Help! Well, I got food poisoning Believe or not it wasn’t fast food… Some fancy restaurant!

baimun said:
Just stay away from day old clam chowder. :helper:

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I had some clam chowder in Maryland the day before my brothers first wedding and got as sick as I’ve ever been in my life. Missed the wedding entirely and was fine the next day. He got married again recently. No clam chowder. Made the wedding. Thanks bro
 
I’m an Olympic level food poisoning competitor.

Meatloaf at the Happy Chef in Iowa on the way to Minneapolis as a kid. Dining hall cold cuts during summer session in college. Twice from the same Chinese take out joint in college. A suspiciously discounted frozen Canadian Bacon pizza from the HyVee.

Luckily it’s been a little while, but I’ve generally got an iron gut and am willing to eat stuff that would knock a buzzard off a shit wagon. And that leads to risk taking behavior — like a scoop of the open pot organ meet slurry at a Japanese bar in some alley, NYC street meat, raw critters, tamales sold out of a cooler at a punk rock show, etc. I’ve also written my fair share of food handling/food safety docs. Is rarely the weird shit that causes problems. Poorly cooled starches and sauces, cross contamination, poorly washed greens, precut fruit, lousy hand sanitation — that’s what gets you.

Good luck, Smurfco. I’m sure your butthole will be back to normal in no time.
 
First, after dining at a nice Ibdian restaurant. Within 30 minutes,, I was shivering. No diarrhea, but was cold all night. Fine the next morning.

The second time, after eating food from the local Burger King. Shortly afterwards, I had diarrhea, and was burning up. I was laying naked on my bathroom tile floor, try to cool off. Luckily, I felt better in a few hours. I was leaving on vacation the next day.
 
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Woke up with bad chest pain. I have had some heart issues before so I came to the ER to be safe and they say one of my heart enzymes is elevated… still pretty sure it is just muscular pain from throwing up so hard, but the enzyme could mean one of several issues with the heart so I guess better safe than sorry…
 
Well they say i had a cardiac incident. But thankfully there does not appear to be any damage… Going to get a catheterization tomorrow morning to see what’s what…
 
Getting discharged now. Had a heart attack technically due to the enzyme levels but there was no damage and the catheterization I did today showed no need for a stint or angio.

Lying in the procedure room waiting for the cath to start was the most scared I’ve been in a long time - not so much about the procedure (though i was anxious about that too) but about what it might discover. I’m super relieved and also exhausted and looking forward to going home…
 
smurfco said:
Getting discharged now. Had a heart attack technically due to the enzyme levels but there was no damage and the catheterization I did today showed no need for a stint or angio.

Lying in the procedure room waiting for the cath to start was the most scared I’ve been in a long time - not so much about the procedure (though i was anxious about that too) but about what it might discover. I’m super relieved and also exhausted and looking forward to going home…
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holy shit man, did you have the heart attack because of the food poisoning?
 
rhino said:
holy shit man, did you have the heart attack because of the food poisoning?
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Kind of…. It has happened before, although it had been 20+ years. Basically my heart has a peculiar shape in one of the arteries where if i really hammer it with a bunch of sustained stress i.e. severe sustained vomiting it can spasm shut. It doesn’t happen a lot obviously (I didn’t think it Everwood again) but the good news is, it does not appear that there was any damage at all. The cardiologist I saw seem to really good, and he is tweaking the medication. I was already taking to make this even less likely going forward.
 
smurfco said:
Cheer me up, please, I spent the entire night from 10 PM last night until now puking and shitting my guts out. I’ve got a fever and chills. I have a bunch of Pedialyte here but if I can’t keep anything down, I’m going to have to go get some fluids or something because I have been pretty drained. Tell me about your worst experience or tell me something funny or nice to cheer me up please, please do this quickly. Thank you.
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I hope that you're better soon.

This reminded me of the jeans review that you did that time so I looked it up and read it to a coworker. My laughter interrupted the reading 3 times in that short review. After this much time, that is a major indicator of quality.
 
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