Any ever had it?
Cos I think I've managed to give myself it.....
Why is it I feel sooooo much better for half an hour or so after throwing up and can someone please gimme a tip that'll make me throw up every half hour or so? I've had only water all weekend, there's nothing left in there but water, chucking is easy and quite enjoyable given that I know I'll be feeling almost fine for a while afterwards.
If it wasn't a sodding bank holiday today I'd have been down the docs begging for activated charcoal tablets, guess where I'm going first thing in the morning. If I'm still alive......
I had salmonella a few years ago from some undercooked chicken at a wedding reception. It usually takes about a day to two days to really set in, so whatever you ate just before getting sick probably wasn't what caused your illness. If you are well enough to sit at the computer and type, you probably don't have salmonella. I didn't have health insurance at the time that I got sick, so I just tried to ride it out. I slept on the floor of my bathroom for a week straight. I couldn't afford to be any farther from either the toilet or trash can. If you have to throw up, you'd better sit down first. I slept as much as I could, wrapped up in towels because I was running a very very high fever and freezing my butt off. At some point I thought that I might die, but then I thought that if I did, at least I'd get to stop the constant vomiting and diarrehea. At some point I managed over several hours to crawl into the kitchen and got a piece of ice and ate it. I threw it back up immediately, still in frozen chunks. I ended up pulling through after about a week.
I'd guess that you probably don't have salmonella, but that you probably do have some other type of foodborne illness. They're surprisingly common. Reguardless, get yourself to a doctor as soon as possible, you can get badly dehydrated easily.
