Sorry for the late response - have been off the air the last couple of days....thanks for all your advice!
Still no real improvement, am on some Electrolyte drink that should keep me hydrated and the Dr has taken a stool sample to see whether or not I somehow got food poisoning from somewhere....
It has been 5 days now and I'm over it! My husband works at our local hospital and the nurse recommended that if it's still going on this afternoon then I should head up there to check it out....only problem is that it doesnt hit me until I have eaten a decent meal and I'm too scared to eat anything substantial cause the outcome isnt good!!
Cant win! Having some plain rice now so see how I'm going in a couple of hours time....
Sorry to hear you''re still on the go (so to speak) - does sound like it might be food poisoning or maybe something bacterial... hopefully the sample shows something so they know if it can be addressed with antibiotics.
Either way, I would soooo recommend starting probiotic tablets if you don't already (I take Inner Health Plus brand - I usually take 1 a day or less often, but since the gastro I've been taking two a day trying to get the system back into balance - it's slowly working!).
If you have a chance in a few days pls post again to let us know how you went.
I had something which sounds the same!! Started Saturday and only finished Tues night. Doc said was gastro and that there are strains around which don't really show any other symptoms. I didn't have cramping etc either. It was all over the place and in fact one time was 21 hours between toilet visits as in well yes you know... lol. I was the same as you and was scared to eat or drink cos it seemed to send me to the toilet.
Sunday and Monday my bottom got really sore and felt like it was burning as it came out and doc said that's cos upper digestive tract is very alkaline - so that really was the only discomfort I had and really had me thinking it was something else. I had rice on Tues night so I don't know if that helped stop things or not. I'd not heard of the BRAT diet but makes sense. Oh I'm bfing too so couldn't do the imodium but was drinking hydralyte. Also got Yakult which pharmacist said was great idea. I hope that it stops for you soon.
I just got over the same thing not two days ago, had it for just over a week. Complete water poos - was awful and burned! Lots of vomitting and loss of appetite. Just kept up my fluids, munched on my rennies and stuck it out. Was not nice though!
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