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Entering third day of feeling weak, no appetite and severe case of squirts. Worst for a very long time.
Blenheim Palace, I did push myself. Have I caught a bug, or is my body saying that was too much.
Advice please. Sit it out ( might be a letter missing there) or visit docs?
Call nhs direct first. But wouldn't be just waiting for it to stop after 3 days
Consider it an extreme way to lose weight.
My money would be on something in the water , although I've never done Blenheim, so don't know how clean it is.
An overload of gels / bars always has an adverse affect on my guts (allegedly the multi-dextrose in the gels is a known 'upseter' of stomachs) but I don't think that would give you out and out squits for 3 days.
I think you're supposed to see the quacks after a few days with a somach upset if it won't shift. No harm in going
open water swim ?
did you see any dead sheep floating around ?
I had this after my Sportive, in the afternoon stomach ache then a constant rusty tap for a day+
I think it was in something in the bowzer. Bet its 'cleaned sir' then rehired out when in reality its bloody never.
Probably a stomach bug. You'll have a weak immune system if you pushed hard and tired your body.And you may have picked something up on the swim.
Personally at three days I wouldn't go to a gp as they wouldn't do much. Flat lemonade and rehydration salts. Give it a few more days.
Open water and in top 15% - I totally gave it my all and now cannot move without gurgling and wanting to evacuate an empty bowel system. However - off to work - who else will teach the darlings? Fortunately classroom a short dash to loos. However "I have the worst squits in the world, stay away" works to every kid I teach.
However - off to work - who else will teach the darlings?
Someone else. If you've got the rampant trots you shouldn't be going to work until 48h after symptoms resolve. They will find cover.
For **** sake don't go in to work.
You pass it to tbe kids you pass it to the parents they pass it to their colleagues.
I spent three days alternating between spewing and shitting the other week because people don't consider their actions.
I thought advice was wait 5 or 7 days before seeing a GP?
Could have been the swim, you might have had the bug before you started, who knows !
It's not a weak immune system; you have simply caught a bug from dodgy food or water or poor personal hygiene. Don't suffer and spread the bug around, go and see your GP and ask for a course of Rifaximin, which is a miraculously good drug for intestinal bugs, with few side-effects.
(Just back from 2 weeks in Africa and had to use my supply after a South African Airways meal gave me a nice little souvenir.)
If you weren't at the front, you might have spent most of the swim drinking someone else's piss!
urine is sterile though, no?
Do not go to school and pass it on to pupils and colleagues. That is selfish.
Most likely you have picked something up from the water; c diff, thm, Cryptospuridium (sp?).
Best get yourself to a gp and get checked out. The runs for that long is neither big nor clever. Also I wouldn't be spreading your bugs around a school.
Or it could be cat aids.
I know 8 people who did Blenheim and they are all ok - but they might have kept their mouths shut 🙂
Most likely the water. Wait it out and try to keep hydrated
Always used to find that 'nothing but water' for 24hrs sorted mine out after catching stuff from kayaking in polluted rivers. I think the theory was you starved the bad bugs and they died.
FFS why suffer? Get thee to a doctor and get the Rifaximin.
Kerri ann payne use to advocate drinking a can of coke to kill all the nasties after a swim. Depends if you have any other symptoms. If so head off to the docs. As always seek professional advice if you are unsure 🙂
Please dont spread it here , I've got enough on my plate at the moment !
Great! - costs the NHS about 50 quid every time somebody gets the splats for nearly 3 days ?It's not a weak immune system; you have simply caught a bug from dodgy food or water or poor personal hygiene. Don't suffer and spread the bug around, go and see your GP and ask for a course of Rifaximin, which is a miraculously good drug for intestinal bugs, with few side-effects.
No concerns here about antibiotic overuse, no sir !
Sure, go to your GP but unless there's something interesting about your diarrhoea (blood, pus, lots of pain, fever, you've something relevant in your medical history,... etc) I would very much hope that they don't dole out rifaximin, at least without investigating first (there are plenty of causes that it wouldn't touch anyway).
