Food poisoning horror stories - share yours?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe there’s something going around? I woke up this morning with it coming out both ends. Hours later and I still feel awful. I can manage water but no food. I also have body aches, but no fever.

I’m PP. yes same exact symptoms. And it’s not covaid cause I tested negative

My test was negative too.

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Anonymous wrote:This isn’t food poisoning per se, but noro from food. Went to an annual Christmas/birthday party at a friend’s. They actually warned people that the guy host & kid got some kind of stomach thing from our-of-town visiting friend’s kid, but were recovering. Pretty much everyone (100-150 people?) came anyway. By the time the party started, girl host was upstairs too ill to even give toast for husband’s birthday. Everyone had a fantastic time. 75% of the party got super sick. I was vomiting for 48 hours and felt ill for 2 days after that. Common thread was folks who ate the incredible dessert spread girl host made while she obviously had noro but didn’t know yet. Lots of pretty high level DOJ folks and some State Department people there. A week later Hilary Clinton got noro, as did a bunch of her aides, and fell and got the blood clot we all heard about for half of 2016. We basically blame our friends for Trump’s victory. (Everybody went back to the party the next year(s) though. They are great people and fabulous hosts. They really may have given Hilary noro though.)

Wait! Is this party called a play on the guy’s name? If so, I was there too! That is the sickest I have been in my life. Also, I was at a dinner party with folks a few weeks later where we mapped out exactly how Hillary could have gotten the stomach bug from that party and there were two different plausible roots. Given that like 200 DOJ employees and 50 State employees got it, I think it’s pretty plausible that’s how she got it too. There was a straight line from that party to our future National Security Advisor, in fact...

Oh my god, I remember when HRC had noro.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe there’s something going around? I woke up this morning with it coming out both ends. Hours later and I still feel awful. I can manage water but no food. I also have body aches, but no fever.

I’m PP. yes same exact symptoms. And it’s not covaid cause I tested negative

My test was negative too.

There’s gotta be something going around then. When I was I was out, I mean I was completely knocked out. Never had a stomach virus like this before in my life. I had chills and was sweating so bad that it felt like I would pass out.

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Anonymous wrote:Vietnam street food. A year of diarrhea, dehydration, meds and hospitals to get rid of a parasitic infection. Zero stars, do not recommend.

Like, in Vietnam?

Same happened to me in Vietnam. I was 18, travelling with a friend. Never been so sick. Would not recommend Vietnamese hospitals circa 1992.
In the end a tiger balm massage helped.

Happened to me in Vietnam too. I was in Hanoi for work. Awful.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe there’s something going around? I woke up this morning with it coming out both ends. Hours later and I still feel awful. I can manage water but no food. I also have body aches, but no fever.

I’m PP. yes same exact symptoms. And it’s not covaid cause I tested negative

My test was negative too.

There’s gotta be something going around then. When I was I was out, I mean I was completely knocked out. Never had a stomach virus like this before in my life. I had chills and was sweating so bad that it felt like I would pass out.

When my DD was a baby, she picked up a bug at daycare. She was sick for about a day, but it hit me like a hard ton of bricks. My DH took me to the ER for fluids and I couldn’t even stop wrenching long enough to explain my symptoms. They put me on this dreamy cocktail of Ativan, zofran, and fluids. They suspected rotavirus, which is common in daycares, and my DD had only received the first or second dose of the vaccine series at that point. I was in a zofran induced haze for two more days. But again, I had body aches and headache then too.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll tell a story:
My son was about 8 months old. It was Labor Day weekend. We stayed in town, nothing to do and nowhere to go. Son and I met a friend of mine for lunch at a restaurants who's name I can't remember, but it's closed now. I had a delicious chicken sandwich, but, babies being babies, I didn't finish. I brought home half to my DH, who promptly ate it and said "that was delicious."

