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Can’t take anymore, chronic diarrhoea for 3 weeks

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WaffleDogg20 · 08/11/2024 08:35

I don’t know what to do anymore.

all started 3 weeks ago when I was on holiday in Yorkshire. I had fish and chips and that night I was in agony. The whole holiday I couldn’t leave the house as I wad diarrhoea every 5-10 mins with such urgency. I pooed the bed multiple times.
i tried absolutely everything, 10s of Imodium, gut health stuff, liquid iv.. nothing. The cramping was insane.

last week it was still really bad and I couldn’t leave the house much but this week it’s gone awful again. The weight is falling off me ( a stone in 2 weeks), I can’t eat a thing and when I do it feels like it’s stuck in my stomach. The diarrhoea is with such urgency I struggle to make it in time. It’s bright yellow and gassy/greasy. The wind is horrific. I have a horrible acid taste in my throat all the time. I’m so mentally drained and exhausted. Iv barely slept longer than 30 mins a time. I’m struggling to take my kids school.

im waiting for the doctor to ring me but when I rang them the first week they said there wasn’t anything they could do and to not take imodium.

im self employed and really really need to work.

im having such bad stomach cramps it feels like im in early labour. Mostly in the centre under my ribs or on my left side. But also in my back.

please help, I really don’t know what to do.

OP posts:
WaffleDogg20 · 08/11/2024 19:52

I’m really really upset.

been doctors. I’m not dehydrated so that’s good but because my stomach pain radiates from my right to the left it can’t possibly be anything to do with my gallbladder as the pain isn’t in one spot.

im not majorly dehydrated surprisingly. She wants to send off a sample next week but apart from that there isn’t anything she can do she said until they get the sample back. I’m so fed up

OP posts:
1AnotherOne · 08/11/2024 19:55

I had exactly the same last year after going on holiday- greasy yellow watery poo for about 4 weeks. I’d go within minutes of eating, it was miserable. My stool sample showed nothing.

buffyspikefaith · 08/11/2024 20:07

WaffleDogg20 · 08/11/2024 19:52

I’m really really upset.

been doctors. I’m not dehydrated so that’s good but because my stomach pain radiates from my right to the left it can’t possibly be anything to do with my gallbladder as the pain isn’t in one spot.

im not majorly dehydrated surprisingly. She wants to send off a sample next week but apart from that there isn’t anything she can do she said until they get the sample back. I’m so fed up

I wouldn't usually suggest it but if you really struggle just go to hospital
They did a test there and then for me, immediate results plus blood tests

Itsamumslife2024 · 12/11/2024 13:45

@WaffleDogg20 how are you feeling now?

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