I have been poisoned twice. Once was back in high school from chicken at a resaurant. I was hospitalized..... the whole nine yards. And the other time was last year when I went to Punta Cana. It was THE WORST ever!!! I was very careful to drink and brush my teeth with bottled water but as it turns out the ice took it's toll on me. I completely over looked it. So next time you go to a tropical resort, think twice about those margaritas.

I'm one of those irritating people: lifelong vegetarian, now vegan, stomach like cast-iron, never had food poisioning (probably because I've never eaten meat). I'm not even that careful with use by dates but am cautious on holiday and with cross-contamination. However that doesn't make me immune to other people - a hug from a friend was all it took to pass her gastroenteritis on to me - yuk!

i've had it a couple times and it's the WORST feeling in the entire world. i remember just being so miserable that i took my blanket and pillow into the bathroom to sleep since i knew that i would be up all night!

I just had it during Christmas. I graduated with my Masters degree this december, and we went out to celebrate. My mother and father in law both got it, my dad, and me. It was so horrible I cannot even tell you. And, to ruin Christmas was the ultimate. We found out, some other people who graduated with me got it also, with the grand total adding up to 17 people just in our tiny little circle. Getting food poison from your favorite Mexican restaurant is terrible, especially when they say "They have never had a case of food poisoning in the many years they have been in operation". Yah right, I say please dont get defensive, just accept the responsibility.

Try enduring a food poisoning in a 16 hour flight. It was excruciating and gross, I threw up in my blanket, my dress, my dinner and breakfast napkins. I couldn't sleep and I just felt like crap the whole time. I'm never eating fish and chips from the airport again.

Here's my story, last January my boyfriend (at the time) and my parents and I went to Cabo for a week, the first night my man proposed at dinner in front of my parents Then the night before our last day there we wanted to celebrate so we went to Cabo Wabo. We all ordered the lobster burrito - never again! That night all of us except my mom (who never gets sick) were up all night exploding, I swear on my life that there were living parasites in the toilet after I threw up, my fiancee and dad saw them too!!! I have not yet eaten any more lobster and I doubt I ever will again....

I've had food poisoning once. I thought I was dying. I have never eaten at the restaurant since either. I just can't bring myself to go back after I spent most of an evening and all night hugging the toilet.

Ah I ate bagel and cream cheese, the next day I felt like I had bowling ball in my stomach. I could walk straight and I had incredible stomach pains. First day I was constantly n the bathroom. The second day it was back to normal (the bathroom stuff) but my stomach was hurting like someone kicked me in it. I couldn't sleep and this was goin on for 2 weeks. Then it finally went away. I hate stomach pains. And I hate that there isn't really anything you can do. You just have to start eating normal as soon as posible. What also helps me is a lot of sleep, sleep and sleeep and tea and ginger ale but it has to b flat and warm. That made my stomach pains little bit better.

Oh and once I had it from chinese food. I was throwing up and pooping at the same time. Oh it was painful and I had very high fever. Again I just slept and it went away.

1st time when i was 8 r 9

and i'v been having one almost every year

I had food poisoning in high school after eating a Johnny Rockets hamburger. My friend and I ate there and then went to a movie. I made it through the movie then puked outside the theater - so embarrassing to do this at the mall on a Friday night. I spent the rest of the weekend in the bathroom. I was so dehydrated I was delirious. It was the worst experience ever! My stomach has never been the same.

Quite a few times. I hate it, but I feel so much better afterwards!

Yep, on various occasions from different foods but luckily nothing as bad as what some others have described. Reading this makes me completely paranoid about getting especially sick from it.

huh, TheEnchantedOne, I got it from an airport once too!
I ate a bowl of bad turkey chili in a Canadian airport and was ill for almost 2 days. My stomach churns just thinking about it

No, I've never had it before. But it seems terrible to have.

Yup - I've had it twice also - once from salad (probably the dressing) and once from pizza. The worst part about the pizza was that I only ate about 4 bites of it, and then was like, hmmmmm.... this tastes funny, so stopped eating, thinking it wouldn't be so bad.

I was THE SICKEST I'VE EVER BEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

I literally thought I was going to die. I finally fell asleep after hours, HOURS of vomiting, with my face against the toilet base, and woke up feeling like I wasn't sure if I had survived or was in hell. It was one of the worst nights of my life. I'm really careful about what I eat now, and I had a similar experience with a salad bar salad, so I refuse to eat from salad bars anymore.

