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Posted 4/29/2016 1:07 AM (GMT 0)
Not happy! I'm in remission.... well, was in remission. My coworker and I ate at a sushi restaurant a month ago and we both got violently ill afterwards. She got better, I did not.... Now having yellow liquid stools, gas, tenderness and bloating. I submitted a stool sample today. Waiting on results. But they almost never find anything in the stool samples! One time I was properly diagnosed with c diff and by then I was half dead. Feels like C diff. but salmonella is common in bad sushi. I will NEVER eat sushi again!!!! And it was a very expensive, reputable restaurant! Ughhhhhh! ok, end rant. Sorry.
Posted 4/29/2016 2:43 AM (GMT 0)
Ugh, no fun! I am guessing more the salmonella since you haven't had antibiotics recently (that you've said). When I caught salmonella from a student who had a reptile (true story), I ended up hospitalized for a week because I just thought I was in a Crohn's flare and was waiting for the prednisone to kick in! When I almost collapsed in the middle of teaching, the school nurse took my blood pressure and it was 62/40. I sucked up the rest of the day, saw my PCP who just sent me home, then ended up in the ER and was admitted. So I feel your pain!! Keep us posted!
Posted 4/29/2016 11:53 AM (GMT 0)
I've had Salmonella once and c.diff many times. I don't think you will be able to know what you have based on symptoms....you just need to wait for the stool cultures. It does seem like folks with normal immune systems bounce back and we get stuck for months...no fair! I hope you feel better soon
Posted 4/30/2016 1:25 AM (GMT 0)
Yeah I have no clue really. I'm hoping something treatable shows up on the test results. Will have to wait and see.

Scifgal2k if my bp was 62/40, I would've collapsed! If people only knew the things we have to endure at work.

I made it through work this week (luckily no accidents :D And have work conference on Monday to travel to. This is gonna be fun!!

And I need to change my Sig line...I ain't 30 no more ;)
Posted 5/2/2016 6:24 AM (GMT 0)
Take tumeric and or bee propolis. Both are good for food poisoning. I got crohn's through food poisoning and take both daily. They work for me as I only take herbal and I've been Ok since my surgery 3 years ago. Others weren't so lucky as many died from what I ate. It made the internet in the year 2000. It didn't make the interest in 1997 when I got poisoned then they did the same thing again in the year 2000 and it made the news when many died.
Posted 5/2/2016 12:18 PM (GMT 0)
I know you can get C - Diff without having used antibiotics. My son (19) got C - Diff two times - both just from having Crohns. He thought food poisoning but the tests were conclusive. Hope you find your answer soon!
Posted 5/3/2016 2:05 AM (GMT 0)

NickyFurlano said...
Take tumeric and or bee propolis. Both are good for food poisoning. I got crohn's through food poisoning and take both daily. They work for me as I only take herbal and I've been Ok since my surgery 3 years ago. Others weren't so lucky as many died from what I ate. It made the internet in the year 2000. It didn't make the interest in 1997 when I got poisoned then they did the same thing again in the year 2000 and it made the news when many died.

In what way are "tumeric" and bee propolis "good for food poisoning?"

And you "got crohn's through food poisoning?" What makes you think that?
Posted 5/3/2016 2:54 AM (GMT 0)
Well apparently my doctor ONLY tested for Cdiff and it was negative. He wants me to come in and discuss options. He seems to think cimzia is waning. And wants to have the talk. Im pretty sure this is foreign to my regular crohns, since the symptoms are so different than normal. Usually I have formed stools, little blood and minimal mucus, minimal pain or smell. And I can usually eat what I want with no problems. I have not been able to eat solid foods at all llately and still have several mucus stools a day. I'm boarding for my flight to my work conference. Will likely have to cancel my vacay in Ecuador :( when I get back home, I will request a multiple stool testing for bacteria and hope something shows up. Just not ready to give up cimzia!!
Posted 5/3/2016 9:32 PM (GMT 0)
Early on in my disease I was sick for months, and they only tested for c.diff, and it turned out I really had Salmonella. I wasted a bunch of time on Prednisone and lost about 25 lbs.....check for everything!!!
Posted 5/3/2016 11:26 PM (GMT 0)

gumby44 said...
Early on in my disease I was sick for months, and they only tested for c.diff, and it turned out I really had Salmonella. I wasted a bunch of time on Prednisone and lost about 25 lbs.....check for everything!!!

How long did you have salmonella for gumby? And what course of treatment did you get
Posted 5/5/2016 12:18 PM (GMT 0)
Hmmmm...I had my cimzia shot and symptoms have subsided. Still not 100%, energy is lacking, belly is still quesy, but you can tell my abdomen is no longer swollen. Have not had a formed stool yet though. So I guess time will tell. I will be canceling my trip to Ecuador. As I just don't feel confident I'm over this and don't want to end up in a hospital in another country, especially where I don't speak their main language. Crohns is literally a pain in the *** sometimes! I'll be following up with my Dr tomorrow and will let y'all know.
Posted 5/5/2016 2:02 PM (GMT 0)
I believe that it was Cipro that I needed for the Salmonella. I don't know how I got it in the first place. I was newly diagnosed with Crohn's and so I, along with my doctors thought I was in a bad Crohn's flare, when in actuality it was Salmonella. It took several months before they tested my stools for it. Now I get full stool cultures testing for everything possible when I get into flares.
Posted 5/5/2016 5:44 PM (GMT 0)
It could be that salmonella (or e. coli. or any number of other things) could have been irritating your Crohn's as well. That always happens for me, so we usually end up with pred AND whatever antibiotic to treat whatever stomach bacteria/parasite/whatever, along with probiotics to ward off the dreaded c. diff. But yeah, I agree with gumby - anytime I get D, I always do a full stool sample along with it. I've had parasites, c. diff., salmonella, and giardia. And the time I got an abscess and it went septic, it was with e. coli bacteria causing it. We are so dang susceptible to everything.
Posted 5/7/2016 12:50 AM (GMT 0)
I don't know why they didn't test for other bacteria. Strange! Just means I'll probably have to do another one if it gets bad again. I went on liquids for a few days to let the bowels rest. Shortly after my appetite came back. I'm still restricting my diet to go easy on my stomach, but I do think its on its way out. This is tmi... But there is a certain smell with it that is not normal! That's why I thought for sure its a bad bacterial infection. Time will tell I guess.
Posted 5/12/2016 11:42 PM (GMT 0)
Just wanted to give yall an update. Well I have been feeling much better after taking probiotcs florastor and lactobacillius. Along with a liquid diet to rest the bowels. I didn't do another stool sample since the mucus stools disappeared. But our city posted an article of the top restaurants in our area with health code violations so I started to research the sushi restaurant I ate at and a chinese restaurant I ate at on vacation recently. Well, don't you know that the Chinese restaurant where I thought I also got food poisoning was shut down by the health dept for serious critical health code violations 2 weeks before I went there!!! And they were repeat offenders. I'm lucky to have survived that food honestly. The local restaurant had only a few violations in the past. But one of them was not properly sanitizing the rags between wiping down food prep sites. I think that one is pretty serious when you're dealing with raw food. Anyways I thought I would offer that info because I will check that site before I go out to eat again!
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