so, last night i woke up at 3a again. i gave up trying to fall asleep and instead went downstairs to catch up with my good friend tivo.
i managed to get through an oprah, a project runway and a flipping out all the while fighting against the onset of the extreme nausea i was feeling. i haven’t felt nauseous for days now, so this came as quite an unwelcomed surprise.
at first i thought it was because i was hungry. so i ate a yogurt.
nope, that only made it worse. by an hour or so later i was in distress and trying to distract myself with my favorite shows.
then i remembered that mint is said to settle an upset stomach, so i broke out my altoids and ate one.
it went down okay.
until it didn’t.
suddenly i was overcome by the urge to vomit. i ran to the bathroom, held my hair back and braced myself.
of course, i knew throwing up was inevitable by this point, but what i wasn’t prepared for was the v-force….i was horrified when i was vomitting to feel myself peeing from the force of the heaving!
the good news?
altoids can actually freshen your breath in reverse, too.
now, i know this is all too much information, but so be it. i know i’m not the only person in the world who shot out pee while vomitting. and i’m not afraid to admit it either.
Oh no! Bless your heart! If you hadn’t had the pee reaction to balance out the vomit force, you might’ve been thrown completely backwards, right? I’m sosorry for such a rough early, early morning!
Good to know about the Altoids.
LOL! That`s a great post! So sorry about your nausea though! That`s not fun! Another good tidbit of information… but for when you`re not preggo… drinking vodka paralyzers taste as good coming up as they do going down too! LOL!
alison, thanks for the vodka tip! will keep that in mind…i wonde what vodka and altoids would do?!
iamstacey, thanks for the hilarious image of the force of heaving throwing me back into the wall…i guess that perspective makes me grateful for the pee situation!
I’ve read so many pregnancy stories now that I can tell you this is actually common! What I lack in experience I make up for in research.
(I disagree with the vodka thing though!)
Yep – I peed about 30% of the time I threw up. Lovely. I felt pretty good most of last week but feel pretty shitty today. It really comes and goes!
UGHHHH, so sorry honey! I hope your’e feeling better now.
and the pee while vomit, yeah- me too *raises hand from back of class* I always thought I was a weirdo!
Interestingly, my close friend is just exactly where you are and had the same exact thign happen, V-force. Hopefully it wont happen too much!
Sorry you had to throw up, but thanks for the chuckle. Now I know to have an altoid when I’m about to puke, so it can freshen my breath in both directions.
I love that you are never afraid to say it how it is when it comes to stuff like that – the peeing while vomitting, the taste altoids both ways. Thanks for the laugh!