Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Other Health Discussion => Topic started by: countrybumpkin on August 09, 2013, 04:39:17 PM
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Yesterday I suddenly had urgent watery d when I woke up but then okay until teatime when I realised that I could not face food ( as I am always hungry sure sign of something wrong ::)) and then I had to run to loo about 6 times in evening. One mouthful of food or water and off I went again with awful gripy abdo pains. This morning I felt quite sick and had a couple of rushes to loo, slight appetite back this afternoon but soon as I ate something my stomach hurt and that set the bowels off again.
I am hoping that I do not have a repeat of yesterday evening today!
Now common sense tells me its either a passing bug or something I have eaten but I have terrible health anxiety :(
I hardly dare admit that I am worrying about bowel cancer or pancreatic cancer.
So does anyone know if there is a bug doing the rounds at moment and you can all have a laugh and roll of eyes at my catastrophic thinking over the cause!
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Have a hug - from a very long distance away!
I have a deep fear of illness. What have you eaten that is different in the last 7-14 days? I have irritable bowel syndrome and had to recondition my brain into understanding that sometimes, if I haven't 'been' for a few days, then my bowel will let go in a rush. That leaves me feeling quite weak sometimes and my brain goes 'it's a bug' and I have to reply 'it's IBS >:( '
How are you now? You could try one of the 'bunging up' preparations, of course the name escapes me ::), from the chemist?
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Yes there is a bug going round, I know 3 people who have had it in the last 2 weeks.
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Bug never seems to go away. Recent warm weather won't have helped. Hope you feel better soon.
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Thanks everyone. Litlleminnie do my symptoms sound like this bug thats going round?? I have had bugs in the past that hit hard and fast like 12 hrs of vom and d and then better but this one seems to be milder but longer lasting.
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2 of them it was over in 2 days, the other it was on and off for a week.
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It's probably a bug countrybumpkin but I can understand your anxiety. With watery diaorrhea you have to starve the digestive system for twenty four hours. Nothing more than water or squash. Definitely no milk of any kind -even in tea or coffee. If you eat even small amounts it stimulates the gut to begin to work and the whole thing starts over again. Try the twenty four hour starvation thing.
Taz
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My BIL started last night. Sick a couple of times but still has the runs. Sis is ok and they have both eaten the same so we think it's a bug.
Hope he keeps it to himself.
He started with really bad stomach pain.
Hope you feel better soon.
Honeyb
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Oh heck you don't want to be catching it, least of all your mum HB.
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Thanks everyone lovely to get so many replies. Well I haven't been to the loo as much today and finally have stopped feeling sickly. Still got a very noisy tum and still not sure what its going to do next ;D but I am keeping everything crossed that the worst is over. I have managed to eat 4 slice of toast today.
Tomorow morning will tell if I am really getting better!
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I'm in Dorset, and there's something going round here too. Son works in Bournemouth and he had to stop the car several times on the way home about 10 days ago to shout for huey... took him nearly a week to get over it. My neighbour and her sister went to the seaside for the day (35 mile trip from here) and her sister was so ill she couldn't drive home, weak as a kitten for days after. Reckon it's all to do with the heat we've had followed by the rain... (I always blame the weather when things start going round, only hard frost kills it off)
???
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I spoke too soon thinking I was getting better yesterday :-\ I woke up at 4am this morning with dreadful cramps and had to rush to loo and felt very sick but wasn't. Have had a few more runs this morning and very uncomfy stomach.
I spoke to someone who has had something similar three times over 2 months, not what I wanted to hear!
So methinks I will be off to Dr monday with my sample to see if I have food poisoning from the iffy ice cream I ate on Tuesday.
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My sister had to call the emergency doctor last night for her hubby. He had been ok during the day but started being sick again about 7pm. He just could not stop and eventually had an injection to help.
Sis said she has never seen him like that before. They still don't know if it's a bug or something he ate.
Hope you feel better soon. Perhaps you started to eat again too quickly and your tummy is still sensitive.
Honeyb
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DO NOT GO TO THE SURGERY WHEN YOU HAVE A BUG :o
Ring the GP and ask for a call back so that you can explain symptoms
Take the advice given
Otherwise you will be responsible for spreading it around >:(
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I didn't word that very well sorry I should have said I was going to ring the surgery monday morning and ask if I could get a sample to them to be sent for testing.
I used to work at a Dr so know all about the horrors after we all came down with scabies from an infected child in the waiting room!
