What is the worst case of food poisoning you have ever had?

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lucyjane4670@reddit

Christmas day last year. Myself and my partner both ended up with food poisoning and couldn't even keep water down. Just imagine two 25 year olds sharing one toilet when it's coming out of both ends 😫😅 Worst sickness of our lives so far, luckily our 3 year old slept through and didn't get sick. We spent £20 on uber eats ordering two bottles of lucozade and genuinely thought we'd have to call an ambulance because we felt so awful. We haven't eaten a roast dinner since then and we're likely going to avoid cooking one Christmas day this year too 🤣🤣

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heinously_awake@reddit

That must have been a weird sort of bonding experience in the end ?

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p4ttl1992@reddit

Made myself some chicken thighs drenched in piri piri sauce, they were going out of date that day so had to eat them or waste my money and bin them. Within 3 hours of eating them I started to feel sick, I sat up all night until 8am in serious fucking pain trying to keep them down and in the end I threw them up in the toilet. Literally 12 hours of shivvering, shaking, sweating, hot/cold and sitting up all night then I ended up going sick anyway, should've put my fingers down my throat and got them out sooner tbh

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lambcotlet@reddit

Were they pre seasoned with the piri piri? Not sure how true but I think they season meat that's about to go out of date to cover the smell and slap on a new date to sell it. Obviously, could be a complete conspiracy so don't trust me.

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Zealousideal-Ad3226@reddit

I coown the local butcher and while we dont do that, I've seen places that do. Dead giveaway if the marinated cut is significantly cheaper than the same plain cut. Our pork chops are $20.99/kg plain or marinated and pepped at the same time and refreshed as they sell. I like knowing I can trust what's on my table every time.

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p4ttl1992@reddit

nah added it myself from a nandos rub packet lol

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Cumbo256@reddit

At 28 and being someone who had eaten raw bacon left out the fridge (sealed) for 2 weeks and chicken 3 weeks past use by, been to India for 2.5 weeks and a bunch of other stuff without food poisoning it was a random miss millies chicken burger that got me (had an empty stomach and no other food also). I woke up with the shits in the night, thinking not much of it, it stopped as there was no more left.. over the next 30 minutes I felt like someone had injected me with pure poison. I threw up or attempted to prob 30-40+ times, I could barely move, even see, my body was numb almost all over, I passed out 3 times and was whaling in my bathroom. I was alone with my son (6-7 at the time) and so I had to wake my mother up at 4am to drive to me, I thought I could die. She’s basically a nurse and so managed to force down water and some special supplements until I fell asleep. Funnily enough I wasn’t sick after that and the day after didn’t feel too bad. I have broken/fractured multiple bones including my eye socket leaving me near blind, had multiple operations, been in car crashes, had 2nd degree burns on the whole of my foot it was easily the worst thing I’ve ever experienced.

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These_Ride8535@reddit

I had one from eating a sausage i shouldnt have ate. Fortunatly it was so bad that my body expelled it within 30min of eating it....so it didnt have time to take root. But god almighty. That was the most agony i have ever experienced. I was on the toilet doing what needed to be done. The stomach ache was bad. But then it started spreading out into the rest of my nerves in the rest of my body. My whole body was screaming "red alert". I collapsed onto the floor and just laid there in a fetal position praying to god for help.

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Firstdecanpisces@reddit

Blood vessel chicken at a work canteen - so dimly lit, I didn’t see it was pink and well-vasculated until I’d eaten a fair amount…was ‘unwell’ the same evening but I think a lot of that was psychological fallout as well as the other kind 😅

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starderpderp@reddit

Destroyed almost all my gut flora. Was having really upset stomachs every day for about 10 months, with really nasty stinky diarrhea at least 5 times a day. It messed up so many things that I was barely able to stay awake for 5 hours a day. I fell asleep at any time anywhere, like in between bites of food, for example. I had no energy, basically. I had cognitive problems. So bad that I didn't even understand some basic vocabularies. I was passing water through me instead of absorbing it, to the point where they considered diabetes insipidous. Anything I ate came back up immediately or out the other end not fully digested. I had allergies. ALL sorts of allergies. To almost anything. I was covered in rashes from head to toe. Took at least 2 years before I could stomach most food again while still having very upset stomach at least 3 times a day, and being able to function for 10 hours a day. Though, I have to be very honest here and disclose: the gastroenterologist don't actually know if I got food poisoned. I was referred to them two years too late, and this (my gut flora being destroyed) is their theory of what has caused all my symptoms. I was too ill and too incapacitated to even think about doctors. I did not have a support network around me to help me figure out I should be at A&E/ fight my corner to get a GP to take me seriously.

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poopyshitballz@reddit

Damn. That sounds like botulism.

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starderpderp@reddit

I highly doubt it. I didn't receive medical attention until about 4 months after the symptoms started. I would have been dead if it was botulism.

