So last March I had the first bout of the most awful diarrhoea. I was lying on the bathroom floor for over an hour, with crippling stomach cramps, clammy and sweaty, never known anything like it ... I have a high pain threshold and get through most things, but this? Could barely lift myself onto the toilet when I finally needed to go, where it was just a stream of watery diarrhoea. I felt better after this, weak and not "well" but able to have a shower and get to bed. The cramps continued for around 48 hours afterwards and when I went to the toilet I was passing bloody mucous. GP checked me over, ran some blood tests and a stool sample, this picked up nothing so she concluded it was an infection that just hadn't been one they check for. Happened again a few weeks later where I also vomited, but had just eaten and I think this was the only reason why. GP thought I was unlucky and picked up the same bug but ran some further checks. Clear for Chrons and coeliac, and stool sample checked for blood and nothing significant found. Endoscopy in 2021 for other reasons was clear. Happened again early this year GP referred to gastro team for further checks.
However DD is home from Uni and has just experienced the exact same thing. No one else is ill. She has had something similar around 3 times before over the last year, but not as bad as this. Has anything ever heard of these issues being part of long covid? We have never tested positive but believe we may have had it in the early pandemic, before routine testing.
We are all vaccinated but first attacks were before vaccination so don't believe it is that. Had different makes of vaccine. I have only just thought this this weekend, it hadn't even crossed my mind before. Its only as DD has the exact same thing.