re: Food poisoning

Got sick in Phoenix a couple years ago during training. I was feeling nauseous and pale and got the cold sweats. The instructor took a look at me and said, “ You look like shite. Go back to the hotel before you get us all sick.”

I felt terrible waiting on the hotel van and once I got into the front seat, I couldn’t even talk, I just wanted to get to my room a couple miles away. About a mile from the hotel, I started getting tunnel vision and the last thing I remember thinking was, “This is not good.” I passed out and woke up about 30 seconds later and we were in a parking lot and I had puke all over the front of my shirt and in my lap. I opened the door and vomited again in the parking lot. The driver said my head just fell forward and I puked all over myself. We made it back to the hotel shortly afterwards and he dropped me off at the side doors and I apologized for puking in the van (most of the puke was on me, just a little on the seat and the floor) and told him, “Sorry, I’d clean it up, but I feel like I’m dying.”

I walked the short distance to my room that was thankfully on the 1st floor and proceeded to shite and puke my guts up for a couple of hours. Not sure if it was food poisoning or a bad stomach virus, but it was rough.

For those in the medical field, what would cause me to pass out like that?

Try pancreatic cancer, chemo and Whipple surgery. Food poisoning. Pfffft. LOL.

I had food poisoning for two weeks in 1999 after eating red lobster.....yes it does suck.

Red lobster ..... Never again after that.

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How do you guys determine if you have food poisoning or a stomach flu?

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I'm sure a test for bacteria would determine it.

I was always under the impression the "stomach flu" was basically a 24 hour process (give or take). This past summer I started with a headache and some mild gastro issues...then the next three days I could barely sleep, shite my underwear multiple times (waking me up from the few minutes of rest I could get) and puking 7x+ a day until there was literally nothing left in my stomach to throw up but bile. All I ate over the course of 6 days was 1/2 slice of bread and a few chunks of antelope. I lost about 10 lbs. After the shitting/puking stopped, I had 3 days of stomach bloating that was so bad it hurt to walk...followed by 3-4 days of the worst constipation I'd ever had in my entire life. It was at that time I figured out how it could be possible to die on the toilet like Elvis.

I initially assumed it was the stomach flu, but it feels like it had to be something worse than that. The squirts started pretty soon after a luncheon event meal (steak). Looking back the steak may have bit undercooked.

Lots of folks give it to themselves.

Washing your hands, fruits and veggies is a step too far for some folks.

I nearly died from salmonella contracted at Cracker Barrel I-45 north in Houston, December 7, 2001 ~ 7 pm. Intractable diarrhea for 8 hours with fever, pain and some vomiting started up about 1 am. Barely conscious during the LSU-Tennessee SEC championship game. Extremely ill periodically til after Christmas, with diarrhea and foul gas; it went chronic with the same symptoms off and on till late September 2002, at which time natural immunity finally restored normalcy.

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All I ate over the course of 6 days was 1/2 slice of bread and a few chunks of antelope.

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Mmmm.. that sounds tasty.. prolly wont help ur food poisoning though

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Got burned twice by Burger King in the 90's.

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Doesn’t sound like you had it your way.