Food Poisoning ain't no Joke...

[Jer]

Anyone ever been through this? I'm on my 2nd day and while I feel better I still am only one step above hammered shit. I woke up yesterday morning at 1:00am with an overwhelming urge to vomit. Being as how I didn't get much sleep the previous night (and I can't remember the last time I actually vomited) I didn't want to deal with it and I convinced myself to fall back asleep. Mistake. I woke up a short while later and HAD to throw up this time. No negotiation. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Head straight to the nearest toilet. I'll spare the details but it was a circus act to keep all fluids in the proper receptacle over the next 10 hours or so. I wasn't even able to keep water down until sometime early afternoon and finally was able to get about 4-6oz of Powerade down. My lower back and kidney area were so sore and aching that it felt like I had been in a car/motorcycle accident again. That spread to my entire abdominal area and it's a difficult thing to describe. It's not the muscle soreness or the fact that I pulled my spleen vomiting as those are real discomforts that most reading this can relate too. This is a special kind of bloating/aching/pressure type pain that is engulfing my entire abdominal area the likes of which I've never felt before. It's crazy. The pain is slowly subsiding over the course of the morning and I've managed to keep a couple strips of bacon and some eggs down this morning but I'm down nearly 5lbs (I cringe at the idea of how much of that is muscle versus fat) and I still feel like I'm not nearly 50% over it. I do feel markedly better but that was a pretty low bar about 24hrs ago. I don't get sick and I don't get sick and I don't get food poisoning so this must have been a good one to get me like this. There's been times over the decades where the wife and I have eaten the same thing and she's gotten super sick and I might get indigestion or gas. What a treat!

Anyone else experience this reminder of how fragile and fleeting life is & how it can be turned on it's head w/o warning in the blink of an eye?

[Irving]

Well they found that the e.Coli going sound was from celery. Eat any of that lately?

[Special Ed]

I've been there twice, Jer, so totally understand the agony. I ended up in the ER with the second bout (Papa Murphy's chicken pizza). If it weren't for the fluids and pain meds they gave me, I would have wished for death even more than I already was. Glad to hear it's getting better.

[Jer]

Well they found that the e.Coli going sound was from celery. Eat any of that lately?

I don't believe so. I'll need to check back to my food log but the last thing I ate for dinner was Panda Express. My wife ate it too and the two entrees that I ate that she didn't were the Shanghai Steak & Walnut Shrimp which are two meats that, if mishandled raw, could certainly have resulted in what I experienced. I'm no doctor but that's where I'm focusing my blame at this point. I do keep a good food log though (MyFitnessPal) so I will look into gestation period of e.coli and see if there was any celery in my diet that fits that time frame.

I've been there twice, Jer, so totally understand the agony. I ended up in the ER with the second bout (Papa Murphy's chicken pizza). If it weren't for the fluids and pain meds they gave me, I would have wished for death even more than I already was. Glad to hear it's getting better.

I should have maybe gone to a doctor but I can't afford to. Good thing I didn't die I guess.

[Special Ed]

I should have maybe gone to a doctor but I can't afford to. Good thing I didn't die I guess.

Other than the goooood pain meds, they didn't do anything I couldn't do at home. They said I just needed to stay really well hydrated and it would pass. Of course your brain and body don't know that when you're spewing from both ends at the same time for hours on end.

Glad you didn't die. Stay hydrated!

Edit - the good thing about going to the ER that night was that I was the fourth person who came in that night with food poisoning after having eaten Papa Murphy's with chicken on it. It helped isolate the cause. I think you're probably right about Panda being the cause. But as Papa Murphy's told me, unless you get samples taken and tested at the hospital, they can't be sure you got sick from their food so they won't do anything. I should have hurled on their floor and let them sample it themselves

[davsel]

Been there 4 times. It sucks, but at least it is over with fairly quickly and normally has no long term effects.
Hang in there, the worst has passed.

[TheGrey]

I have had food poisoning before; it is a special kind of agony. You have my complete sympathy! I know exactly what you mean about soreness; I fully expected to see bruises or worse along my spine and my midsection. The headache was right up there with a migraine. Keeping hydrated is a must, and I'm gad to hear you're able to keep fluids down now. Hang in there- it sounds like you're past the worst of it.

[newracer]

I had campylobacteriosis once and it was horrible.

Just FYI most food born illnesses have at least 2 day incubation period so you last dinner is not likely the source.

[glenncal1]

See if you can get some more poweraide down, helps with hydration and restoring body chemistry.

[Skip]

Not lately. But I know the feeling. Hope you get better.