Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Need help with current infection AND how do you know you're answered?

Linz, thanks for posting. I just now found it! Little slow on figuring all of this out! ;o

I'll check on lab results tomorrow for stool samples last week. If it wasn't right (didn't have much to give then) I have the three vials all fixed in case they need more. I have also read a lot, and this "could" be a Rotovirus (or close in spelling) which takes hydrating. Should end in 7 days, but I'm beyond that. Once into a bout of diarrhea I can stay there for a very long time. It's like my gut doesn't know how to pop out of it.

I can no longer take antibiotics by mouth. I'm sick within 24 hours to the point of being dehydrated due to lots of diarrhea, and then I'm back into that "loop." Guess we'll have to use infusion (i.e., fanny pack with antibiotic into vein using Visiting Nurses). IF this is the infection that comes from antibiotics they'd have to use Flagyl. I was on it by mouth and by the second day I was a mess. I had to stop to make it.

I'm drinking a lot of clear liquids and broths. I took antidiarrheals (very carefully) to no avail. Nothing helped. Imodium usually constipates me, but it went through like water. I just gave up on that. I sometimes add 1 tsp of the sodium-potassium (low salt) salt and 2 tsp sugar to a quart of water (sorta like Pedialyte). I haven't felt up to going to store as yet, and the person who was to go for me last week didn't get back to me. I'll find out tomorrow if she is okay.

I'll try the SF as soon as I can. It was adding to my problems so I stopped it and everything I couldn't see through (I know, we can see through the soluble fibers, but they needed "something" else to work in there I think, but what?). But I "test" with cooked rice now and then to see how I'm doing. So far it puts me back into a few episdoes of "D" and then I skip for a bit to try again a little later. It's puzzling. I've never found anyone like me who gets "stuck" in diarrhea after it once begins. I feel I'm in uncharted waters. My doctor will send me over to the gastroenterologist, but often these doctors don't really know what to do for people like us. I even read just last night in very current IBS helps online that one needs to really push insoluble fibers (starting slowly) to be comfy with IBS. I've worked on that, but I can only take in so much and I'm in trouble. I do have to have some. Finding the balance (once back out of this current mess) is my problem!

Thanks again!

Lindsay

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