Three months after flu, digestive system still not quite right?Back in the middle of April I had the first stomach flu I'd had in around six years. I'm twenty-one years old and usually very healthy - when the rest of my family gets sick, I'm still fine. When my friends get sick, I'm still fine. But this one really took me out - fever, heavy sweating, shaking, diarrhea, almost vomiting (willpower for the win), the whole nine yards.
But ever since then, I just haven't been quite right. Certain foods that I love (steak, for instance) just seem too heavy. (GROSS WARNING) Usually my stool is quite firm, but since I had that flu it's unusually frequently been sickly soft, preceded by an abdominally unwell feeling. (END GROSS) And I've very often been feeling just slightly nauseous for no discernible reason.
I don't think it's intestinal parasites (though I'm not a doctor and haven't gotten around to consulting one yet), because I had worms a couple of times as a kid (ewwww) and this just isn't like that at all. Furthermore, this isn't morning sickness - I am not pregnant because I haven't been anywhere near a man and have had my period regularly prior to and since the flu.
So, do any of you have any ideas on why this is happening, and any suggestions as to what to do about it?
Posted by Elle
I had the same thing happen to me when I was 19. I would never get sick even if talking care of a whole bunch of sick people but over summer I got a killer stomach flu. I had pretty much the same symptoms you are describing I did not eat anything at all for three days and I lost like 15 lbs. You are fine it took me a long time like a few month to get back to normal pretty much everything looked bad or made me sick my friends who had it were the same way. Its hard for your stomach to go from having nothing in it for a long period and then all the sudden have a bunch of food shoved in it. Go slowly increase the amount of food you eat little by little and try and stick to bland foods. If what you used to love no longer sounds appealing find something new after time you will go back to normal
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