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HmNotToday1308@reddit

I grew up in the US and some dipshit decided my grandmother who was a horrible cook was going to do Thanksgiving dinner that year. My cousins and I were fed mash that had uncooked pchunks of potato, gravy from the turkey that wasn't fully cooked, and the obvious undercooked turkey. .. The adults only realises after we'd pretty much choked it down because we were threatened that we had to be nice because she tries very hard. Out of 7 kids 5 of us were hospitalised. I don't know how my 3 year old cousin survived, I wanted to die and I was only like 5. None of us have touched turkey ever since. I get so much bullshit about it around Christmas because that's what xmas dinner has to be in the UK. Idgaf. I'm not touching it ever again.

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nosuchthingginger@reddit

Holy fucking shit that’s horrific. I’d rather cremate a turkey and eat at bedtime than serve it undercooked. Good lord

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HmNotToday1308@reddit

I swear we trauma bonded after that, like on some deep spiritual level. I'm in my 40s and I still can't even try gravy

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Certain-Trade8319@reddit

Had gastro-enteritis from some soup I ate once. In and out of hospital getting IV fluids. No p\*\*p, just brown water for about 4 days. It's weird to hear a pee sound coming out of your bu\*.

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AlternativeAd3652@reddit

I got food poisoning on a bike touring trip from eating undercooked sausage. I had cycled 60km in 35degrees heat, so crazy dehydrated to start, arrived at campsite, fried some sausages I bought from the local butcher 100m away, felt weird then went to bed. Woke up feeling sick, hadn't brough any PJ as packing light so had to wrestle my damp cycling lycra back on to rush to the filthy campsite toilets to throw up. Threw up repeatedly, went back to tent, repeat every 2 hours. Cycling shorts too tight to sleep in with a dodgy stomach so every time same routine. I threw up a bit on my sleeping bag and a lot in the awning of my tent, which stank the tent up but was too sick to clean up. Woke up next morning, repeat throwing up but only bile now and continue until midday. At midday I spend the next 8 hours lying flat on my camp mattress under tress trying and failing to keep water down. Finally got to sleep after eating some dry bread and woke up repeatedly the second night with my sleeping bag drenched in sweat. The next day (so 36hrs after the sausages) I had to do another 40km in 30C heat because I had to get a train to get back to work. The scariest thing was that I knew I was dehydrated from the insane heat the day before and could not keep any liquids down. took until 5pm the next afternoon to be able to drink normally (lukewarm flat coke) and I still feel lucky it wasn't worse. AT least it only came out the top end.

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Able-Necessary2956@reddit

Only been sick from food poisoning twice in 50 years. Went out for meal the night before my A level results- got sick from poorly kept rice at a buffet. Turns out I didn’t care about my A level results, and my friend had to get them for me. The second time, I was in Cuba- took months for my digestive system to get back on track

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Technical_Current430@reddit

I was ill after eating microgreens (home grown). Had 2 weeks off work, in bed for 1.5 weeks of them, except when I couldn’t get off the toilet, was too tired to even watch tv on my phone. I just stared at the walls/ceiling. It took 6 weeks before I got energy levels back, I lost nearly a stone in weight (was only 8st to begin with). The worst food poisoning is often from salad. Before then always thought food poisoning was ‘just for a couple of days’. I was really really ill, the most ill I’ve ever been in my life. The lesson is, if you grow microgreens change water regularly, wash them before eating and don’t eat the roots!

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Intruder313@reddit

Oh and I've just remembered catching Norovirus during training at my current job. One day early on a guy showed up late because 'my son has Norovirus and it's coming out of both ends'. He had still driven his son to work then come into our room to spread the virus around. I missed a full week of the 2 week's training.

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Intruder313@reddit

I've been going to the same Pizza place for 30+ years but as a vege for 6 I had got a bit bored of the same vege pizza, so ordered their vege burger. This was just before a birthday and I could barely move for 3 days and was sick for a lot more. I've since been warned that since nobody ever orders the vege burger (correct) it will have been made from 'rotting veg in the back'. Twist: they recently changed their menu to include a vege calzone - there was no description of the filling but I risked it and it was great. The food poisoning was only mild this time :(

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Kimbo-BS@reddit

While not technically food... The college organized an orienting trip. We took some tents and pitched up in what wasn't much more than a farmer's field with some rudimentary toilets and a water source. While rain, leaking tents, getting lost in the moors wasn't bad enough, everyone who touched that water ended up getting gastroenteritis (at least, I think that's what it was). I only drunk the tiniest amount after my supply of drinks had ran out. Thanks to that, the fireworks started after I had got out of that ***shitty*** field and got back home.

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AcceptableRedPanda@reddit

Undercooked lobster in a paella in Spain on holiday. Luckily our apartment had two toilets because I became a resident of one of them for 3 days firing with both barrels. Can't even look at lobster or paella now.

