truly believed that the last election was stolen because he saw a "videotape" of actual cheating. People on his Facebook page were saying things like "Gary, we really need to talk..."

Some people really do "live" in their own "private Idaho."

[Niagara]

31. It's probably all those Oreo's that you eat.

All teasing aside, I hope that you feel better very soon!