Misery loves company

Good heavens Fitz, hang in there! You probably will get a fever even though you don't have one at this second. You will probably have diarrhea, too, like you also suspect. It sounds like food poisoning or an enterovirus but how have you been feeling otherwise? Did it hit you like a ton of bricks? Ugh, you poor thing! Please try having tiny, tiny sips of fluids - anything is better than nothing!

Hey Sarita! What are you doing up? I now have a fever of 100.6, I had one bout of the poops but not quite D, just hard a foul smelling, then more vomiting... I think Im at 6 times vomitting and I am down to bile. I called the ER to see if there is an urgent care place I can go instead and they said there isn't. She told me to take my pulse and based on my weight and health she said normal is under around 85 and that if it is over 100 I should probably go in. Its currently 114 but I was also a little nervous on the phone. I am going to take it again shortly and most likely end up going in for some fluid. At least they didn't sound to busy and said "you know your own body better than we do, if you are dehydrated, come in." I took one itty bit sip of water and slept a half hour but when I woke up I took another sip and threw it right back up (w/ bile)... thats when i decided it was time to call. I am going to try to let hubby sleep till 5 and then roll out.

And yes, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was fine all day till after dinner. But hubby had the exact same thing, literally, we split a steak, and he is fine so I doubt it is food poisoning.

I hope by now you are in the ER and getting some nice fluids and anti nausea meds. Hopefully that will help set you right again and you will be home later today.

hey fitz,
i know that feeling of wanting to have something sweet like cookies and stuff, even when you know it probably isn't the best thing to do...I hope you're feeling better!
-upt0106

HI guys,

Thanks so much and I am feeling a lot better but completely and totally wiped out. I got taken right away and given an Iv bag and then some compuzine. I didn't know that compuzine could make you feel panicky. I was doing great, the nurse put a warmed up blanket over me and made me really comfortable. But when the doc came in and started talking blockage or appendix and wanted to xray or cat scan I got super antsy and nervous. I told him that for some weird reason I felt totally uncomfortable and just wanted to go home. So then he said he would be satisfied w/ blood work and a urine sample (grrr they always want to rule out pregnancy) and that he wanted to give me one more bag of fluid. Well again, at that point I felt like I was jumping out of my skin and my heart rate started going nutty. I kept saying I just want to go home. So he realized I had had a mild reaction to the compuzine which I guess can cause some pretty bad panic attacks. So they gave me a shot of benadryl and a shot of ativan to calm me down. They got my blood and urine and asked me again about the 2nd bag. I know it would have been smart to get it, I was still so parched, but I was holding down some liquids at this point and just exhausted and not naseuas anymore.

Also the fire alarm had gone off in the ER and that really freaked me out too. So I ended up falling asleep and they just monitored me for an hour. It is snowing here and hubby had been up all night w/ me and I was starting to worry about him driving home. So when I awoke I took the dishcarge promissing to go back this afternoon if I throw up again or have bad stomach pain.

I think it concerned the doctor that when he pushed on my stomach I had to immediatly poop after. And that is when they wanted the urine so I had to track someone down to give me a cup so I could kill two birds with one stone.

So I am home now, have slept, and drank gingerale. I am glad I went in but at the same time a little embarassed for not listening to ther doctor or staying later. It was so hard to explain how I felt. I was just exhausted too and knew I wouldn't really sleep until I got in my own bed. Thanks for the kind words everyone!!

Hi Fitzy:

You know as much as we humans like to think of ourselves as "evolved" in our hearts we are animals and instinctively, I think, when we feel threatened we seek the sanctuary of the familiar. No wonder you just wanted to go home. Here's the thing though, sometimes when we are in that primal state of anxiety we need the balance of calm intellect to help us sort out what's best. That's where a trusted partner is so important, don't you think. I have had these conversations with my husband and my close friends because i know that when I am in this state I may not make the best decisions. I am normally such a strong, thoughtful and independent thinker that they would normally never think to step in and read me the riot act. They just trusted my judgements. and that led to years of under-treatment for very serious events, siimilar to what you've just gone through.

But I no longer trust myself in these situations. I know now that i am not going to think logically when I am in pain, so I am thankful that I have family and friends who are prepared to intervene to help talk me round.

So glad you are feeling better, but just because you are home you still need to give yourself time to recover.

Fitzy, No compazine here either. I prefer Zofran which most ERs have access too.  I know the panicky feeling so don't beat yourself up,  I tried to leave an OR once as I had "changed my mine" The Dr. asked if I would take some IV Valium and then if I still wanted to leave I could.........well you know that Valium was real nice and I settled right down.

You are a real champ so rest and keep us up to date. Hugs to you.
Kitt

Compazine and Reglan are related drugs. I can't take either. But for me they cause facial muscle contractions. Its an uncommon side effect. Even after I told the hospital I couldn't have compazine they gave me reglan and I had the reaction. I was none too happy.

Glad you are on the mend.

I went to the er once with kidney stones-I was very badly dehydrated. I told the nurse the IV seemed like a really extreem solution I just wanted something a little stronger than tylenol so I could go home.
She looked at me like I was a stupid little bug (I LOVED THIS NURSE) and said, "Oh, and you called the ambulance because you were feeling good."
I held out my arm, laid back down on the bed and stayed there till they threw me out.

So... speaking of the whole pregnancy testing in the ER thing... So this is a few months back before my diagnoses of CD, at the time i thought that i had the flu or something, but basicly i was so sick to my stomach, puking, diarrhea, etc. Well just so happens i was so sick that i had passed out in my kitchen. Scared my poor roommate to death who called my father to come take me to the ER (i had awoken before he arrived). So me and my dad pack it in to go the ER, get there goodness knows they take me straight in and hook me full of wires that i felt like a science experiement. Did the usual blood tests ect and then sent me with my mother (who had now joined me) to the x-ray department. So we get to the x-ray department and the technician looks at my chart and send me back! (no explanation what so ever) Side note they wouldn't let me walk to the x-ray department i had to be gurned there so it was quite the wait for someone to come get me to bring me back, to wait around and the very nice nurse asking why they brought me back in the first place, to wait for someone to get me to bring me back. The end result the technician was waiting for the blood results to come back to say i wasn't pregnant! If she would have simply asked me in the first place I could have told her that famous line your daughter says Marie. (not unless it's the holy ghost!)