yay for food poisoning

[PepperElf]

Now technically I don't have enough proof but... I'm pretty sure this came from the BBQ place we tried recently.

The meal was kinda "meh" to begin with. I ordered 2 meats - pulled pork and mutton. i ate the pork and the fries that came with it but only ate a little of the mutton. the pork was kinda meh and the mutton was salty.

but my desire to eat more suddenly vanished so I decided to save the mutton for later and we went to DQ for blizzards. Surprisingly... I couldn't finish my blizzard either. Same sudden loss of appetite.


We ate other fast food the next day - some fried fish and sides that we shared. So we pretty much ate the same thing. Except the hushpuppies. he hates those.


but sunday afternoon/evening ... we finished leftover roast - both ate it - and i ate my mutton.

My stomach felt weird - kinda like I was hungry, so I had a PB&J and... later that evening I realized I just felt sick. I thought it was a migraine so I took some pills for it and tried to sleep.

suddenly around midnight I realized it wasn't working and I ran to the bathroom to be sick. then I went back to bed, figuring I was done - as soon as I throw up my migraines vanish although it's NOT my preferred method for getting rid of them.



Oh how wrong I was. It wasn't over. This wasn't a migraine-throw up. It was my body trying to rid itself of something. I won't get into the icky details cos they were pretty gross but... in a nutshell I was (almost violently) sick until I had nothing left. I even managed to bruise my chest on the toilet.


We're pretty sure it's the mutton that did it - cos it was the only thing I ate that day that my BF didn't have. Well other than the PB&J but I'm pretty sure it wasn't that. I'm not going to bother talking to the restaurant. We're just not going back. They weren't that impressive to begin with.

But yeah that sucked. I haven't been THAT sick in a long time. Other than walking the dog, I pretty much went *nowhere* until Thursday. In fact on Wednesday I ran into one of the maintenance men while I was walking the dog... my "Hi" sounded so rough he asked if I was sick...

yeah. i threw up so much sunday night/monday morning that my vocal cords had taken a beating. It was a week before I could sing along with my CD to Les Miz without losing my voice.



so um yay. from now on we're sticking to other restaurants.

[Ironclad Alibi]

It is possible you got the norovirus, AKA Winter vomiting bug. It has affected a lot of people locally.

[kpzra]

It is possible you got the norovirus, AKA Winter vomiting bug. It has affected a lot of people locally.

This hit my entire family while we were in Michigan for the holidays. It would hit someone about every 2 days.

[PepperElf]

It is possible you got the norovirus, AKA Winter vomiting bug. It has affected a lot of people locally.

maybe. but it seems a bit odd that only i got it. everywhere i went was with him that weekend. so everything i was exposed to so was he.


still we're not going to back to that restaurant. even if they weren't guilty of giving me tainted meat... they still weren't that good.

not when there's better bbqs out here at similar prices

[BlaqueKatt]

food borne illness usually takes 12-24 hours to start symptoms, and can be as long as 72 hours-lots of variables with the little pathogens-I work with them every day.

[Rock Lobster]

Golden Corral and a trip to the ER for violent stomach pains and lots of running end bits and a Cat scan for possible blockages. Will never eat there again!

[SongsOfDragons]

food borne illness usually takes 12-24 hours to start symptoms, and can be as long as 72 hours-lots of variables with the little pathogens-I work with them every day.

Aye, many people forget this...it's still a little baffling though. What is it when you're sick for just one day as opposed to several; the '24-hour bug'?

[CoffeeMonkey]

maybe. but it seems a bit odd that only i got it. everywhere i went was with him that weekend. so everything i was exposed to so was he.


still we're not going to back to that restaurant. even if they weren't guilty of giving me tainted meat... they still weren't that good.

not when there's better bbqs out here at similar prices

It can be both! That is, it could be norovirus, and it could have come from the food.

The illness you had, wherever it came from, is gastroenteritis. Belly ache, basically, that has a variety of symptoms, and can come from all kinds of sources, including bacterial foodborne infections and viruses such as norovirus.

There are five illnesses which, if you are diagnosed with them, you are not legally allowed to work with food. Salmonella, E Coli, and Shigella are bacterial, and Hepatitis A and Norovirus are viral.

Viruses cannot reproduce in food, as they need a living host, but they can hang out in food. If you got norovirus from the mutton, the most likely thing is that someone carrying the virus handled the food improperly. It came into contact with unwashed hands, or some other unhygienic behavior.

You could ALSO have picked up norovirus from the hands of a cashier, or touching a surface recently touched by an infected person, or basically any circumstance in which someone did not properly wash their hands after using the rest room, and then touched you, or touched something that you then touched, and then you touch your mouth... delightful imagery, isn't it?

tl;dr I'm sorry you were sick. If I get rich and open my bakery, I will not let you get sick from my food.

[Joyius]

I once got food poisoning from McDonalds in North Carolina! Just sat in bed vomiting violently, a b*** who was staying with the family tried to get me to clean it up while I was still sick and waiting to go to the hospital. You can try and find my story in sightings.

[Food Lady]

CoffeeMonkey, if you open a bakery, please hire me! I love the magic of baking.

Pepperelf, I'm soooo sorry this happened to you. I hate barfing more than anything.

[PepperElf]

food borne illness usually takes 12-24 hours to start symptoms, and can be as long as 72 hours-lots of variables with the little pathogens-I work with them every day.

http://www.fda.gov/food/resourcesfor.../ucm103263.htm
although more common ones are 12-48, some can be up to a month.


and yeah i understand it might not have been that restaurant. however that doesn't change the fact that the rest of the food wasn't that great. so even if i hadn't gotten so sick we wouldn't be going back anyway.

[CoffeeMonkey]

CoffeeMonkey, if you open a bakery, please hire me! I love the magic of baking.

Will you commute to the Detroitish area? Sling lattes? Help me ace my health dept inspections? Yes? Let's rock! I'll pm you when my lotto ticket comes through.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Food poisoning doesn't have to wait 12 hours before you get sick. I speak from personal experience.

I was a kid, and Mom made me some egg drop soup with a can of Campbell's chicken broth that had gone bad. She knew it was just past the expiration date, but thought it would still be good. I got sick really quickly after I finished that soup.

Since then, we've always been careful with expiration dates.

[EricKei]

Since then, we've always been careful with expiration dates.

I tend to be paranoid about them, myself. In part, for fear of this happening...In part, because I have known (and lived with) people who felt that it was OK to disregard them entirely ("it's just a scam to sell more food, man!"), leave raw meat out on the counter to thaw for the better part of a day (without submerging it in cold water or taking other (theoretically effective) precautions), etc etc >_<

[Tama]

There was the case of this one lad that I saw on Forensic Files, I think his name was Damien, and I believe it took more than a day for his food poisoning (E. Coli) to develop.

And he was sick for well over a month. I'm glad you didn't have to suffer through that.