A week ago I got a bad case of food poisoning while travelling in Greece - I'm still in Greece BTW. It's been a week and the symptoms aren't going away - nausea, diarrhea, constant feeling of fullness, low energy, no appetite.
I've been to to the hospital twice (they're still analyzing my stool sample for parasites), but so far they've only given me Rifaximin.
I can eat a maximum of 2 meals per day before I get completely nauseous. Also, around 3 days ago I woke up at around 2 am with my butt really itchy. I went back to sleep and woke up 2 hours later to find that I had completely shitted myself during my sleep - it was diarrhea. I had non-stop diarrhea for another half-hour after that, and since then I've had a bout of diarrhea almost every 1-2 hours.
I'm taking around 5g of charcoal per day and eating nothing but soups and bread sticks (made with organic emmer flour, natch) and some dark chocolate and some nuts here and there as snacks, but it's not stopping the diarrhea. I was also given S. Boulardi and told to take 250mg in the morning and 250mg at night, but it's not stopping the diarrhea at all. In fact, my little night-time accident happened after I started the rifaximin and S. Boulardi.
I'm drinking coffee with a splash of non-dairy milk (usually almond or oat), but maybe I should switch to black tea as that has more of a constipating effect.
I'm drinking coconut water, and supplementing magnesium and zinc to keep my electrolytes up, but it's really just a temporary band-aid solution.
As long as I don't eat anything I'm fine, but I've really, really, severely lost a lot of weight during this week.
It looks like I might have a parasite or something and I'm not sure if it will come up in the stool sample.
@Amazoniac @TheBeard @anyone else who has dealt with something similar - what should I do?
I've been to to the hospital twice (they're still analyzing my stool sample for parasites), but so far they've only given me Rifaximin.
I can eat a maximum of 2 meals per day before I get completely nauseous. Also, around 3 days ago I woke up at around 2 am with my butt really itchy. I went back to sleep and woke up 2 hours later to find that I had completely shitted myself during my sleep - it was diarrhea. I had non-stop diarrhea for another half-hour after that, and since then I've had a bout of diarrhea almost every 1-2 hours.
I'm taking around 5g of charcoal per day and eating nothing but soups and bread sticks (made with organic emmer flour, natch) and some dark chocolate and some nuts here and there as snacks, but it's not stopping the diarrhea. I was also given S. Boulardi and told to take 250mg in the morning and 250mg at night, but it's not stopping the diarrhea at all. In fact, my little night-time accident happened after I started the rifaximin and S. Boulardi.
I'm drinking coffee with a splash of non-dairy milk (usually almond or oat), but maybe I should switch to black tea as that has more of a constipating effect.
I'm drinking coconut water, and supplementing magnesium and zinc to keep my electrolytes up, but it's really just a temporary band-aid solution.
As long as I don't eat anything I'm fine, but I've really, really, severely lost a lot of weight during this week.
It looks like I might have a parasite or something and I'm not sure if it will come up in the stool sample.
@Amazoniac @TheBeard @anyone else who has dealt with something similar - what should I do?