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I ate it on a Friday and it hit me on Sunday around noon. Coming out both ends, feverish and I felt like I was going to die. I was 20 years old and didn't know the symptoms of fainting since I'd never fainted before. I made it to the bathroom door and woke up on the floor. I was all alone in the house and it scared the crap out of me!
Took a few days to be able to stand upright without being dizzy.
My closest neighbor fell victim to food poisoning last week, she was vomiting and had diarrhea for 3 days, and lost 5 pounds. She couldn't figure out, exactly, if it was the deli food from Whole Foods or the can of soup she bought there.
One of my Spanish class attendants missed class last Wednesday, and she thinks she pinpointed it to some spiced Pumpkin seeds she bought at Sprouts.
It hasn't happened to me yet in my 69 years and it must be miracle, as I've traveled all over the world, ate street food in India, Central America, China, Mexico and I must have a cast iron stomach.
Thank God I love to cook as 95% of my eating comes from my own kitchen. Intuitively, I've always avoided deli food from grocery stores, except fried chicken, and rarely eat out at restaurants, except when traveling.
'How about you, ever been food poisoned and you were able to pinpoint what caused it?
I got hit twice in one year. First it was a lettuce from a market. I washed it out, but guess I didn't do it well. It was so bad I was in a van, in 98 degree temps (Outside), in a sleeping bag and STILL feeling like I was freezing.
The second time it was from 7-11 and the steak taquito. I only swallowed a small portion (I knew right off the bat as it tasted bad) but not fast enough. I quit buying from 7-11 for 2 years due to that. Now that they have a different owners I feel better they are doing it right.
Worst was getting E Coli hit when I was about 19. Good God that was nasty. You basically poop blood and electrolytes out and if you are under 5 or over 70 you can't replace it fast enough. luckily for me I was 60 lbs overweight. Lost 35 lbs in 2 weeks. didn't get more than 25 feet from the toilet... Wasn't till the E Coli outbreak in Seattle in 1993 that took the life of a 3 year old did I find out what I had been hit with. I avoided buffet restaurants for 15 years...
My DH had it some years ago. His mom cooked a batch of bacon and then stuck it in the fridge wrapped in plastic wrap. I guess she forgot abut it and when my DH went to have some he said it tasted fine. Later that night he has severe diareah.
The day after Christmas in 2017 i spent $80 on Chinese takeout from “Asian Gourmet” for my family. I was lucky enough to wake up the next morning throwing up, which I spent the whole day doing. I was angry enough to post my food sickness on Yelp for all to see. Looked a lot like their egg drop soup.
I experienced horrible food poisoning from rice at a Thai restaurant. I was able to pinpoint it because my husband was in the ICU, post cancer surgery, and he had C-Diff. When I started getting sick, the infectious disease specialist was afraid I had contracted C-Diff, as well, so they "quarantined" me and ran tests. Turned out that the rice had been sitting out at the restaurant and when I reheated it, I got severe food poisoning. And it was one of the worst cases of food poisoning I'd ever had. Previously, I had food poisoning from a bacon cheeseburger from Burger King in college and from chicken that sat out too long at a graduation party, but both were mild comparatively.
They did give me something to relieve some nausea, but it barely did anything. I remember being so "out of it" that I thought my mother was in my bedroom with me and I was irritated that she was pressing on my stomach. My poor mom gets blamed for everything!
3 times.
All you can eat Chinese buffet. It was the snow crab legs and butter. That was 18 years ago. Haven't touched a snow crab since.
Floating-tubing on the Guadalupe river. My beer fell in the water. Instead of throwing my beer away I drank it.
I needed an iv after 4 days of both sides of explosions. I was sick for 2 weeks lost 15 lbs!
Eating and teaching preschoolers at the same time.
I was eating a cookie and helping these 4 years on their laptops. Touching their hands, touching the equipment and eating a cookie did not make for a fun weekend.
Norovirus from the depth of hell.
Till this day I can't even look at that brand of cookie without clenching my butt cheeks and grabbing my stomach in phantom pain.
It's really hard to determine when someone ACTUALLY has true food poisoning and where it came from.
Most times, food poisoning is a 24-48 hour incubation, so.. What happens is someone eats somewhere and truly does get food poisoning. They usually eat 2 or 3 more times, at least, since then.. And the last place they ate before they started blowing chunks gets the blame.
Or.. They pick up some norovirus or similar from a door handle they opened and then wipe their eyes.. Boom, they've got it.. But the last place they ate gets the blame for "Food Poisoning"
Unless multiple people get sick from the same place and that's the only commonality. It's usually NOT food poisoning.. But.. Explaining that to someone who has gotten sick is... Damn near impossible.
Was visiting my daughter and SIL in FL when their son was still an infant
We all ate burgers from Chilli’s
We all got sick
My burger was not cooked well done as I asked (try never to eat any hamburger not cooked well done)
I don’t know about theirs but we were all sick
Don’t eat at that Chilli’s anymore—me...
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