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Main Forums => Living With HIV => Topic started by: a2z on December 04, 2008, 12:38:07 am
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I am wondering if anyone here has dealt with food poisioning.
I definitelly got my flu shot early on (October) and on Monday I was feeling basically fine, but slightly tired - as I had traveled on a plane 2 days earlier - I went home and my stomach made these AWFUL gurguling noises. The trick was...I wasn't hungry. I also started to taste and feel like I had two beers, without the pleasant buzz sensation.
Then I shat liquid. Lots of it. Over and over and over and over again. Immodium, for the first time, wasn't working. (I love that drug, even when I was negative!)
I went to the doctor the next day and he's currently running tests on four stool samples.s Hurry up and wait. I took my meds that night with chicken soup and a little cheese, as that was all I could tolerate eating. Tonight I upped it to mac and cheese but am really queasy.
I am taking something called Diphen/Atrop 2.5MG for my runs. Lomotil equivalent. After 36 hours the situation only seems a little better. (Great for dieting, lousy for work and I get paid by the hour.)
Mostly I am venting, but I'll gladly listen to advice/past experiences while waiting for the results.
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sounds like mild food poisoning to me. The "run for the exit" activity coupled with the "bubble trouble" internally.
I've had it twice, both before I was neg. I'm now food-paranoid. I will go hungry before I eat suspicious food. I don't eat leftovers, I'm eagle-eyed about cleanliness at restaurant's and other people's homes. I walk out if it isn't clean in a restaurant.
My dog is quite happy to eat all the leftovers for me... so nothing goes to waste. lol.
Food poisoning is generally a 1 or 2 day ordeal. Sadly, both of my adventures with it were so gut wrenching and awful that my seroconversion sickness seemed mild. I told my ID doc, "well seroconversion is supposed to be awful, but food poisoning made me wish I was dead. HIV was just inconvenient."
It's supposed to be very dangerous for us to get food poisoning. I joke that my newest pet, HIV, likes to bring home friends and have a party. It's on restriction. No dessert, and it can leave.... short of that it can go hide somewhere in my body.
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we ate at a Philly steak place in Las Vegas , got the worst food poisoning
i have ever had !
i pooped and vomited for days .
not a fun week for me or my honey .
I do not think ,only for me , that food poisoning is ever fun .
it is very dangerous for us with AIDS , and surely anyone with HIV .
I check out everything ,like hotpuppy said if it not clean looking i leave .
if at a family function , i take "doggy bags " of witch i feed to the possums and racoons !
you can not be too careful about clean and safe food .
happy eatting ,
Karl :-*