gastroenteritis is not pretty by any stretch of the imagination

[zorra_chiflada]

i'll spare you the details, but holy moly. it's not nice
i had to go home from work today because i kept having to run to the bathroom. also, i have a fever and a sore head and achy body. does that come along with it? just wondering

[zorra_chiflada]

fuckin dry toast and powerade. THE FOOD OF GODS

[Kid Presentable]

i'll spare you the details, but holy moly. it's not nice
i had to go home from work today because i kept having to run to the bathroom. also, i have a fever and a sore head and achy body. does that come along with it? just wondering
Yeah it does. When your body turns into a poo factory (and a substandard one, at that. NO form.), all resources are tapped to maintain your bum and it's newfound ferocity.

[Bob]

you know what. i think i might have actually had that during that period where i thought i had IBS (it went away on its own and hasn't even come close to coming back since, so i'm guessing it wasn't IBS after all).

if that is what i had, then yeah, that shit sucks, no pun intended.

wish i'd known about the toast, though. i was eating saltines. it didn't work. i could get through maybe a saltine and a half before i had to spend another 10 minutes on the toilet

i also made the mistake of drinking ginger ale, since that has always been good for upset stomachs...whatever it was that i had was not an upset stomach, it just made things much much worse

chicken soup felt alright until i threw it up out of the blue

but if this toast and water thing actually works, then yeah, just do that and wait it out. hopefully it won't result in too much of that "somebody has plunged their hands into my abdomen and is playing cat's cradle with my intestines" feeling that i had for a good 4-5 straight days

[Bob]

invest in very very very soft toilet paper

it won't save you, but all the same you'll be glad you're not using less soft toilet paper around the middle of day 2

[zorra_chiflada]

i called my moms up last night all "wah wah i have diarrhea". she told me a few things - food that is mostly dry (like dry toast) apples (because they contain peptin or someshit) and bananas. i'm also drinking powerade because it rehydrates you or something.

i have a headache too and i'm kinda delirious

[hitmonlee]

i had it really bad last year, i couldn't keep any food down for 4 days. i lost 5kg (came back over a couple of months). no diarrhea, because there was nothing in me.

i think i ate bananas too. and hot chips. i always eat hot chips when i am sick. tinned peaches.

i was becoming so weak and unwell i eventually went to the doctor and she gave me pramin (to stop me vomiting) and some other thing tablet they give you for stomach ulcers. i still threw up a few more times though, after the pramin wore off i would throw up, then take the pramin, and try and eat something in about an hour, then go to sleep (pramin makes you sleepy).

i had to take over a week off work.

:(

hope it clears up soon.

[Bob]

apart from that one incident with the chicken soup, i never threw up, it was just horrible nightmarish diarrhea. a couple times i almost felt like throwing up from the pain, but i managed to fight it back.

this probably belongs in the TMI thread, but it was actually more like this monstrous hybrid of constipation and diarrhea. it's like, i'd feel an urgent need in my bowels, and i'd run to the bathroom, but i'd sit there, and i'd strain and strain, but all i could manage were squirts. and it was hell to get each one out, mind you. not a fun week.

i felt fine as long as i didn't eat. but if i didn't eat i felt horrible. so i'd eat a couple crackers, and then within i'd say 20 minutes i'd have to run back to the bathroom again. then i'd have about 2-3 hours of nightmarish bowel movements until there was nothing left in me, then i'd feel ok for a while, but then i'd get hungry, and then it would start all over. fuckin' sucked.

really wish i'd known about the toast thing though. i bet that would have helped. eating food that dehydrated me can't have been a smart idea

edit: but then one day, it was just over, just like that. that was a beautiful day.

[Randetica]

invest in very very very soft toilet paper

it won't save you, but all the same you'll be glad you're not using less soft toilet paper around the middle of day 2

what about wet toilet paper HEY! *shakes* WHAT ABOUT WET TOILET PAPER????


get well soon zorrada

[Kid Presentable]

what about wet toilet paper HEY! *shakes* WHAT ABOUT WET TOILET PAPER????


get well soon zorrada
Wet toilet paper turns into dags pretty quick, though. Moist KFC towelletes might be the go.

[Randetica]

same shit

[hitmonlee]

Wet toilet paper turns into dags pretty quick, though. Moist KFC towelletes might be the go.
no you can buy "wet" toilet paper now

[cosmo105]

zorra - it's called pectin. it's good fiber. used to make jelly too.

aloe vera juice (not gel) and anything with carob in it = good ideas

[Kid Presentable]

no you can buy "wet" toilet paper now
But it's not the same as running it under the tap.

