I got noro from my school aged kid. He puked like twice. I puked for a full 22 hours straight, no breaks, none of the few minutes right after where you get relief. My body was trying to puke again before the one before was finished. The sheer volume was unbelievable. Like, I've been sick before where my stomach was empty and I was throwing up bile, but this one was just gallons of projectile liquid as if it was pulling water out of my cells. I considered calling a doctor or a priest, but I was honestly too sick to hold a phone. I'm amazed at your perseverance, and you have my admiration for making it!
i got noro during the massive outbreak in 2024. like on christmas day. my partner actually had symptoms first, but she got over it in a few days. i know we got it from my job, i worked with kids at the time, and it was spread like wildfire throughout our clinic. all my coworkers had it, so many kids were out because of it. the line for the bathroom was insane. it truly was hell.
i would be sitting on the toilet with the trash can, because i would be having liquid come out both ends at the SAME TIME. i have never in my LIFE felt like that, and it was the worst physical experience i’ve ever had.
it’s like my insides were screaming at me (like you could literally HEAR how active my stomach was). i was so sore, dehydrated, delirious, and i actually did have a food ruined for me because of it. the night before i started showing symptoms, we had this trader joe’s gnocchi pasta that i was obsessed with. it never even digested for me. i can’t even eat it anymore. just thinking about it makes me queasy lol. it was so sad.
Almost exactly like you. I worked in a nursery school with three year olds. Me and another teaching assistant got very ill one day and both had to leave early. I made it home but not in the house before throwing up. Like you said, it was spewing from both ends for over 24 hours. I couldn’t keep ice chips down.
I lost five pounds in a day and a half. It was hell.
My wife got norovirus in her eyes working at an urgent care. Both eyes completely busted like all veins, and were swollen shut for a few days. I of course eventually got it and had one strained vessel in my eye that never burst. Immune systems are so weird.
I got noro in the summer of 2024, and I agree, it's horrible and so scary. It was almost as bad as when I had covid. With covid I lost 35lbs in 6 weeks from puking so much. I was lucky though, they finally gave me ondansetron (this was when my hospital was only taking covid patients with respiratory difficulties, which I didn't have, but I finally went to the ER and my veins were so flat they barely got the IV in) and I lived on that for a good few weeks until my initial covid symptoms relaxed. I got long covid and was moderately sick for 2 years but the initial sickness was HELL. Noro was really bad but I was only puking sick for two weeks that time. I went to the ER and they had me come in twice a day for a week to give me fluids and sent me home with zofran? or maybe ondansetron, for the between times. I lost 25lbs with noro, it was awful!
Ugghhhh...I got noro then as well. It. Was. AWFUL. Hit me when I was in the middle of shopping at Giant Heirloom store in town. All of a sudden, I was just doubled over -came out of nowhere, I literally felt fine just before. Made a mad dash to the ONE public bathroom they had avail there. What made it SO much worse, was they had this b!tch employee, who kept pounding on the damn door, yelling at me that there was a line for the bathroom, despite the fact that I kept apologizing & hollering back at her that I WAS SICK & there was an employee bathroom right there next to it that they could've let people use in an emergency, which obvi, this was. Ffs...it was TERRIBLE. Not to mention, I had to figure out how tf I was going to make my way home. There aren't public bathrooms here. Nearly all bathrooms for 'public' use are inside businesses, & not all of them allow people to use them-many have even stopped allowing customers to use them b/c they've had issues-only restaurants w/sit down eating are required to have them available. So I'm in this bathroom, dying sick, having the door pounded on repeatedly & getting screamed at, trying to make my brain work & think of everywhere along the route to my bus that had a bathroom...I had to stop so many x at so many places...it took me hours to get home that day. Mind you, that market was only 4 blocks away from my bus..I don't ever want to get that ish again!!!
The same thing happened to me from the same outbreak! Broccoli cheddar soup! Meanwhile, the only thing I was able to eat were those microwave mac & cheeses. Ah, the duality of cheese.
That's when I had Norovirus too! Although mine started just a few days before Christmas in 2024. I haven't had red Powerade zero since and never will again. I wanted to die I was so sick. It took them like two hours, multiple people, and an ultrasound to find my veins because I was so dehydrated. I am terrified of getting it again.
I had noro that Christmas too! Well, Boxing Day but who cares. Coming out of both ends every half hour for six hours straight. Couldn't keep anything down, asked my mom for some toast after being vomit-free for the afternoon and started throwing up again. We were supposed to drive 13-14 hours to the capital with my brother that morning at 6 but waited an extra day since I was actively vomiting. We left early the next morning and I was so delirious I forgot my frigging glasses. The stress on my abdomen was so bad I could barely stand for a week, let alone stand up straight, but at least I got a great six pack from it!
I'm immune to this. The last time I puked was in 2012 due to Grey Goose. I can't remember ever having the shits like that either. I run the other way, which is once a month it seems.
About 2 years ago we all got norovirus it was hell on earth. I thought I was going to die of dysentery it was the sickest I've ever been in my life. It took about a solid week to let up, and it's like I had purged every thing in me and then I was starving by a week had gone by so everything in the house had gone bad.
I worked at a college and was gifted the Noro by a student. I always take a tv tray into the bathroom, put my pillow on it, sit down and sleep between the shitting and vomiting. It’s too much effort to go back to bed. I have always kept a bucket by the commode (IBS) so I’m pretty practiced at it all.
I had noro. I thought maybe I should go to the ER, but as I was crawling to the door I simultaneously barfed and pooped my pants, so I decided to either live or die at home, because there was no way I was making it down the stairs to the parking lot of my apartment complex. My boyfriend (now-husband) was there because he was the one who was going to drive me. It’s a miracle that he didn’t leave me, because my whole apartment smelled like shit and we hadn’t been together all that long.
I've had norovirus twice, and it is unbelievably awful. Both times I ended up sleeping on the floor of my bathroom for multiple days, because I was on the toilet with a garbage can so often there was no point in trying to go back to bed. I was shivering and dripping sweat while puking and having diarrhea all at the same time. It took me months to fully recover- i was so weak and my stomach just couldnt handle food for so long that I ended up losing between 15-20lbs. Norovirus is no joke!!
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I got noro from my school aged kid. He puked like twice. I puked for a full 22 hours straight, no breaks, none of the few minutes right after where you get relief. My body was trying to puke again before the one before was finished. The sheer volume was unbelievable. Like, I've been sick before where my stomach was empty and I was throwing up bile, but this one was just gallons of projectile liquid as if it was pulling water out of my cells. I considered calling a doctor or a priest, but I was honestly too sick to hold a phone. I'm amazed at your perseverance, and you have my admiration for making it!