Food Poisoning ain't no Joke...

[Special Ed]

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

Thanks. This is good information.

[Grant H.]

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?

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.

[Irving]

I really hope I'm not the only one to get this..

Don't be an idiot.

[Grant H.]

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.

I really hope I'm not the only one to get this..

Don't be an idiot.

But it's got electrolytes... You know, what plants NEED.

[ChadAmberg]

Oh man.. I had food poisoning about a month or so ago. Took a week to recover. Wish I didn't recover the weight I lost that week...

[BushMasterBoy]

Imodium AD for the diarrhea. Water for hydration. Rest as much as you can.

On the other hand it sounds like burst appendix. ER for CAT scan!

[Great-Kazoo]

Imodium AD for the diarrhea. Water for hydration. Rest as much as you can.

On the other hand it sounds like burst appendix. ER for CAT scan!

IT'S NOT A TOOMAH

[fitz19d]

Friends dont let friends eat panda express. Granted the chinese options are a bit more limited up there.

[HoneyBadger]

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.

I really hope I'm not the only one to get this..

Don't be an idiot.

But it's got electrolytes... You know, what plants NEED.

http://www.brawndo.com/

[davsel]

*crave!