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Hello. I Tried To Use The Symptom-finder To Narrow Down
Hello. I tried to use the symptom-finder to narrow down possible causes, but the tool came up with 57 possible conditions... not very helpful.
Two weeks ago, I had a salmon dinner - the fish was cooked properly, but I had quite severe diahhrea a few hours later (could have been the sauce or the fish - don't know)... However, rather than just clearing up, as these episodes usually do in less than a day, my symptoms continued for the last two WEEKS! The diahrhea ended after a couple days, but the soft stools and overhwhelming gas kept on coming back every single day... the stool was always the same loose texture and terra-cotta color, with the same different and worse odor than usual... the gas was very intense and smells of sulfur, and it just goes on day and night - awful. Yesterday was the first day in two weeks that the gas lessened and the stools seemed close to normal... I'm curious what would cause such distress for so long... nothing I did seemed to help... Without having a lab test the dinner I had the initially started the whole terrible experience, I might never know... but I am worried about a possible parasite or amoeba or just a stomach or intestinal virus that just isn't leaving... I still have some gas symptoms, that I usually do not have, and I'm just wondering what i can do to treat the cause, rather than the symptoms...
Two weeks ago, I had a salmon dinner - the fish was cooked properly, but I had quite severe diahhrea a few hours later (could have been the sauce or the fish - don't know)... However, rather than just clearing up, as these episodes usually do in less than a day, my symptoms continued for the last two WEEKS! The diahrhea ended after a couple days, but the soft stools and overhwhelming gas kept on coming back every single day... the stool was always the same loose texture and terra-cotta color, with the same different and worse odor than usual... the gas was very intense and smells of sulfur, and it just goes on day and night - awful. Yesterday was the first day in two weeks that the gas lessened and the stools seemed close to normal... I'm curious what would cause such distress for so long... nothing I did seemed to help... Without having a lab test the dinner I had the initially started the whole terrible experience, I might never know... but I am worried about a possible parasite or amoeba or just a stomach or intestinal virus that just isn't leaving... I still have some gas symptoms, that I usually do not have, and I'm just wondering what i can do to treat the cause, rather than the symptoms...
