BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 09 Jan 14 - 01:47 PM

Everyone has "a lot of guts" inside, and even minor upsets can cause unwanted symptoms. This provides an opportunity for marketers to sell an immense variety of "cures," most of which are non-prescription (OTC) medications and the majority of which are poorly documented as to proper use and possible side effects.

A complicating consideration in treatment of any bowel upset is that some fairly trivial digestive problems can produce symptoms that mimic very serious problems elsewhere. This often makes it necessary to perform rather invasive testing to be certain that nothing serious actually is involved (the usual result - but the tests are necessary to be sure).

My own experience forces me to conclude that one of the very commonly recommended medications for "gastric problems" nearly KILLED ME - - - TWICE. The explanation would be lengthy, but I think I have it pretty well sorted out now.

[Incidentally, a quick look for Loperamide, since I was unfamiliar ith it, warns that it should not be taken while using the same drug that I think caused my problems. The manufacturer of the drug (Prilosec OTC/Omeprazole) does NOT include that warning in prescribing information, so it might be advisable to ask your own doc about it since Prilosec is widely and aggressively advertised and (IMO) improperly prescribed by many doctors in my area.]

John

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: eddie1
Date: 09 Jan 14 - 04:59 AM

Can I say "Thanks" to you John and all the other posters who treated the original post with the concern it deserved. So many posts represent the kind of sniggering you get from 6 year-olds. Believe me, it's not at all funny when it happens to you. This condition has reduced me to tears on numerous occasions. My GP sent me for a scan to rule out bowel cancer and the result was, thank God, negative. Tried various antibiotics with no success and now I use Loperamide when away from home as a way of ensuring I don't get caught out.

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 09 Jan 14 - 01:04 AM

Occasional occurences are fairly normal.

Frequent or continuous problems may be an indication of an underlying condition that would benefit from medical advice/treatment.

A "first occurence" of such event, of unusual proportions, could be the portent of

        SOMETHING BIG to come later.

BEWARE.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Charmion
Date: 08 Jan 14 - 04:11 PM

But you buy yer Bud at the provincial boozeteria, no?

Canadian by assumption, if not by absorption.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jan 14 - 01:03 PM

Actually, Charmion, they are Budweiser.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Jan 14 - 03:45 PM

Recce, gnu. Even your farts are Canadian.

And yes, they are.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jan 14 - 07:37 PM

Ya know them there barely audible and odorless farts wee little farts? Are they scout farts on recon?

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 Jan 14 - 08:09 AM

Bad Thread Drift Alert:- They can be arrogant can't they? I had terrible wrist pain, drove me mad. Waited six months for a referral (three cancellations of their clinics, then long wait for a scan) So-called 'specialist' said it would need an operation to free the tendon. He was the most pompous arrogant pig I've ever met. Got fed up waiting and a friend recommended Ibuprofen gel. In two days was cured. Since then, no probs at all. Wrote to explain why I no longer wanted his op. He didn't even reply. If only they'd admit they don't know everything and showed a bit of humility, we could accept that. My sis is a hospital doctor, and she's an arrogant little fart too!
Back to the original thread. My husband is going out to Ivory Coast in August to see his mum and dad. I'll be packing a plastic container for him, with as many medications I can get together for re-hydration, disinfection, diarhhoea tablets, anti-malarial pills etc etc. Perhaps I should also get him some incontinence pads??

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 05:50 PM

Charmion... no. There are at least six apologies I am owed but the worst was what happened when Beer was here for a visit00. Beer saw me go chipmunk with a parotid stone. I explained to doc that I pushed the stone forward about two inches from under the ear to mid cheek until it got stuck in the duct. "No." "That's what happened." "No." and he shook his head. I told my story again and he became agitated and said it was impossible. Six weeks later, MRI. One week later, he says, "Come into the other room. I have something to show you... look, it's a stone." I said, backhanding him on the shoulder, "THAT'S what I fucking told you!" Talk about a nurse make tracks! What an arrogant fuck.

Sorry for the thread drift. Back to the regular shit eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 02:35 PM

Yeah. I have a scar on my foot from another of those "once it was rather serious" incidents. Mine involved an innovative suture technique that was supposed to spare me a visit to the doc's office to have the stitches out, but instead landed me in hospital for a week with a gi-normous wound infection. Gotta love that isolation experience. Did you ever get an apology, gnu? I sure didn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 02:22 PM

BTW, the 5 months on the HD ABs was due to the incompetence of an ENT doc. After a prescription was almost gone, his office told me to get one from my GP. My GP spoke poor English and had only trained and worked in La Belle Province and Louisiana. When he saw what it was and the 3 times daily triple dosage, he frightened me. He said, "Non non non... this will kill ahhhh... how do you say en Anglais, cheval?" I took to laughing. He said, "Non non non... I treated a girl in US for a year from this. She almost died and she had much smaller than this." Yup, kinda put me off my laughter.

