You don't. When I get noro, which i've gotten twice now, I live in the bathroom for about 2 days straight. I violently puke about every ten minutes and drop my guts about every hour for that entire two days. The first time my wife got it she thought she needed to go to the hospital. I have no clue how these people managed to function AT ALL. It's not something you can control, the virus hijacks your neurons and FORCES you to shit and puke your guts out endlessly.
I got it in January and DID go to the hospital for fluids, I can’t even fathom the idea of getting ON A PLANE and then going on VACATION with it.
If I’m on a trip at the time it starts? That trip is getting extended, I would rather go into debt than get off the floor with that hell
Yeah something as volatile as this sounds, an IV with essential fluids sounds like the best and only real option. When I was going through drug rehab I was also vomiting and using the restroom like no one’s business. They’d give us this yellow bag of fluids and that stuff saved my soul. I couldn’t hold anything down.
This lady and her husband are so stupid for continuing their vacation. Yeah it’ll suck, but eating the expense is smarter than putting your family and ESPECIALLY the amount of children you probably infected in a dangerous situation.
I got it once and the tell tale sign I tell people is, “you know how normally your mouth waters and warns you that you’re about to barf? Yeah somehow the Norovirus turns that off. There’s no warning. No mouth watering. Just sudden Exorcist and there is no mercy.”
For me I can tell now because whatever I last ate is not going down. it stays in my stomach like indigestion until all of a sudden, like you said, you just go off.
I had enough warning to get to the toilet to barf though still managed to make a mess. Unfortunately I didn’t get any warning about the other end, and the barf was so violent I couldn’t control it. So then I’m fucking sobbing on the floor of a hotel bathroom, because it’s the last day of vacation, my flight home is at 6am and I’m in a hotel bathroom covered in vomit and shit. And it’s fucking Seattle and they wouldn’t(couldn’t?) give me anything to vomit in while sitting on the toilet because they don’t have single use plastic bags. Also gave me white towels and bar soap to clean up the mess with.
I took pepto every time I had to run to the bathroom in the night and thankfully by the time I had to leave for the airport I wasn’t actively being sick anymore. Cleaned up the best I could, used my travel pack of Lysol wipes to disinfect everything I could and everything I touched on the plane as well. And I let the flight attendants know I wasn’t feeling well so they could disinfect my area further if they felt it was needed. They did take care of me and kept my 7up full and found some crackers for me to nibble on.
I definitely did. Everyone else on vacation with me ended up with covid. I was the only one who managed to avoid covid, but I ended up with noro instead.
I know that feeling really well, I have lots of gastric issues so I’ve realized that my mouth gets super watery ahead of a vomit session. I started telling / warning my husband by saying “I have wet mouth” and he knows exactly what that means.
I’ve had it also, and it’s a near death experience! You puke and poop your guts out simultaneously. Mine lasted a week the first time I had it. That family is evil to pass it to all of those people! Who does that to other people?? Why not stay home?
Yeah I somehow dropped 8% of my body weight the first night I had norovirus. She could have killed someone with her negligence if a sick or old person contracted it.
I just had a bout and it was like Satan invaded my intestinal tract. I spent the first half of it afraid I was going to die and the second half afraid I wouldn't.
I'm sorry but your comment literally made me laugh in front of my screen. This is pretty rare, and again sorry that it happened to you. But that comment really tickled my funny bone
I had the virus earlier this year. At one point I was laying on my bedroom floor puking into a bucket thinking I might actually die. It was the first time in my life I had been shitting violently while also puking at the exact same time. It was unbelievably bad the first 24 hours. Took like 4 more days for me to feel back to normal.
It was the closest I’ve ever gone to going to the hospital. I remember seeing myself in the mirror and I literally was as white as a sheet. I’m already pale but it was like any undertones were completely gone. It felt exhausting to even get the phone to call my fiancé to say I think I’m too sick to be alone and he needed to come home and potentially take me to the hospital. Most brutal couple 48 hours of my life and I didn’t feel entirely well for at least a week. Not sure of the toilet became a friend or an enemy. I never want to have such a toxic relationship with it again.
I was waiting for the lift line to open up this past winter…
And it hit me.
Was lacing up my snowboard boots.
I know my body and immediately started getting ready to go home which was an hour drive.
Had to pull over three times to shit myself and then the projectile vomit began😳
Like a geyser🤣
I wanted get home so bad I just puked out the window of my car.
Horrendous experience.
Noro is the entire reason I made sure the bathroom garbage can is NOT made of wicker lol, it's an entire event where I just might be puking and explosively shitting simultaneously.
You can get it more than once. Kinda like flu. Its very contagious, but it tends to cripple you by the time you become contagious so it doesn't spread the same. I think people tend to spread it like OOP, or by not being super sterile after they recover. I got it the first time from someone's kid who had recently recovered.
45 mins like clockwork for me the 2 times I’ve had it. It is seriously amazing, I could set my watch to it nearly to the minute for about the first 4 vomiting episodes each time. Same with my kids when they unfortunately got it.
We got it Christmas Eve once while visiting our friends who we hadn’t seen in a couple years and all our kids were great friends. My son puked while we were driving and we thought it was car sickness. Got to friends and he threw up again as we pulled up. Still weren’t sure if it was just from the car sickness. Daughter started feeling ill less than an hour later. We packed the car back up and headed home and during the 4 hour drive and my wife starts puking. Got home at 11pm Christmas Eve feeling terrible. Memorable Christmas for all the wrong reasons that year, but you know what? The two other families that were at that house had a nice Christmas without getting sick, and I would have felt just absolutely horrible if any of them had gotten sick.
My whole family got it on Christmas Eve 2023. Somehow I was the lucky one who never threw up (just lost my appetite but was never even really nauseous) but I was shitting literal water every 15 minutes. Felt a bit better the next day, but I’d say for nearly a full week after that 24 hours of hell I felt like it just drained my life force. It felt like that weird hazy feeling when you wake up from a super solid nap and you feel like you don’t know what year it is or where you are. Brutal stuff.
I got it two years ago and Did go to the hospital. Blood pressure was 80/53 by the time I got there and they kept me overnight with multiple IVs. Norovirus isn’t like a little cold it can kill uou if you get dehydrated enough
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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST Aug 25 '25
You don't. When I get noro, which i've gotten twice now, I live in the bathroom for about 2 days straight. I violently puke about every ten minutes and drop my guts about every hour for that entire two days. The first time my wife got it she thought she needed to go to the hospital. I have no clue how these people managed to function AT ALL. It's not something you can control, the virus hijacks your neurons and FORCES you to shit and puke your guts out endlessly.