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Neither_Event5938@reddit

i suddenly started projectile vomiting before a night shift some years ago.. turned out i had eaten some fried mash potato balls the night before, that my brother had been using as a cold injury relief for an ankle injury. he had literally had them on his ankle for like two hours and then back in the freezer this going on for over a week.

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Wheetzzz@reddit

oh noooooooo!!!

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tjjwaddo@reddit

Some years ago, we were on a flotilla sailing holiday in Croatia, so eating in little remote jettyside restaurants. Our last day there, my husband felt really ill, but we thought it was sunstroke. Luckily, the classic food poisoning symptoms didn't start until we got home. It didn't clear up in a few days, so called the GP, submitted a sample, it was salmonella. The local public health officer was relieved to hear he didn't contract it locally! A course of antibiotics sorted the problem - but that wasn't the end of it. The toxins got into his bloodstream, settling in left hand and right knee. He spent the next couple of months with one arm in a sling and hobbling about on a crutch. It was almost a year before he was fully recovered.

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ChocoMcBunny@reddit

Campylobacter. 20 years ago and my gut has still not fully recovered.

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Ancient_hill_seeker@reddit

Just avoid eating out during any sort of heatwave. It’s all about rigid trucks and their ability to keep at temperature, and how much the driver cares.

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raccoonsaff@reddit

I've always been quite lucky, touch wood, and it's only been like, feeling a bit ill and being a little leaky for a day, but not to the point of actually doing a full load in my pants, or needing to stay on the toilet. I also once woke up feeling super ill and subsequently throwing up, but I literally threw up the undigested food.

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Vrisnem@reddit

When I was 17 I ordered a Singapore chow mein from a Chinese restaurant I'd been eating from since childhood. I remember it was Halloween specifically. I was experiencing stomach cramps and nausea until late Nov/early Dec. We thought it was the prawns that made me ill. I'm in my 30s now and still love a Singapore chow mein but won't eat it eat it with prawns anymore.

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reversedROBOT@reddit

Whenever I cook something that isn't beans on toast.

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WeeBo2804@reddit

When I was about 13-14 and the last thing I’d eaten was pistachios. Needless to say I’ve never eaten them since. I had black eyes and pin prick dots all over my face from bursting all the blood vessels from puking so hard. But the time when I was around 18. Whatever I had (never got checked out at the time) damaged all the nerve endings in my intestines. I’ve been left in chronic pain. Constant stomach aches. Hiatus hernia, reflux and gastro paresis. So yeah, I’d say that was the worst time.

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TheWyrdSmyth@reddit

At a potluck dinner at uni - we all had to bring a dish. I'm an accomplished cook and so were my housemates, so we went all out for this dinner party. Our food was gone in no time, everyone demolished the lot, lots of compliments etc. There was one dish nobody seemed to have touched, provided by one of the hosts - a chicken and celery salad type thing, with grapes and walnuts. The host looked upset that no one had touched it, so I went to give it a go - tangy is not how I like my chicken, but I thought maybe she'd used keffir or yogurt in the dressing? It wasn't good - but I was trying to be nice! And two of my housemates saw what was happening and also had some to be polite. ... The next 72 hours involved my housemates and I playing switcheroo in the toilet, constantly swapping out every 10 minutes or so. I've never had anything like it. Hot and cold sweats and shivers, water flowed straight through OR hit the bottom and came straight up again - we took to lying on the tiled floor in the kitchen to try and cool down we were so feverish. I vaguely remember calling my mum at 3am (and she answered bless her!) to apologise for being stupid and eating cursed chicken salad. She drove all the way to Canterbury with medicine for the three of us, and stayed a few days in case we needed actual medical attention. Never eat suspicious chicken salad, even to be polite. It is almost always cursed.

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Rolifant@reddit

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kindaadulting87@reddit

As a child in Australia, my great aunt served my family microwaved cheap pork sausages. I was/still am fussy so my dad took the brunt and ate the remainder of ours and hid some in his pockets. He didn't feel great the next day and the fact that we all still remember this shows how gross they were. It took me a long time here in the UK to try pork sausages, they are actually really bloody tasty when cooked properly.

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DarthNovercalis@reddit

Dubious takeaway curry caused me to lose the better part of a stone in a day, and then spent the next few days being utterly drained of all energy

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Fun-Grapefruit6916@reddit

Went into a kebab place for a chicken burger one night. It looked decent from the outside, so I thought I would give it a try. There were chicken burgers on display in the counter, but the guy went in the back and brought one out. I feel like he did something to it back there because he was gone for a while. Anyway I spent the next two days in bed shivering and talking to myself in delerious ramblings.

