Riliye, how yuck to have food poisoning! how were you able to tell it apart from MS?
At first I wasn't able to...lately I'd been having AWFUL morning sickness first thing after waking up...even with the Zofran I would always throw up. So I ate something that tasted a little off to me at the time and figured it was just me being weird (I've been strange about food this whole time) about four hours later, I started feeling ill. I didn't start puking until the next day.
The fundamental difference between morning sickness and food poisoning was the fact that I was throwing up
when my stomach was full. Normally my nausea only gets to the puking part if I go too long without eating, i.e., first thing in the morning. Then I started throwing up every hour and did that for just over a full day before the...er...attention turned to both ends at once.
Also...DRY HEAVING! Oh man. Every hour I'd be paying homage to the porcelain god, regardless of whether I had anything in there to sacrifice or not. I was so sore from heaving that I could barely breathe. And then the fever came, so I actually had physical proof of what I'd been saying the whole time.
I wondered if it wasn't the flu for a while, although I rarely ever get the flu and it normally sends my temperature WAY up there (this fever got to about 100.5 but no higher) AND I'd had a flu shot already this year. The doctor pretty much dismissed it as a possibility when she heard I had that shot. I'm just wicked glad that it's all over.
The good news is that my DH was an absolute gem through the whole of it...even when I was half out of my mind with hormones and illness, hysterical and sobbing that I was going to die (I really believed it). I got in such a state that he was gearing up to take me to the ER, which, apparently, even though I was "dying" I didn't want to go
there.
I'm still having horrible, horrible muscle cramps from dehydration and potassium loss. I forcefed myself half a banana earlier, and it seems to have helped some already. But I can't even type that B word without making myself gag. Geez. Really, really sensitive stomach right now.
Oh my goodness, poor you! So glad you're feeling better now (well, a bit better anyway!)
I love One Born Every Minute. Does anyone know if it still comes on in the US? Haven't seen it for a while.
I don't think it does...could be wrong, but I always watch it online anyway. Hulu is my best friend!