Fasting to Cure Diarrhea - Help!

[NotQuiteCockney]

Ok, I have had diarrhea since Sundayish. It has gotten worse and worse. I haven't eaten anything since yesterday morning. (Before that, I was mostly having v simple foods, anyway, and not much.)

I haven't even had juice or tea, just water. Nothing else.

I still have diarrhea. Not loads of it, but certainly some.

Do I eat now? Do I keep fasting until the diarrhea stops? Do I have some diluted apple juice?

I feel pretty wobbly (shocker) and my abdomen is pretty tender, but the GP checked me yesterday, and thinks this is just a viral thing.

Ambrosia rice pudding cups widely available here, ditto tinned soup - look forward to them when you're better!

They're like angel delight, but premade. And quite gross, I'm sure. (not that angel delight isn't) They don't need to be refrigerated.

They come in flavours like vanilla, chocolate, butterscotch, rice and tapioca.

MrsB, I probably won't still want them when well. And I make my own rice pudding now. The rice pudding cups back home are kinda gross.

I'm starting to think it was the banana that made my stomach go wrong, more than the two slices of toast with honey. I might try another slice of toast before bed.

LOL NQC you are reminding me of my sister:

"It wasn't the bottle of gin I drank at the party that has made me feel like this, it was those little canapes they served before dinner, I swear"

I do hope you can get through tonight without too much misery and that tomorrow will be better for you.

:-P

Actually, I used to date someone who swore straight vodka didn't make you ill, it was the mixers.

As a lifelong IBS sufferer (much better now since stopping high-pressure work), I'm pretty good at telling what's made me ill. I've had another (single) piece of toast and will leave it at that for the night. Here's hoping I'm not up in a few hours, hanging out in the loo.

I've managed to mangle my ab muscles, and my back, too. Presumably by lying down all day? Gah.

Pepto Bismol

Really? The GP didn't think I should be taking anything to actually reduce gut motility (e.g. Immodium, which works really well for me, but I only take it when I just have diarrhea, no fever, no nausea, etc), and should let the virus or whatever sort itself out.

Anyway, despite having another slice of toast last night, I've had no more bouts. I woke this morning feeling actually ok. My abs are still mangled, and my lower back, but my guts per se feel fine. Looks like it was the banana that was the problem yesterday. (:-P to Franny)

Nonetheless, I will be sticking to a BRAT sort of diet for at least 24 hours. Well, no bananas, so I guess it's RAT. (Some cultures think bananas are a laxative food, but we think they're constipating. Maybe for me, right now, they're laxative?)

And DS2 is going to the Horrible Nursery again, who actually are totally fine, apart from food weirdness (did I mention they gave DS2 spaghetti on toast? No doubt tinned spaghetti), as long as they're pretty much empty. They even did outings!

Just checking in for the latest news on the state of your arse, NQC

my dad always used to say it was the skin on the fish and chips on the way home, NOT the fifteen pints
hope you're OK NC. Flat lemonade is my thing when feeling poorly. Or I find ginger things veyr soothing. HAve you tried the Duchy Originals Ginger refresher?
(sorry if these things are full of transhydrogenated Bad Shit.)

DH brought home some very industrial lemonade last night, but it has sweeteners in it, so I don't think I can face it.

Hmm, ginger cordial stuff sounds v. tempting. I think I have some ginger biscuits in the house, actually, but of course they are high fibre low gi etc etc etc.

I think I'm on white rice and white bread w. honey today. I'll add a wider diet tomorrow, with some fibre, fats the day after, dairy maybe the day after.

I am feeling a bit worse since DS1 decided to head butt me while I was dressing DS2. Both boys are behaving quite badly, frankly, but I expect this is because all their normal mummy misbehaviour has to be crammed into much less time. DS2 tried to bite DH last night, which he hasn't done for ages.

The builders are of course stirring, and (in theory) are putting in the new worktops today. If it gets bad enough, I will go hide in a neighbour's house. She has a bath, anyway, and won't be home, so that is tempting in many ways. (I won't say how long it's been since I've showered, but I will say it's been quite a while.)

Oh, one really really odd symptom I'm having that's kinda freaking me out, is I'm waking up in the night in a sweat. I'm actually wet. I'm always dreaming something to explain the water, but I'm wet from head to toe. This has happened a few times with this bug, and was still happening last night.

(As someone who was young and stupid in the 90s, night sweats are particularly alarming to me.)

Ah, apparently anything that gives you a fever can give you night sweats. Fine.

Ok well you need to get better and then go and have tests done. No point having nightmares every time you have a bit of a funny turn.

Oh, I know. And anyway, I def had HIV test in first pregnancy (as well as having a few tests when I was young and stupid (and thankfully, very very lucky)). I think I had one in my second, too.

It is very freaky, waking up all soaked and cold.

Oh, but I am getting my worktops this morning! Which means my kitchen will actually look better and be more functional. I am looking forward to this, despite the disruption etc.

I don't think you were that lucky, I think the heterosexual rate of transmission has always been unfairly low round here.

Do they test for HIV in pregnancy as standard, there? I don't think they do here.

Wahoo @ kitchen. Now I keep meaning to ask if you are planning to go to the picnic? We are probably going to come up and stay overnight, again.

Well, the rate of men getting it from "normal" hetero sex is pretty low nearly everywhere (normal = not dry sex, and not anal sex). The transmission rate from men to women in "normal" hetero sex is not so low.

One of my male friends (ok, and partner, too) had sex with a girl who turned out to be HIV positive. (Caught from her male partner who was an IV drug user.) So it wasn't a million miles away from me.

But I also say, very lucky, because I never caught anything.

And I was offered HIV testing here in first pregnancy. It is a normal thing, I've seen threads on it. They've got your blood, they might as well.

When is the picnic, again? I might make it, everything is going a bit crazy.

(Oh, and all my "young and stupid" was done in Canada. I highly recommend the "be young and stupid, then move countries" plan. It greatly reduces your chances of running into scary people who know you too well, while you're being someone else entirely.)

LOL yes I just tend to avoid going anywhere interesting, which has the same effect.

I think the picnic is July 9th. Yes, it is.

I don't think we have anything planned that weekend. That's a Sunday?

The builders will be out by then, I'm sure, if you want you can come stay with us? (We even have off-street parking, so you could drive if you wanted. Or we are a tube stop from Stratford.)

Ooh! Ooh. Exciting. Ooh.

will you still have the Arse from Hell by then, do you reckon?

I doubt it.

Were you hoping to visit it as a tourist attraction?