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Post by kirbear on Dec 30, 2016 14:19:10 GMT -5
I suffer from emetophobia and have done for many years. For some reason this year is the worst I have ever been . My son caught a bug last year (his first year at school) and now I am constantly on edge. When he attended nursery he only ever picked up one bug and that was in summer time and nobody else caught it, he never got the d* & v* that was going about. I also suffer health anxiety but that has taken a back seat, I am now more frightened of v* than I am of getting some horrid disease and dying. Surely that isn't right. I have cried nearly every day since I first heard about a bug going around my sons school in November, doesn't appear to have been Noro though (most people in families avoided it, siblings and parents etc) I am now terrified we will end up with it in January which they say is the worst month.
I have just been out and got a taxi home, the driver said his wife had s*& d* on Xmas day which of course I am now panicking I have been contaminated by being in that taxi and my husband handled the money the driver had touched.
I have got things on in January that I really don't want to miss but I feel like this is going to ruin everything. I already spent my birthday (week before Xmas) in bed with a sore throat and d*, my husband had a gurgly tummy and my son was ok. If this was Noro I could handle that as it's been and gone but I don't think it was as we would all have been ill and more than we actually were. Is this my life now, am I always going to be this frightened?! x
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Post by Itsme on Dec 31, 2016 15:15:15 GMT -5
I feel like you. My son has actually had bug 2 times in last 2 months and my daughter once. I feel like I'm losing my mind. I've lost over a stone in weight and my hands are red raw from cleaning. I always thought October was worst month. My children just won't keep hands out of their mouths, it drives me crazy.
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Post by kirbear on Jan 1, 2017 3:47:07 GMT -5
Oh my son is like that with his hands since getting his first wobbly tooth, that finally fell out but now he's always checking for more!
I really want another child but it scares me as I fret so much over one getting it, if I had another I would be a nightmare especially when a lot of people say you always get one sibling more prone to illness than the other!
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Post by Itsme on Jan 1, 2017 11:04:57 GMT -5
There has never been a time when they have both been ill, even with a cold. My daughter got bug 15 days after my son so I'm sure it was not from him as I bleached everything. I took her to London to see a show and the girl in front v all over the floor. She then got sick 48 hours later so I'm sure it was that. As much as this phobia controls me, I have not let it stop me have children, but when they are ill, it is hell.
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Post by kirbear on Jan 1, 2017 12:40:25 GMT -5
That's good to know. How old are they? Do they get bugs often? x
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Post by Itsme on Jan 1, 2017 18:14:42 GMT -5
They are now 12 and 9. This was first time for bugs in 3 years. My son however had the stomach bug on or around his October birthday for the first 5 years! I dread October!
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Post by kirbear on Jan 2, 2017 2:45:51 GMT -5
Oh really?! I dread December/January the most as that's when Noro season seems to be at its worst! Do you have one child who gets ill more often than the other?
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Post by Anonymous77 on Jan 2, 2017 11:26:07 GMT -5
We have two daughters aged 4 and 9. They do not get ill often, and one doesn't get ill more than the other, it is pretty equal. The times they have gotten ill it has not lasted very long. I too dread December and january. My theory is that it gets spread around a lot during the holidays due to increased activity from people traveling, shopping, going to parties, families homes, etc. and that's why is seems to be more common at that time.
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Post by bailey on Jan 2, 2017 21:19:55 GMT -5
I have two sons who are 19 and 24. The 24 year old got the sv at least once a year from the time he was 18 months old until he was a sophomore in high school. The 19 year old has had maybe three sv's his entire life, mostly involving d and one or two bouts of v. The funny thing is the 24 year old has an iron stomach and the 19 year old has terrible IBS. Aside from my older son being prone to sv, my boys didn't really get sick that much when they were little. They got colds and the youngest had ear infections for a few years but nothing too horrible.
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