DH had an upset stomach for 5 days a couple of weeks ago - no vomiting but intermittent and quite violent, watery diarrhoea. We were due to go on holiday abroad and the day before we travelled he was particularly bad, so we called our GP for advice. Based on a description of his symptoms, they diagnosed gastroenteritis and said to send a fecal sample in for testing to confirm. However, the next morning he felt 100% better and the diarrhoea resolved completely, so he didn't do the sample and we went off on holiday as planned.
Whilst on holiday and a full 10 days after DH had started with his symptoms, I had a very sudden, extremely explosive episode of diarrhoea (very unlike me, I'm usually Mrs Bunged Up). I had eaten fish and chicken earlier that day and thought it might have been one of those. To cut a long story short, I'm now on day 6 and it's not getting any better. I took Imodium for the last 3 days of the holiday just so I could get out of the villa, and also loaded up on them to enable me to do the flight home. It didn't stop the diarrhoea and it was still watery, but made it more manageable. I've been careful with what I eat, and whilst fluids are ok, any food is going straight through me. I'm having between 8-12 episodes a day, and it's just water with no solid matter at all, it's worse (and pretty uncontrollable) during the night. I don't feel sick and haven't lost my appetite, but have started to have painful spasms in my lower abdomen the last day or so and my stomach sounds like a washing machine on a hot wash! I called 111 yesterday and had a call back from from a GP who said to drink plenty and take Imodium and if it continues to contact my own surgery.
I guess my question is has anyone experienced something similar for this length of time. Could I really have caught whatever it is from my DH after 10 days, even though my symptoms are more severe than his (I have a compromised immune system so that would figure)? Or if it was food poisoning, would it still be going on for this long?
Either way, I'm going to call my GP in the morning, as I'm exhausted and fed up of this...and a little worried if I'm honest.