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[rm]

How can I still feel so tired and weird from the food poisoning episode?

Also, now I have a cold.

I am so frustrated.

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[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

YOur body chemistry was messed up. It takes awhile to get it 'back in line', I think.

I'm sorry about your cold, though. After the other, it must be frustrating.

[lawnrrd]

Are you sure that it was food poisoning?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking so because the vomiting seemed entirely specific to one meal. But I remain feeling pretty damn strange.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Speaking from experience, one solid day of vomiting can mess you up for a whole week. Your whole body was thrown into chaos. Also it can take a few days to catch up on dehydration, which will make you feel miserable.

Tylenol and regular water will help. Your body can only handle an 8 oz. glass every 30 minutes though, so don't overdo it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm also definitely still not at my normal level of calorie consumption and continue to feel too weird to do so.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

How do you feel after eating? Does it seem to help, or do you feel grosser?

The BRAT + avocado diet may still be in order, as tiresome as it is.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm doing rice, vitamin water, gluten-free toast (sometimes with small amounts of jam or peanut butter) and chicken. I hate bananas.

After I eat I sometimes feel briefly really horrible, but then it passes and my stomach continues to gurgle like mad and my intestines are still screwed up.

I really nope it wasn't norovirus, as I'm scared Patty will get this now.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

FYI, vitamin water is full of citric acid, which may aggravate an already-bile-filled stomach. Filtered apple juice (not from concentrate, not with stuff floating in it) might be better right now.

If this is still a problem tomorrow, you might do well to go to a doctor and get tested for something. One variety of food poisoning I had took five days to manifest and turned out to be Campylobacter bacteria (like salmonella). They should be able to determine this with a lab test now. Unfortunately it may not speed up your recovery, but it would likely help to know what you're dealing with.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nah, I see no sense in going to a doctor if I'm keeping fluids and food down and stuff. I mean, it's not like they can do anything for whatever.

Totally did the apple juice thing for a day, and it drove me crazy, but that was probably psychological. It makes me feel like I'm 4.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

I meant if it is freaking you out to not KNOW what is happening. If you're okay with still feeling gross for a few days, that is probably how it'll be regardless of the doctor.

One of the most frustrating things about being sick like this is feeling four, for days, but not being four.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahaha yeah. Also, gluten-free toast is not like regular toast. It's cakey and sweet and a bit harder to digest, so it's been hard finding a way to do this sensibly.

Also you will roll your eyes at me, but the chicken I ate was this awesome thing Patty made involving lots of gluten-free soy sauce and garlic.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, looked up the norovirus incubation period. I think Patty's safe.

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

The GF bread from Whole Foods makes me feel sick. I don't know why, but I really feel atrocious when I eat it.

Do you like potatoes? They're very high in potassium and pretty easy on the gut.

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

Thinking:

Since Celiac is an autoimmune condition predominately affecting the digestive system, it's possible that something like food poisoning could irritate you more than it might someone else. I have Crohn's, and stomach viruses kick my butt far more than they used to.

Hope you feel all the way better soon.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

It took me more than a week to completely shake the aftereffects of whatever I had, fwiw.