Hope you're not eating right now! Recently I have had 2 episodes of bringing up/vomiting just brown liquid from my stomach - no food....a lot (about 3 -4 pints in various bouts) and can't work out what this could be. I don't have diarrhoea. The only thing that occurs to me is that I have recently started drinking an effervescent Vit C + zinc tablet (the kind that dissolves in water) - only one a day...orange coloured. Could it be this? I thought liquid passed straight through you, i.e. not lay accumulating in your stomach, i.e. over days. How can that be? It happened this morning i.e. before I even had the drink but had a glass late last night.
The only other thing that I am wondering is whether or not it could be something I picked up from visiting my mother in hospital. This is fairly important since I don't want to pass on anything to her so I guess I need to establish whether or not it is contagious. She currently has diarrhoea but I have not contracted this.
Any help, suggestions, leads would be very welcome.
Hope you're not eating right now! Recently I have had 2 episodes of bringing up/vomiting just brown liquid from my stomach - no food....a lot (about 3 -4 pints in various bouts) and can't work out what this could be. I don't have diarrhoea. The only thing that occurs to me is that I have recently started drinking an effervescent Vit C + zinc tablet (the kind that dissolves in water) - only one a day...orange coloured. Could it be this? I thought liquid passed straight through you, i.e. not lay accumulating in your stomach, i.e. over days. How can that be? It happened this morning i.e. before I even had the drink but had a glass late last night.
The only other thing that I am wondering is whether or not it could be something I picked up from visiting my mother in hospital. This is fairly important since I don't want to pass on anything to her so I guess I need to establish whether or not it is contagious. She currently has diarrhoea but I have not contracted this.
Any help, suggestions, leads would be very welcome.
We can't diagnose but could it be a form of Norovirus? In which case, it may be worth a call to your mothers ward, describe your symptoms and ask one of the nurses if they would give you advice about visiting etc. One of our local hospitals recently had 4 wards closed due to this virus.
Jabba - did you reply? Your post just shows my quote...(?)
Hi Amy
her reply is under your quote
Jabba - did you reply? Your post just shows my quote...(?)
Something wasn't quite right with the quote.
I've done my best to fix it... learning the new forum as we go... 😀
Something wasn't quite right with the quote.
I've done my best to fix it... learning the new forum as we go... 😀
they dont seem to be displaying correctly when you are doing a quote Giles, i wonder if this one works that i am doing now????
hmmm yes, they are displaying ok when i do...
Are you still there Mike? Not sure where to put this, but having Signed In to the main site, I keep finding that if I want to post a reply (like on this thread), I am being asked to sign in again. When I quoted Amy's post, there seemed to be no demarcation between her quote and my reply.
Also - under the healthypages logo in the main banner, at the top of all the threads I have been too, there appears to be a bit missing from the banner line above Watched Members/Watched threads etc. Will we have to sign in each time we visit from now?
Hi Jabba
yeah, we are aware of a few problems still and are looking into it... hopefully we will have niggly teething problems resolved within a few days
Ah ..for a minute I thought I had lots of replies...but just one! (Teething problems with the new style here I see. Wouldn't mind a few more emoticons! 😉 Mike...do you know about, when you go back to correct a post, you sometimes lose the colour of text? Also - on the trophy awards - got one that said "someone likes me" but nothing to click on to discover who!? Curioser and curioser....)
Have checked out the norovius - not that since I don't have diarrhoea. Also enquired on her ward - there is an outbreak of vomiting and co-starring diarrhoea but it doesn't match the brown liquid theme (only once brought up food, when I chanced a small apple). Have to stay away from the ward for 48 hours because I am vomiting...can't recall if it's from when I started to vomit or the last indulgence. Another phone call....
I have now established that it is bilious vomiting...still lost as to why though.
Hope you're not eating right now! Recently I have had 2 episodes of bringing up/vomiting just brown liquid from my stomach - no food....a lot (about 3 -4 pints in various bouts) and can't work out what this could be. I don't have diarrhoea. The only thing that occurs to me is that I have recently started drinking an effervescent Vit C + zinc tablet (the kind that dissolves in water) - only one a day...orange coloured. Could it be this? I thought liquid passed straight through you, i.e. not lay accumulating in your stomach, i.e. over days. How can that be? It happened this morning i.e. before I even had the drink but had a glass late last night.
The only other thing that I am wondering is whether or not it could be something I picked up from visiting my mother in hospital. This is fairly important since I don't want to pass on anything to her so I guess I need to establish whether or not it is contagious. She currently has diarrhoea but I have not contracted this.
Any help, suggestions, leads would be very welcome.
How do you feel of yourself? I would suggest going to the doctor. If it's brown liquid it could be blood. Probably nothing to worry about but it wouldn't hurt to pay a visit to check it out.
Hi Alison - I see you are a new member so welcome!
Thanks for your post. I am very rarely ill and recovered quickly from this (quite heavy) bout, i.e. lasted a day .... which I slept through most of - as my body dictated. Am feeling back to normal now. It did happen very briefly (one session) about a week ago. I feel inclined at this point to put it down to maybe something contracted from visiting my mother in hospital. I may well see the GP should it occur again though.
HI Amy,
When I read your original post my immediate thought was you were bringing up bile. Clearly you have discovered this for yourself. Have you been to your GP? I do hope you are feeling better now