I’ll try and keep this brief.
4 weeks ago I finished a course of uti antibiotics and came down with diarrhoea, stomach pain (upper), nausea, left sided abdominal pain.
doctor ran bloods and stool tests to rule out c diff and bacterial cause, all fine.
9 days later still there. Massively increased my fibre, reduced dairy to butter only, came down with another uti so back on antibiotics.
ended up firmer stool but still yellow / orange and suffering awful trapped wind every. Single. Day.
left sided pain wouldn’t go away. Always under my left ribs. Felt like swelling on the left side of my abdomen. could only pass gas with yoga moves and belly massage.
had a latte on Tuesday last week and diarrhoea hit 30 minutes later. Assumed I had developed a lactose intolerance and despite massively reducing dairy I was still having butter once or twice a day, there was lactose in my antibiotics etc. so I cut dairy completely.
took a few days but drool was finally normal yesterday (size, shape, colour) but STILL the gas problem.
today I had diarrhoea randomly again and back to frequent soft yellow stool and I cannot work out why. The only thing I’ve had different is some pate on toast which carried a may contain milk warning but I read this is fine for lactose intolerance AND the reaction (if from this) was 18 hours later.
movements have finally settled down but once again I can hear and feel the gas all trapped in my belly.
I’ve done a FIT test (negative) and stool calprotectin came back normal.
please, does anyone have any suggestions? Can this all be lactose? I was feeling better every day following the latte incident (and hopeful the gas would eventually sort itself out) but feel back to square one with no understand as to why.