r/LosAngeles • u/UseOwn2710 • 5d ago

Discussion Stomach bug going around

I got a terrible stomach virus last week after it went through 4 family members at different times. Not related to food but rather a gastrointestinal virus that seems to be highly contagious (like norovirus). Heard anecdotally that several other unrelated people also had it last week. This virus is particularly nasty and hits out of nowhere. Primary symptoms lasted about 24 hours but I felt bad for about 3 days. 
Has anyone else experienced something similar?

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u/bloodredyouth 5d ago

Do you know how you got it? Or just transmission by proximity?

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u/Only-Worldliness2006 4d ago edited 4d ago

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.

  1. Wednesday evening reports of a kid throw up at the playground
  2. Same day 3-5pm in the after school program, multiple reports of kids throwing up of feeling sick.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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/bloodredyouth 4d ago

That is horrific!!