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Draenogg@reddit

In the fullness of time I found out it was most likely due to some swordfish I'd eaten at a restaurant the previous Monday. What it meant was that my dirty weekend away in a nice hotel turned into a really dirty weekend away during which I could only eat toast. No regrets with regards to the swordfish - it was really tasty even if it did try to kill me.

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Bose82@reddit

In Turkey, went to a Chinese restaurant (I know, I know, stupid) and had some dodgy chicken. Anyway, next day it was 39⁰ and I was starting to shiver a bit, but nothing too concerning. In the evening we were sat eating a meal outside and the shivering was uncontrollable. I was wearing the trackies and hoodie I had for the journey home and it was about 26⁰, people still sweating in vests and t-shirts and I'm still shivering like shitting dog. Got back to the hotel and I had the worst bout of diarrhea, literally drinking water and shitting it out 10 mins later. The hotel called an ambulance and I was put on an IV drip in hospital and had to stay in overnight. Fair play to the Turkish doctors and nurses, they were fantastic and the hospital was immaculate, luckily so was my holiday insurance.

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T7MMU@reddit

Chicken burger from a local takeaway. Within about 3 hours i was throwing up so much my whole body went into some kind of spasm and basically paralyzed. Couldn't move, hard to breath, could barely stay conscious, genuinely thought i was dying so misses called an ambulance. Took about an hour to get here but felt like days. Was in hospital over night and they put it down to a panic attack from being sick... I'm not convinced. I wasn't panicking until i went paralyzed and struggled breathing. Obviously never are there again but always thought i probably should have complained to them or something. Just assumed they wouldn't do anything or i couldn't prove it so just left it.

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Bright-Astronaut7263@reddit

Chicken Tika from Local Kebab shop about 20 years ago. sick and diarrhoea for 12 hours. Never been back since. Crazy it’s still open.

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GourangaToff@reddit

A cheese and bacon pastry from a vending machine at work when I was 19. Projectile vomiting, followed by high pressure diarrhoea every 5 minutes for the whole afternoon and the rest of the night- which carried on at my girlfriends place. Her flat mate didn’t know what the fuck was going on. Was ok to drive home in the morning.

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IntelligentDeal9721@reddit

Disneyland Paris. Was dire on the return, made it to the hotel in London where we stayed overnight and ended up in hospital then I think it was 5 days in the Premier Inn before I was fit to travel home. The premier inn staff were amazing.

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IsWasMaybeAMefi@reddit

Gluten. While not strictly a poison as such, my body treats it as such. Evening. Pub. Group of mates. One orders a big sharing plate thing and having had a few beers I grabbed a small breadcrumbed bit of chicken. 2 hours later the abdo pain starts. An hour later the vomiting and diarrhoea landed, and at the same time. The vomiting happened if I tried to do more than sip cool water. The diarrhoea continued until I was empty. 7 days later the pain stopped. 9 days later I finally felt normal.

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Odd-One-Out@reddit

Beer has gluten in it too?

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IsWasMaybeAMefi@reddit

It does, yes. That's why I was drinking cider.

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bobbyv137@reddit

I got food poisoning in Phuket, Thailand some 15 years ago. I was locked in my room for about 4 days straight. Hallucinating. Thought I was going to die. Horrible trip ruined.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

Seafood casserole at CERN staff canteen (I don’t work there). Pretty much bedridden for 2 days and barely able to keep water down. Think I managed a couple of digestive biscuits somewhere near the end of day 2. I do like to imagine that world leading particle research ground to a halt that week because of some dodgy mussels. God alone knows what possessed me to order a seafood casserole in a landlocked country.

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Odd_Fix_1250@reddit

I had a bad experience with inland seafood as well in France. It was from a reputable looking restaurant on a nice high street in a small town, but I was sick all night.

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EdmundTheInsulter@reddit

Well don't reheat food then.

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Koorbseh@reddit

KFC - Spicy wrap or something 4 years ago, had it for lunch and by 5pm I could feel something brewing. On the drive home I was sick into a protein shaker and squeezing my bum cheeks together like my life depended on it. Stomach was physically rumbling. Was sat on the toilet out the back end blasting the toilet to pieces, the smell of said then made me vomit. Alternating at poo and puke for about 3 days. Was a shaking mess and lost half a stone. Looked like a ghost. Not eaten KFC since and avoid most fast food now.

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turingthecat@reddit

I got it bad when I was 6, in France, I can’t remember it, but apparently I was hallucinating, and fighting, and fitting. and they didn’t have calpol over there (or my dad couldn’t communicate what they needed to the chemist, as google translate didn’t exist). They got me into hospital as soon as we were back in England. I was there for over a month, and still suffer with the kidney damage, 30+ years later

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loranlily@reddit

Why in god’s name did they not take you to a hospital in France?

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turingthecat@reddit

Probably because they don’t speak fluent French (neither do I, not casting shade)

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missuseme@reddit

I'm in my thirties and don't think I've ever had food poisoning. I know some people who claim to get it every couple of months... I think surely there must just be something wrong with them.