Of course, a war began between the ENT and my GP. The ENT was right about the ABs but got everything else wrong. Once, it was rather serious.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 02:12 PM

In the sleepy small town where my dear Mum lived long ago, there also lived a puckish young man, Mugre,who was known for his practical jokes. One fine evening, he took his girlfriend to the cinema. Arriving there, however,he was dismayed to see a number of persons crowded in front of the small window where tickets were sold. Unwilling to waste time in the crowd of persons trying to reach the window, he resourcefully decided to break up the crowd by the simplest, as he thought, of methods. He asked his girlfriend to stand on the sidelines and confidently made his way into the crowd. Then he farted with all his might!Unfortunately, however,the use of force proved excessive. What was meant to be no more than a fart,turned out to be a bowel movement. Instead of making his move to the ticket window, Mugre had to bolt to the sea, which (luckily) was only a few blocks away.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 01:36 PM

LOL Guest! Here in Norfolk UK we too have a high proportion of oldies. I wonder if sales of incontinence pads are booming? (Cue old graffiti joke:- poster on wall of ferry terminal, 'Dover for the Continent' , under which a wag had written 'Harwich for the Incontinent'.)

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 12:37 PM

.. which reminds me, due to it's disproportionate aging population,
Japan is reporting an economic boom in supermarket sales of adult diapers.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 12:18 PM

I was once entertained by tales told by a traveller recently home from India,
regarding long car journeys where the driver needed to grimly sit
on several layers of highly absorbent towels.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 03 Jan 14 - 04:59 PM

Yoghurt would be completely ineffective against giardia, which is a delightful little parasitic beastie that makes new baby beasties every 3 days in your intestines. The result is yellow frothy diarrhoea, dreadful pain, fever and rapid loss of weight. Antibiotics kill it (you hope) but it can take more than one course. The yoghurt is for afterwards, to restore good bacteria so that normal digestion can continue. My husband has had dysentery, and although he's black he turned as pale as a ghost before it was dealt with. There really are some horrid things out there, just waiting to move in to your cosy warm tum! The worst thing about the giardia was that I had to sit on a plane from Ghana to Heathrow for several hours, trying in vain not to explode before I reached the loo.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jan 14 - 04:45 PM

Yes, while I was in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, back in the 1960s, I contracted amebic dysentery; you need more than yogurt to knock that one out. Still, it got me a medical deferment from being drafted out of the Peace Corps and into the Army. It wasn't all bad.

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: PHJim
Date: 03 Jan 14 - 02:14 PM

Vance Gilbert sings:

You ask an old man's advice Son,
Here's a reasonable place to start.
Never pass a bathroom chance
And never trust a fart.
Never look for Friday's kiss
With Thursday's broken heart.
Pay attention Son; It's all about love.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Jan 14 - 11:41 AM

I have yoghurt every day. Since the last penicillin episode. Mind you I ask for moxicillin now, which is very rarely needed, most of my teeth have died already!.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 14 - 06:58 AM

Eliza... pro-biotic yoghurt is all I use after being on HD antibiotics for 5 months one time.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,OldNicKilby
Date: 03 Jan 14 - 06:05 AM

Happiness is a dry fart

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Charmion
Date: 02 Jan 14 - 06:05 PM

Oh, geez; yet another good reason to stay home and cook your own meals. Thoroughly.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 02 Jan 14 - 01:33 PM

Excellent advice, Charley. Antibiotics play havoc by killing all the 'good' natural digesting bugs in the gut. I was advised to take live yoghurt after two courses of very, very strong antibiotics to get rid of the giardia. If anyone goes abroad to Africa, India or places with dodgy hygiene/toilet facilities, any subsequent diarrhoea should be tested by the medical lab, as there is a long list of nasties, from parasites to dozens of tropical bacteria that might be having a lovely time in your tum!

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jan 14 - 10:09 AM

For anyone with a "chronic" diarrhea problem, you may want to read this.

