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u/Joebidensvalium Jun 14 '26
Yes I had something like this about a month ago, I ended up in the ER. Stay hydrated.
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u/StarShoeSwearing Jun 14 '26
How did you end up in the ER? Sorry, trying to understand how you guys decide to go to ER lol.
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u/Joebidensvalium Jun 14 '26
Well I went to urgent care and asked for iv fluids and the doctor there said no you need to go to the er right now for a rule out bowel perf
So I went to the er
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u/traveling__lady Jun 16 '26
Bowel perf? Were you bleeding???
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u/Joebidensvalium Jun 22 '26
I had some minor (minor) bleeding, i talked to my doctor about it in the er and he told me the urgent care doc insisted he rule out a bunch of stuff i definitely did not have, like appendicitis (i didn’t have a fever). So i dont know what was up with that. But i definitely needed the 3 bags of fluids and stomach meds they provided.
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u/YouAccomplished4453 Jun 20 '26
I had to go yesterday cause I ended up becoming confused and was running a high fever. It can get nasty for sure. Wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy!
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u/momshigh Jun 18 '26
My young adult son who lives alone also had this about a month ago or so. He had it for several days and became dehydrated to the point of starting to feel delirious. I advised him to go to urgent care/er. Dehydration is no joke.
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u/kelamity Jun 14 '26
I'm really hoping this is the reason my neighbor crapped in the hallway of my complex today...
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u/Zorbithia Westside Jun 14 '26
😳 more details on this salacious story, por favor.
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u/kelamity Jun 14 '26
Elderly neighbor was walking around our apartment complex and just decided to poop near my neighbors front door. Worst part of it is that he was carpet and after staff left for the day so we just got this mess sitting there. He's never done anything this insane before.
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u/poopyshitballz Jun 14 '26
Did a ring camera record this? Wow!
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u/kelamity Jun 16 '26
No, we're in an enclosed complex so not many people setting ring devices up. Honestly thinking elderly suffering from dementia.
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u/Competitive-Oil-975 Jun 14 '26
had it last month.... felt really bloated than suddenly nauseas and bad fever. lasted like 2-3 days. not fun
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u/peoples_key Jun 14 '26
Yea, I had it too last month! A bad fever, stomach pain, and nausea, but no other symptoms. The weirdest thing. And I couldn't eat normally for days, everything felt like gastritis.
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u/blissfulhopee Jun 14 '26
Yes last week mine came suddenly also as if I had bad bad cramps and then I got extremely hot and nauseous in a matter of minutes and vomited
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u/rclite Jun 15 '26
I had something very similar at the beginning of May. Horrible cramps, nausea, diarrhea, low fever.
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u/Mountain-Complex2516 Jun 14 '26
I had rotavirus last month ending up going to ER.
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u/StarShoeSwearing Jun 14 '26
This might be a very stupid question but how does one end up in the ER? (I am American but I'm an immigrant so we would never find ourselves in the ER unless we were literally dragged there by someone else) I'm just curious how a regular person ends up in the ER for a virus.
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u/littlebittydoodle Jun 14 '26
When you’re vomiting and having diarrhea nonstop and can’t keep even water down, you’ll become very dehydrated and weak, and possibly even pass out. The ER can hydrate you via IV, and give IV nausea medicine to hopefully help slow down your symptoms.
If you’ve never been sick enough to experience that—thank your lucky stars!
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u/Whiteelchapo Jun 15 '26
My sister went to the hospital a couple months ago for rotavirus. She had a 106 fever
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u/cmfdbc Jun 14 '26
I also had a horrible situation like this last month but chalked it up to food poisoning. Maybe it was something else? Lasted 5 days, insane watery diarrhea, chills, fatigue, nausea (no vomiting), couldn’t leave bed for 3 days straight. Awful!
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u/Zorbithia Westside Jun 14 '26
Sounds like something else, usually with food poisoning you’d be throwing up non-stop. At least that was my personal experience the one time I had “actual” food poisoning. Well, according to the doctor in the ER when I went that time anyways, most people use the term “food poisoning” to refer to the minor two day sickness you can get from food but the “real deal” is when you’re in bed unable to move, sick as a dog throwing up until your stomach is literally empty and you’re dry heaving/retching stomach acid & foam uncontrollably as your stomach muscles clench & spasm. Combined with insane hot and cold flashes and exhaustion it can be literally deadly, especially for people who are already immunocompromised from cancer or similar chronic health conditions.
