Worst stomach bug in the world. Nurse on phone suggested I go to A&E

[Toughtips]

Aibu to not go? Surely there's not a lot that can be done for an adult woman who has severe diahorrea for the past 3 days ? I've had a fever but paracetamol takes it down again. I feel horrific in that my back and my stomach are absolutely killing. When I get a cramp in doubled over in pain but surely this isn't worth an A n E trip? I've been sipping dioralyte as my wee is orange in colour. But it's coming out of me quicker than I can put it back. Just don't know what to do!

Someone with medical knowledge has told you to go to A&E, but you think random MNetters' advice might be better?

She has been to A and E

I've also read your posting history. You are absolutely prone to hyperbole so you probably shouldn't have gone to A & E at all. You seek to suffer with health anxiety or some such. All your ailments are turned into 'horrendous' and they're probably not

Gah fhs - if op does have health anxiety - then posting a snippy comment about it is absolutely not going to help! Yes, she should definitely seek help if it is adversely affecting her life. But ...

(a) very few of us on here are qualified to judge

(b) people with health anxiety can get properly ill too on occasion!

Better to give the op the benefit of the doubt imho! And I doubt anyone "seeks" to suffer from health anxiety. It is surely something that creeps up on a person owing to various stresses in their life.

I had it over Xmas, rang 111 & they told me to keep eating (plain food) & drinking & treat the pain with Buscopan & painkillers and not go to hospital until I'd had it a week!! It was horrific but it did eventually ease & I avoided hospital, thankfully.

Did they take a stool sample? As it takes a few days to culture... my husband had similar but only found out a few days after the drop that it was salmonella. Luckily by then he had recovered

I ended up on a drip after a stomach bug many years ago. The anti-emitics didn't work either. That was a fun 24 hrs.

@Toughtips
I am on day 9 now, and feel almost human. I began by eating a couple of spoonfuls of red jelly, and then that evening tried broth, then banana. Still can't face eating plain rice, but that was something the nurse suggested as first "solid" food. Dh cooked some rice in chicken broth, and added salt (we don't salt usually) but it was too soon, it did not stay put. You may be able to handle it though, as you're not vomiting.

Why are you asking mumsnet after a nurse told you to go already? Go FFS.

See you did go. Hope you feel much better soon.

Glad the OP went to A&E bur sadly for me A&E let me down and I nearly died, I had the runs for 3 weeks in total, first of all I was told it was a reaction to antibiotics I took for a chest infection, then a week later when I was just passing brown water and not eating was told it was a virus, a week later I was very ill, went to A&E the triage nurse refused to let me see a doctor telling me to go back to my GP, luckily I got an emergency apt the next day and luckily it was the same GP who had told me only a week before it was a virus, he went pale when he saw me I had lost so much weight.

I ended up in hospital for 11 days 10 of which were in isolation, It wasn't until I had been in hospital for 3 days a doctor told me I had SEPSIS