AIBU to ask for help identifying what I suffered from over summer

[Rivermonsters]

Hello MN :). Short story is at mid July I ate at Pizza Hut. The next day I had bad cramps and mild diarrhea. This diarrhea and pain carried on till around the end of august :( ruining my birthday in the process. It was that bad I cried in the sainsburys car park! Not my finest moment. Went to the Gp and they just told me to drink dirolyte (can’t spell it). Does anyone know I what I suffered from? It can’t be a stomach bug as the other people in my house didn’t get it plus I have a massive fear of ‘Novid’, the stomach disease beginning with N…won’t say it as it’s triggering. And I’m mega mega careful with hygiene

It was ages ago why do you care now? It was a bug, it happened. Move on. If you are that anxious you can't even type a word you need to seek help for your anxiety.

Huh? Why are you concerned? Move on

Salmonella can last a long time, a friends child had it for weeks, after eating a dodgy ice cream. They had to be really careful as a household, but no one else got it.

I had horrendous stomach pain and diorrhea with salmonella. And puking too for about 2 weeks the stomach cramps lasted 3 weeks. I lost a stone in weight. Was from a prawn sandwich I ate 1 day out of date I think ….

I had a fever and slight diarrhoea and felt rough for two days. It was a virus, but for 6 months I had hideous stomach cramps, loose stools, desperate urgency to poo if I ate anything. Lost 7 lbs because eating caused such pain. GP said the virus had upset my gut and gut bacteria and it often takes 6 months to resolve. Its entirely possible food poisoning could do the same.

Probably just food poisoning.

I had e coli once from a holiday abroad and had diarrhea for two weeks. So I would think other food poisoning could potentially last longer. Its not a verdict on your hygiene, you could have got it from anywhere you ate out or bought a sandwich. You'll never know now so may as well forget it.

Could be loads of things. Stress/anxiety induced IBS etc.

I would guess food poisoning or possibly a bad stomach bug that disrupted your "good" gut bacteria, so you felt the effects of it for quite a while before your system got itself back in order. Maybe the bit of pizza you had had some bad meat on, or someone handled your food with germy hands. It's not uncommon for these things to take a while to resolve, unfortunately.

You probably had a parasite.

Did you eat the ice cream at Pizza Hut? Those soft serve machines always worry me as they don't look easy to clean properly and the ice cream comes out half melted which suggests that it's not really kept cold enough.

The fact that the symptoms persisted for so long suggests it was some kind of infection that took a while to clear.

What’s Pizza Hut got to do with eat?

You’re alright now, OP? Leave it in the past, it really doesn’t matter. Look ahead

I remember gwtting the most horrendous cramps and diahrrea once drom eating sugar free sweets. It was the malitol in them. Could it have been something like this?

I had food poisoning once that lasted for weeks and weeks. It was miserable.

I had campylobacter which was just like you have described. I got it from a chicken sandwich. I had to have antibiotics to get rid of it, and couldn’t work as it is a notifiable disease and I work with pregnant mothers. I did feel ok after a week but couldn’t go back to work until the diarrhoea had stopped. Sounds the same.

@TotallySuper

It was ages ago why do you care now? It was a bug, it happened. Move on. If you are that anxious you can't even type a word you need to seek help for your anxiety.

Agreed. It was some kind of bug or some sort of food poisoning. As long as you're better now, what does it matter?

Campylobacter causes really bad cramping for some time after the infection has gone. I had it some years ago. I ende up passing large amount of blood. The pain was similar to contractions but in reverse, they started off a few minutes apart but gradually the interval increased. The cramps lasted for about a month.
Campylobacter is usually due to poor food hygiene. It’s too late now to chase Pizza Hut, but if you had had it confirmed then it would have been worth reporting to the food hygiene agency. It’s a really serious bacteria for babies and young children.

As PPs have suggested it could have been stress/anxiety related but I’ve had an illness similar to covid - cough, sore throat, high temp. and generally feeling unwell but I also had sickness and diarrhoea for a few weeks leading up to it. It wasn’t the same as food poisoning where it’s constant for a couple of days and then it’s over, it was only every now and then but lasted longer.

I've felt sick and had stomach issues for weeks after vomiting bugs before. The only thing that helped was taking prebiotics and trying not to stress about it!

Nerves.

A bit of IBS following food poisoning? The gut can be sensitive and disrupted for a long time after an infection.

I agree sounds like camphylobacter. Check trip advisor reviews for that time - you might not have been the only one.