Flu or Food Poisoning?

[DrinkMore]

Today at work, we had a thanksgiving party. Plenty of food abound. Ate some deli sliced turkey, stuffing, gravey and mashers. A few hours later, I started to feel weighed down. Just thought it was the food. However towards the end of the night, I got weak, chilli, my muscles ached. Went home, took a shower and the cold shakes set in. Felt lile I was freezing. Turned up the heat and piled on the blankets. Still cold but I slept after the shivering subsided.

Half hour a go, I spring out of bed and bareley make it to the bathroom. Let's just say it was like a scene from the exorcist. After puking my guts out, I felt better. However, I am lying in bed with bareley enough energy to post this. Taken me 20 minutes so far. I am drained. Thank whoever for my iphone!

So does that sound like flu or food poisoning? Had no previous signs today. Was just fine

[katharsis]

Sounds more like food poisoning to me.
I just got rid of the flu and had similar symptoms, but no throwing up or the stomach sick feeling. If it's not any better tomorrow you should see a doctor.
Especially if you still have the chills and keep having deja vu moments about that special Exorcist scene. Food poisoning can be pretty dangerous, depending on what you ate... undercooked turkey as dangerous as undercooked chicken?

Drink lots of water so your body keeps hydrated. Tea if you can (something soothing for the stomach) and eat some chicken soup or broth, or crackers. If you can keep that down you should be alright.

Maybe check with your coworkers if someone else got sick?!

Hope you feel better soon!

[DrinkMore]

Originally Posted by katharsis

Sounds more like food poisoning to me.
I just got rid of the flu and had similar symptoms, but no throwing up or the stomach sick feeling. If it's not any better tomorrow you should see a doctor.
Especially if you still have the chills and keep having deja vu moments about that special Exorcist scene. Food poisoning can be pretty dangerous, depending on what you ate... undercooked turkey as dangerous as undercooked chicken?

Drink lots of water so your body keeps hydrated. Tea if you can (something soothing for the stomach) and eat some chicken soup or broth, or crackers. If you can keep that down you should be alright.

Maybe check with your coworkers if someone else got sick?!

Hope you feel better soon!

I just had the pleasure of another purge job. All my juice I drank is gone. Going to see if someone can get me some Gatorade. Chills appear to be gone. I have one he'll of a headache. I hope nobody else is going through this. Not fun.

Thanks for the get well!

[CrabbyAzz]

Definitely sounds like food poisoning. You should call some of your co-workers and see if they have any problems. A catered lunch sickened about 30 people where I work a few years back.

[bhampton]

I had a flu shot so ... would have been food poison-ing for me.

Catering must be stressful. Sometimes you make all your clients ill and then it's pretty clear who's at fault (to some extent).

I hope you feel better. I rarely barf but I expect to feel better right after.

[camper]

Either way I'd see your doctor. I had something like this a while back, and the doc told me it was good I came in. Depending on the severity and what caused it, it could really screw up your system and is sometimes fatal. If you have other factors that affect your liver (like Hep-A because some fool at Waffle House didn't wash their hands after crapping) then you want to get checked out to make sure it's not too serious a case.

camper

[mikejet]

Def. food poisoning. Go see your doctor if your don't feel better.

The headache could be a combination of the illness/dehydration/low sugar. Try to keep the Gatorade down if you can. If you continually vomit then go straight to the doctor.

[Marquoz]

I think this is just a ploy to get out of going to thanksgiving dinner with the family! You can admit it to us, we won't forward the thread to your family, we promise.


On a more serious note, I hope that you get better soon!