Hi can anyone help or have shared the same experience. Over a week and half ago I started feeling pretty unwell. I started feeling nasious and waking the ought the night regularly with very watery diarrhea (almost enema like. My weight dropped from 86kg too 74kg in the space of two days. I've lost my appetite and became were dizzy and a bit delerious. A few days later I had sulphur burps and lost my appetite. I went to the doctors and he said it seemed like I had gastroenteritis and said the rapid weight loss was down to loosing water alone and the key to getting better was fluids. Following his advice I did so and within a day I had put the weight back on. I've now (a few days later) started feeling symptoms again and been up all night every hours with gas build up, sulphur burps and watery diahorrear. I've just weighed myself and I've gone back down in weight again! I had my jpouch surgery about 3/4 years ago and worried about this rapid weightless and what the possible cause could be?? Can anyone help?? Cheers everyone! Drew
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The weight loss itself is simply water, as your doctor said. The resulting dehydration can be dangerous. If you can't keep your hydration up you'll need intravenous fluids. If water alone won't keep you hydrated (and it sounds like it isn't doing the trick), you can drink an oral rehydration solution, like Pedialyte, or mix one up yourself (recipes in recent threads here or all over the internet). The little bit of sugar improves absorption, and the salts help restore what you've lost.
Are you taking anything to control the diarrhea? Loperamide (called Imodium in the US) works pretty well, depending on the cause of the diarrhea. Loperamide does not require a prescription in the US.
You probably need to see your doctor again to work out the cause. Since it got better and recurred, he might have a different opinion about what might be going on. He might check a stool sample for parasites (Giardia, etc.) and bacteria like salmonella, shigella, and C. diff. Have you traveled anywhere with suspect water lately? In my case, at least, pouchitis *doesn't* act like this - it doesn't hit quite so fast or quite so hard - but the recurrence is less common for an infection like salmonella.
Good luck, and stay hydrated!
Are you taking anything to control the diarrhea? Loperamide (called Imodium in the US) works pretty well, depending on the cause of the diarrhea. Loperamide does not require a prescription in the US.
You probably need to see your doctor again to work out the cause. Since it got better and recurred, he might have a different opinion about what might be going on. He might check a stool sample for parasites (Giardia, etc.) and bacteria like salmonella, shigella, and C. diff. Have you traveled anywhere with suspect water lately? In my case, at least, pouchitis *doesn't* act like this - it doesn't hit quite so fast or quite so hard - but the recurrence is less common for an infection like salmonella.
Good luck, and stay hydrated!
seems like they should admit you and get iv drip fluids going while they figure out what is causing this.
I was just in a similar situation however I lost so much fluids in 2 hours that my vision became affected, my limbs became tingly, and then I passed out. ended up in er, got admitted. whilst they were pumping in the fluids they were testing for anything and everything....cdiff, parasites, etc,,, then they even did an ileoscopr (as I have perm ileostomy now) to rule out crohns stuff.
after ruling everything out.. and pumping me with fluids for almost a week. They concluded it was just garden variety gastroenteritis. It just hit me harder than most because I have messed up guts!
so go to A&E
I was just in a similar situation however I lost so much fluids in 2 hours that my vision became affected, my limbs became tingly, and then I passed out. ended up in er, got admitted. whilst they were pumping in the fluids they were testing for anything and everything....cdiff, parasites, etc,,, then they even did an ileoscopr (as I have perm ileostomy now) to rule out crohns stuff.
after ruling everything out.. and pumping me with fluids for almost a week. They concluded it was just garden variety gastroenteritis. It just hit me harder than most because I have messed up guts!
so go to A&E