What on earth is wrong with me?

Poor you Phoenix you must be suffering and feeling washed out,when I was poorly like this in November I used Diaoralite and drank Bovril as it also has lots of salt to rehydrate you.
Hoping you feel better soon my friend.x

Unfortunately, your experience is something that I endure on a regular basis. It’s called I B S.
Have had it this morning, which is why I’m replying.
So far, six trips to the loo. Have had enough, so have now resorted to Imodium instants as I want to go out.

Probably not exactly same symptoms as yours Phoenix as I don’t feel cold, but yours is obviously a bug of some sort.
But very debilitating all the same,
Get well soon.

depends what you ate. x3 of us ate a paella and I got food poisioning but not them.........I ate the dodgy prawn!!
Fluids only for 24hours, introduce plain boiled rice next day, then add dry crackers and bovril / marmite (to get the salt). Steer clear of dairy for a few days - always worked a treat when I lived in Sri Lanka. If no better see GP

Firstly and most importantly, I am sorry you are feeling so wretched, I hope you’re soon on the mend.

Secondly the humour over typos in this post has really made me giggle (I hope it’s cheered you up too?) I loved the dysentery hoover (and the card who suggested you snap it up) and the thought of you taking advice from a ‘nude’...

Get well soon ?

Would've cheered you up though Phoenix.
Hope you're better soon.

Hello all, and thanks for the posts.

Bad night, so phoned NHS 111. Spoke to a nice chap, who arranged for a nurse to phone me back.

She is now getting a doctor to call me "sometime today".

Mr P will be off to get more paracetamol and dioraltye.

(Just checked this and the tablet in its wisdom has changed "nurse" to "nude", can't see what good that would have done!)

Gastric flu. The headache could be down to dehydration after your untimely evacuation. Keep fluid and electrolytes up as others have said..rest and warmth.

Hope you pick up soon.

Hope you are better soon, certainly sounds like the norovirus has found you

It sounds like a virus. I had this before Christmas. It came on so suddenly too. Mine wasn’t as violent as yours thank Heaven ? but I felt so ill and I started on a sugar free diet, drank loads of water and did lots of sleeping. It has taken ages to go and the nausea keeps returning but I am convinced you have the same but I guess if the diarrhoea continues you should see your GP. Hope you feel better soon x

Hope you are beginning to feel a bit more human? Poor you - sounds horrible. Stay in bed (unless you have to run to the loo that is!) till you feel better and keep hydrated.

Sounds like norovirus which I had a couple of weeks ago. Terrible diarrhoea for a day. Then a couple of days later terrible vomiting. That came so suddenly I had no time to get to the bathroom. Ugh! Took ages to clean up. The NHS website describes it as projectile vomiting. A perfect description. Drink lots of fluids. When you feel like eating, the BRAT diet - bananas rice stewed apple and toast. The NHS ask you not to go to the doctor's. There is nothing they can give you, and it spreads it to the doctor and everybody in the waiting room as it is very contagious. Disinfect door handles, light switches, taps, phones, TV remote controls, and other hard surfaces you have touched so you don't pass it on to the rest of the family. Google norovirus NHS. Only go to docs if it doesn't clear up after a little while. I hope you feel better soon, it is truly horrible, when it spreads around hospital wards and care homes it must be horrendous for sick, old people.

Thank goodness it happened getting out of the car and not in frozen aisle in Lidl ??

Hope you are feeling better. Keep washing your hands everyone. It is so easy to pick up and spread nasty germs on door handles and hand rails.

Do take oral rehydration - one version already mentioned is Dyoralite , but e.g. Boots do their own version. You are losing minerals your body needs and if you just drink lots of water you are diluting them further - even though you certainly need plenty of water. If you put'oral rehydration' into google there are various sites telling you how to make up the solution using things you will already have in your kitchen - you must get the proportions in the solution correct. It will help - but easier to buy it if you can.

It does rather sound like Norovirus, and it can still be even without vomiting, it effects different people in different ways and can be caught by touch on such things as Money, or handrails in public places, or even Air conditioning units in shops or on buses, Trains ect.
It is important to keep drinking water, but keep off foodstuffs that the bug could use to grow on in the digestive tract. It should clear up after 4 days, but can remain dormant on surfaces awaiting its next victim for several days, so good to clean down with antibac on surfaces to prevent contamination of others.

Oh you poor thing, that's awful. Get back to your bed with a plastic sheet and a bath towel. Diarrhoea is dreadful, and so embarrassing. Plenty of fluids, lopiramide and rest up. Dry toast or crackers love, and get well soon.

Just had to get of bed for another shower just as I was starting to drop off.

So back to shivering and feeling really cold again

phoenix my go to remedies for those symptoms are, Pepto-Bismal, wonderful stuff. Another two are flat IrnBru due to ginger content and flat coke..

Stay warm and cosy, keep your fluids up to ward off dehydration. Most of all, feel better soon ?

Hope you feel better soon x

It sounds like Norvirus, this is currently going through my whole household and somehow I have had it twice in 2 weeks. Mine started with a bit of indigestion and a terrible headache and the diarrhea came very suddenly. It has presented slightly differently in all of us. 2 children threw up and had runs, one just had a headache and a temp and that was it.. The only symptom we all had in common was the headache which was very awful x

I had something similar to Urmstongran just after Christmas. I suddenly felt really weird and lacking in energy. I was staying with DD3 so packed my bag and drove home 150 miles (I like to be unwell in my own bed!) had a bath and slept for12 hours. I couldn't eat but was starving. I felt nauseous, developed agonising griping pains (appendicitis, kidneys??) which worked their way southwards for the next few days culminating in a Phoenix style explosion on Day 6. next day I woke up fit as a fiddle, if a trifle weak and normal life was resumed. A lot of it about apparently

Thank you all for the posts!

Just had a couple of dry crackers and a few sips of Pepsi (stirred until it was flat) time will tell!

Sorry you are poorly Phoenix. Drs if no better in 48 hours.

Phoenix it wasn’t the liver was it by any chance?!
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Just sending hugs phoenix from song way away Get well soon.