The worst was when I was out of the country and traveling the following day. I was up all night in agony, then had to go to the airport the next day, travel on a plane for a while, and then clear customs. Agony I tell ya, agony. It took almost a week to return back to normal.

Yes and it was painful. It almost feels like you live in the bathroom for like 3 days.

I had food poisoning in college after eating the meat sauce from the school cafeteria. Me and ten others were hospitalized because of it. Being away from home and being sick is bad, but being hospitalized on top of it is the worst ever!

I had an episode about this time last year. It first hit me about 5 a.m. during a training appointment at the gym - he had been working me pretty hard, so I thought it was just a reaction to the strenuous exercise. So I went back to the workout and I was pretty proud of myself. But then I went home and I kept throwing up ... and then I realized it probably wasn't a reaction to the workout! It lasted about a day and I went back to work the next day.

The night before I had eaten this great salad - with apples and nuts and chicken - but now I'll never eat it again! I also can't go back to that trainer. Too embarrassing!

I had it eating oysters... grant it I shouldn't eat 30 oysters in one sitting, but they were so good. But, I was feeling it hard core for an entire week.

I got food poisoning from eating bad bean sprouts and I was sick for two whole weeks.

It was horrible.

I've had it more often in recent years...I think last year I had it about 4 times [yikes]!

1. This one Chili's all my friends went to...if you didn't order things that were fried or otherwise fatty, they could never cook it right. I got sick from badly cooked broccoli once, and then from grilled chicken in a fajita order.

2. Went to a wedding, ALL of the salad was tainted...pretty much everyone [priests and nuns, the bride] who had salad ended up sick for a week or in the ER. It even made the news!

3. Some lettuce that was slightly bad [even though it was in date, stored properly and didn't look bad].

As you can imagine, I'm VERY wary of pretty much any food I buy or eat now. it kind of sucks that I have to be really picky about stuff, but it's either that or dizziness over the toilet or going to the ER @_@

No thank God!

yep! SO. NOT. FUN!!!

I have had food poisoning (botulism) no less than 5 times. The first time I recall getting botulism was from something my dad served for dinner. My brother, my dad and I ate my dad's rotten meal and within hours we were all puking etc. My sister eventually took us all to the hospital for treatment. I was 13 at the time.

The next time is was just me who got it. I was so sick so fast that my dad called an ambulance. IV fluids,and hours of treatment and I started to feel just miserable rather than near death.

When I first moved to SF I ate at this restaurant 'Golden Era' which is around the corner from my apartment. Again within an hour I wasn't feeling well. Within three hours I was in an ambulance on my way to General Hospital. I had to speak with the SF Health Dept and they went to my apartment and collected my leftovers from the restaurant. Yup salmonella from the food. I spent a few days in the hospital getting IV fluids, electrolytes, potassium and everything they could throw at me to try to stop system failures. Fun, not.

The last time was accidentally self-induced. I was driving the 24-Divisadero bus all day. I had packed my lunch myself and had bought fresh cantaloupe which I had cut into cubes and put in a glad lock container. I set my lunchbox on the dashboard while I worked for 10 hours straight. The day was a scorcher - at least 90 in August of 2006. While my bus broke down so I found got a chance to eat my lunch. I ate my pb&j then I decided to just eat the melon. Bad idea. I hadn't washed the rind of the melon before I cut it and it was infested with salmonella among other things. I ate all of the refreshing melon. So finally the tow truck came and fixed my bus and I got to go home after 11 hours at work. I was home about two hours before I started vomiting violently. Then I had diarrhea. Then I started having convulsions. I called my doctor and she called an ambulance. Off to CPMC medical center where they swabbed things and again IV fluids, drugs, meds to stop me from vomiting so violently. I was throwing up blood by this time. After several hours the ER doctor said food poisoning. I stayed in the ER overnight with a high fever and vomiting and the rest - I guess they were short on beds due to the mini-heatwave. I apparently kept telling the nurses that I had to report for work at MUNI by 7am. I kept saying "I've gotta go to work." They of course wouldn't let me so they found my MUNI ID and looked in my address book and called my division and tried to tell them I was in the hospital with severe food poisoning. The bastards at work refused to accept the word of the RN, then of the ER doctor treating me, so they put me on the phone where I had the most incoherent rambling convo with my supervisor. Finally the doctor said enough and said "she won't be in today or for the rest of the work cause you're a dick. You got a problem call the Chief of Staff at CPMC." And he hung up.

