So, last night I admitted myself into Changi Hospital A&E. At around 5pm, I was having such a bad gassy situation that I felt dizzy, lightheaded, and the occasional feel of nausea. I dragged myself home, trying not to faint or puke in the train.  When I finally stepped into my room, I basically collapsed on the floor, trying to stop the gas from keep coming up.  After trying unsuccessfully for about 20 minutes, I vomited.  It was just air, but I heaved about 3-4 times.

After the vomit incident, I started to shiver really badly. My mom was basically scared of her skin as she knew I was always gassy, but she never seen me in this state before.  Well honestly I’ve never reach this state either.  Everything seemed to be all right afterwards, just me being weak and no appetite.  I went to shower after resting, and I felt too damn cold, so I skipped washing my hair.  I didn’t want the fever to deteriorate (yes I was having slight fever by then – 37.7deg).

After lying on the bed for awhile, drifting in and out of sleep, I noticed if I laid on my left side, the gas kept coming up so badly.  That’s odd because usually if I lie on my left side, the gas would come out as fart.  Then I tried to lie on my back and on my right side, of which I didn’t feel the gas coming up, but then my chest and throat got really really tight.

I couldn’t really take it anymore, so I sat up a little and tried to lean on my left to try to sleep.  That’s when the second incident of vomitting started.  And this time, there’s liquid coming out.  I basically vomited all over myself and the bed.  I then ran to the kitchen, where I heaved at least 3-4 more times, with all the liquid coming out.  My mom ran out of her room and tried to get me comfortable, but I was again shivering non stop, even more so with all the wet vomit on my own clothes.  She quickly bring new clothes for me and helped me get changed, and then she decided to get me to the hospital, since it was already past midnight and there’s no 24hrs clinic nearby.  I agreed, as I really don’t think I would be able to sleep in this condition.  So I packed my charger, wallet, phone, keys, and two plastic bags (in case of another round of vomiting), in preparation of possibly being warded.  Then we went down to grab a cab down to Changi Hospital A&E.

It was actually not that long a wait (I think TTSH or SGH would be worse).  I was there at around 1am, and I got to see the doc at around 3+am.  They took an ECG test as my heartbeat was a little too high.  Then the doc was pressing down on my abdomen, asking if there’s acute pain or anything like that, which I didn’t have – just general discomfort.  The doctor diagnosed it to be a viral infection somewhere inside that’s causing this, hence it explained the mild fever I got.  He said there’s no need to be warded, and gave me some intestinal medication, anti-nausea/vomiting medication and antacid to help settle my intestines. We reached back home at around 4am, where my mom helped me changed my bedsheet and get my bed ready for my rest.  Thank goodness she’s there, I wouldn’t have known what to do if I’m all alone.  I wasn’t in any capacity to do anything either.

My nausea and vomiting stopped after taking the medication, but I was still feeling to damn uncomfortable to do anything.  I would sweat, then shiver, then sweat again, and I can’t lie still on the bed.  I tossed and turned, and I just couldn’t rest properly.  I tried standing up, but I don’t have the strength and even standing up feels uncomfortable.  The vision is awfully hazy and I can’t sit properly either.  It was just hell for the whole today, until around 4pm.  Suddenly I fell asleep, and woke up in sweat.  Like, really sweating inside out.  And suddenly my vision cleared.  It was as if… the fog has lifted away.

Suddenly I could get up from bed with no issues, I could walk to the kitchen and asked my mom for a small towel to wipe away all the sweat.  It was like… suddenly I recovered 80%.

So now… my tummy is still growling a little, I could feel there’s quite a bit of activity there still, but generally the discomfort is unlike this morning/afternoon.  Hopefully it’ll get better with medication, and tomorrow will be a better day…