Campylobacter Is No Fun
Last Monday night I felt a little cold when I went to bed. I woke up a couple times during the night and felt cold. We drop the temperature in our house to 60 degrees at night but I'm normally plenty warm.
Tuesday morning I had a headache but Tylenol pretty much took care of it. By noon I had a worse headache and Tylenol wasn't doing much good. I went home from work around 4 and was having chills.
I was hoping a nap would help and I'd feel better. Instead about the only times I got out of bed for the next 48 hours were for way too many trips to the bathroom. During that time I lost 5 pounds although it was mainly from dehydration and my weight bounced right back.
Thursday evening I felt descent. I went to work Friday and felt pretty good all day. Soon after I got home I started having bad abdominal pain and making trips to the bathroom again.
I got bad enough that I ended up going into the ER. Based on my blood tests, the doctor was pretty sure it was food poisoning and not the stomach flu that has been going around. He gave me some medication for pain and antibiotics to kill the bad bacteria.
Yesterday I got confirmation from my doctor that it was food poisoning. I also got a call from the country health department because I had campylobactor. Normally it occurs in isolated cases but sometimes there are outbreaks of it. They asked a bunch of questions about what I had eaten and where. They said most likely it came from something I ate over the Thanksgiving weekend but didn't really pinpoint what.
Yesterday I spun very easy on the bike path for about 40 minutes. I felt pretty good so I headed over to Ute Valley today. I've been wanting to get over there now that I work close again. I could tell I was still pretty fatigued. I only rode about 45 minutes but that's about all I had. I'm also still feel like sleeping a lot.
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