Need some help here

[BrokenArrow 52]

It all started last night. I work nights and I was totally fine all night at work. I got home around 2:30 am and my wife had some lasagna made for me to eat. I have acid reflux and I knew from the first bite that it wasn't going to agree with me. My wife put extra cheese on mine to try to fight the heart burn but it didn't really work. I ate about half a bowl of it and gave the other half to my dog. Right after the meal I had to go to the bathroom. It was a completely normal bowl movement. About 10 mins or so after it I started getting an odd feeling in my stomach. Mild nausea also but that is very common for me. Most of my anxiety attacks are stomach and bowl movement related so I didn't think much of it. Then my stomach started gurgling and growling really loudly. I was up all night freaking out that I had the stomach flu or food poisoning or something along them lines. I got a really bad headache and cramps basically all over my body. The worst being in my upper back and shoulders. I went to the bathroom numerous times trying to see if I needed to have another bowl movement but nothing came out. I was up until about 12:30 pm this afternoon worrying. Finally I fell asleep until about 2. I woke up and jumped up and picked right back up where I left off. Convinced I have food poisoning or a stomach virus. Around 2:30 I had another bowl movement which was somewhere between loose and normal. A mixture of diarrhea and solid. I haven't been able to go back to bed and I have been scared out of my mind all day. I am super tired, which is probably just from not sleeping, but I keep telling myself it is because I am sick. I have been pacing the house and shaking for the past 15 hours with only that hour and a half break where I took a nap. My wife and kids show no symptoms of being sick and they all ate the same thing I did. My wife also tells me that if I had a stomach bug then pacing back and forth for hours on end would upset it more, but I won't listen. My stomach still gurgles here and there, mainly only when I think about it. I'm trying to tell myself that 15 hours into a stomach bug I would be displaying a lot more noticeable symptoms by now, but the panic side of me won't listen. Any thoughts or reassurance would be great. 

[Josie57 0]

36 minutes ago, BrokenArrow said:

It all started last night. I work nights and I was totally fine all night at work. I got home around 2:30 am and my wife had some lasagna made for me to eat. I have acid reflux and I knew from the first bite that it wasn't going to agree with me. My wife put extra cheese on mine to try to fight the heart burn but it didn't really work. I ate about half a bowl of it and gave the other half to my dog. Right after the meal I had to go to the bathroom. It was a completely normal bowl movement. About 10 mins or so after it I started getting an odd feeling in my stomach. Mild nausea also but that is very common for me. Most of my anxiety attacks are stomach and bowl movement related so I didn't think much of it. Then my stomach started gurgling and growling really loudly. I was up all night freaking out that I had the stomach flu or food poisoning or something along them lines. I got a really bad headache and cramps basically all over my body. The worst being in my upper back and shoulders. I went to the bathroom numerous times trying to see if I needed to have another bowl movement but nothing came out. I was up until about 12:30 pm this afternoon worrying. Finally I fell asleep until about 2. I woke up and jumped up and picked right back up where I left off. Convinced I have food poisoning or a stomach virus. Around 2:30 I had another bowl movement which was somewhere between loose and normal. A mixture of diarrhea and solid. I haven't been able to go back to bed and I have been scared out of my mind all day. I am super tired, which is probably just from not sleeping, but I keep telling myself it is because I am sick. I have been pacing the house and shaking for the past 15 hours with only that hour and a half break where I took a nap. My wife and kids show no symptoms of being sick and they all ate the same thing I did. My wife also tells me that if I had a stomach bug then pacing back and forth for hours on end would upset it more, but I won't listen. My stomach still gurgles here and there, mainly only when I think about it. I'm trying to tell myself that 15 hours into a stomach bug I would be displaying a lot more noticeable symptoms by now, but the panic side of me won't listen. Any thoughts or reassurance would be great. 

It definitely sounds like food poisoning (and it can feel awful but it is not life threatening). 

[emmegee 5]

Sounds like some sort of stomach bug to me.