Food Poisoning ain't no Joke...

[Jer]

PUSH THE FLUIDS.. Get some pedialyte and drink it. If its too sugary/sweet for you, then cut it with water. But keep drinking electrolytes (its what plants need!).

Hope you feel better.

No worries man, getting plenty of Brawndo!

[Jer]

Here is a good chart. Most are not within a few hours, there are some though that can happen fast though. When I got the campylobacteriosis we were on vacation in SD. We didn't find out what is was until later when my son still had it and we took him to the doctor. After that both states health departments wanted to know everywhere we ate for the previous 2 weeks.

http://healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/F_I/Food-poisoning

Interesting. I'm going to look this over carefully & save it for future use even though I hope I never need it again. So far the second one sounds most likely & fits everything I had suspected already.

[Jer]

Hope ya recover soon.
Don't worry about losing 5 lb of weight. Definitely not muscle or fat. You need to burn 3100 calories to lose a pound- be it aerobic or anaerobic. Food poisoning = massive fluid loss. You puked/shit out a ton of fluids. Your body is pretty damn good at keeping those fluid/electrolyte balances in proper order and it takes time to get it back. Takes a few days to start feeling normal after symptoms pass. Puking makes you use muscles you normally dont use that violently. Push fluids- sports drinks are cool, lotta MDs like cola products because the syrup takes nausea away. Old times they sold Coke syrup and you put it over ice and spoon fed fluids to the ill. At least your GI track is clean as can be now.

My last bout was Vegas and sausage from a buffet I ate at the first nite. So sick I just crawled into the shower, turned on the water, and laid/puked in the thing for six hours. Never ran out of hot water-casinos are huge so no hot water problems. Probably went thru a few thousand gallons of water but screw the casino; they got me sick. Figured it took 8 hrs for me to get sick. Only one to eat sausage in the group. Spent 2 days in hotel bed while everyone else partied and got action. The day I felt better we left for home. Nothing like spending $1k fir a vacation and never leaving the fucking room.

I know it's just water weight but I've been addicted to eating better & working out for a little over a year now so to have to miss a few days of working out & having my food tracking app tell me it refuses to log my journal for the day because my caloric intake is dangerously low is disheartening. Too bad it wasn't instant ketosis that occurred but I know the process is much lengthier than that.

[Ianski]

Had the exact same thing happen to me last week. My lower back hurt so much i couldn't sleep. the second night i was able to fall asleep, but had trippy/LSD dreams all night. got over it in 3 days, one of which i slept for the entirety of. Was not fun at all, it was a double sided surprise.

[Jer]

This is not an attempt to scare you, but watch this carefully. This sounds very similar to my go round early this year.

Had what I thought was food poisoning while on a work trip in ND in March this year. Felt fine, started throwing up, then felt like shit, and it went down hill from there.

Turns out it wasn't food poisoning. It was a gall stone that blocked my bile duct below the pancreas inlet, which caused those digestive fluids to back up and start digesting the pancreas. This is known as severe acute pancreatitis.

Thought I would be fine, got sicker through the week, went to the hospital in ND on 1.5 days later and got sent back to the hotel after some fluids and some anti-nausea meds.

Fast forward to getting home Friday, and going to the ER early Saturday morning, and find out that I was in full renal failure (kidneys were no longer functioning), my Pancreas was about 4x the normal size, I hadn't kept anything liquid or solid down since Monday night, and I was arguing with the doctors and nurses about being admitted...

During my 40 day stay in the hospital I had innumerable ct scans, ultrasounds, surgical drains, IV's, a PIC line, my gall bladder removed, and no food or water other than via IV/PIC for 35 days. The surgeon explained that my gall bladder was one of the worst he had removed in the 4000+ of his career. He used the words "dead" and "gangrenous" to describe it, as well as explaining that it started fall apart on him as he was working on removing it. He almost called the laproscoptic procedure and went to just open me up, but praise the Lord, he pulled it off.

I lost 90 pounds in the hospital, went through having 3 different infected fluid pockets found and drained (surgically placed drains suck), found out that pain killers don't really deal with pain for me, just make my head feel fuzzy and loopy.

I then spent 2.5 months at home still on a PIC line recovering, and am still not 100% back to my former strength, close but not quite.

Seriously, even if you are feeling better, be careful. I had one point about 20 hours in where I felt better-ish, and then it came back.

The bloating/aching/pressure and violent vomiting are exactly the same as mine.

According to the doc's, most people that go through this feel bad enough in the first 24 hours that they go get it diagnosed and are then recovering and basically fine within a few days. I have never felt pain very well, so I thought it wasn't too bad, and had a gall stone blockage for (docs best guess) 5 days, and that lengthened my recovery out to 40 days of hospital care, 30 days of home nursing care, and then 1.5 months of slowly starting to eat and do some computer work.

Gives pause, and new outlook on life, when a nurse tells you that if you came in even 12 hours later, they aren't sure they could have saved you.

That's a crazy story man. Glad you're alright. I appreciate the concern but I'm nearly 100% now. I've survived some pretty gnarly shit in my time so it's gonna take more than some bad Chinese food to take me out... much to the disappointment of some members here I'm sure.

[TEAMRICO]

The weight loss is the plus side.....skinny jeans should fit nice now.

[Jer]

Had the exact same thing happen to me last week. My lower back hurt so much i couldn't sleep. the second night i was able to fall asleep, but had trippy/LSD dreams all night. got over it in 3 days, one of which i slept for the entirety of. Was not fun at all, it was a double sided surprise.

Sounds familiar. Couldn't sleep at night when I wanted to because of the discomfort & had a hard time staying awake during the day sometimes.

[Jer]

The weight loss is the plus side.....skinny jeans should fit nice now.

aHaha... not hardly.

[Great-Kazoo]

The weight loss is the plus side.....skinny jeans should fit nice now.

Or better fitting sneakers

[Jer]

Or better fitting sneakers

I haven't even been posting all the new shoes I got Jim. You'd love 'em!