Precursor(s) to SV

[Tera Roberts]

What has everyone's precusors been when they get a SV (I know the usuals nausea etc.) but how do you feel like an hour before it starts or even the morning before it starts. It has been so long since I've had one that I don't remember and I feel like I'm due ANY TIME now.....I want to be prepared

[emet-ana]

Hello,

I had a gastroenteritis (may have been viral or bacterial) from Thursday until Saturday. I started with feeling a bit nauseous on Thursday afternoon, woke up with slight stomach cramps through the night, on Friday I realized I had absolutely no appetite whatsoever, then suffered waves of nausea (felt very very different to anxiety-induced nausea) and then had liquid/watery d* with cramps. I took an anti-emetic medicine and didn't v*. I guess the point at which I may have thrown up would be about the same time as the d* as that's when I felt most nauseated. In which case- lack of appetite, slight stomach cramps and waves of intense nausea would be the precursors an hour before.

That said- I have had similar symptoms to these "precursors" many many times before and not developed a SV!

[Tera Roberts]

DId You GEt PeRscribed The Emets....How DoYou Get Them?

[sdfl]

Your general practitioner/physician can prescribe them for nausea if you insist you have trouble with it. A gastroenterologist can as well, but since they are a specialist, you'd have to be referred through your normal doc. I wouldn't recommend it for anxiety as a rule for someone looking to recover, but they're always nice to have around because who wants to feel nauseated?!

[arora]

I havent V* in 14 years but from what i remember, the night before i wasnt hungry at all that i didnt eat dinner..which was weird bc i was 10 and always ate dinner, but i didnt feel sick just no appetite...i woke up in the middle of the night with a stomach ache. it was just a dull, kind of sharp pain in the middle of my stomach. right below by ribs. it lasted an hour or two and did not go away at all. i remember it got light out so i decided to sit up in bed....thats when the N* hit me and about 20 seconds later i V*.

[sunnyskies]

It's been a long time for me also, so I was a kid when it happened and didn't really think about it or prepare for it of course like I do now.

but what I remember is that morning I was at church and had a very sharp pain in my stomach with an abnormally sick, queasy feeling in my body where I had to sit down for about 5 minutes. It's that kind of feeling that you never have otherwise so then you know you're sick, because it's so unlike the nausea from anxiety and even from motion sickness and other things. It's far grosser and more unsettling.

It went away until that night when after I ate some junk food when I wasn't even hungry and I had horrible abdominal pain between/below my ribs for a few hours. And eventually I started v* and it happened like 6 times within a couple of hours... and I had d* and stomach issues for up to a week after that.

It was really awful but TBH I do know and admit the stomach pain only went away because of the v*, as wretched as it was. >:/

and I have a lot of bowel issues and anxiety problems that cause stomach unrest every day but I think when it's a virus or food poisoning, you will just know because it's so totally different from everything else.

[dani8mc]

no idea! I suppose it varies but generally horrible buildup of n* kicks in somewheer and you want to v*(yes want to, im only saying that to try and help myself lol it really is not want to!!).

[catlynn]

For me ,although not in years, I have severe stomach cramps and then nausea. Always the same for me every time. Cramps, nausea, v, and d is last.

[KimberlyP]

I didn't vomit the last time I had noro (thank GOD!) But the morning I woke up feeling 'off', within an hour I had what felt like butterflies which turned into a gnawing pain and went downhill from there to the point I couldnt even roll over in bed without thinking IT was going to happen. Not even 24 hours after it first began, it went away. It was fast but gnarly. I took a bath (my friend had to physically help me into the tub that's how sick I was) to see if it would help and when I stood up to get out I almost vomited. I wasnt scared or anxious at all. I also wasnt fighting it so it surprised me it didn't happen.

[Aspie Grrrl]

I got the "super-noro" last winter (2012) and felt mostly fine leading up to it. I was extremely tired but couldn't sleep that afternoon, then felt increasingly nauseous that evening. (Same happened with my mom who had it days before). The "something's not right" period lasted about 3 hours before I knew for certain I was sick. I put off the inevitable as long as I could before the d* set in. That alternated with painful dry heaves for about 4 hours.

What happened next was equally disturbing: after the d* and heaves stopped abruptly, I began shaking violently while feeling colder than I ever have in my life. When I closed my eyes, I had strange hallucinations. My legs ached and jerked around like I had RLS until morning, which was at least 6 hours away. I tried to yell for help but nobody heard me. I really thought I was going into shock or smtg.

Sorry to make it sound so scary, but it's rare that I get sick at all. This was truly a super-bug that left most of my adult family members ill.

It's interesting to note that everyone I know only suffered the acute phase (d* and v*) during the night while feeling exhausted the day before and after. Has anyone had the acute phase of an SV kick in during the day?