stomach flu / food poisoning

How much is a kilo? I lost half a stone last week.

And now, just when I thought i'd kicked it, the sodding thing is BACK.

Do any of those over the counter remedies actually work? I've always been taught to just sweat it out.

I thought it was a virus, but seeing how it's come back about 24 hours after eating very similar meal to what I ate about the same time period before the last one... I'm beginning to wonder if something in my fridge that I';m taking for granted is seriously off.

here they recommend immodium (which stops the runners) and also enterol (which restores bowel flora (this is how we call it anyway)

i feel like utter shite. i'm hanging on the counter trying not to faint when serving customers. hard job to do.
the other day in a shop i srsly thought i was gonna faint. but i asked for the loo and had a sitdown for a couple of minutes.

btw four kilos is almost nine pounds. yep, NINE POUNDS. this is not really how i wanted to achieve my weight goal. hahaha

Food poisoning is the best calling-in-sick lie.

I also lost quite a bit of weight from a minor case of food poisoning. Perhaps as much as 7 or 8 lbs. In the past few years, I've kept slim because of two things 1)had my appendix out & didn't eat hardly anything for about days, and 2) food poisoning (possibly caused by eating a slice of pizza after not washing my hands after working on my motorcycle and having grease, oil and gasoline on my hands). When you do get better from food poisoning, food tastes SOO AWESOME and you only want to eat great, healthy organic foods like fruit and grains and really safe stuff, and not processed junk and meats. In the long run, make this a reason to eat healthier and safer.

(insert) ... for about FIVE days...

:p

I booked a band to play my Dj night last sunday. Singer showed up with food poisoning. He slept in the corner until it was his time to play. Then jumped up and rocked out. Then went home.

I was seriously impressed.

As they say, the sow must go on. Or maybe that should be "show".

the Immodium must go on for me

Immodium is great but sometimes it's better to just let it flush out. Especially for children: before the age of six, no immodium as otherwise the bacteria stay inside the bowels.

I just want to EAT again. Four days of Gatorade & saltines is enough.

Immodium's like quick drying cement and messes you up for days. Fuck that shit.

Or, fuck that! Shit!

I had the "shitters" for about a week during my pregnancy. Thank god it wasn't a "run for the loo" thing though.

So I'm not sure if this is food poisoning or not. I've had food poisoning a few times and I know how much it wrecks my guts.

But so far my stomach only ever hurts every now and then and it's in a very specific spot 2 inches above my belly button. I don't ever really feel nauseous but the big D just keeps coming. I assume the headaches, muscle aches, and occasional dizzyness are just side effects from dehydration? I'm going on day 3 now and hoping it disappears by tomorrow.
Do I have swine flu?

No, stomach buster.

HOLY SHIT!!! really, food poisoning!?!? This is ridiculous

Also just realized parents should never from the same place like the pres and vp never flying together?

OH
MY
GOD.

Should have checked the expire date on that damn grilled eel. Urgh.

fuck this shit. went to bed at 8 and woke up at 1:30. still feel tired as balls

dunno what to say only time i had it i had enough diarrhea to feed a village

i had enough diarrhea to feed a village

o_O

uuuugh

had this last week, sucked

Has anyone ever had food poisoning which resolved WITHOUT any barfing or diarrhea?

At 9 this morning I started to get that characteristic agonizing ache in my upper left gut, it escalated to where for about 8 hours I couldn't do ANYTHING but writhe in pain and try in vain to make something happen out of one end or the other. Then about an hour ago the pain abated... now it's just like a slight soreness.

I'd be concerned if theres no diarrhea or vomiting...you might want to see a doctor to make sure its not something more serious?

Funny this thread was revived. I got food poisoning exactly four weeks ago: vomiting, chills, exhaustion, the works. It passed after a couple of days. I think it's returned: no chills, exhaustion, but diarrhea and slight discomfort.

:( no fun at all, you have my sympathies.

Jon, severe abdominal pain for 8 hours is worrisome, could be something serious. Food poisoning basically always triggers vomiting/diarrhea, so I don't think you're safe blaming something you ate.

You should go to the doctor/ER, even if the symptoms have settled down for the moment.

I can ask you a bunch of questions to try to narrow down the possibilities (I'm a doctor), but far better you get checked out properly in person.

I've managed to get an after hours phone call from my Gastroenterologist-- her take was skip the ER unless the pain comes back or fever develops (bcuz unless one of those things is happening they're just gonna make me wait for 7 hrs), and come see her first thing in the a.m.

I have ulcerative colitis and I am starting to suspect this was colitis related, even though the pain was very much food poisoning-esque.

Aha OK you have UC and a gastroenterologist. My work here is done. :)

Makes it that much less likely your pain was from food poisoning though, yeah?

Hope it all settles down for you.

Yeah, we'll see. It's a pain I've only felt before when I've had food poisoning, but the duration and the way it just ~resolved~ seems not right. Called my friend in florida who's my fellow decades-long IBD sufferer, and who has had strictures before, and it sounds like it probably was not a stricture either.

Stupid guts have been trying to do me in since 1985!

could it be severe constipation? after bouts of eating improperly or large quantities of cheese, I had bad abdominal pain that was difficult to resolve on and off in past weeks. resulted in hyperventilation....

hope you feel better soon!

