I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I"m gonna try... Sorry it's so long...
Mid June, my husband, kids and I went on vacation to the ocean. The first day, my husband woke up with bad diarrhea, felt so sick like he could throw up but never did. Immodium helped to stop it, but he still felt sick all day, and the nausea just kept getting worse. I thought maybe he was dehydrated, so we ended up in the ER and they gave him 2 bags of fluid and sent him home with some nausea medicine. We didn't know the root, but no one else got it, and he hadn't been around anyone sick or anything, so we narrowed it down to probably food poisoning from this fish sandwich he had the night before. Weird thing was the whole time he was sick that day, he still drank lots of fluids and even ate and held everything down, just crackers and toast and whatnot though.
Well, he'd been doing fine, and then this morning woke up saying he didn't feel good again, then it started, he had dirrhea again, and started feeling nauseas, he immidiately took immodium and it seemed to stop it, and he felt hungry enough to eat some toast with PB on it... and even drank a little coffee. He said this time it feels more in his bowels although he does feel nauseas. He went and napped for about 2 hours and still feels bad, but he isn't having anymore diarrhea, so it seems almost like the same thing from before. He resorted to taking another zofran to help the nausea. But I'm just at a loss. He's a teacher so he's off for the summer, he's been home all week, and no one has been sick, so it's apparent that it shouldn't be a contagious virus.. and the fact that it's the 2nd time he's had it like this.. He's just feeling terrible.
I told him he may want to see a dr.. and see if he might have some sort of problem with his digestive track, maybe an ulcer?? He feels a little nauseas a lot... not to this degree though. We will probably call the dr. on Monday.. but I'm just curious what everyone else thinks? Any ideas or experience with anything like this? Could it be something as simple as he drinks too much coffee or his diet? Or maybe something more serious? I really hate for him to be so miserable all day.. and hope we don't end up in the ER again!! I've been making him drink lots of fluids. It sucks when it interferes with your vacation, and today we had plans to take the boys out.. I feel bad for him. What do you all think? I can't imagine it's a bug, since it has happened twice in a month with him not going anywhere and no one being sick around us... it's so weird.
He did say his cousin got this way with appendicitis where he would feel bad for a day, the dr's couldn't find anything .. it woud go away, then come back again.. I don't know what to think. I'm at a loss and don't know how to help him. I don't know if this could be.
And I also just remembered he showed me a bad bug bite on his leg, he always reacts kinda badly to bug bites like mosquitos, but a little corisone cream usually does the trick, but it's been pretty itchy, it's not really getting worse, but not gone yet.. so we wondered if this could cause diarrhea and nausea.. so maybe this could be different than the last time?
Another thing brought to my attention, is could he have IBS, and this is just a severe IBS attack? I don't know how serious they get or make you feel. It's just crazy.. we aren't sure what is going on.
Any thoughts would be great!! Thanks so much!! sorry it's so long again!
Mid June, my husband, kids and I went on vacation to the ocean. The first day, my husband woke up with bad diarrhea, felt so sick like he could throw up but never did. Immodium helped to stop it, but he still felt sick all day, and the nausea just kept getting worse. I thought maybe he was dehydrated, so we ended up in the ER and they gave him 2 bags of fluid and sent him home with some nausea medicine. We didn't know the root, but no one else got it, and he hadn't been around anyone sick or anything, so we narrowed it down to probably food poisoning from this fish sandwich he had the night before. Weird thing was the whole time he was sick that day, he still drank lots of fluids and even ate and held everything down, just crackers and toast and whatnot though.
Well, he'd been doing fine, and then this morning woke up saying he didn't feel good again, then it started, he had dirrhea again, and started feeling nauseas, he immidiately took immodium and it seemed to stop it, and he felt hungry enough to eat some toast with PB on it... and even drank a little coffee. He said this time it feels more in his bowels although he does feel nauseas. He went and napped for about 2 hours and still feels bad, but he isn't having anymore diarrhea, so it seems almost like the same thing from before. He resorted to taking another zofran to help the nausea. But I'm just at a loss. He's a teacher so he's off for the summer, he's been home all week, and no one has been sick, so it's apparent that it shouldn't be a contagious virus.. and the fact that it's the 2nd time he's had it like this.. He's just feeling terrible.
I told him he may want to see a dr.. and see if he might have some sort of problem with his digestive track, maybe an ulcer?? He feels a little nauseas a lot... not to this degree though. We will probably call the dr. on Monday.. but I'm just curious what everyone else thinks? Any ideas or experience with anything like this? Could it be something as simple as he drinks too much coffee or his diet? Or maybe something more serious? I really hate for him to be so miserable all day.. and hope we don't end up in the ER again!! I've been making him drink lots of fluids. It sucks when it interferes with your vacation, and today we had plans to take the boys out.. I feel bad for him. What do you all think? I can't imagine it's a bug, since it has happened twice in a month with him not going anywhere and no one being sick around us... it's so weird.
He did say his cousin got this way with appendicitis where he would feel bad for a day, the dr's couldn't find anything .. it woud go away, then come back again.. I don't know what to think. I'm at a loss and don't know how to help him. I don't know if this could be.
And I also just remembered he showed me a bad bug bite on his leg, he always reacts kinda badly to bug bites like mosquitos, but a little corisone cream usually does the trick, but it's been pretty itchy, it's not really getting worse, but not gone yet.. so we wondered if this could cause diarrhea and nausea.. so maybe this could be different than the last time?
Another thing brought to my attention, is could he have IBS, and this is just a severe IBS attack? I don't know how serious they get or make you feel. It's just crazy.. we aren't sure what is going on.
Any thoughts would be great!! Thanks so much!! sorry it's so long again!