It isn’t very fun to eat nothing but rice, but it is cheap and it might give you a place to start….

My mother is a pediatrician. Essentially, it is her job to deal with people who are puking and such. Her recommendation to me is always to drink clear liquids as much as possible, particularly lots of water. You might want to try a little Gatorade, if only because it’s going to make your body happy to have electrolytes. Also, she always recommends sleep. As much sleep as you have time for. Soup is always good because it tends to cram a lot of nutrients into something which is pretty gentle on the stomach.

When I was going through something similar, I found that I could usually keep down small amounts of food at a time. Like…very small. You know those little packages of peanut butter crackers? Those pretty much saved me. I could keep down about a pack of them a day. You may want to try just eating small amounts of a starchy food, like a couple of crackers, a very small serving of unsauced pasta, etc. And you may want to not eat red meat. Also, don’t eat oily foods, fatty foods, or heavier things like that. Try very, extremely small servings, and eat slowly.

I saw like 3 doctors (my mother, a school doctor, and my primary care physician. Yay for being under 22 and still in college. Mom’s insurance covers me) and not a one of them could find the problem. A radical change in my diet was about the only thing that I could find to help it at all.

Also, are you under a lot of stress right now? Stress is hell on the immune system. Taking time to chill out, working on pacing yourself at work, or even just taking a minute or two at various points to close your eyes and breathe deeply for a few minutes can do wonders.

Normally my advice is just “go see a doctor,” but when that’s not an option, this is the best I can do.

You have celiac disease
You have gall bladder disease

The latter is the more likely if you have stomach pain AND diarrhea after eating, and if you are overweight and have a crappy fast food high fat diet.

You have no choice but to go to emerg.

Or visit me. Which border crossing shall I meet you at?

How many people actually stick around for 9 months to get the insurance? Cause I know with my training class, people were dropping like flies from day one. We started out with 22, there are now 2 of us left, and I’ve been there 11 months.

Oh okay, sorry I did wonder why the physicist was advocating acupuncture.

And Fuck the Neo-Cons, between bush and reagan and the invertebrate position of dems who could have fought harder but didn’t, ooo!

If it continues Mcboing, go onto one of the RealDoll forums, get the address of the nearest RealDoll owner, break into his house, beat the crap out of his skinny white ass, steal the RealDoll, and then have violent and disgusting sex with it in the main office of your local repuglican party offices, in the most public area possible so the big whigs in the local party are likely to notice you.

Then they’ll make you a congress critter and Ka-Ching! You’ll have the special congresscritter nationalised healthcare on your side.

And an endless supply of blow and manwhores too (I’ll take the manwhores if you don’t want them).

Actually, you can’t border hop and exploit canada’s healthcare system somehow can you?

Welcome to the wonderful world of Corporate America.

If I told you how much I’m making with one full time job and one part time job you’d probably throw up every morning just like moi. I still can’t pay the bills.