What was the worst food poisoning you ever experienced?

Dalomanakora · 23-12-2018 04:45PM

About two months ago. Dunno what caused it but I think it was eggs.

Spent two days erupting from each orifice, by day 2 all that was coming out of both ends was blood, couldn't even hold down water.

At the time, I was being tested for Crohn's disease and the internet convinced me it was a "flare."

donkeykong5 · 23-12-2018 04:47PM

Kentucky fried chicken. Ended up in hospital. Never ever eaten it since.

Alf Veedersane · 23-12-2018 04:51PM

Was in Mexico 17 years ago...got some chicken in a place next to where we were staying. It had been kept warm in a bain marie. Two of us in the same room ended up with it....sitting on the jacks with your head over the sink for a couple of days. Often with smell of carnage after the other lad had a bout of the same...just in case you needed help vomiting.

Wanderer2010 · 23-12-2018 05:52PM

What would happen if it hit in the middle of a long flight? And you literally could not hold in the sh%t and vomit? Surely that has happened before? There comes a point when your body simply will NOT hold it in and it goes everywhere! I would imagine its very tricky because you would need a toilet all to yourself to prevent destroying the seats and people around you but then what do you do when turbulence hits and you need to be in your seat? I feel sorry for anyone in that situation, must be horrific.

AllForIt · 23-12-2018 06:44PM

Never got food poisoned touch wood. Became unwell from eating plums I pulled from a tree once one summer but I don't think that was food poisoning just they didn't agree with me. Well, not sure what happened there really, no vomiting anyway. Just long spells sitting on the you know what. Too much information on this thread already so I'll leave it there.

23-12-2018 06:59PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

What would happen if it hit in the middle of a long flight? And you literally could not hold in the sh%t and vomit? Surely that has happened before? There comes a point when your body simply will NOT hold it in and it goes everywhere! I would imagine its very tricky because you would need a toilet all to yourself to prevent destroying the seats and people around you but then what do you do when turbulence hits and you need to be in your seat? I feel sorry for anyone in that situation, must be horrific.

A workmate spent a 10 hour flight from India back to UK in the loo, evacuating from both ends, after a dodgy last night dinner venue.

There was lots of knocking on the door by crew and passengers, but he told the crew that he couldn't leave.

I had an Italian sausage at the market in the People's Park in Dun Laoghaire one Sunday afternoon about 13 years ago. I had a normal dinner at home, but at bedtime, the floodgates opened. I spent the whole night in the loo, capping and puking. It dried up by Monday morning, so I called in sick and went back to bed.

Against my better judgement, I went out at lunch time with the missus and mother in law. I took a mouthful of soup, and had to make a mad dash for the loo again. The two cubicle were full, so I had to take the disabled loo, and was mortified to have to ignore someone trying the door.

PandaPoo · 23-12-2018 07:43PM

I've never had food poisoning, I think I've just eaten so much crap over the years I'm immune. I used to get Chinese takeaway and eat the leftovers 4 or 5 days later!! I'd be a bit more picky now but still definitely eat it 2 days after.

Sorry posted too soon. My aunt was bad after she ate frozen broccoli that wasn't fully cooked. She was elderly and it almost killed her. So I'm very picky with broccoli

jmreire · 23-12-2018 07:49PM

Based on all the horror stories posted here,( and for sure they are horror stories....I know them only too well, but as they have been already well documented on this forum, I'll spare everyone the gory details of my personal experience's.....)
Has anyone had permanent damage done by one of these episodes? If so, what form did it take?

RasTa · 23-12-2018 08:15PM

Something dodgy in India, couldn't eat for 3 weeks afterwards. Decided to wait until I went back to Ireland to sort it although never really felt that bad. Although I did have a **** that was like a volcano erupting and I was in the squat position and missed

Came back and weighed 9 stone(I'm 6'3) and it turned out to be Salmonella/TB/Campylobacter/ some parasite plus some other stuff as they seemed to keep on finding new things every few days.

2 weeks in Blanch hospital on the old eat as much as I want diet then let out and a nurse coming to administer an IV drip for another 10 days on about 16 tablets daily on top of that. Insides are still fecked

steddyeddy · 23-12-2018 08:18PM

Drank several shots of tequila, whiskey and sambuca and the next day I remember feeling violently ill!

