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> Still very miserable, but today better than yesterday. My primary care doc
> suspects colitis; he's got me on Cipro and Metronidazole, plus the
> ever-thrilling BRAT diet.
BRAT? Can you elaborate, or at least expand?
> Had an ultrasound, too, lots of blood draws and
> goody, goody, I get to collect stool samples. (And now the part not for the
> squeamish.) But that's mostly just blood, which the doc said is a result of
> unhappy membranes in my lower intestine.
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> Some very brief reading (I'm mostly resting, sleeping when I can) suggests
> that this might be good old E. coli causing hemorrhagic colitis. Since
> Cindy and I, or my best friend and I, have eaten the same stuff for the last
> week or so, I suspect the one meal I had alone, from a certain fast-food
> place last Sunday, who I probably shouldn't name but its initials are TB.
> I've spent weeks in Mexico without getting sick, ironically.
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> My doc says that in 24 hours I should feel a lot better and be good in a
> week.
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> Any thoughts?
I have a friend who regularly stops getting food at the certain
establishment for a couple of months. (I think her problem is that onions
get into things that onions aren't supposed to be in, though.) The worst
case of food poisoning from a fast-food establishment that I've heard of any
of my close friends getting was from a different chain, initial W. Between
that and the fact that their apple pies are fried, not baked, I tend to
avoid them.
I'm guessing that you're likely to avoid the fast-food place you mention for
quite awhile now.
Oh, and if you're pretty sure that's the place you got it from, tell your
doctor. Could be a public health issue, and if so, they could probably use
every data point they can get.
Julia
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