Last night--Worst Night in a Really Long Time

[ceebeegee]

I'm extremely sick. I've been vomiting since 1 am--after the first couple of go-rounds I had nothing left in my stomach and I was still bolting for the bathroom. It is an unbelievably uncomfortable experience to have your body struggling to get rid of something that isn't there--I can't breathe and it feels like I'm choking. And can I just tell you how horrible bile tastes? It tastes even worse than you'd expect it to taste, like this disgusting acidic taste and then something dead in the middle. I haven't vomited this much since I was a kid. Oh my God. I'm so shaky and miserable. All I want to do is shower and then sleep but every time I doze off, I wake up with the telltale sense of something impending in my stomach and then I have to run for at the other end of the apartment, pushing mattresses and cats out of the way the bathroom. Damn shotgun apartments.

MARION--if this keeps up today, do people go to the ER for constant vomiting? Is that considered serious or is that something that eventually goes away? I'm trying to drink fluids.

Comments

[melebeth]

I'm not Marion, but yes they do. If you can't keep down fluids you can get dangerously dehydrated from all the vomiting. The ER, or an urgent care clinic, can also give you drugs to stop the puking.

*hug* Feel better. I've found that sleeping on the bathroom floor feels really nice in such circumstances. The tile is all nice and cold and the toilet is right there.