Plagued with Sulfur Gas, Diarrhea and Vomiting... PLEASE HELP!!!
As embarassing as this has been, I'm going to disclose all the gory details in hopes of finding an answer....
About three months ago, I had what I thought was just a "bug" that completely immobilized me for a few days. It all started with becoming extremely bloated, and constantly burping and passing gas. Except it wasn't just ANY gas....it was RANCID!!! It tasted and smelled like rotten eggs, and the sulfuric excretions would send my fiancee running for the air freshener!
At first, I thought the Deviled Eggs I had eaten the night before were just wrecking havoc on my system. So I took some Gas-X and my Zantac prescription, hoping everything would quiet down. Then, a few hours later, the diarrhea kicked in. I'm just not talking about your ordinary, run-of-the mill runs....this was explosive, stinky and painful, and VERY frequent! The first few trips to the bathroom produced nothing but pure brown liquid, then the following trips produced yellowish, slimy, almost greasy floaters covered in foam. As if that wasn't bad enough, those same secretions from that end started coming up the other. I was sitting on the toilet with a trash can in my lap the entire night and most of the next day. I was MISERABLE!!!
It took me two days to be able to hold anything down or drink anything other than water, and almost two weeks to feel like my normal self. I brushed it off as a fluke....maybe the eggs were bad or I had developed an allergy to them. So for the next three months, I avoided eggs like the plague and thought the problem would never resurface. Until yesterday....
The same problems, in the same order, presented themselves to me again as I was busy fixing dinner yesterday evening. The bloating, the sulfur burps and gas, then the explosive diarrhea. I started feeling EXTREMELY nauseous last night around 11pm, but I think the battery of baking soda, TUMS and milk kept the bile from coming up completely. 30 hours later, the burps and the runs are still keeping me on my toes, and the nausea has kept me from eating anything. My doctor is blowing me off, saying I just have the stomach flu. I've had the stomach flu, and BELIEVE ME.....this isn't it!!!!
The thing that mystifies me is that I haven't eaten eggs in three months....since the last episode of this "Rotten Egg Disease". Has anyone else had this problem? Has anyone else gotten any real answers? Please help....I don't know if I can take another round of this!!
Re: Plagued with Sulfur Gas, Diarrhea and Vomiting... PLEASE HELP!!!
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Originally Posted by Suze78
As embarassing as this has been, I'm going to disclose all the gory details in hopes of finding an answer....
About three months ago, I had what I thought was just a "bug" that completely immobilized me for a few days. It all started with becoming extremely bloated, and constantly burping and passing gas. Except it wasn't just ANY gas....it was RANCID!!! It tasted and smelled like rotten eggs, and the sulfuric excretions would send my fiancee running for the air freshener!
At first, I thought the Deviled Eggs I had eaten the night before were just wrecking havoc on my system. So I took some Gas-X and my Zantac prescription, hoping everything would quiet down. Then, a few hours later, the diarrhea kicked in. I'm just not talking about your ordinary, run-of-the mill runs....this was explosive, stinky and painful, and VERY frequent! The first few trips to the bathroom produced nothing but pure brown liquid, then the following trips produced yellowish, slimy, almost greasy floaters covered in foam. As if that wasn't bad enough, those same secretions from that end started coming up the other. I was sitting on the toilet with a trash can in my lap the entire night and most of the next day. I was MISERABLE!!!
It took me two days to be able to hold anything down or drink anything other than water, and almost two weeks to feel like my normal self. I brushed it off as a fluke....maybe the eggs were bad or I had developed an allergy to them. So for the next three months, I avoided eggs like the plague and thought the problem would never resurface. Until yesterday....
The same problems, in the same order, presented themselves to me again as I was busy fixing dinner yesterday evening. The bloating, the sulfur burps and gas, then the explosive diarrhea. I started feeling EXTREMELY nauseous last night around 11pm, but I think the battery of baking soda, TUMS and milk kept the bile from coming up completely. 30 hours later, the burps and the runs are still keeping me on my toes, and the nausea has kept me from eating anything. My doctor is blowing me off, saying I just have the stomach flu. I've had the stomach flu, and BELIEVE ME.....this isn't it!!!!
The thing that mystifies me is that I haven't eaten eggs in three months....since the last episode of this "Rotten Egg Disease". Has anyone else had this problem? Has anyone else gotten any real answers? Please help....I don't know if I can take another round of this!!
Suze78-
You really need to have the stool analyzed. It sounds like you may have C. diff. Have you been on antibiotics recently? C. Diff is really foul smelling and has explosive diarrhea. I can't believe your doc is blowing this off. You need stool specimens checked for multiple bugs. If your doc blows this off, you may need to go to the ER to get stool samples done to see what is going on. If you continue to vomit and have diarrhea,your electrolytes will get out of balance, and you will become dehydrated. So, don't ignore it. Foul smelling stool is not normal. I work in Endoscopy...there are multiple things that could cause this, but I would start with stool samples first.
Re: Plagued with Sulfur Gas, Diarrhea and Vomiting... PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks for the info, roge35. I took your advice and had a few tests done, and it's not C-Diff or any type of parasite or an infection that the lab can come up with. My WBC is normal, and the doc's stumped. He's referred me to a specialist, but the problem's gone now....just like last time. Has anyone out there ever had this happen? I'd love to have some possible answers next time this nasty little problem comes back!!
Re: Plagued with Sulfur Gas, Diarrhea and Vomiting... PLEASE HELP!!!
hey there, I know where you`re coming from for sure. on christmas morning hubby drove me to the ER with severe nausea, diarrhea, severe bloating gas, and uh yes thank goodness for "GLADE"! well the Doc said I had an intestinal virus, gave me phergan & demerall for neausea & pain & slept til the cows came home. well they gone again! Just last Monday night another trip to the ER! same thing and lets not leave out the vomiting, just like you sitting on toilet and holding the trash can, another round of phenergan & demerall, but they did blood work, a good ole bag of IV fluids cause I was dehydrated, and hey a CT scan. That said I had a kidney stone in the right kidney, after doing all kinds of research on kidney stones that very well I think could be the culprit, My reg. Dr. said where there is 1 there is usually more, just what I needed, now I am scheduled for a kidney ultrasound this thursday. I said all that to say this, have your Dr. to run tests to check for kidney stones. Hey always a first time for everything (if you havent had them before) definately a first for me, today I felt a little nauseous but went away. Let us know what turns out. Tommorrow I am going to a new Dr. lets see what happens. But know you are not alone, I feel ya pain.
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