There's a bug going round which I've had quite bad. Symptoms were very painful lower abdomen, bloating, general achiness all over body, fatigue, which turned to diarrhoea. Some people just had a day or two of the pains and no diarrhoea. Mine carried on and on and I didn't eat for 48 hours because it was so painful - that might not have been the best move in retrospect. I also got water infection, I think due to weeing little and often. I was getting up about 7 times a night to go to loo (bowel) and poss more during day. It was really not nice.
Anyway after 2 weeks the painful tummy and achiness has gone thank goodness. But I'm still having to go to loo (bowel) lots. All I get is mucus (tmi sorry). After the not eating, it took a while for anything to come through again (5days!). It is coming through but most of the time I go to loo and it's just mucus. 3 times a night, maybe 10 times a day. I'm thinking it's ibs.
I thought it would settle down itself but it's been a week and a half and it doesn't seem to be.
Anyone any experience of this? I know it's not food related as my diet is back to normal so how can I encourage everything to settle down?