My mother was having bi-weekly episodes for 5 years or so, with the frequency increasing to weekly in 2012. She's in her 90s and when things let loose it was no fun for her or anyone within range. Her doctors tried all kinds of medications and they were no help. Now my mother has been on antibiotics for years because of bladder infections. A family friend suggested she try eating a couple of helpings of live culture yogurt; she recommended a Greek brand and mother eats hers with maple syrup. Mother has not had a major episode of diarrhea in the last 9 months. Evidently the antibiotics were interring adversely with her digestive system. Mother's very pleased, and her doctor was quite pleased as well to learn of the success of this alternative treatment.

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jan 14 - 09:19 AM

"ridin shotgun on the porcelain pony."
riding shitgun more like.

Reminds me of the Cosher Bayley Welsh song - the vers goes:

Cosher Bayley's cousin Dia - er
He tried to join the Choir
Choir Master said "No Fear!
We will have no Dia -er - here"

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 10:38 PM

"Houston, we have lift-off!"

Clicky!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 10:11 PM

Oh my. I can't believe I am posting this but olddude seems to make it okay... ridin shotgun on the porcelain pony.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 07:02 PM

my brother and I call them rocket shits

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 05:33 PM

Credit where credit is due. Goofy came up with a good one this time!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 04:29 PM

"I've accidentally swallowed some Scrabble tiles. My next crap could spell disaster."

Hahahahahaaaa! I have stayed away from this thread but I am glad I was bored enough to read it. Hahahahahhaaaaaaa!

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 02:36 PM

Back in the heyday of the hippie movement, people used to tell each other to "stay loose!"

But I don't think this is quite what they meant. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: mayomick
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 01:56 PM

dire rear, surely ?

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 12:44 PM

I believe 'rhoea' is related to a Greek word meaning 'flowing'. A bit graphic!

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 10:48 AM

No matter how you spell it, it is just the shits when you have it...................


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 09:52 AM

I thought this was going to be another political thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 06:00 PM

"Interesting the spelling of Diarrhoea...... obviously different in the US but the same eh? "

".. the spelling is creeping into British health publications."

Since I've been on Mudcat I've noticed the differences, and the general difference seems to be that American spelling tends to be more like the pronunciation. 'Diarrhoea' just looks hard to say... and 'centre' looks like 'sen-tray'. I'm sure that habit will make the sounds conform and the words look fine, but I suspect that international usage is gradually trending toward the least complex.. and shorter.. spelling. Honor instead of honour....etc.


(isn't the original spelling like this: diarœa ... with that connected-letter symbol that no one uses much?)

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: JennieG
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 04:36 PM

I would like to draw your attention to this post from a few years back -

McArthur's Fart

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 08:00 AM

is that what they call a "report"

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 06:58 AM

Hiya,

I agree w/ BC; I don't trust one *now* – I dread to think what I'll be like when i'm old. It's always like that – not just that either. I'd describe it as "tight but loose" – loose cos I never EVER feel "done", tight cos it never feels as if I've got it all out. It's horrible.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 01:31 AM

Just noticed that Georgiansilver.

Two things spring to mind. I have always had a mental block with such words and my iPad autocorrect seems to have gone all American on me. (I don't proof read this stuff, perhaps I should. ) it didn't look right but I for one went with the flow.

Secondly, perhaps for similar reasons, the spelling is creeping into British health publications.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 06:31 PM

Interesting the spelling of Diarrhoea...... obviously different in the US but the same eh? :) :)

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 05:20 PM

It's been a problem in the BS threads for a long time....

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 04:22 PM

Don t eat corn for the next few days.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 03:58 PM

I've accidentally swallowed some Scrabble tiles. My next crap could spell disaster.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 03:29 PM

Seriously, GUEST, I do hope it's nothing nasty that you've picked up? I caught giardia in Ghana four years ago, and my goodness, the Taliban might have been interested in my explosive potential. If your problem continues, do go and see the doc and get it investigated.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 12:24 PM

What is the strongest force in the universe?....


...A fart............even Superman can't hold one.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 11:04 AM

Billy Connelly always makes me smile when he says, "When you get old, never trust a fart!"

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 10:59 AM

Diarrhea is just the shits, man.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 10:55 AM

It could be that your body was giving you hints, but you weren't paying attention. Think about it, anyhow.

I find that organic food can often be blamed for this. Last time it was 'natural, wild' blueberries. We have a tradition of having blueberry pancakes on Sunday morning. When I had diarrhea three Sundays in a a row about 7 pm, I threw away the blueberries and replaced them with bad, unnatural blueberries from the my local supermarket. No more diarrhea.

Did you take some Peptobismol? It really works.

Subject: RE: BS: Sudden explosive diarrhea
From: Greg F.
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 09:41 AM

I thought this was going to be a Songwronger thread....

What makes you think is isn't?