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Whollie@reddit

Trip of a life time to Uluru. 5 star hotel. I don't know for sure if it was the seafood buffet or the fancy barbeque. But on the bus back from the evening under the stars I felt unwell. More unwell by the second. I stumbled off the bus at the hotel and threw up into the bushes. Everyone assumed I was just drunk. An hour later I was on the toilet naked vomiting into a towel on the floor while my boyfriend called to ask if there was a doctor available. The answer was if it got worse they'd call an air ambulance to Alice. I was 18. If it happened now I'd be ripping them a new one, it's a resort so the only place I'd eaten in days. Apart from on the plane there. Most likely ecoli or salmonella. I felt horrific. I've also had noro. The cramps were so bad I passed out on the floor from the pain.

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PeevedValentine@reddit

I had gastroenteritis and thought I was going to die. It wasn't cool, at all. I was laid up for 7 days puking and the other end, too. Gradually getting weaker and more dehydrated until it suddenly subsided. 1/10, would not recommend.

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YouSayWotNow@reddit

One that put me in hospital because even the kind of drugs that usually stop the, erm, bodily evacuations, didn't work so they had to get them into me via a drip. I was travelling overseas on my own without my partner or family and didn't speak the language of the hospital staff, but was fortunate that a close relative lived nearby and was able to come and stay with me and calm me down.

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bedlam90@reddit

I once worked at club as a glass collector and there was an Indian wedding they had a huge pot of curry basically untouched and said we can have anything off the buffet at the end. Me being greedy ate loads of this curry with pitta breads and then one of the girls noticed it was raw. Every piece of chicken was raw in the middle lol. My shit was clear after that like water lmao was awful couple days

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Icy_Gap_9067@reddit

I shat clear water once but wasn't entirely sure I didn't imagine/ exaggerate it in my head. I'm glad it's happened to someone else, well not glad you suffered more glad it wasn't just me. I don't know what caused mine, it was awful.

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bedlam90@reddit

Yea it was rough haha

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WorldAncient7852@reddit

I got food poising at the Savoy in London. Oysters. I was the sickest I've ever been for four solid hours. Had to take my mother to the ballet that night and got through it with the help of a lot of Imodium. I sweated through my clothes while shivering in a wrap. Couldn't eat for days. Can't even look at them now without getting a coppery taste in my mouth.

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Ecstatic_Effective42@reddit

It's a *little* harder to get food poisoning when you're a vegetarian but still possible... The weird thing with me is that if I *do* eat something that disagrees with me, my body just nopes it the hell out within a couple of hours or so. Utterly bizarre ( and I didn't even know it was a thing)... Eat weird thing, grumble, "ah bollocks", roar. Shower. I've done the whole cold sweats on the bathroom floor hanging on to the toilet like my life depended on it, but that was due to a drunken student dare to eat a phall...

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cifala@reddit

I don’t think that’s weird, isn’t that normal?

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Embarrassed-Depth-27@reddit

Same. Veggie here too and efficient body. However… I’ve noticed the efficiency declines with age

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turingthecat@reddit

You are actually more likely to get salmonella from veg than you are from chicken (No, no I’m actually not fun at parties, why does everyone keep asking?)

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Windle_Poons456@reddit

Wife left a chopping board out that she'd cut raw chicken on. I must have touched it without realising what was on it, then ate something with my fingers. Shit my wisdom teeth out that night.

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KermitsPuckeredAnus@reddit

A Cuban fried egg saw me bedridden for 3 days, then, despite feeling a bit iffy I visited a cigar factory. The smell of tobacco was so strong it set my already punished bowel into overdrive. I ran crying through the factory searching for the toilets, burst into a staff canteen clutching my arse and deafeningly unleased a torrent of rectal torment into the grotty staff loo. It was so loud and obvious that I received cheers upon leaving the toilet, like when somebody drops a glass in the pub.

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CourageOld838@reddit

Contracted e-coli, suspected to be from contaminated food, at 10 years old. It was a deadly strain, and I ended up pissing blood as my kidneys failed. Had to go on dialysis for two weeks, had multiple blood transfusions, Doctors told my parents there was nothing more they could do, but I obviously pulled through. The worst part, was all of it.

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PidginPigeonHole@reddit

I had a case of Campylobacter and my anus was leaking blood so had to get a camera up my butt.. they discovered I had a polyp in my bowel which I got removed.. so it kind of saved my life

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TheeMrsD@reddit

I’ve had campy so not fun. Took me over a month to shift it! Glad your still with us

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zero_iq@reddit

Cairo. I had no idea of the volume of liquid the human body can expel from both ends simultaneously! Like, where the fuck is this all coming from?! The short amount of time I was not in the bathroom, I was bedridden with cramps. At least I had a nice view of the pyramids from my bed when I woke up in a pool of my own liquid shit.