Drink lots, stay away from people, get well soon - or go see your GP if you don't
For a person who is needed at their place of work a quick course of a modern antibiotic, correctly used, is far more beneficial than having that person off work, or at work and potentially spreading the bug and possibly becoming chronically ill as a result of trying to "man it out". The cost and the tiny risk of antibiotic resistance far outweighs the potential cost of doing nothing.
Why anyone would want to swim in fresh water is beyond me, a potent mix of algae and disease ridden rats p!ss, yum yum yum!
Definately don't go to work. I messed up a race i'd been aiming at due to a selfish twit coming into work with a both-ends stomach bug. So stupid.
@globalti:
- and if it's viral diarrhoea ? Is the "tiny" risk* you mention still worth it ?
*How long ago was it that you'd have sworn by ciprofloxacin for your TRAVELLER'S DIARRHOEA ? (note, that's what rifaximin is licensed for, and Blenheim generally does not constitute travel)
Cipro's now largely useless for many regions, due to ... ?
Each to their own, but I'lld rather drink water for 24hrs rather than take antibiotics. I assume either way you are having a day off work if you are worried about spreading it about.
Obviously the Dr will ask for a stool specimen before making the decision on the appropriate drug.
Ciprofloxacin still works for me in Africa, it's just that it gives me a thumping headche and the newer drug works just as well but with no side-effect. When you're out "on the road" you can't spend several days sitting around in hotels waiting to get better and these drugs are the appropriate solution in the majority of cases.
Please dont spread it here , I've got enough on my plate at the moment !
I'd go to the bathroom if I were you... but at least you're not sh*tting on a slate or a chopping board
Should GPs do cultures for everybody with two and a half days of diarrhoea, then ?Obviously the Dr will ask for a stool specimen before making the decision on the appropriate drug.
Is this as well as giving them the drug, or are we waiting 2 days for the cultures ?
Regardless, that's a lot of processing for many many trivial conditions, just to catch the odd significant one
I think you're conflating traveller's diarrhoea and home-based gyppy tummy - for TD, there's fairly good evidence of causative organims likely being bacterial (as well as potentially a lack of local medical support if it deteriorates) and depending where you are they can predict the drug to use (cipro now not recommended for SE Asia in particular). All that means that using an antibiotic makes sense if it lasts more than about a day
If the world's economy can stand the loss, I'd prefer folk in the UK with a poorly gut to not receive antibiotics quite so fast
(incidentally do you carry a backup for if/when rifaximin's not "enough" - invasive organisms etc ?)
I've got enough on my plate at the moment !
Patient 1: Did you hear, they've brought in 3 new cases of dysentery this morning ?
Pt 2: Fair enough, I'll try anything once and I [i]am[/i] getting sick of lucozade
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Thanks for the advice, settling down, lost 6 lbs but eating and less nervous now. Bodies evacuate for a reason, as Adina Menzel sang " let it go" ride it out, it should stop. Been a 3 hours now and feel ok.
3 days of runs? That's not a triathlon. You should be swimming and cycling for two of them.
In my experience diarrhoea passes quite quickly.
(Try the veal etc.)
That triple ironman link is nuts. All that and then to end up in hospital.
Feel better soon OP.
Just out of hospital after a few hours on a drip and intravenous paracetamol. All blood tracers indicate a bacterial infection. Antibiotics started. Just bad luck I guess. My headache was unreal. Got a painkiller regime and told to go back if still not better next week.
NHS is amazing.
Ambulance, xray, several ecg's, complete blood spectrum taken, liver and kidneys all A1, got a funny heart trace, something to do with one side ( body) much stronger than other, but not unusual.
Infection is clear, heartbeat at 77, normally 45 and temp raised.
No wonder cyclists are tempted to swop bloods, feel amazingly better after the drip.