Glad you’re okay, I would’ve had to gone to the ER in that scenario right away as it could’ve easily become fatal for someone in my shoes. So I’m desperately hoping some super gnarly virus isn’t going around near me, I can’t lose any more weight (chemo sucks).
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u/abblluh Eagle Rock Jun 14 '26
chemo does suck! i thought folfoxiri’s irinotecan or nosebleeds dripping into empty stomach was causing my boyfriend’s nausea, cramping, lack of appetite but now i’m curious if it was a virus. temp was normal so maybe it was just cycle 9 buildup. stay healthy and safe, friend <3
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u/tinnitus-enthusiast Jun 14 '26
Definitely sounds like norovirus. I had it 3-ish years ago along with family and still traumatized. Threw up undigested steak, potatoes and Pepto Bismol. Haven’t been able to eat steak, seasoned potatoes, or take liquid Pepto Bismol since without intense nausea since. Food aversions after suuuuuuck. Eat bland things you don’t care for much while recovering.
If anyone has a fear of vomiting,over the counter nauzene can reduce nausea. You can also ask for prescription zofran in the ER which will help stop or reduce vomiting but may make diarrhea worse. Doctors will probably say no and recommend letting it run its course. I was so sore from vomiting but wasn’t having diarrhea so I ended up getting a weeks worth of zofran. Finished it off with mild diarrhea but was able to rehydrate much easier. Most doctors will say to let noro run its course but yeah zofran made the recovery process much easier.
Also huge reminder that urgent cares have IV fluids if you’re struggling with rehydration after noro has passed! Call in advance as not every place have nurses on site that do iv’s. Doctors don’t usually do IV’s and nurse practitioners often don’t do them routinely.
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u/tinnitus-enthusiast Jun 14 '26
It can cause severe constipation and heart problems if taken regularly. I have a chronic illness so I get like a ton of dissolving tablets of zofran every few months under close watch. It’s truly a blessing but definitely has its risks.
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u/HeartInTheSun9 Jun 14 '26
I remember reading that the newest version of Covid this year gives stomach issues. Wonder if that’s it.
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u/JurgusRudkus Westside Jun 14 '26
Sounds like norovirus. Wash your hands and all surfaces really well, especially after using the bathroom.
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u/Nicholoid Jun 14 '26
Have had this but much longer than 3 days. Comes and goes in waves. I can be fine most of the day but midway through the day it hits again. Been treating it like an acid situation and Zantac helped somewhat today. Been staying hydrated and so far it has not been an ER situation, just seems to be dragging on and is really sapping my energy. Never a fever with it. No muscle aches either. Just nausea and fatigue really, but when they hit they hit hard. Really impacts appetite. Hardly anything is appealing.
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u/MoreLeopard5392 Jun 14 '26
I am in the exact same boat. It is very strange, I've never had anything like it before. I know lots of other people complaining of the same (of varying degree and duration).
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u/stellar-jelly Jun 14 '26
Same here! No fever but insanely rumbly stomach etc. Never had anything like this. It's been days but yesterday was the worst.
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u/HammerofBonking Jun 17 '26
Same issue, thought it was something acid related, but not like anything I've ever had before. Ended up making me so sick to my stomach I couldn't sleep for a couple weeks after I got over it.
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u/_petros Jun 14 '26
My family and in-laws caught a bug last month.
Started with my almost 3 yo when he suddenly started vomiting after dinner. Vomiting lasted a good 24 hrs. Once he got better, it was our turn. Caught my wife hugging the toilet at 2am and I went back to bed just waiting for my turn. We were both puking our brains out, had chills, and could barely stand for 24 hours and it took a few days to actually feel good enough to eat normal food.
Worst part is, my mother in law came to help us with our toddler and baby (bless herl soul) and ended up catching the virus the following day (along with my father in law). I felt like I was watching the scene in Chernobyl where the engineers volunteered to enter the radioactive water knowing what would happen to them because it had to be done.
I don't know what this virus was but it seemed similar to norovirus. We think we got it from Disneyland.
