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  1. venusone

    venusone F1 Rookie

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    What did you eat & how long did it take? Ever been struck w/ vomiting & diarrhea all of a sudden? If not a virus, what food did it? Now that I’ve been sick 12 hours after the same dinner twice, I’m thinking it’s the food. Name your poison & symptoms to include timing. This is no game show.
     
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  2. mchas

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    Yoshinoya (chicken bowl). Bed-ridden for 3 days straight. I know the feeling.
     
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    Sure it is... Runs in Japan.
     
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    The classic Montezuma's Revenge in Mexico.

    It ruined about 5 days of my vacation with a total loss of appetite, awful diarrhea, and terrible stomach aches. As for the vomiting, I don't know. I rarely throw up when I'm feeling sick.
     
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    I ate luke-warm ribs at a Darrell's restaurant when I was about 11 or so. It was the evening before a gymnastics competition and I spent the entire early morning being sick in the hotel room. :eek:

    However, I still placed first on the vault (my strongest event)!! It's the only ever event first I'd ever gotten. My coach pondered whether or not it'd be a good idea for my parents to food poison me before every meet. :p

    Ah, memories... :D

    All the best,
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    Roast beef sandwich from a well known fast food chain. Sick as a dog for three days. Dizzy, fever, puking, the runs, etc. Took an Alka-Seltzer. Threw up almost immediately. Absolutely miserable.
     
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    turkey and cheese sub sandwich (bad Mayo)
    < 1 hour projectile vomiting
    4 - 8 hours dry heaves, fever, chills
    1 - 3 days, felt like I was hiy by baseball bats
    7 days fine
     
  8. sparta49

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    Trout at Chappy's on the MS. Gulf Coast back in 2000. I haven't eaten fish since then
     
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    20 minutes after eating a nicoise salad (seafood salad) at a fancy hotel, I was violently ill.
    Lasted for two days but the most intense part was the first 12 hours.
    Everything came flying out of my body - in both directions.
    Yikes. I've never had a seafood salad since.
     
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    Not food poisoning but taking the anti-biotic Augmentin (sp?) side effect is diahrea. Not quite as bad this go round, but last bottle a few weeks ago I can't tell you how much time I spent in the bathroom. A minimum of 3 times just at work.
     
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    I dated a girl who was a med student, and while she was doing her pediatric rotation they had an outbreak of some intestinal parasite in the unit. That hit me the night before I had to drive 8 hours to a wedding!
     
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    18 years old. First day arriving in California. Staying at a friends house. Ordered Chinese.

    Bed ridden for three days and vomited all over his place.


    32 years old. First day in China. Went out for 'real' chinese. Bed ridden for two days.
     
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    It's rarely the food itself. Instead, the problem lies with cross-contamination and improper food handling.
     
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    shrimp
    lasted about 4-5 hrs
     
  15. venusone

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    As a biologist I understand. Meat prepared on a surface, cooked, sliced on that same surface & stored is salmonella in chicken & eggs. There are other species of bacteria here. If I see a fast foods cashier make my sandwich w/out putting on new gloves I get my money back. However, gloves are worn all the time by fast food workers that are a sad joke. They have no clue.
    I hear salmonella is a real “wish you were dead” plague that often ends up in a hospital. Therefore this is not that.
     
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    Shagalia (sp) picked it up at an unknown location in Montana. Local medical people attempted to isolate the location but being that I was the only person infected it was impossible. Probaby dirty vegtables or dirty food handler. I thought I had the flu for about a week, then woke up unable to get out of bed. My girlfriend had just returned from India, and she took one look at me and said I've seen people sick like this and you need to be in a hospital. Seven days hospitalization.
     
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    I have had it twice in the last five years.

    First was a grilled chicken sandwich, my wife also had one. Two hours later she was projectile vomiting and I was stuck in the bathroom. For me it really was like the turbolax scene in dumb & dumber. She was over it the next day, while I was sick for about four days with a dull aching pain in my guts.

    The second was when I had a country fired steak with more country in it than I could handle. That one really knocked me out for a couple of days. I just laid in bed and felt probably as sick as I ever have in my life. Then the symptoms went away as fast as they appeared.
     
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    Mayonaise is frequently blamed but my microbiologist friends (that would NEVER eat anything on an airplane or from a salad bar) tell me that it's pH keeps it pretty safe. The big risk is blending raw foods (teeming with microbes) and cooked foods (sterile growth media). The cooked turkey in the sandwich (or the potatoes in potato salad) are the riskiest if not kept cold. Mayo might act as a "buffer" and actually retard microbial growth.

    Salmonella is a "two bucket disease", you sit on one while vomiting into the other, usually lasts a few days. Dehydration is one of the risks.
     
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    Do you need me to come over and rub Vicks vapor rub all over your chest??
     
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    Gyro from a local place in Milwaukee. I got ecoli and was sick as I have ever been for over a week. Lost 23 pounds because anything I ate (which was next to nothing since everything looked horrible) went through me at the speed of sound. Easily the worst week of my life.

    Mark
     
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    First time was one a friend made 'hamburger helper' with what must have been bad ground beef...so violently ill it was scary...extreme vomiting and diarhea etc., lasted for about 5 days.


    Second time was 6 years ago when I was living in Israel.

    It was my second or third day and all along the beach there(kind of like miami beach) they have little restaurants on the beach that bring you food/lounge chairs etc.,

    Well a bad kabob and about 5-6 hours later I was so VIOLENTLY ill I had extreme vomiting and extreme diarhea...lasted for about TWO WEEKS!!! and ended up having to have the doctor come to the house cause I couldnt' leave!
    Extreme body muscle aches, stomach aches...I know I labeled everything as extreme but it really was..I used to box,hockey etc., and my body had NEVER felt like that after a session.

    Absolutely Brutal.


    First time was Salmonella.

    Second time I don't know but I ended up losing about 40 pounds the 11 months I was working there i'm sure the first 15 were in fluids and ended up having a WORM about a foot long in me!!*



    *I had the idea of selling WORMS as the ultimate secret to success for weight loss, although I used to walk everywhere and it's HOT like 55 degrees celcius so like what over a 100F? and of course going to the beach everyday makes one want to look as best they can....I have NEVER been as good shape as I was when I left israel...sadly within a year I put it all on...about 20 overweight now.
     
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  22. terrenceW

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    Never suffered through food poisoning. After reading the replies, I pray never to get food poisoning.
     
  23. TexasF355F1

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    My friend had it around a month ago. He lost nearly 20lbs in 3 days.
     
  24. venusone

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    Laudanum would probably work best. A solution of opium in alcohol might do the trick due to the anti spasmodic effect. Can you combine w/ a massage? Mmmm, opium... Paregoric is tried & true. Maybe I wouldn’t care how sick I was?
     

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