About two hours later, I have uncontrollable nastiness coming out both ends. I just cannot stop throwing up. DH starts about an hour after me. Violently ill. The baby is laughing, and having a grand time. Meanwhile DH and I are panicking as we puke, because we know that with both of us down, we need help with baby. We start calling people. My parents were 10 hours away on a weekend long trip and we figured by the time they got there we'd be ok. My brother was six hours away, working, but willing to ditch his job and help. We said "let's wait and see." No friends around, no neighbors around, because of the holiday. At one point it was so bad, I had the baby in his little jumper, eating six cheerios for every one I tried to keep down. I sat him in the doorway of the powder room, within sight of the TV, where he would only stop crying for Food Network. So as I threw up, we watched Guy Fierei chop up chicken on TV.

Fun times.

There's nothing worse than looking after a small child when you have food poisoning or a norovirus. DH, DS & I all had noro at the same time. DS (2) recovered in a day and was fine. DH and I could only lay flat otherwise we'd start vomiting. It was like having the worst seasickness.

I got food poisoning from a well-known noodle restaurant in DC. As soon as I got home, watery diarrhea started pouring out of me. It was awful. DH took me to GW hospital as I was really dehydrated. The doctor said they couldn't find anything wrong with me, so I should go home. I had to ask them to prescribe me something, as the diarrhea was still really bad and I didn't know how I was going to make it home. Then they left me in a crowded corridor on a bed waiting for my husband. I had to keep going to the bathroom every 10 minutes until the medication kicked in. The bathroom was disgustingly dirty with blood up the walls. Needless to say, I never went back to that restaurant. And we had to get the car cleaned.

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Stopped for a breakfast burrito on my way to the airport to head home to DC from CA. About halfway through the flight, it hit me like a brick wall. The only bathroom open was in first class. I ran as fast as I could to the bathroom. Threw up everywhere. It was ugly. Cannot eat breakfast burritos to this day. (16 years now!)

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I ate a mayonnaise sandwich with ham and cheese. I put gobs of mayo on my sandwich. Whilst eating it, it tasted different but I didn't really make a big deal because it was off brand than the may I usually eat, Hellmann's. I wake up in the morning with terrible stomach pains. I get the urge to shit, but before I made it to the toilet, I passed gas, and diarrhea came out of me like a busted water balloon. All down my legs, couldn't even sit or clean up because I started vomiting violently. This for several hours. It was terrible.

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Stay away from pot lucks. If you go to one, only eat what you brought.

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I went to a thanksgiving dinner when I was 9 months pregnant. I didn't eat the shrimp or soft cheese. Everyone else did and they were violently ill.

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Once I ate at maggianos and walked home early with my young infant while my in laws and husband lingered over dessert. We only lived a few blocks away but it hit me on the walk home and I frantically tried to make it but didn’t. Diarrhea all in my underwear. It was horrible.

I have also got food poisoning from five guys and have never been back.

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I was in Rome and ate pizza at a small, neighborhood restaurant. I spent the whole night in the bathroom with my arms wrapped about the giant clam. I felt fine in the morning but I was exhausted.

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DH and I ate spinach artichoke dip at a restaurant. Within a couple of hours, we were both sick. I have never been that sick in my life. We were leaving for a quick vacation about 36 hours after this incident, and we still weren't 100% by then. We look wan and sickly in all the pictures from that vacation.

Ten days later, it's the first day of my new job and they took me to lunch at the exact same restaurant where DH and I got food poisoning! I think I ordered a side salad but just picked at it. I couldn't bring myself to eat anything from that place. I'm pretty sure DH and I never went back there.

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I ate a pizza at a new, rustic pizza restaurant and within minutes I had an extended belly and pain. It turned into more violent symptoms within about an hour and lasted a whole 10 days. I had to take antibiotics to get rid of it. The doctor said it was most likely someone preparing the food had not washed their hands properly. Which is disgusting. Yes, I reported the restaurant.

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Anonymous wrote:I ate a mayonnaise sandwich with ham and cheese. I put gobs of mayo on my sandwich. Whilst eating it, it tasted different but I didn't really make a big deal because it was off brand than the may I usually eat, Hellmann's. I wake up in the morning with terrible stomach pains. I get the urge to shit, but before I made it to the toilet, I passed gas, and diarrhea came out of me like a busted water balloon. All down my legs, couldn't even sit or clean up because I started vomiting violently. This for several hours. It was terrible.

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