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wonkyOnion@reddit

I went to my girlfriend's (now wife) and ordered some kebab. 30 minutes later I started feeling so sick I couldn't move. She was trying to kick me out from her apartment as she wanted to have evening to herself, but I genuinely couldn't move. 2 h later I woke up and returned the kebab to the bag that it came in. Next morning she woke me up as she had to go to work. I had enough power to walk about 10 minutes back to main. After I crashed on bed I woke up like 16h later still feeling sick. Spend whole 2 days in bed before I started feeling normal. I'm not ordering any kebabs, anymore. I always suspected they made out of rats, now I know for sure.

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One-Illustrator8358@reddit

Woke up a few hours after eating some onion rings, I didn't stop puking until hours later when I'd been given medication at the hospital. I was there for a week and a half in a room by myself, for days all I could taste was bile because my stomach was so empty I started throwing that up. I was so weak I needed two nurses to help me get changed. A while after I'd been discharged I ended up having to have two teeth taken out because I cracked them trying to sit up and they'd gotten infected. To this day I have never eaten another onion ring.

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MegaMolehill@reddit

I’m in my 40s and have never had food poisoning. But as a teenager I fell/jumped into the water near a sewage outlet. Spend the next five days with a fever that went over 40°C at times, often hallucinating and spewing out of both ends. So eating sewage is the final boss of food poisoning!

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wonkyOnion@reddit

I guess shit happens

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Notagelding@reddit

Ewwwww

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bedlam90@reddit

Lmfao completed it mate

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ashensfan123@reddit

Had a dodgy kebab. Lava from both ends. When I was a student in 2015 I had a housemate at the time who got food poisoning from bubble tea.

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Thestolenone@reddit

Not sure if it was food poisoning or Noro. I was staying a few days in a Travelodge visiting relatives. Started with feeling off and squirting randomly out of my bum. It got rapidly worse and I started throwing up as well. I kept alternating between throwing up (and the muscle spasms shot stuff out the rear too) and becoming completely unconcious. My OH called 111 and because I kept going unconcious they called an ambulance. At that point I was lying naked on the bathroom floor with brown water spraying out of both ends crying help me help me. I've never wanted to die so much. I eventually managed to crawl into the shower and the staff gave us a big bucket and mop and fled the scene. I still have that bucket, it is very useful. The ambulance eventualy arrived after spending some time trying to find me in the nearby Premier Inn. Checked me over but by that time the worst was over. I think I threw up a couple more times in the night and lived off lucozade for a couple of days.

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rtjams@reddit

Went to london and stayed with some friends, had a BBQ the Saturday and a roast the sunday before heading back. Felt rough on the train home, tried to nap, woke up dripping in sweat. Threw up all over myself and the carriage (which was packed). Conductor walked past, told me “you’ll have to clean that up mate” like cheers ?!??. Came back with newspaper & told me to move down a carriage where the toilet was and some spare seats. Threw up another 3/4 times. Got in a taxi home (no way was i able to drive my moped at the time lol!) threw up in the cab, taxi driver made a joke about it as it was a Sunday night. Got home, thankful to finally be in the comfort of my own home, only to trust a fart and literally shit the bed. Was bed/toilet ridden for 2-3 days and have never trusted food the same. It was absolutely awful

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dahid@reddit

Had a dodgy KFC once. It looked like new owners had taken over and they only accepted cash, no card. Me, my brother, mum and dad all had the shits for like 3-4 days it was hell. All these years later, I wonder what happened to that KFC. It was somewhere in Bristol.

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cvslfc123@reddit

I threw up a few times after eating a tuna Subway sandwich in 2008 but I don't know if it was food poisoning or a stomach bug

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Buttonmoon94@reddit

Had a dodgy Toby Carvery while staying at sister-in-law’s- the bedroom got up to 30C overnight, I was throwing up every 20 mins while dealing with a clingy breastfeeding baby who was also ill. Got maybe 20 mins of sleep over 48 hours and was hallucinating from fever and sleep deprivation.

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OccidentalTouriste@reddit

Travelling by ferry from Medan Indonesia to Georgetown Malaysia. Spent most of the three or four hour crossing in an absolutely horrific toilet, just managed to hold things together long enough to clear immigration. Loo stop before getting a bicycle rickshaw to my hotel. Just survived check in via mind control and clenching. Spent the next four days on medication and Yakult yoghurt alternating between the toilet and shower.