48 hours later they released me and I went home and stayed there until my supervisor called to yell at me for missing my shifts. SO I dragged myself out of bed and over to my division with the note from the doctors. The supervisor saw me and told me to go home and said "You cannot have other people call in on your behalf. Even if your unconscious." Huh? "The city just won't accept that sort of thing." Then the supervisor says, "So you're going to drive tonight?" At which point I passed out right there in the office. Back to the hospital, this time General. Finally, the supervisor accepted that I was sick and gave me the time off from MUNI.

Not only did I have botulism but I had heat stroke that hadn't been recognized because they were so concerned about the botulism.

That was the last time I had food poisoning - I wash everything I eat, I rarely eat out and I usually do not eat food prepared by people that might be unhygienic. The thing that I want to really say is if you think or know that you got food poisoning from a restaurant - you should (I would say Must but) call the Health Department for the city where you live and report it. It could be the difference between life or death for the next patron.

I get food poisoning very easily so it made be a little obsessed about cleanliness in the kitchen and fresh products. I try not to eat out and mostly eat food that I've cooked myself. My poor mom, whenever I come over her house and she's cooking I watch over her shoulder to make sure all products are clean and fresh. It's a bit too much, I know, but I have had some very bad experiences and too many of them.
The worst one though - and E. Coli infection when I was a kid. I was in a hospital for about 2-3 weeks and when I was discharged I couldn't even eat normal foods for a while. So be careful of what you eat and how it's prepared because much of this can be avoided

I have and it wasn't nice at all!

I had a terrible evening of it after I ate a bunch of fruit samples from the farmer's market. Explosions of all sorts (ahem) and I was so sweaty and hot that I ran out of the house and set off my father's home alarm in the middle of the night...oops.
I still love going to the weekly market, but I'll be damned if I'm going to eat anything from those sample bowls. I'll wash and cut it myself when I get home...thoroughly!!

I had salmonella 5 years ago, because of a bad chicken burger.
I remember myself crawling and shaking in pain on my couch, feeling my stomach and my gastric tube like it was going to blow,
I was sick as a dog, all you do is throwing up and you know what.

The doctor said that behind his desk he could hear the noise of my stomach!

I had it for my BIRTHDAY last year. Pretty sure I picked it up at the community college where I'd been taking a class. Bad things coming out of both ends. Was really glad that the bathtub was right next to the toilet. Lost about ten pounds, partly from dehydration and partly because I was afraid to eat ANYTHING for weeks after I started feeling better.

I got it from a salad bar. It was coming out of both ends for a couple of days! Needless to say, the place I got it from went out of business, and I do not go to salad bars anymore!

I got food poisoning from the very lovely restaurant meal we had on New Years - lots of seafood I'm guessing it might have been the oysters. Me and my friend both felt fine on the 1st but the next morning we both started feeling really crappy and thought that it was from the chicken we cooked for us two - when 6 other people from the New Years party got sick we were at least greatful that its not due to us being unhygienic.
Its quite the joke actually I made it through Asia and Egypt without any problems and now fell sick in Italy

The only other time I had it was when a male friend at university cooked for me and his mother apparently had never told him that minced meat goes bad really fast.

Yep, had it in college. Think it was my veggie taco that had some cross-contamination. My roommate was out for the night (saving me some embarassment), so I spent all night in the bathroom (some of it just laying on the floor) talking to the on-call nurse from the health center. I thought I would never feel better...

My boyfriend and I got it this weekend from eating the shrimp caprese at Olive Garden! I have never felt that bad my entire life and that includes having back labor with my daughter! He and I were in that bathroom all night and day and it wasn't pretty, plus we had our 15month old to try to take care of in between. I will never be able to eat Olive Garden again...and as of now nothing sounds good. I did lose 6 pounds though. Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy it was that bad!

Yep, last summer I got it from a bad Arby's roast beef sandwich. That night I was up all night puking and having to literally change my pants everytime I puked. I tried taking phenegren, but I just kept throwing it up and it made me sleep the whole next day. It was the worst experience of my life. I am now extremely paranoid about eating and I worry about it constantly. It sucks, but whatever.