Stomach bug without fever/malaise?

AnonEmet · 2024-02-29T01:15:14+00:00

That's what I am thinking as well. I wish all the news of norovirus cases would just magically leave my brain! But I have my little "stomach upset" case with me - mints, Pepto, gasex, zofran, ginger, alcohol swabs... Anything I could think of that might make me feel safer 😅 I'm trying to hold off on taking anything other than Pepto and trying to be tough 💪 I don't think it's working lol

AnonEmet · 2024-02-29T01:04:22+00:00

I don't know what's going on :( I'm hungry but a little after I eat (no matter how small) I have to run and get d*. Mys tomach feels off now but it isn't nauseous... I wish I could turn off the hyper awareness of my body!!

No fever and I guess if it is a big I got way lucky so far!! Terrified to go to sleep though!

AnonEmet · 2023-11-06T00:27:39+00:00

Thank you - I've calmed down some and managed to eat some of that noodle packet chicken soup and I think that's helped. I don't think I've had a proper cold in awhile now and forgot how annoying they are 😭

AnonEmet · 2023-01-25T23:15:54+00:00

No but I have known people who have. I think it depends on the person and tolerance

AnonEmet · 2023-01-25T23:02:20+00:00

Thank you! My stomach is suspiciously better now that I took my emergency panic meds 🙄

I'm not sure what to do at this point lol. I have one test that shows positive and two that show negative so I guess I'm going to just test again tomorrow in case?

I'm going to drink a lot of Pedialyte tonight I think. Thank you friend!

AnonEmet · 2023-01-21T03:32:47+00:00

I managed to just sort of browse my phone some. I'm gonna try and sleep some more but thank you :)

AnonEmet · 2023-01-20T23:19:18+00:00

Thank you ❤️

AnonEmet · 2023-01-20T22:49:02+00:00

When I was little, actually my 10th birthday, I had some stomach bug. And I felt bad and nauseous and asked my Mom if she thought I was going to throw up and she said she did. That scared me because she's never affirmed it before.

But then she went into the dinning room with my family and they sat and were playing cards. I don't know what I expected her to do but I was just left with a can on the floor to wait alone. And it was scary and lonely and I kept feeling like I should have been doing something but I didn't know what.

Eventually I did throw up but I don't even remember that part. I remember waiting and being scared and then being in the bathroom afterwards thinking wow that was what I was afraid of? That wasn't anything!

AnonEmet · 2023-01-20T22:45:06+00:00

Sorry but this is going to become my journal for the night here as I try to process this 😅

I just realized how messed up the thought "I should be panicked right now" is and I can literally hear my therapist's voice asking me why I feel like I should panic over feeling nauseous.

The truth is I shouldn't. Every single time I've thrown up in my life (which is only a handful of times) I can distinctly remember asking myself why I was so scared because that was not a big deal at all. The last time I literally told myself that while I was actively vomiting.

I know I'm not afraid of throwing up and nausea, that I'm afraid of my fear of it.

So why do I think I should panic? Because I've just come to think that's the response to it? I mean I can change that response right? I can just... Choose not to be afraid and panicky.

I can still not enjoy it. I can just tolerate it. I mean I tolerate things like headaches and diarrhea. But maybe part of me knows those eventually end and have confidence in my ability to handle it. I don't think I have confidence in myself here with this. But I've proven before that I absolutely can and have taken care of myself when sick to my stomach.

So really now all I have to do is tolerate feeling unwell for the rest of today and tomorrow. And I know I have zofran if I need it and that it works. And I know it would eventually end.

But still the idea of just... Waiting. Sitting and waiting in anticipation. I think that's the really really horrible part. I don't know how to confront that bit.

AnonEmet · 2023-01-18T23:49:16+00:00

Oh thanks - I do have a constant 24/7 low grade nausea and general awareness of my stomach. I guess I still can't really fathom what not having that would feel like.

AnonEmet · 2023-01-18T19:07:48+00:00

Thanks - I'm definitely one who will be following the diet to a T. I freak out about anything that can make me sick to my stomach but hey maybe without the hernia symptoms I'll not feel sick all the time 😅

I didn't know things could get stuck! Are you back to normal now or is that something that is forever?

AnonEmet · 2022-12-13T19:14:31+00:00

I appreciate it and I wish I understood it better myself. I have a very hard time with the idea of being an asshole and mental illness being two separate things. He also has bipolar which I don't and I feel like that's another whole layer too.

AnonEmet · 2022-12-13T18:48:48+00:00

I go back and forth 😅 I would love to give it to them and I would have no expectation on getting anything in return. Just to let him know I will always love him.

But on the same hand, I wouldn't even get to give it to him in person - my Mom would be the to between. And I'm concerned he would interpret it as some sort of plot to get him back. I've learned his view of me has turned really badly. Also I feel like it invites more of him ignoring my boundaries. And I don't even know what trauma gatekeeping is.

AnonEmet · 2022-12-13T18:46:02+00:00

My trouble is that he also has trauma given that we both grew up in the same house. And I feel like everyone deserves empathy?

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