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Scabies? I had ring-worm years and years and ........ ago ::)
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Yep scabies was horrible as you knew the little critters were burrowing under your skin and you had to apply some sort of pesticide cream to your hands. It was about 13 years ago so memory hazy. The poor cleaner got them first as she had cleaned the waiting room and then we all had to use the treatment even if we didn't have the rash in case.
AT least ring worm is only a fungus infection ;)
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Lots of tummy bugs doing the round with the heat, best thing is to take a Probiotic for a few days, that settles the tummy, I always find that flat coke also helps.
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Honeybun how is your brother in law?? I'm not right yet, think I am getting better because I am not rushing to loo and bit more normal poo ;D but then next day worse again. I am eating again now but lots of wind pains/ exploding noises etc!!
Will be in touch with Dr tomorrow ::)
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He slept most of yesterday but still had the runs all day. Eventually took a pill to stop it. Very weak and wobbly today. Only eaten some toast. It's knocked him for six to be honest.
He is 72 though and the older you get the harder it hits.
Rotten thing though. I hope you feel better really soon.
Honeyb
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YOur poor brother in law, he sounds as if he is really suffering.
Assume he will be wanting to get his poo tested as well in case of food poisoning??
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The emergency doctor said it was a bug and there was no mention of any tests so I am not sure.
I will mention it to my sister though.
Honeyb
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I'm not sure whether a pill to stop the diarrhoea is good to be honest Honeybun. If it is a bug it just means the bug multiplies and isn't expelled. Difficult choices when you are feeling horrible though. As long as he drinks plenty of water he should be ok. No food for twenty four hours at all is the best way of treating it.
Taz x
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I had to get a sample to Drs yesterday to test for any food poisoning although he thinks it is a bug, he said some bugs only give the runs and tummy ache rather than vomiting.
I am eating okay now but still very iffy in the toilet dept. I can have one day not bad but then the next day go alot although the d is no longer as bad as it was at first ( trying not to give tmi here!).
Dr said he hoped that by end of week I would be getting slowly better.
I should get results tomorrow aft or Thursday.
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He's probably thinking of campylobacter countrybumpkin. I've had that from a salad which had been preapred after the guy had been preparing raw mussels and obviously didn't wash his hands.
Taz x
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:o ............
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Still not right at all :( I can eat now okay but still having to go to loo up to 6 times a day with alot of tummy ache and noisy tummy. I had a sample sent off but still not had any result.
I spoke to a friend today who lives opposite side of country and he has exact same thing so maybe it is a weird bug.
He described exact same symptoms including thinking he is getting better one day and then bad again the next. He has only had it 4 days whereas I am now at the week.
The only difference is that you no longer need a gas mask after I have been whereas he says his wife is compalining bitterly as they only have one loo ;D ;D ;D
Whatever it is its a right xxx and I want it to go away!
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Every time you eat something solid you feed the bug :(
So keeping to a liquid only diet for 48 hours then start by nibbling dry biscuits or toast? LIVE yoghurt will help once you get back to eating without needing the loo, remember that the action of eating, stomach filling = bowel movement. Think of a puppy ;) ........
Nuisance. The noise is probably gas which can smell 'eggy' or yeasty if the gut is upset. The rumbling is probably 'empty' but the bug needs to be starved.
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Sounds nasty countrybumpkin. When our son got salmonella, results were back very quickly. Just take it easy with your poor tum. If you're still going that often you maybe need to eat a bland diet for a few days to let things settle a bit more.
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Chicken and rice ? that's what the Vet recommended for our dog when she got sick ::)
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Bland diet it is! I realised I was eating my usual high fibre diet ::) which would not help.
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Clear chicken soup always works for me. Not the most exciting, but something comforting about it.
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Good Jewish food - chicken soup ;) - helps most ailments apparently
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Bananas are a good prebiotic. Dry white toast or cream crackers and marmite? Ginger ale, lemonade, flat coke or lucozade? Try not to get dehydrated.
Have you tried a strong probiotic?
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update- I was back to normal exactly a week later. It went as fast as it had arrived. My sample was negative for any nasty things as well so can only assume it was a bug after finding out my friend had had it on the other side of country.
where do they come from ::)
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Depends which bug it was. More like a virus if the sample came back within normal limits, a bug would have 'grown' ::)
Do you feel better?
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Yep must have been a virus. I suddenly one day felt back to normal and no more rushing to loo or the smell ;D
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That's good. You can move on now ;)