Jokes1 min ago
Nausea , sickness & diarrhoea for over a week
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I have been suffering with the above for over a week now - not bad enough to be absent from work, but have been unwell and not eating properly (or at all at some points!) and I am starting to feel run down. Started last Friday when I went to bed not feeling great and had a really gassy tummy - woke up sick and with diarrhoea. Was pretty ill and not eating all weekend and went back to work thinking I'd had a tummy bug, but have been feeling nausious and been occaisionally sick and had diarrhoea instead of normal poo since. Woke at 5am this morning sick but had nothing in my stomach, been feeling crap all day and haven't eaten a proper meal since last Friday. Haven't had a temperature. Did have a bit of a headache but think that was from dehydration. No-one else in the family has got it and I am definitely not pregnant. I am generally quite healthy, but do still have a chest infection I picked up when I was in Turkey 3 weeks ago.
Anyone any ideas? I wouldn't have thought a tummy bug would last this long.
Anyone any ideas? I wouldn't have thought a tummy bug would last this long.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Cheers boxtops - that's just it - I would feel like a fraud going to a walk in centre, cos I am perfectly able to function and am now drinking fine. I still have all the symptoms, but it's not like I am running back and forth to the toilet, it's just that I know when I go it will be diarrhoea and that I feel constantly nausious and as a consequence am not eating well, I am probably being sick about once a day and going to the loo twice a day. I had some cereal this morning, and a sandwich for dinner, but I can feel it rumbling away. I think I will need to go to doctors on Monday but I keep thinking that it will just go by itself and then another day goes by....
I wouldn't wait if I were you, they would rather see frauds than you make yourself worse. You might have picked up a bug in Turkey, you can't tell. The last time I had D&V was due to eating overripe fruit (and boy was I ill) but it lasted 3 days, no more, then I could get back to normal. yours has been going on too long, you need to get it looked at - well, you know what I mean :-)
I`ve had diarrhoea from a couple of places (turkey was one of them) and the problem went on for 2 weeks. When I eventually went to the GP she said that when one gets diarrhoea, the lining of the bowel sheds and it can take anything up to 2 weeks for the bowel to settle down. That`s because the bowel grows a new lining which is sensitive and can`t take normal food (which is why they say eat something bland after the Mangetouts)!
Thanks everyone. I've been back for over 2 weeks now, was pretty sure that I didn't come back with anything (other than the chest infection!) I usually have a cast iron gut - i've never had a dose of holiday tummy and I've been in loads of countries including India and Mexico. I'll see how I feel tomorrow,
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