Handhold and sick bucket needed. Is anyone awake?

[trottsgalore]

Why does diarrhoea always start in the small hours??!! Every bloody time. I woke up not so long along in a cold sweat with a weird prickly feeling all over my body, stomach cramps and feeling sick. The world has fallowing out of my bottom and I was clutching the bathroom bin to be sick into but thankfully no vomiting so far and I'm hoping it stays that way.
I am a single mum of 3 and have no one to help when I'm

Oh, I had this a few weeks ago.

Been up all night with a serious case of the squits. I was due in Crown Court for a really serious case where I was acting as the star professional witness, without me there was no case.

I had to drive a good hour to get there as well. I thankfully was able to get to some immodium and honestly, that stuff is magic!!

Another time i was driving to my then boyfriends house. I was maybe 20 minutes away when I made the mistake of letting out a fart which proceeded to follow through. Luckily it was squidgy more than liquidy but i was dreading him seeing me like this. The relief when I realised he was late from work and I could let myself in to his house and shower, wash my clothes before he got home.

I've also been sat on the loo, breastfeeding my son as the world fell out my arse. Thankfully DH got home off late shift about an hour after I had to take up residence on the loo and could deal with the baby and utilise the emergency formula milk.

I do have regular stomach issues, in case that hadnt become clear

Once got food poisoning abroad. Posh hotel. Slept on the loo with a pillow under my head.. Absolutely thought I was dying.
Make sure you get the sudocrem ready op..

@trottsgalore

Thank you for the funny stories they have cheered me up. I fell asleep sometime after 2 and so far no more diarrhoea. I'm a nurse although no longer working as one and used to work on the gastro ward. The smell is ingrained in my memory. I'm so grateful I've not been sick but I'm not counting my chickens just yet. I'm having a cup of tea then going back to bed.

Hopefully you will be spared vomiting! Re your being a Nurse, the Nursing sister at our GP practice had a grumble to me about a young student who had had to be excused just minutes before ''As she didn't like blood'' Sister sniffed and said ''You need a strong 'Stomach' in this job, and no sense of smell''..she chuckled and said ''A lot worse things to see than a blood test'' I just went ''Hmm'' and don't doubt that she is right.

Looking after young children is bad when one is ill... Taking them to school, and collecting them again, and cooking.. Bleurgh.
Beans on toast is sometimes all I could manage to 'cook' if feeling bad.

Imodium is a Legend.

Mum and I were off to Hampton Court Flower show, it was a beautiful day, and my guts decided to play up before we left.
After three visits to her loo and my brother saying ''AGAIN?'' with a puzzled look on his face, he suggested Immodium.

Luckily she lives near a pharmacy, so was able to buy some.
Talk about chemical cork!

Gut cramps eased, and there was no need to avail myself of the portaloos at Hampton Ct.

But I have been advised by a GP that it's best to not take chemical corks, rather to use rehydration sachets.. but in a ''Dire'' {no pun intended} emergency, Imodium does the trick.

It is also easy to buy OTC ..Or was, until people in began using it in vast doses to help with opioid withdrawal..In those cases it can damage the heart rhythm with sometimes fatal results.

I have slept all day and still feel tired but I'm ok. Tea, toast and dry cereal have been tolerated and I'm able to fart It might have been an IBS thing as it was very short-lived. I'm back to taking regular buscopan now. I already take large doses of codeine for chronic pain and I'm usually fine except for lots of wind thanks to intolerances.

I developed d&v and a kidney infection in America as a young adult and still had the shits when I left the hospital and had to get from California via truck, greyhound, taxi, plane, another plane and a car ride from London to Manchester. I had a 19 hour wait at JFK and it wasn't fun with those weird toilet cubicles with the gaps down the side.

At uni I had tonsillitis and was on penicillin. I farted liquid shit down the leg of my best Calvin Klein pjs with no warning. I then spent all night vomiting with a sky high fever. The pain in my throat was indescribable but isn't at the top of the many bouts of tonsillitis lists.

My lovely mum had been given the prep for a colonoscopy many years ago. She ended up in agony and being blue-lighted to hospital on gas and air for the pain. The effects of the prep kicked in while waiting for the doctor in an A&E cubicle. She had to have a commode and the sound ricocheted around the commode bowl and the smell was something else. She was mortified but laughing with me too. I worked there and I'm not sure if that made her feel better or worse but we still remember it will horror but humour.

I used to have an eating disorder and would swallow handfuls of laxatives in my worst times. So now I tell myself "come on trots you used to do this for fun" to get myself through the pain 🤣

Your stories of foreign travel shits reassure me that I'm right to stick to the U.K. I can't imagine the horror of having to squat at the side of the road.

I realise you are probably feeling much better now, but having had a camera up and down following suspected salmonella and therefore had the prep, this thread was still hilarious singletrackworld.com/2009/02/the-picolax-thread-returns/

My friend calls Immodium arse weld.