[Tone Capone]

zorra - it's called pectin. it's good fiber. used to make jelly too.

aloe vera juice (not gel) and anything with carob in it = good ideas

You know every-freakin-thing about curing stuff! You should set up a business.(lb)

[zorra_chiflada]

zorra - it's called pectin. it's good fiber. used to make jelly too.

aloe vera juice (not gel) and anything with carob in it = good ideas

yeah i remember that. you and my moms are two of a kind :)

[zorra_chiflada]

I thought only chicks get this. :confused:

nah apparently like 1 in 3 people have signs of it.

[zorra_chiflada]

so gas*^&%^5$%$%# ......is that like IBS?

nah, i dont' think so. it's like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irritable_bowel_syndrome

[zorra_chiflada]

i haven't lost any fucking weight either

[OPINIONTRON 800]

ALTHOUGH LIMITED THE BRAZILIAN SCAT MARKET PROVES CONCLUSIVELY THAT A MINORITY FIND FECAL MATTER AESTHETICALLY PLEASING. FAULTY OPINION CORRECTED

[cosmo105]

this is my 3rd day home (i actually left my first class right in the middle of lecture on tuesday because i thought i was about to barf all over the place), second day of school missed and i'm sort of fucked now because of fucking gastroenteritis. and yeah, i'm on the bananas, rice, apples, and toast diet now. with tons of emergen-c. goddamnit i'd better lose some fucking weight with this at least. :mad:

[zorra_chiflada]

this is my 3rd day home (i actually left my first class right in the middle of lecture on tuesday because i thought i was about to barf all over the place), second day of school missed and i'm sort of fucked now because of fucking gastroenteritis. and yeah, i'm on the bananas, rice, apples, and toast diet now. with tons of emergen-c. goddamnit i'd better lose some fucking weight with this at least. :mad:

i lost none!

[cosmo105]

it's still mad at me :(

perhaps the worst thing is i'm really craving greasy, fatty foods, lots of potatoes and shit. and i can't have it! and i just got a wonderful assortment of chocolate truffles and i can't partake in those either. okay so i've sneaked a few

[The Notorious LOL]

why is it when I googled "chicken soup gastroenteritis" this was the third thing that came up?


*violent shits* :(

[Yetra Flam]

oh shit :(

[The Notorious LOL]

*splatters* :(

[Dorothy Wood]

this is my favorite thread ever. talking about pooping is funny.

for about 2 weeks I was having poop problems, kicked off by the not eating for 3 days. after that, my insides were like, "hey! we're gonna only fart out small poops, but make you feel like you have a huge poop to expel! like 10 times a day! I hope you like it!"

well, you know what? I don't. not at all.

[The Notorious LOL]

if I get shits like that that feel like possible looming diarrhea squirts, I'll just take some bismols as preventative maintenance.

[TOY]

I never get weird/bad stomach things. Like, three times a year everyone will call off work and say "Yo, I got the shits- bye." I'll make up that I have the shits just so I can get a free day. But I usually just end up with a bad kidney infection once a year, though.

I remember getting food poisoning from eating at Olive Garden, and because I had Cheers blaring on my little TV, I totally believed Kristie (Kirstie? Who fuckin' knows.) was in my bedroom. Then I remember watching Mermaids with my sister, and felt a whole lot better until the part in the movie where they bring out a turkey. PUUUKE TIME!

[Burnout18]

i had gastroenteritis once...

Not fun. Not fun at all

[The Notorious LOL]

those flu/fever induced hallucinations suck so bad.

[JazzPolice]

apart from that one incident with the chicken soup, i never threw up, it was just horrible nightmarish diarrhea. a couple times i almost felt like throwing up from the pain, but i managed to fight it back.

this probably belongs in the TMI thread, but it was actually more like this monstrous hybrid of constipation and diarrhea. it's like, i'd feel an urgent need in my bowels, and i'd run to the bathroom, but i'd sit there, and i'd strain and strain, but all i could manage were squirts. and it was hell to get each one out, mind you. not a fun week.

i felt fine as long as i didn't eat. but if i didn't eat i felt horrible. so i'd eat a couple crackers, and then within i'd say 20 minutes i'd have to run back to the bathroom again. then i'd have about 2-3 hours of nightmarish bowel movements until there was nothing left in me, then i'd feel ok for a while, but then i'd get hungry, and then it would start all over. fuckin' sucked.

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;)

[camo]

those flu/fever induced hallucinations suck so bad.

I'm at home now suffering from that. On saturday morning I was being twisted like a wet towel in bed by someone and last night I was arranging little orange sweets into little plastic containers whilst I was trying to get to sleep.

[venusvenus123]

mmm zorra on the toilet. :p

[TOY]

I just wanna say thanks. Reading this thread has ended my agonizing week of constipation.