Diarrhea - but how? Haven’t left the house in a week...

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Sorry if TMI... I know it’s a bit gross but can someone explain how you get diarrhea?

I’ve woken up feeling awful (like a horrid hangover, but haven’t had a drink for ages), really crampy sore stomach, slight shivers, achey joints, and can’t get off the loo.

I haven’t left the house all week (I work from home) not even for a walk. And the last time I did leave the house it was just a walk around the block. DH is going to the supermarket, DC wait in the car. So we can’t have had that much contact with anything.

Could it be food? I thought it kicks in quickly if food-related? We had oven pizza last night abd it was this morning I felt gross. DH and the DC are all fine.

How come I’ve picked something up? Does anyone know this all works? Please enlighten me whilst I lay in bed feeling sorry for myself that I’m feeling crap on a previous weekend.

Food poisoning can actually take up to 28 days with some food poisoning bacteria

It's usually 12-48 hours tho!
You can pick up the food poisoning bacteria from surfaces that infected people have touched you don't have to have eaten the bacteria

Interesting stuff thanks.

Feel MUCH better today... Slept 13 hours straight last night and woke up feeling less achey and no headache. Managed a weetabix this morning but overall very happy to be out of bed.... just about to jump in the shower now, whereas yesterday even reaching for a glass of water felt like an effort.

Fingers crossed DH and the kids don’t get it.

Bugs have to start somewhere right? Not just catching them off other people.
Glad you are feeling better 😊

You can give yourself a stomach bug from yourself or someone else's poo (so not washing hands properly)

Diarrhoea is present in 20% of corona virus patients.

On the 23rd March, I had the worst diarrhoea ever and like you assumed it was food poisoning. I had it for another few days with nausea and tummy pain, I was waking up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat for a couple of nights, I then developed a low grade fever, and then a few days later I developed a swollen lymph node on one side of my neck, which was extremely painful to touch, even turning my neck made it hurt. I also developed ear pain, down that side, a sore throat and really horrible headaches.

I wasn't tested. I didn't develop a cough. But I'm pretty sure I bloody had it as it was the most weird concoction of symptoms I've ever had and it lasted two weeks in total.

But her kids have also been just in car - if it was it would likely be her DH going to the supermarket

BUt as a google search shows this

www.livestrong.com/article/432333-why-does-pizza-give-me-diarrhea/

and frozen pizza could have very much had bacteria that only the OP ate and made her sick

www.organicauthority.com/energetic-health/food-poisoning-6-surprising-foods-making-sick

If it was the pizza I would’ve thought we would’ve all had it?

Happy to report all is back to normal now. Had a dry cough episode and DH and I glanced at each other but it was biscuit crumbs causing the cough

Diarrhoea can be the only symptom? Is this true??

This anecdotal

But know one person who went for investigation due to terrible diarrhoea, acute onset, 60 ish. He was tested for all the obvious stomach and colon related issues....nothing. Then tested for Covid19. That’s what he had, alongside a pneumonia that appeared asymptomatic.

He was then kept on a covid ward and given antibiotics for the pneumonia. Now back home feeling much better. At no point did he have a cough or chest discomfort.

I should add, his stomach upset was not short lived like OP, he had to be admitted to go on a drip initially.

Jesus, asymptomatic pneumonia as well 😖. This thing is like some great big cosmic joke.
A really unfunny one.

Well, I’ve had pneumonia twice and I’d have much preferred no symptoms!! Thank goodness he didn’t have stomach issues and pneumonia!

Oh absolutely! I just didn't realise it was a thing, seems really odd to be so ill without being aware or experiencing any discomfort.

They used to call pneumonia “old man’s friend” because so many people died of it without the lung pain and the cough.

It was the lung pain that bothered me most. And the delirium. Seems amazing to me that you can be asymptomatic. I’m sure I’ll get it again one day so I hope it’s asymptomatic next time!

@Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr yes only you could have gotten sick, different levels of contamination, different stomachs, different immune systems.

Yes it is a symptom but given how little you have been out and how frozen pizza is known to be a potential carrier of food poisoning and your symptoms mirrored that it seems far more likely

Me too... although I have to say I'm a bit weirded out at the idea of being so ill / so much damage being done to my lungs while I'm blissfully unaware, also 😐
When do you seek help before irreversible damage is done?

It could just be you, or someone in your house, used the toilet, didn’t wash hands and then you transferred the bugs internally.......

A close friend had corona virus with only gastric symptoms. Went on for three weeks intermittently and he was extremely unwell.

Gastric symptoms are absolutely a symptom of some forms of covid 19

I get the shits every couple of months for no reason. It doesnt have to be a bug. Stomachs are temperamental.

Me and Dd just had similar and wondered where on earth we got it . Supermarket i guess !

Check your freezer OP, After a week stomach upset I realised my fridge and freezer were warming up when I was at work then chilling again for when I came home. The stomach pain from dodgy cheese and milk can be awful.

Yes Gastro symptoms are but COVID is still not the obvious choice here and form of gastro bug is far more likely given the range of ways it could have been delivered. The means of spread of these are far less effected by a lockdown

Catching something at the supermarket is far more unlikely