tummy ache

OMG I HAVE THE WORST STOMACH ACHE EVER!!!! how the heck do i get rid of it tums did not work i had 4 tums and my damn tum still hurts!!

i just took two activated charcoal pills in case i have food poisoning, hopefully my tummy ache will go away~erica

Well if you have some calories left in the bank (or even if you don't, because I find this to be a miracle worker when I have a stomach ache and it's definitely worth going a bit over for):

1. Drink a full mug of hot (herbal) tea with a piece of candied ginger and a teaspoon or two of honey stirred in (or you could just have ginger tea with honey).

2. If that doesn't do it (it usually only helps me halfway), have a slice of whole wheat / multigrain bread with a bit of Greek yogurt and a few banana slices on top.

And if you have everything on the list, and choose high calorie versions of everything, it's still only about 250-300 calories, and that's pushing it... it usually only totals up to about 175-200 for me and I feel a whole lot better afterwards.

0-calorie options include using a heating pad, exercising, going to the bathroom...

Feel better!

thanks for the advice the_kats_meow.. i LOVE ginger candy!! next time I will have peppermint tea but i just couldnt take it anymore so i had to have the charcoal pills it felt like my stomach was backward, its happend before, once I went to a asain restaraunt were they cook in front of you, and i ate all my food to prove to my bf i could eat all the food (they serve you alot) and my tummy felt the same way it does right now..except this time i took a vitamin and some fish oil pills, but my stomach REALLY hurts so hopefully the charcoal will help me out, OUCH!~erica

:( Well I hope you feel better soon!! You'll have to tell me how the charcoal works. I've never tried it before but then again I reeeeally don't like taking medicine, even if it helps me... :/

lol charcoal is not medicine lol, it basically absorbs things in your stomach, it actually worked though, it isnt good to take often cause it can absorb good things to like vitamins, but if u suspect food poisoning its ok for short term use~erica my tummy is about 80 percent better now:) next time im drinking peppermint tea though!! and some ginger like you said

Well that's good, I'm glad the charcoal worked! :) I consider all things in pill form 'medicine', plus of course all the other forms of medicine (liquid, chewable tablet, etc.) that come alternatively in pill form. I don't know, unless it's prescribed by a doctor (and even then I'm iffy about it), compacted chemicals or other non-whole-food items in pill or other 'medicine form' scare me. I think it's because I've had such bad reactions to every generic medicine I've ever tried (although the name brands are mostly fine with my immune system, I guess it just has an expensive taste) and also some antibiotics and pain killers. I've never had any food allergies, though... hmm.

taking charcoal is basically like taking something like cinnomen in a pill, cause its not really like a chemical or anything, its literally the name charcoal, like coal lol, in the marines they teach you how to make it from fire and burning things, and how to swallow it in case you have some kind of poisoning, cause if you eat something that makes you sick then you can take charcoal it absorbs the poison. I always thought that was really cool~erica