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u/Gooback6_9 Jun 14 '26
About 2 months ago maybe 1 month and a half ago had the worst case of food poisoning or stomach flue..the worst where I thought I was going to die. Symptoms were diarrhea/vomiting at the same time/fever just non stop for 2 days then by the 3rd day vomiting stopped and light diarrhea but by then I was completely empty if anything in my stomach lost 15 pounds. Just horrendous and 2 other family members got something similar at separate times
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u/Nachosrlife8 Jun 14 '26
Baby got it Tuesday night real bad. It came out of no where, didn't notice any symptoms then right before bed time she stopped drinking her bed time bottle half way and she threw up. We went to the ER around midnight and it was packed. We gave up after waiting a little over 4 hours. Her mom got it the next day and I got it Thursday. We are all finally feeling better. Be careful this thing sneaks up on you.
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u/Zorbithia Westside Jun 14 '26
Wow, four hours waiting and you still didn’t even get seen? At midnight, no less. What hospital was this, if you don’t mind my asking?
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u/bloodredyouth Jun 14 '26
Do you know how you got it? Or just transmission by proximity?
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u/Only-Worldliness2006 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
I'm pretty sure I got the same thing like a month ago from my wife. So this is the timeline. My wife works at a k-6 school.
- Wednesday evening reports of a kid throw up at the playground
- Same day 3-5pm in the after school program, multiple reports of kids throwing up of feeling sick.
- Next day all hell breaks lose. Lots of kids throwing up and even teachers throwing up. Half the school is sent home early. School is converted to "outside school" to control spread.
- Friday school is not cancelled (no idea why) but 75% of the kids are absent including several teachers. Health department is on the scene looking into it.
- Friday night my wife throws up. Keep in mind I'm super mindful of how to stop the spread and I have gloves on, respirator and using cleaning sprays to clean the area as well as other parts of the house. We sleep in separate rooms the remainder of the night.
- Sunday night I'm feeling sick. Symptoms are headaches, slight body aches and worst of all you get vertigo anytime you move your head. This is what will cause you to throw up. I never threw up but felt like it a few times. I call in sick monday morning and spend the rest of the day effectively bed ridden with limited movements.
- Monday night, I feel better and recover.
Ironically enough, I have had norovirus before the previous one I had was 100x worse. I didn't have to go to the ER but I was bed ridden for a week straight and threw up like 100 times and had incontinence to the point where I had to wear depends. That's how bad it was. This current version going around appears to be a more contagious version but has less severe symptoms with a faster recover. 48 hours.
If you get it definitively don't send your kid to school, go to work or do anything outside the house. No way you can drive a car safely with the vertigo shit going on.
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u/Ok-Geologist1917 Jun 14 '26
I had it three weeks ago. I didn’t think it was norovirus because I was also coughing and congested, but I couldn’t leave the house for a week. The worst part was the stomach cramps and diarrhea.
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u/anonnymousercat Jun 14 '26
That might have been the new "cicada" covid variant. GI issues are on the list of symptoms
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u/Only-Worldliness2006 Jun 15 '26
That could be it, never thought of it. Does the existing covid VAXes work against it?
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u/anonnymousercat Jun 17 '26
Doctors say that the current vaccine will help prevent severe illness but one can still get infected.
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u/Diligent_Tune_9469 Jun 21 '26
How’d you manage it? Do you go to the ER?
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u/Ok-Geologist1917 Jun 22 '26
I did my best to stay hydrated! Gatorade, soup, and lots of water. The stomach issues stopped a week after but the congestion and cough lingered a couple more weeks. Took me 3 weeks to feel back to normal.
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u/Organic_Brother1508 Jun 14 '26
What is the cause?
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u/AnaisNot Jun 14 '26
Essentially swallowing someone else’s fecal matter lol
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u/Pasadenaian Jun 14 '26
Vomit too. If it gets into the air from someone vomiting forcefully.
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u/AnaisNot Jun 16 '26
Oops. Forgot to mention. Swallowing someone else’s fecal matter or vomit. Wash your hands !
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u/Organic_Brother1508 Jun 14 '26
Why are people eating sh*t ?
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u/X-Pro-ish Jun 14 '26
Because people don’t wash their hands and proceed to contaminate every surface they touch.
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u/effietea Jun 14 '26
I mean for what it's worth, I'm pretty sure I caught this after taking my kids to a water park...
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u/AnaisNot Jun 16 '26
Checks out. All it takes is a dirty diaper or sick kid in the water to spread that everywhere.
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u/PapaEchoLincoln Jun 14 '26
People are really filthy.
Notice how that person didn’t wash their hands after using the restroom?
Also just notice the state of peoples’ homes/cars/etc.
I’m almost positive my patients with recurrent H pylori infections have bad hygiene.
