In Reply to: Thought it was just me! eom posted by Melly on Wednesday, 28. August 2013 at 06:10 Bali Time:
22 years ago the Bali Belly hit me very painfully 3 months after I came hone; went to the G.P. who happened to be on a team which was researching B.B. and he advised as follows. I had probably taken plenty of stuff in Bali, which gave only temporary relief and the bug lived on happily, only to hit me very painfully at a later date.
The bug in the water is 'Giardia', which can be cured by the same anti-biotic as used for ladies' thrush in that embarrassing place; one of the brands is 'Fasigyn', taken as one dose of 3 or 4 large tablets and they will kill the bug forever, if you stay of the booze for 36 hours.
Hope this helps, write it down!