Isn`t Giardia also known as Beaver Fever - maybe the clap clinic could help you out!

I had a buddy who got giardia when he was gutting an elk and some elk gut juice splashed into his mouth. He said it was the worst thing ever and he lost more than 10 percent and it took more than 6 weeks.

Boy, I hate when that gut juice splashes into my mouth.

Poop in the bag and take the meds.Confirm what is wrong and get treated.I had to piss in a bottle for 24 hours.Thank God I didn't mistake it for OJ.

I used to be a vet tech and I saw many a case of Giardia in dogs who drank lake water, and they pooped yellow too. Please get to a Dr. if you haven't already. FEEL BETTER!!!

If it's embarrassment holding you back, don't let it. Doctors, nurses, and lab techs have seen it all. I would think of the two-to-six weeks as an average but be prepared for individual cases to last much longer. Perhaps your doctor, convinced by the pain and the yellow stools, might just go ahead and prescribe the meds for giardia without needing a stool sample. I certainly would not just let it go.

I carry a fresh stool sample with me every day, you know, just in case.
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The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

Oh that word - Giardia - strikes fear in my heart. Carlton the Poo-Poo-Eating Boston Terrier (and no, I cannot just call him Carlton...) had Giardia for possibly six months. It made him very, very sick. He had it ever since we brought him home until this winter when we put him through the ringer with antibiotics.

I fucking hate that Giardia. Our back yard stunk like rotten dog shit even though we cleaned up his mess every time he squirted - which was six to eight times a day - and hosed down the particularly gooey messes. We had to treat all the dogs and watch the cats. It cost us 180 dollars to treat the dogs for 2 weeks even though our vet is the most reasonable vet in a fifty mile radius. We had to disinfect the bowls, the floors, and bathe the dogs, as they would accidentally walk where Carlton had pooped, even though I tried to corral them elsewhere.

My fear, Poo Diddy, is that your infection will hang around longer than the 2 weeks suggested, like CEP said happened to his friend. If you do want to risk not taking the medication, at least stock up on pro-biotics and the BRAT diet, and best wishes to you.

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There is a simple pump you can carry with you in the woods. You put water in it and push a plunger. It forces the water through a filter that is more than fine enough to strain out giardia. They are cheap and worth every penny.

Get the test. Rule out pancreatic cancer.

Yes...follow the advise of GG and get the test and rule out pancreatic cancer, but remember, Medical tests can be fun.

I see a young Nigerian doctor at the Veterans Administration, he is a highly capable young man. Recently he had to look at my asshole to determine why it was red and itchy. I asked him if, when he was a child in Nigeria, he had ever dreamed that he would come to America, get a medical degree from a prestigious university (Vanderbilt) and then look up an old mans ass. He admitted this had never crossed his mind as a child.

Turns out I just had "athlete's asshole" as a result of a secondary yeast infection in the aftermath of a course of antibiotics.

We rescued a feral kitten last year and discovered on her first trip to the vet that she had, giardia, tapeworms, roundworms, ringworm and fleas. The poor little thing is the picture of health now but her poop would bring tears to your eyes when she first moved in with us.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

I should be an expert in Athlete's Asshole.This is my 23rd in coaching and I have dealt with many athletes who are assholes.

Poo Diddy- are you a well-travelled Aussie?
I can vouch for the horribleness of Sydney daytime TV, having just got home from abdominal surgery and unable to do much, other than recuperate in front of the idiot box.
I can also vouch for Sydney Water having the occasional giardia scare, butt I suspect that its really no more than media bullshit on slow-news days.
Please do as the doctor advises, and get well soon.

I was in Australia 1n 1996 and 2000.I was in New Zealand in 2000.The TV choices in Australia
wasn't too bad.Christchurch had 4 channels and they all showed Judge Wapner the first People's Court judge presiding over animal cases.

I don't care what you do as long as you don't send me that feca1 sample.

Yes, Reedy, my German shorthair, also once had the big G. He turned into a virtual shit geyser and spread yellow pudding all over the hotel room where we were staying. Since that point I haven't been able to stomach butterscotch pudding.

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Well, you don't actually blow on it. That's just an expression.

i too got giardia whilst living in sydney. big distended tummy, hard to keep anything in and all in all, painful. flared up again after a visit to hong kong. it has reared it's ugly head time and time again - and also in my young son who got it at 14 months whilst in honkers. sydney should be ashamed.

So your shittin bananas huh. Yea take a poop sample and get it taken care of. I get the "mean green" from time to time. It sucks.

I've seen green, but never yellow. You should get that checked...
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I will never shit somewhere that only has that horrible, scratchy brand of toilet paper. That stuff sucks!