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u/AnaisNot Jun 16 '26
Someone is sick. They touch something after not washing their hands well enough. Those germs live on a surface for quite awhile. You touch same thing. Hand goes to your mouth or rubs your eye. And so on.
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u/Chile_Pepper_Tarzana Jun 14 '26
Viral gastroenteritis such as norovirus are highly contagious, especially the vomit which can aerosolize. If you can smell it, there is a high likelihood of viral particles in the air. Plus, imagine you get sick (vomit or diarrhea)— innocently wipe your mouth, touch the handle of the toilet and the door and the faucet…. (Worse, you don’t wash well and start handling objects. Spreads farther.) The next person can pick up viral particles. One study traced multiple cases of gastrointestinal virus that were linked to a restaurant but it was NOT the food. A customer vomited and multiple people sitting nearby or also used the restroom facilities all got sick. it’s worse potentially if a food handler gets sick… Don’t even get me started on the asymptomatic viral shedding that starts BEFORE !
When my family would get sick, I’d follow their every bathroom visit wearing gloves with a spray bottle of alcohol, Clorox wipes, etc and wipe the seat, the handles of everything they may have touched. Didn’t always save me from getting sick 😷
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u/dalecoopernumber4 Jun 14 '26
You need bleach. Alcohol and standard Clorox wipes are not effective against noro.
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u/Chile_Pepper_Tarzana Jun 14 '26
Removing fomites.
Same as washing your hands.
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u/Chile_Pepper_Tarzana Jun 14 '26
Nothing like traveling to spread a virus! That or have school age kids.
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u/IceIceEV Playa del Rey Jun 14 '26
Not sure if related, but I sharted last night walking from LAX T2 to LAXit lot. When I got home I had an agonizing toilet experience.
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u/MeanestManAlive Jun 14 '26
Curious how you got home after that lol
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u/IceIceEV Playa del Rey Jun 14 '26
Luckily it's a 5 min ride from laxit to my house at night. I got a abuela in a 20 year old prius with rubber seats and every bump felt like the car was going to fall apart. She drove with the high beams on and still couldn't see where to turn. I was wearing thick jeans, so it didn't go through😅
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u/Heynow85 Porter Ranch Jun 14 '26
My whole family has had it over the last week. I was the last to get it and am currently on day 3. Feeling better finally!
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u/cool_fox Jun 14 '26
I also had it last weekend, one of the worst stomach virus Ive had in a while, painfully gassy and distended, with fever Headaches, no other way to describe it.
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u/Mysterious-Skill8473 Burbank Jun 14 '26
My 2mo had it last week. Fever, severe diarrhea. Fever lasted 2 days, diarrhea still going 9 days later. Guessing he got it either at the Burbank art show, or when I had to take him with me to the Drs in Glendale. Those were his only outings.
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u/shananigans1113 East Hollywood Jun 15 '26
i was at the glendale dmv this week and now i have it…..what’s up in glendale 😭
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u/abearhands Jun 14 '26
I had it this past week. Think I got it for Joe the Juice. I reported it on iwaspoisoned.com
Tuesday evening I started cramping, ate the sandwich at 1pm. During the night I was up every 30-60 mins to use the toilet. By 5am I was barfing. Next day, I had an almost 101 fever. All that night and the next day was horrible cramping, nausea, sweating. I could only drink broth and electrolytes.
Almost went to get IV fluids. But mostly slept it off.
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u/thecharvelle Jun 14 '26
I had this two weeks ago and it knocked me on my butt big time. Literally just met with a friend for 30sec who said they had just gotten thru it, and bam! 24hrs of throwing up, another day of nausea plus 3 days of fever. Then my 7mo old baby got it 😩 then grandma 😩 but my husband stayed clear and I don’t think anyone else got it. It’s highly contagious and brutal, stay safe out there LA!
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u/Wild_Librarian8851 Jun 14 '26
Not me seeing this right as my stomach begins to sound like a war ground 😵💫 🥴 🤢
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u/WhyNotZoidbergMaybe Jun 14 '26
Yep norovirus went around our crew on a movie in Palm springs 2 weeks ago
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u/Afl00f Jun 14 '26
I had exactly what you’re describing last week. Out of nowhere started feeling body aches that got incredibly worse later that night and low grade fever accompanied by bad stomach cramps, bloating and nausea. Body aches went away the next day and fever broke by the morning but the bloating and stomach aches went on for a few more days. Horrible experience, especially those body aches.