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dinivisim@reddit

Unknowingly being given 4 or 5 day leftover chickpea curry with rice that had been unrefrigerated, left out in summer, and reheated at least once but possibly twice. It was at a camp, and for some reason this hadn't been thrown out, and someone trying to be helpful gave it to me. I ate an enormous plate, weirdly it didn't taste bad. And then the person who gave it to me (that also ate a plate) got seconds, and someone who had been working in the kitchen happened to see, saying "don't eat that, it's been left out for days" etc... Luckily I made it home that day before being literally unable to move for several days. I think you can imagine what happened tbh. I honestly couldn't even keep water down for days but there was no one to look after me and I just slept lol. Never went to hospital but it took weeks to properly recover from

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suzienewshoes@reddit

Backpacking in Kathmandu, we decided to treat ourselves to a more expensive meal than the usual budget places we'd been going to. Cue both of us doing an Exorcist impression for the next week. Certainly a way of getting to know my then boyfriend, now husband, better. Tag teaming a toilet will do that for a relationship.

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Paulysax@reddit

Scotch egg bought in Italy (?) … sick as a dog, not had one since…

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Rude-Possibility4682@reddit

I'm not sure if it counts as food poisoning, but I ate some 'fresh' prawns off a stall at the seaside around 20 years ago. I have never shat so much in my life. 4 days solid, I've no idea where it was coming from,as I'd not eaten for 3 days. Just when I thought it had cleared up, I made a quick trip to the shop,to get a magazine, leant down to pick up the said item, and I could feel a warmth in my pants..I legged it back to the hotel,and stayed in the room for two more days.

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gingerbreadjelly@reddit

Prawns are potent!

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sunkathousandtimes@reddit

2 solid weeks, couldn’t keep anything in my body, lost a stone in weight. It triggered irritation in my stomach/intestines that meant I was experiencing the symptoms even after the infection had cleared, and I had to eat a liquid diet for a week to calm it down. Or the time I was nonstop vomiting for 24h. I was in so much pain from it - I pulled various stomach muscles from all the vomiting - and it was every 10 minutes. Couldn’t sleep, couldn’t keep anything down, even water; I was just in agony and having to vomit despite it. Even when my stomach was empty I was just vomiting bile every ten minutes.

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theoriginalShmook@reddit

Gastroenteritis. 2 weeks of not being able to be more than 10 feet from a toilet, with the overflow alarm constantly sounding at both ends of my body. I lost a stone in weight.

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HighlandsBen@reddit

Don't know exactly what food/water caused it, but I got a horrendous stomach bug in Morrocco. Had to travel on to Spain for a few days and then home, all the while having regular liquid movements (not much fun on the ferry, buses, plane). But the worst part was that my digestion/BMs were nowhere back to normal until FOUR WEEKS after getting home...

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Booboodelafalaise@reddit

I caught Ghiardiadis in West Africa. I have a vivid memory of sitting on the toilet, leaning forward so I could throw up at the same time. I had a temperature and was hallucinating and basically spent four days in the same position. Even after I recovered, I couldn’t face solid food for about another week. I lived on full sugar coke while I was away, gradually graduated up to dry white toast for about a month.

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Puzzleheaded-Ad-2982@reddit

Had is once from a dodgy mussel. 24 hours of constant puking and diarrhoea, followed by three days of feeling like death. Two days later I had a chest infection that turned into pneumonia, all because the food poisoning had destroyed my immune system.

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Hot_Diet_1276@reddit

I had food poisoning so bad from a chicken place, that I couldn’t eat solid food for 3 months afterwards. Lost about 4 stone too. Then put it back on within the next 3 months. Opportunity missed

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imokaytho@reddit

I had out of date hummus, only a few days old and I got intense stomach cramps that woke me up, went to the bathroom and my poo was watery and NEON YELLOW

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RiverLazyRiverLazy@reddit

My ol’ man gave me food poisoning during Covid, spent two days lying on the sofa. The worst part is that he was binge watching a detective series called Rosemary & Thyme (god awful sickly cosy mystery stuff). I wanted the Lord smite me down there and then.

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gerrineer@reddit

Lived in Spain ate a late night burger it was coming out both ends severely dehydrated theatetened with the sack knocked on roommate's door told him take me to hospital or kill me I didn't mind which.

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dopeyroo@reddit

My partner ended up spending the night before Christmas Eve in hospital due to a severe gastro bug (no idea where it came from). She was up all night and couldn't keep water down, so got really dehydrated. When she came home she had the most ridiculous Christmas dinner you've ever seen as her appetite was non existent. A little sliver of turkey, half a small roast potato, a tiny bite of a pig in a blanket etc. She was gutted that she couldn't enjoy it properly but she just couldn't eat much at all.

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SloightlyOnTheHuh@reddit

Compylobacter from a Greek restaurant. 14 days of ejection from both ends , enforced hydration with a threat of hospitalisation and a drip if I didn't drink. Drinking resulted in more ejection. Not a fun time

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Ok_Violinist5425@reddit

I once ate some street food in Varanasi, India and I can tell you I wouldn’t wish the result on my worst enemy!

