SCENARIO A

Please imagine this situation:

You have diarrhoea. It started mid-morning yesterday and soon you were on the toilet every hour for most of the day. You had some stomach discomfort and a feeling of nausea, but you were not sick. You appetite isn’t good, but you are managing to drink lots of fluid. A few people at work have had similar symptoms. Today (it’s now lunchtime) you have had diarrhoea a couple of times this morning.

SCENARIO B

Please imagine this situation:

When you got up this morning you felt dizzy. The room seemed to be spinning round about you and you had to sit back down on the bed and hold on. If you sit or lie still — avoiding any movement of your head — you feel OK. But when you get up or walk everything starts to spin again, and you feel a bit sick.

SCENARIO C

Please imagine this situation:

You woke up early with a discomfort across the front of your chest. It was not so much a pain as a heavy feeling — constricting. You didn’t feel right — a bit short of breath and sweaty — so you sat up on the side of your bed and opened the window for some air. The discomfort has now turned into a pain across your chest, not sharp, but dull and heavy, like someone standing on your chest and you have started to feel very nauseous.