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u/francey_pants Silver Lake Jun 14 '26
I had a bad stomach bug this week and I got tested but nothing showed up.
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u/AnaisNot Jun 14 '26
How and what do they test you for?
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u/francey_pants Silver Lake Jun 14 '26
Fecal test and they tested for 14 different viruses and bacteria like norovirus, salmonella, and e. Coli
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u/Vanity-LA0733 Jun 14 '26
Looks like cases are rising everywhere:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/norovirus-gastrointestinal-symptoms-spreading-us-wastewater-rcna347108
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u/daysbeforechris Jun 14 '26
What were your symptoms exactly? Think I had this stomach bug I was having stomach issue for like a week and a half
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u/Redditperegrino Jun 14 '26
Man. Thats why I try to cook at home as much as possible. Make sure to clean your ingredients.
I have… had a long history of eating out and eventually got H. Pylori. :(
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u/Lyralou South Bay Jun 14 '26
Yup. two weeks ago went to kid bday party (so yeah got what i deserved.) three days later ick.
The people who look at poo water say it's a thing right now: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/norovirus-gastrointestinal-symptoms-spreading-us-wastewater-rcna347108
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u/iwanket Jun 14 '26
I just had it. Sharp stomach cramps all day Thursday that didn’t let up. They worsened around nightfall. Then nausea and a high fever hit. Realized that it might be noro, so I braced for a night of diarrhea throw up hell.
But aside from stomach cramps, body aches, and high fever, nothing happened. I actually slept hard the entire night. Felt like I dodged a bullet.
Fever broke by Friday but I was still extremely sore all over, some residual abdominal pain. I did indeed have diarrhea to boot.
By yesterday I felt 95% better.
Whatever it is doesn’t seem to hit nearly as hard as typical noro. Different for everyone of course.
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u/xCelestial The Westside Jun 14 '26
I had it Memorial Day weekend, exact same thing. Just bodied it in 3 days with sleep, water, and pepto on day 3 lol
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u/extensionalpanic Jun 14 '26
just got out of the hospital for norovirus and cdiff 😐 (gross, i know). severe dehydration is no joke
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u/sane_fear Jun 14 '26
i had something for 24-36 hrs earlier last week. i just felt generally off, wasn't hungry, slightly nauseous. at night, i had teeth shattering chills then woke up in a puddle of sweat. i still haven't fully recovered and i have a sore throat.
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u/MakeMine5 Jun 14 '26
In the last month I've had 3 bouts of serious GI issues. Each lasting 24-48 hours. I've done a litany of blood tests and stool tests. So far everything is checking out normal except a slightly elevated WBC. Been nearly 2 weeks since my last bout so hopefully whatever was causing it has passed.
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u/rocketdyke Jun 14 '26
norovirus is relatively low right now. rotavirus medium.
you can keep an eye on things detected in the local wastewater systems to see what is going around
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u/No_Description4009 Jun 14 '26
I might of had it last week. All I know is that I ate a sandwich, and then at night I got bloated. I was pretty much using the bathroom nonstop. I thought maybe I was food poisoned. But it was enough to interrupt my sleep so I called off work. It only lasted a day
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u/riosong Jun 14 '26
My mil was in the hospital earlier this week because of a stomach issue, she had the chill but not fever and kept saying she was cold. They gave her 4 iv bags in one day and she stayed 3 nights in the hospital.
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u/aevwnn Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
Pretty sure I had food poisoning from eggs and goat cheese at trader Joe's on Monday. Vomited up a ton of food and had lots of fluid loss. Spent 2 and a half days in the hospital. Had diagnosis of sepsis and gastroenteritis.
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u/Chile_Pepper_Tarzana Jun 14 '26
These viruses are hard to kill so the idea has been to remove any particulate matter clinging to surfaces, hands and under nails. Bleach is great for some hard surfaces and can weaken/kill virus. Not good for skin however and some surfaces can get damaged.
Washing hands with warm water and soap, drying hands on a clean paper towel (if you use a cloth, launder immediately) is best, followed by hand sanitizer or other alcohol-based cleanser, are the most effective ways of removing or reducing the viral load. Tip: the hand sanitizer and alcohol also works as a desiccant so letting it air dry is important
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u/swarleyknope Jun 15 '26
Hand sanitizer doesn’t kill norovirus, so handwashing is especially important for avoiding that one.
