Husband ill with nausea and diarrhoea for 4 weeks

We are just starting to feel better after more than 3 weeks ill, different symptoms, but sometimes these things drag on.

You are seeing the doctor tomorrow so can discuss but you can take comfort that the bloods etc came back ok. Make sure he is drinking enough to compensate for the loss of fluids.
Hope he feels better soon.

I had similar symptoms for about 2 weeks - nausea and severe dysentery (with blood) - turned out to be a bad case of food poisoning ..

The next test should be a colonoscopy.
Is your husband taking electrolytes ?
If you’re unable to get electrolytes the water from boiled rice will help.

When my H had the same symptoms he was sent for tests which just now I can’t remember, it wasn’t a colonoscopy but he had to take the same clearing meds.
He was diagnosed with Diverticulitis which occasionally reared its head all the rest of his life.

Yes he’s taking electrolytes. This upset has also affected his INR readings (he is on warfarin for life after two DVTs many years ago). They should be in the region of 2.4 - 2.7 but have jumped to 7.3. He’s not taking his warfarin for a few days until the readings settle and is eating plenty of green vegetables as advised by his GP. Yes, we feel a colonoscopy is necessary.

Hasn't Norovirus been going round recently? That can be very nasty.

I hope your GP can find the cause of these symptoms and offer some interim treatment while arranging for various tests to be done.

Is he by any chance taking Omezaprazole or Emazoprazole for stomach acid/regurgitation pain. Long term use can cause these type of problems and maybe coukd missed as a cause

Has he had a course of antibiotics?

If so these can cause awful problems in the gut.

Too much fibre will exacerbate the symptoms the FOD diet is probably best until a diagnosis.

Thank you for your concern. He isn't taking anything for stomach acid and hasn't recently taken antibiotics. I don't know, but I would have thought Norovirus would show up in his stool sample? I'll have to Google.

PLEASE do NOT google. I really do think that so-called Dr Google should be totally banned. Often gives completely misinformation, nearly always causes unnecessary alarm and worries . Talk to your GP,

Poor man .
I wonder if it is the Norovrus though four weeks is a long time to have it .
Is your husband immuno suppressed ?
Could he have developed a sudden food intolerance ?
As we age some of us lack the enzymes to cope with lactose and gluten .
Could he have developed chronic IBS or Crohns or diverticulitis?
Can you keep a food diary to see if there's a pattern ?
Only GP can diagnose the problem and he may need tests in hospital.

I hope that he gets better soon .

If it started with gastroenteritis it could be that his gut is damaged, I had a friend who had similar symptoms who had become dairy intolerant due to the gastroenteritis. She gave dairy up for a few weeks and took probiotics which resolved it.

crazyH

I had similar symptoms for about 2 weeks - nausea and severe dysentery (with blood) - turned out to be a bad case of food poisoning ..

I had something a bit similar.

Sometime later, I was being tested for something else, and a locum docotr[well not a usual doctor from the surgery] decided to give me a whole gammut of tests.

It actually discovered an unusual something[i will cm you and anyone else who wants to know]symptom.
Government notifiable as it happens.

My point being, it would not have been discovered if a. i had something else wrong with me[probably unrelated to what was found, and b. it was different tests, including a more wide ranging stool test.

I had similar symptoms at the end of November. I didn't suffer nausea but I had diarrhoea, it was so bad I couldn't leave the house. I wondered about food poisoning as the diarrhoea began while we were staying in a hotel in Morecambe.
I saw my GP and sent stool samples to the surgery and the bowel screening people. All results came back normal.
It settled down after about four weeks and now I'm back to my usual self.

I just saw this and really hope he's managed to turn a corner by now. Four weeks of that is exhausting and leaves the system completely y depleted.

To help the gut settle down and stop the irritation, I used ENTEROSGEL to pull out any leftover toxins that keep the cycle going. Keeping meals very small and bland for a while helps too.