Winter Vommiting Bug

Rossonero

Just at the back of a dose! horrible

LegacyUser

ye think i had this, lasts less than a day, which aint so bad.

gobby

Friend of mine seems to have come down with it too...

seamus

There's a second flu-like virus going around that I got at the end of last month. Starts out as a tickly throat, and within hours you find yourself feeling really fluey, no energy, coughing and loss of appetite. It's a complete bitch. Took me 2.5 weeks to shake it. The first week was really bad, cold-wise, the second week you're more able to do stuff, but you're aware of being sick, and just don't feel like yourself at all. I hadn't ever had to take more than 2 days off anything in the last ten years due to illness, but I had to take a whole week off work.

I hear the vomiting bug doesn't last that long, but by Jesus it's severe.

sprinkles

seamus wrote:

There's a second flu-like virus going around that I got at the end of last month. Starts out as a tickly throat, and within hours you find yourself feeling really fluey, no energy, coughing and loss of appetite. It's a complete bitch. Took me 2.5 weeks to shake it. The first week was really bad, cold-wise, the second week you're more able to do stuff, but you're aware of being sick, and just don't feel like yourself at all. I hadn't ever had to take more than 2 days off anything in the last ten years due to illness, but I had to take a whole week off work.

I had that. Horrible. Just geting over it. I should have taken a few days off work but instead I kept going in which just made it worse.

Winters

I have nothing to do with this bug and will not accecpt any responsibility for it.

Zombienosh

seamus wrote:

There's a second flu-like virus going around that I got at the end of last month. Starts out as a tickly throat, and within hours you find yourself feeling really fluey, no energy, coughing and loss of appetite. It's a complete bitch. Took me 2.5 weeks to shake it. The first week was really bad, cold-wise, the second week you're more able to do stuff, but you're aware of being sick, and just don't feel like yourself at all. I hadn't ever had to take more than 2 days off anything in the last ten years due to illness, but I had to take a whole week off work.

yeah i had that too, comes on real sudden doesn't it. think im getting it again tbh i feel terrible today.

sprinkles

AlcoholicA wrote:

yeah i had that too, comes on real sudden doesn't it. think im getting it again tbh i feel terrible today.

Yeah my doctor told me that I could get it again. Usually you get it once and then you immune to the same strain again but not this one for some reason

joejoem

I started to get it on sunday and I was fairly flucked on Monday, fine on tuesday. Whenever I start to feel like that I load up on vitamins, and go for long jogs or to the gym. Its realy hard to do any excersise but it boosts up your imune system and stops it getting too bad, just make sure you stay hidrated, drink loads of water!!!

vector

joejoem wrote:

I started to get it on sunday and I was fairly flucked on Monday, fine on tuesday. Whenever I start to feel like that I load up on vitamins, and go for long jogs or to the gym. Its realy hard to do any excersise but it boosts up your imune system and stops it getting too bad, just make sure you stay hidrated, drink loads of water!!!

I have driven to town since January (instead of getting the bus like I did in College) and haven't gotten any flu/cold this year. Driving might be bad for the envionment but not being cooped up in a condensation windowed lowfloor bus for 45mins daily seem to be good for the health.

TerrorFirmer

seamus wrote:

There's a second flu-like virus going around that I got at the end of last month. Starts out as a tickly throat, and within hours you find yourself feeling really fluey, no energy, coughing and loss of appetite. It's a complete bitch. Took me 2.5 weeks to shake it. The first week was really bad, cold-wise, the second week you're more able to do stuff, but you're aware of being sick, and just don't feel like yourself at all. I hadn't ever had to take more than 2 days off anything in the last ten years due to illness, but I had to take a whole week off work.

I hear the vomiting bug doesn't last that long, but by Jesus it's severe.

I got that the same weekend I was moving house. Typical, and it was one of the worst weekends of my life as I spent the entire time out in the freezing cold moving heavy stuff around the place - pre-empted by one of the worst days in my life when I decided to still go to work that Friday.

A good 50% of people I know have had it the last month or two but thankfully it seems to have teetered out by this stage.

Rhyme

It only seems to pop up in the afternoon with me... i go into college, one lecture later i feel like shit... I seem to pick these up every time they appear

Got it last night. Had a kebab, felt great, went for a few pints, then just felt a wave of nausea and had to leave the pub - thank Christ I didn't get sick in the local anyway. Went home, felt queasy, then had the Mother of all gawks and spent all night awake with stomach cramps and the ocassional need to run to the toilets. The silver lining was that it got me out of some really crap work today.

Anyway, stay off the food, drink lots of water or flat 7up, and rest. It passes over very quickly, which is the small consolation, but leaves you weak. Just coming round in the past few hours.

RasTa

Had that crap on Friday.
Went to sleep on Friday after college then woke up at 6ish with the worst migraine ever. Cooked some dinner then went back to bed because my head was killing me then pucked up my dinner an hour later.
Great fun all round!

Nightwish

The one that Seamus said, was all over work over the past few weeks. Its terrible. *fingers crossed*

Tar.Aldarion

I've never had any vomiting bug before, but I'm never sick. Just the cold this year out of the last god knows how long, although it was bad!
Is the vomiting bug common?

_Kaiser_

I had the flu bug there early last month... Came on very quickly (I was lucky I left work when I did, cause an hour later I could barely stand - never mind drive home - I was that weak and COLD!! ) 18 hours of bedrest and heating on full blast later though and I was ok.. but wasn't completely back to normal for days after it.

Piste

I have that nasty virus that's been flying round. Not too surprising as a lot of my friends have it and so does my sister. Saturday morning I woke up at about 5 shivering and being freezing cold despite my thick duvet and electric blanket, then I got sick all day in between sleeping. Yesterday wasn't so bad, I was jut coughing a lot, and I seem to be getting over it today. The temperatures are horrible.

On the plus side high temperatures do give interesting dreams/hallucinations
Best way to deal with it is lie in bed/on the couch and watch tv/movies and drink plenty of liquids.

Jumpy

I had it a few years ago. It get to the point where you need a toilet AND a bucket.

I wouldnt wish it on anyone.