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Oct 02, 2018, 06:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote

Possible Trigger --

This is a very potent respiratory virus.
It has hit suddenly and like a huge truck.
The last time I've felt like this I was headed to the ER by ambulance, with the flu and pneumonia.

H has it, too. It hit us both on the very same day. Nobody can sleep for very long. Awake with painful coughing, trying to keep airways clear. I am trying to avoid the ER. yet, I will go if I need to go; I have a "go bag" ready.

Cancelled my day tomorrow.

Chicken soup anyone?

Love to All!

WC

I hope you feel better soon!

I agree with BeyondTheRainbow -- try not to put off the ER if you need it. Better safe than sorry imo. I remember when ignored my nausea one day.

This really isn't a trigger, but maybe gross because it involves nausea lol So if you're squeamish, ignore this.

Possible trigger:

I was in the car with my mom and my family coming home from Canada when I violently started throwing up. Eventually I threw up all my stomach contents and began puking bile because that's all that was left. Then next thing I knew, I was throwing up blood. My mom had to call 911 on the side of the road because I started having a massive panic attack where I was losing circulation all over, including in my stomach area. I was hyperventilating like crazy and almost passed out when the ambulance came. I should have gone to the hospital before when I fell very ill, but I figured, "nope, we're 45 mins from home in Massachusetts. I'll be ok."

They ended up giving me water intravenously and Ativan intravenously, as well as Zofran intravenously. I was screaming my head off the entire time in the ER because the blood part freaked me out. I also shouted things like, "I'm going to die! And no one here is helping me!!! My stomach is in physical pain and now it's going to be permanently damaged!!!" (Which wasn't true, but I was either psychotic or just panicking.) Ikept screaming even after I stopped vomiting. My panic attack lasted a while until they upped the Ativan.

So... tl;dr -- if you think you might need the hospital, do not wait. Things could take a turn for the worst in the blink of an eye when you have initially thought you'd be ok.

I'm not trying to scare you, but to show that it's really important to watch after your body before it starts to scream. Nip it in the bud. If it's bacterial pneumonia, for example, then it's a relatively "easy" fix compared to virual pneumonia. My grandma had bacteiral pneumonia a lot (no idea how she got it since we never got it) and she was out of the hospital in less than a week with some antibiotics to take.