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charley_warlzz@reddit

Only time i ever got food poisoning was when i was a teenager. It was delayed onset food poisoning, so I was okay the day/night after (albeit a little *off*) and then *violently* ill the next day, which was unfortunately when we were flying home after a holiday. I was liquidating everything in my stomach out both ends for about 4 days afterwards, and feverish, nauseous, struggling with keeping food down, and migraine-ridden for almost a full two weeks. Ended up going to the doctor around day 10/11 because it was still going on and she basically said it seemed to be getting better then anyway (my fever was starting to come down) so I’d be fine. It took a few more days for me to be up and functioning again, though. It was also the only time (outside of babyhood) that I’ve pooped myself. Spoiler for slight tmi: >!It was so bad that I thought I’d wet myself until I looked down at it, lol.!<

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jonpenryn@reddit

24hours of throwing up every 20 minutes, id sit on the settee watching the time, counting down before dashing to throw up the bile that built up in that 20 minuets. After a night of that trying to throw up is like your body trying to turn itself inside out.

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AwarenessHonest9030@reddit

Made my own pizza after making 1 at school and I don’t think I cooked it long enough and man it was the worst stomach aches, throwing, watery shits for like a week. I’ll never make homemade pizza again 😂

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Existing-Tax7068@reddit

I met this lady in hospital. She got food poisoning from chicken [effects of food poisoning ](https://www.colostomyuk.org/blog/rachel-two-stomas/)

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Archi-Nor@reddit

Supermarket sushi that was probably on the shelf too long (this was in Dubai some time ago). Woke up in middle of night purging from every orefice which severely dehydrated me. I fainted in the bathroom hitting the sink with my head on the way down. Broke my nose and got a concussion. Went down to find a taxi to a hospital and threw up everywhere in the lobby from the concussion. Good times.

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chickensinitaly@reddit

Campylobacter infection I got at work, I didn’t get it from food but worked at a food lab and managed to contaminate myself with the reference sample… I thought I was going to die, that’s not hyperbole, I have never been that ill. It was about two weeks before I was better.

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Notagelding@reddit

Years back, I had a slice or two of pizza at a new york railway station. I was really struggling afterwards and was bedridden for a couple of days. This included new years.

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Notagelding@reddit

Luckily I was staying with my sister in new jersey and she looker after me but I've never felt so ill!

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farrahs-faucet@reddit

Not 100% sure what caused it, but I was certain I was dying. When I was lying in bed the next day I had to lie completely still becaue even just moving my head to the side made me feel dizzy and faint, and my heart would start racing because I was that weak from constantly being sick.

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UK_FinHouAcc@reddit

You don't have a "small bout" of food poisoning, food poisoning is exactly that poisoning so you would need acute medical intervention. What you had was the shits and possibly some vomiting, which makes you feel bad. You were not poisoned.

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RaccoonInYourAttic@reddit

This is incorrect - food poisoning can just refer to symptoms caused by bacteria, or toxins left behind by bacteria, in food. Which includes the shits.

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CTLNBRN@reddit

No idea what caused it but it started with going hot and cold and feverish for a couple of days. During and after that I couldn’t keep food or water down for the best part of 10 days. Not eating was easier than the pain of the sickness. I was super weak by the end of it. I missed my last day of my previous job and it happened during the last two weeks of writing my Masters dissertation so I had to alternate between lying on the couch and writing. My partner had suffered something similar a year before and was found to have campylobacter. I didn’t go to my GP but the symptoms and duration were very similar during my ordeal.

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GlitchingGecko@reddit

Never had it. Never even had a bad stomach after eating food either. It's not hard to cook food til it's done, I don't know how so many people fail at it. Only thing I've had with those symptoms was Norovirus, which was horrendous. I never knew the human body could projectile vomit so far and so much. I thought I was going to suffocate because I couldn't breathe enough.

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Mischeese@reddit

Chip shop pie, must have been badly warmed up more than once. 3 days of puking and wanting to die. So grim.

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Demiboy94@reddit

Noravirus. Covid was better than that. Just over a week off everything constantly coming out of two orifices and nausea

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PeterGriffinsDog86@reddit

I went to the chippy one time when it was close to closing. They didn't seem too happy about taking my order but they could have just said no, i wouldn't have minded i even asked them if it was too late but they were like no it's fine what can we get you. So i got some goujons chips, onion rings and curry sauce. The chips were cold, goujons rubber and batter was soft and onion rings were also pretty soft. Curry was thick and cold. I ate it anyway as i was really hungry and paid for it. But i really shouldn't have. Ended up curling up in a ball for in extreme pain for hours, all i wanted was for it to be over. Then i threw up and after that, it kind of calmed down and i was ok. Don't know if that counts as food poisoning but it was terrible.

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sagima@reddit

All you can eat buffet. Spent four days only able to use the toilet opposite the shower as it was coming out of both ends with some force

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