What on earth is wrong with me?

How are you today,Phoenix ?
Hopefully some improvement?

I’ve been checking the thread for an update. Weren’t the test results due today Phoenix? Hope the bug was identified and you’re feeling a little better.

phoenix I hope you are ok

Yes do update us Phoenix, I hope you have recovered

Morning Phoenix how are you today?

Better we hope? x

Hello all, and thanks for the good wishes.

Apparently, test results still not in, and I got the impression that they would only be in touch if they found something earth shattering!

Better than I was, fewer "visits" but still with very little warning, so not venturing anywhere just yet.

Glad to see you posting, phoenix!

News! Doctor just phoned, the sample tested positive for Campylobacter.

Where on earth did I get it from? Mr P and I had exactly the same meals each evening and he's fine.

Good to hear the medics know and can deal accordingly. Did they offer anything new?

Whenever I get a sickness/diarrhoea bug, OH is always unaffected. I’ve decided it must be one of my susceptibilities.

Hope you continue to improve.

Maybe from the restaurant kitchen - when they were dishing up/handling plates etc with various people working there - one employee with unwashed hands touched your plate only? Or your food touched some uncooked poultry, during prep.

If only these horrible germs could be seen. I think you can still be infectious for a while after symptoms disappear, so be careful for a few weeks. (We had some kittens with it, once!)

Hopefully it will be totally gone in another few days.

It usually needs antibiotics to clear it, hope that they prescribe some and you begin to feel better soon.

Afterwards starting a course of prebiotics could be helpful

Hope you begin to feel better soon phoenix

Not nice news, phoenix, but not completely 'earth-shattering', since it's a diagnosis and hopefully treatment will be forthcoming. I hope that the public health people will be able to track down the source of the infection. All the best to you, phoenix for your return to good health.

Gosh at least you know what it is. Apparently it comes from under cooked chicken or unpasteurised milk.
I hope you feel better soon.

No further treatment offered, Callistemon well, at least none mentioned during the call.

Seacliff what restaurant? We haven't eaten out in yonks!

Sorry Phoenix, didn't read the post properly.. It's a mystery, very annoying not to know where it came from.

Hopefully you are on "recovery road" Phoenix rest and take care

Maybe worth a call to your doc to find out if there’s any treatment necessary? When my OH had it, he was prescribed antibiotics ...... just a thought . Get well soon and keep up the fluids !

I never had anything for my campylobacter. It took its course and a nasty one at that. A public health official came to the house and grilled me on where I'd been eating out and also where I bought my groceries from. Turned out to have been a piece of undercooked chicken at an Indian restaurant when out with work colleagues.
DH got salmonella once which was much worse. He'd got it from chicken vols au vents at a local hotel function.
I don't think public health has the staff to track down these bugs in the way they used to. ?
Hope you feel much better soon Phoenix

At least you know what it is now! When my Dh had it, he was given antibiotics. Like you, we had no idea where it came from. He hadn’t eaten anything different from the rest of us yet no one else was ill.

I hope you’ll start feeling brighter ASAP.

Campylobacter is dreadful, dh lost stack loads of weight and felt really poorly for a long time so take it easy and be patient. It’s reportable so hopefully they may find out source it but as others have said we had eaten the same.
Hope you feel. better soon.

? phoenix ? glad they’ve found out what’s wrong ?. Hope this means you will be on the mend soon ? I was going to send you some virtual grapes ? but decided some ????? and some Savlon for your bot would probably be better. ? get well soon ?

Thank you all, your messages are really apprecited!

I can recommend shea butter toilet roll, and I also have some of those moist tissue wipe things, just need to make sure I don't muddle them up with the antibacterial wipes I have been using on the taps and toilet handle!

Apparently there is a reluctance to prescribe anti biotics, but I do have anti spasmodics to take 4 times a day, which should help.

Lower "visit" count today, and only 1 last night, so hopefully on the right track!

Sounds like progress Phoenix ☺️

Good to hear phoenix