re: Ever Had Food poisoning? It’s sucks

Yep.

Lucky for me it fully manifested right when I arrived at the resort on an out of the country vacation. Over the course of 4 days I left the hotel room from a grand total of 20 minutes. I ate one slice of toast on the entire trip. I threw up no less than 30 times over that period. By the end, it was nothing but bile and specks of blood. That was when I wasn't shitting liquid. I had a pounding headache for 4 straight days. I couldn't sleep more than 45 minutes at a time. The worst part was my wife and kids were in the room. I was terrified they would get sick (I initially thought it was a stomach virus). I was terrified I would have to go to a hospital in a foreign country and be quarantined. I also shite in every pair of underwear I had. Not on purpose. It was just unexpectedly happen in the middle of the night while I was trying to sleep.

Then, after the days of constant puking/shitting stopped, I had 3 days of the worst and most painful bloating I've ever had in my entire life. I felt like one of those hungry African children you see on feed the children commercials. It was so bad that it hurt to walk. The final "boss" was miserable constipation for 4 days in rebound to the opposite gastro issues. The illness totally wrecked my GI system for (in hindsight) several weeks. I lost 13 pounds in less than a week (and I'm not overweight). At one point I vividly recall sitting on the toilet in the middle of the night trying to force out something seemingly the size of a turkey leg thinking "I now understand how Elvis died".

Frankly, I probably should have been in a hospital.

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I ended up just taking off my clothes and laying in the tub

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I did this too

Just shaking between being hot and the chills, then getting up to puke and shite again, then laying back down.

I was in the tub without water trying to nap in case I just shite without warning.

I got an IV after the expulsion was over. My stomach and back muscles hurt for a week. I had red blood vessels on my face from straining so hard, almost looked like acne or bad complexion.

To this day, I am not sure what caused it. I was grazing all sorts of food at a Super Bowl party, but so was everyone else and no one else got sick.

Thought I was dead for two days.

However, for the next six months, I was unstoppable.

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Worst case of it I ever had was when I went to San Francisco once during college.

I couldn't keep anything down and it was coming out of both ends nonstop.

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Slight Aggie tinge to this post….

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Yes and ended up in the hospital from fricking rice that was left out. No amount of reheating killed whatever bacteria (can't remember what the hospital called it) the next day. Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. And my stomach/intestines haven't been the same sense and that was 11 years ago.

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CrappyPants

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Checks out.

Yes, I've had it and nothing sucks more. But I also think it's amazing how our bodies realize something is wrong and gang up on the intruder.

Once in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. I took a bunch of investors down there to look at recovery efforts and two of us got so violently ill we had to cancel the whole next day. It was coming out of both ends at the same time. Ended up getting a doctor to come to the hotel and give us a couple shots then passed out and woke up feeling human again 16 hours later.

About once a year because I am what an optimist would call an adventurous eater. A realist would say I make bad choices.

It's always a nightmare.

Twice. Both from eating raw oysters. Did not learn my lesson the 1st time. Definitely did the second. Have not nor ever will eat another raw oyster.