Yeah, actually constipation is the one thing you never have to worry about much with UC/Crohn's (unless you get a stricture).

What did your GI doc say? I would've guessed partial bowel obstruction that resolved when your pain did.

UGH. I had diarrhea 17 times between 6pm and 6am. My backside feels like it had a cheese grater dragged through it. I took 5 showers last night.

take a warm bath and start wiping with baby wipes.

it came on during flip-turns during swim practice, and it was a dicey run to the locker room in my speedo

good thing you didn't shit your speedo in the pool.

right? that would be the most awkward situation ever. and it's not like you could play it off/pretend it wasn't you/hope it got caught in the folds of the fabric

it would be ok if you were a squid.

"Whoops, there goes my ink again!"

i've been through this a lot an all you can do is wait it out

It's not right to be going through this "a lot". I thought it was very suspicious that I'd get (what I thought was) food poisoning 3 or 4 times per year. Did go see my doc about it, but he just threw some IBS pills at me. Ran no tests. Turned out I had Crohn's, with complications developing for years, and needed surgery last year.
Jon, what did your GI doc eventually diagnosis you with?

my dad has crohns, not fun.

Thanks for asking. I already have an Ulcerative Colitis diagnosis (had it since 1985). Had the lion's share of my large int removed in '91 which fixed me up pretty good until a few years ago; now I have active colitis in my remaining large int but not in the small (so my diag is still UC not Crohn's).

My GI doc ultimately did not have a clear answer on what exactly happened 3 weeks ago. She was sure it was not a UC-related stricture or blockage, felt it was something bacterial, but also felt the symptoms were weird for food poisoning. She did a colonoscopy the following week which found nothing unexpected except that my whole lower intestine is more irritated ('friable') than usual. We're gonna try upping my dose of the non-steroidal anti-inflamm I'm on.

My theory is that I had a temporary torsion which unkinked itself when I finally got up and was running around getting ready to go to the ER. Doc was skeptical of that, but it fits the data IMO.

Yeah that sounds reasonable to me. I had a, um, I think it was a fluoroscopy done a couple months ago, and man I never realized your intestines move around and contort as much as they do. Just with breathing or shifting positions.
My stomach flu-like symptoms were due to a stricture, and so the food always had to come back up for me to get any relief.
Are you only on NSAIDs for it?

***TMI ALERT***

In addition to the Pentasa NSAID, I also do a mesalamine rectal suspension (aka an enema that you hold in all night) at bedtime. It does a really good job of keeping inflammation at bay in the lowest zone of my GI. Sometimes if things get dicey I switch from mesalamine to cortisone suspension for a week.

***END TMI ALERT***

Don't know much about UC and how symptoms and treatment differ from Crohn's, so was curious what your regimen is.
No surgery since '91 seems good though, right? I was told that, for Crohn's, those who need one surgery generally need more surgery roughly every 10 yrs. I just really really hope I don't wind up with a colostomy bag ugh.

My inflammatory bowel disease buddy in Florida had the same back story as me except he 'upgraded' to Crohn's in his early 30s. He did end up having to get the complete removal a couple of years ago and has a bag now. Since that's kind of a worst case scenario in my mind as well, it was comforting to talk to him recently and find out that the technology for those things has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades-- the whole routine is much less grisly & gross apparently, you can go a week without having to reattach the snap-on thingy, they never leak, it lives in some kind of cloth sleeve so you don't have plastic resting against your skin etc etc.

So I also really really hope it doesn't end up that way for you or I, but I am told it's not the shame horror it once was...

hey Jon, i just started taking Pentasa myself, also have steroidal foam for flareups. do you do anything special dietwise, or is that a crazy rabbithole of second guessing?

My colleague was in Austin for a conference last week.

I can't tell if it is norovirus or food poisoning, but wow this rough. lost seven pounds since saturday.

I'm only two flu outbreaks away from fitting into my favorite pants

norovirus outbreak in my town last week as well

I like how in the UK it's called the "winter vomiting bug" that would be a fantastic rankin-bass christmas special!

this sucks

Hang in there dude :(

oh no poor brad :(
i’ll chopper you in some saltines & flat lemonade stat

had what felt like food poisoning but I think might have actually been lactose intolerance?

had cut out most dairy bcz of bloating etc, mostly on almond milk & very occasional 2% milk.
drank a big whole millk latte on xmas eve, 30 min later felt nauseous, barfed 30 min after that, got the chills & went to bed fully clothed & was barfing intermittently for the rest of the night. was ok by the next morning.
i had no idea it could do that!!

ugh, get yourself to the clinic if it doesn't get any better within a day!

still regret the time I just decided to ride it out and was puking for days

the hot flashes, cramps and chills i am familiar with, but this shaking hands thing is ... different

having this on and off for ten days is starting to concern me

even the toast/rice diet is not working

yikes! now I am concerned for you.

will call the doctor -- one of my 7 or 8 -- in the morning

yeah 10 days is too long, especially for you my friend. Get thee well, Morbz!! <3

In Vietnam. Shaking like a leaf, weak as can be.

Oh no, R! Have been enjoying ur trip pics on IG. Feel better!!!