Aidric · 23-12-2018 08:27PM

My ex girlfriend, who by her own admission was a terrible cook, decided to make a pumpkin soup one evening and spread some pumpkin seeds on the top. It tasted fine but halfway during the night I woke up bent over with cramp and my stomach was making noises like a drain emptying.

Straight to the jacks and emptied a liquid explosion while at the same time trying to crane my neck in to the sink next to the toilet and wretched out watery puke. This continued for another 12 hours. Thank god we were living in an apartment with 2 bathrooms as she was in the other bathroom in the same state.

By the end of the following day with raw holes and throats we looked like death warmed up. Upon inspection the seeds were about a year out of date. Suffice to say she never cooked again.

Ohmeha · 23-12-2018 08:32PM

Got food poisoning 6 months ago after having fish from my work canteen during my lunch

Got home that evening was fine, then symptoms kicked in, felt as if I had grown a brick in my stomach, then an all nighter of severe stomach cramps and dehydration and it was 36 hours later before I felt I could eat anything again

The worst part of it all was that I got poisoned on the Friday so as I work Mon-Fri I lost my weekend trying to recover from it instead of taking a couple of sick days from my job when it was their canteen at fault

Four Phucs Ache · 23-12-2018 08:35PM

Microwaved a steak circa 1998...haven't done it since

23-12-2018 08:36PM

Got caffeine poisoning from drinking too much coffee a couple of times years ago..can't drink it since..I'm rattling a half hour after a cup now..

zapitastas · 23-12-2018 08:58PM

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

Microwaved a steak circa 1998...haven't done it since

Didn't make me sick but probably around the same year someone told me that the easiest and fastest way to make beans on toast was to put the beans between two slices of bread and put them into a sandwich maker. Did that and bit into it when done. The beans inside must have been about 3000 degrees. Mouth wrecked

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-12-2018 09:22PM

Never I have a stomach like a cement mixer

A hint of anything dodgy that enters my system it's gone within minutes

jmreire · 23-12-2018 10:23PM

RasTa wrote: »

Something dodgy in India, couldn't eat for 3 weeks afterwards. Decided to wait until I went back to Ireland to sort it although never really felt that bad. Although I did have a **** that was like a volcano erupting and I was in the squat position and missed

Came back and weighed 9 stone(I'm 6'3) and it turned out to be Salmonella/TB/Campylobacter/ some parasite plus some other stuff as they seemed to keep on finding new things every few days.

2 weeks in Blanch hospital on the old eat as much as I want diet then let out and a nurse coming to administer an IV drip for another 10 days on about 16 tablets daily on top of that. Insides are still fecked

How long ago was that RasTa? ( if you dont mind me asking? ) Are you still on medication to the present day? Or are there now certain food's /drinks etc that you cannot take? I mean how has it affected your life? or is everything back to normal?

Subcomandante Marcos · 23-12-2018 10:28PM

Can't remember what I ate, but it was in Peru.
Three of us laid out for nearly 2 days with explosive ****s before he ciproxin kicked in.

Captain Red Beard · 23-12-2018 10:39PM

There was a Lebanese food stall at a market selling falafel and dates and stuff wrapped in fig leaves. That was a Sunday morning, I stopped shitting the following Friday.

Sugar Free · 23-12-2018 10:49PM

In a 'Mexican' in Ko Phi Phi Don. I ate the side salad. Never eat the side salad...
I had a difficult choice to make several times as both ends of my GI tract were in active use and the sink was too far from the toilet. So I couldn't hit both at the same time. The only saving grace was that the bathroom was more like a wetroom in a hospital, so I could just hose it down afterwards with the shower head.

I got worried when I couldn't even keep water down, especially in 40C+ heat so I slammed a few loperamide tablets and hoped for the best. About two days later I was finally able to keep down some margherita pizza but it was a grim time. I didn't leave my room except to get more water. F uck that place, the only part of Thailand I didn't like.

GoneHome · 23-12-2018 11:03PM

Two weeks ago, had eaten pizza for dinner, wasn't feeling great all day, sudden onslaught of vomiting - just made it to the bathroom, thinking back on it I reckon it was the vomiting bug rather than the pizza but that just brought it on quicker, shudder.....

What was the worst food poisoning you ever experienced?

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