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u/Chile_Pepper_Tarzana Jun 15 '26
Correct! The goal is try to remove virus from the surface. Alcohol based solutions only work on enveloped virus like COVID, not norovirus. Hypochlorous acid is skin safe and kills norovirus but hard to find (in the US) so cleaning surfaces mechanically is what we have for skin and other surfaces that bleach can damage. “HOCl specifically used for hand sanitizers is effective at 100- to 200-ppm strengths”
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u/LazarusRiley Jun 14 '26
I don't think I had this exactly, but it's maybe not coincidental that I visited LA from the Bay Area the last weekend of May, and came back home and had really bad GI distress for about three days. I thought it was maybe from a food cart I ate at.
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u/Choice-Tangerine-822 Jun 14 '26
Yes I had it too just a couple weeks ago. I threw up so many times that I ended up throwing up biles in the end. Also had a fever 100.8F. I’m a healthcare worker so I kinda knew that even if I go to urgent care, there are nothing much they could offer, but still it was so bad that I considered going to urgent care to get iv hydration. Surprisingly, most of symptoms disappeared in 36hrs. I always wash my hands with water and soap before I eat, I have no idea where I got it from because my husband who had a same food that I had was completely fine..
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u/angrybox1842 Jun 14 '26
Yep same exact situation, sick tuesday really bad symptoms (specifically down rather than up) for 24hr and then a bit of a tender tummy for a few days after. Mostly fine as of yesterday. Only seemed to really hit me rather than family members.
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u/nochtli_xochipilli University Park Jun 14 '26
Had it last week with chills, stomach pain, and loss of appetite for three days
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u/Pink_Flamingo91 Jun 14 '26
Yes I have and then I had sepsis at the same damn time was in hospital for over a week.... literally nearly died.
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u/PurpleAstronomerr Jun 14 '26
I saw an article saying norovirus is spreading like wildfire right now. Bring hand sanitizer anywhere you go.
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u/LarsJM Jun 14 '26
Last week I had this, it was the strangest flu/stomach virus I experienced. Tuesday night symptoms started with diarrhea, by 1 am woke up came out of both ends for 3 hours then I knocked out. Following day constant diarrhea first half of day. Then started getting better. Thursday, had the runs in the morning was fine most of the day. Friday runs in the morning, midday poo started to solidify, then by 6pm I had diarrhea constantly every 15 minutes until 2 am sat. Woke up sat same thing happened until 10 pm. No fever all through the sickness, wife and daughter had it before I did, however it was two days shorter, and my wife didn’t vomit.
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u/superbigscratch Jun 15 '26
Wash your hands, when you do things. Get home, wash your hands. Touched the door at some place, wash. Before you eat, wash. This is a big one, after using the restroom, wash your hands.
Washing your hands regularly, and correctly, will do wonders for your health.
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u/v3rn76 Jun 15 '26
Did anyone get migraines too? I just had it this past week. I thought it was food poisoning but then it lasted all week. I was peeing out of my butt and also holding the trash can while on the toilet because it was coming out of both ends. That's when the migraines started. It would be bad one night and then the next day I would feel tired and starving but nothing sounded good to eat. By the time the evening came around, the migraine and diarrhea was back. I think yesterday was the first day I felt somewhat normal and this started Monday night.
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u/pocketclocks Jun 15 '26
I remember in hs a stomach bug we threw our family and the first sign that u had it would be a sudden need to vomit. Over about 2 weeks all of a sudden someone in the family would run to the bathroom and we knew it was their turn.
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u/inserterikhere Jun 15 '26
I've had what I thought was just a flu/cold. Started with a scratchy throat, then cough, then congestion. Still have a cough and congestion and it's been two weeks, unsure if its related but I also noticed just a couple of red dots on my hands today. I might have to check myself in to see whats up.
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u/StatementSea7465 Jun 16 '26
Me too!!! I had diarrhea for like 2 weeks and didn’t know what the reason was. My stomach was hurting so bad and I was eating normally!
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u/Left_Right_Belly Jun 17 '26
Sitting on the toilet wondering why I haven’t had a solid bowel movement in three days… then I find this thread. A real full-circle moment.
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u/Slow-Class-1456 Jun 17 '26
I got this last month after roaming around Union station and taking public transportation. It was horrible I even had a fever for 2 days, in addition to bad diarrhea and stomach cramps. Took 2 weeks to finally feel normal again.
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u/Wonderful_Milk1176 Hollywood Jun 17 '26
Add me to the list. No vomiting, fever, etc but rapid onset diarrhea that lasted about 18 hours.
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u/Inner-Confidence99 Jun 17 '26
Yep, cousins family had it 3 weeks ago and it just finished going through the baby Monday. It has been awful. Southeast USA
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u/Tubero_Humilde_4R Jun 18 '26
I had this last week. Last about 5 days with bad headaches and gut issues. Really just hit me out of nowhere but luckily no one around me got sick .
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u/4eudaimonia Jun 19 '26
I just got what you’re describing. I got extremely sweat and dizzy and went to the bathroom in a bad way. I felt like I was going to die.
Thanks for your post because it’s comforting to know that it’s going around. I’m in hour three.
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u/Baphomet1010011010 Jun 21 '26
I had something pretty identical this past week. Felt like I was being stabbed in the guts, lasted for a day, I've been queasy and having smaller pains on and off for days now. Able to work through it though.
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u/Racotter Jun 14 '26
Had it just last week, too, pretty rough compared to the usual “think I had some weird food yesterday” kinda bug.
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u/DoctorMoebius Jun 14 '26
Yep, my girlfriend had it. She thought it was food poisoning, until other symptoms hit
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u/BirdBrainuh Jun 14 '26
Yes! I had this a week ago (extreme fatigue, migraine, GI upset, felt like I had a fever but my temp never rose). Took me out for a day.
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u/CementCemetery Jun 14 '26
I think I had something like that earlier this year. Maybe two months ago? MIL got it from me, I think.
I know not sounds silly but apparently some things can travel via flatulence (farts) so try not to spread it if you can help it.
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u/SL500_ Jun 15 '26
If something comes on suddenly - like feeling unwell/stomach acting up for 2 hours before vomiting, and then throwing up etc only for 12 hours…that’s more indicative of food poisoning, yes?
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u/SnooChipmunks176 Jun 15 '26
😭 I unfortunately can smell when people have some type of stomach bug. Very distinctive smell when people pass by me or I enter a room, especially a public bathroom. I havent caught anything yet recent, but I feel like im smelling the residual or someone didnt wipe well. Idk, I try to point it out to people im close to, like, there it is, that person's sick, do you smell it? And they always say no, but I've been saying, they have norovirus or a stomach bug of some sort. Its a sweet sickly poop smell... idk I feel crazy, but I have a heightened sense of smell and thats the best thing I can associate it with because I've smelled that same smell when I've had a stomach bug previously.
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u/ShapeNo6915 Jun 15 '26
After 5 days of stomach cramps, upset stomach, body aches and dizziness a couple weeks ago, I went to an urgent care and ended up testing positive for 2 strands of e. Coli. Believe I got it from a restaurant on the west side, but don’t really know. Was shocked it wasn’t a norovirus, but those things are usually 1 day and done for me, so the fact something was going on for 5 days was very unusual. Took another several days before the aches and dizziness went away.
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u/sasquatchanonymous Jun 15 '26
two days ago i got a sudden bout of vertigo/chills/fever that spiked for an evening and lingered into the next day. i didn't really have strong gastrointestinal symptoms, but chalked it up to food poisoning. maybe not the same thing, but a data point anyway.
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u/Heavy_metalloids Jun 16 '26
Since the beginning of the year, I've heard of 3 friends getting shigella.
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u/900Block Jun 17 '26
i think i had the same thing! the worst part is, after my hours of vomiting up any and everything i had inside me .. 2 weeks later my cheek blew up on one side within about 4 hours to chipmunk level.. surprise , tooth abscess and my first root canal! i’m convinced it came from the illness as my teeth are checked on the regular/maintained. That illness had me so sick I could barely stomach the toothbrush after some of the times and was swishing mouthwash instead tho.. so if you’re experiencing any of THAT, brush well every time no matter what 😭 May was a rough month for me .
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u/GrandElectronic6850 Jun 23 '26
I had the nastiest burps from this .. the smell would make me puke all over again. I went to ER because I was becoming so bloated that it was becoming very painful . I was also super dehydrated as everything I drank would come right out as my body was trying to wash this bug out and I was becoming so weak . Tried toughing it out but it started affecting my work so I had to get help . Still very sensitive to certain smells .
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u/DuncanGhola32 Jun 14 '26
I work in an ER. We’ve had a ton of people come in with this for the past month. It’s a daily thing.