Maybe it wasn't the milk meeting lime

[pseydtonne]

So the pain did not go away when I took some Tums. In fact it eventually got worse and stayed very painful most of the night. I slept about ninety minutes when the object of pain moved from my stomach to my small intestine. Once it hit my large intestine, the excruciating pain was back with a vengeance and did not end until the waste was gone.

By the way: I never realized the word "excruciating" was from the Latin for "out of the cross" until I misspelled it above. I had "excrut-" and then it fixed when I made it "excruc-". I then thought about the Vulgate words for cross and realized the word refers to pain like that of Jesus on the Cross. Hmmm... I'd say the pain was a 7 or 8 but not a Good Friday sort of scene. I would have begged anyone for a sedative but I knew I was simply waiting for a plop.

That felt like food poisoning from my experience. The slight hallucination (I had one song stuck deeply in my head most of the time) and diminution of pain when I sat up and the complete ability to pass out once the pain was over (and sleep for seven hours) go with my experiences of food poisoning.

There are three culprits:

1. Twinkie: I haven't had one in a year and Kibo bought some. I had one right before I made tea and limewater.
   
2. Milk going bad: the milk carton was near the end. Since I bought a new carton earlier, I dump the remainder and switched to the new carton for this morning's... err, mid-afternoon's cup.
   
3. Something I ate at IHOP: Kibo and I went there for dinner. I had a steak and salsa omelet with hot sauce and some of a grain & nut pancake. I'd like to think the hot sauce would have killed anything but perhaps it was a culprit. Since I consume more than a normal share of hot sauces these days (because Boston food is boring when it isn't ethnic), I don't want to suspect the sauce. Nevertheless, it was a sauce I had never had before. I liked it, though. I also had two hours between the hot sauce and the pain.
   

Thank you all for your comments and concern. It's interesting that only females replied.

-off to read proudlyfallen's answer to my sense memory assignment, Dante

Comments

[starphire.livejournal.com]

I think the hot sauce an unlikely culprit: it's naturally preserved by a high salt and vinegar content, unless this is some kind of weird nontraditional hot sauce.
I would have said the Twinkie wasn't likely, either, if I hadn't bothered to check snopes about their alleged 25 year shelf life. Alas, it's only 25 days. So who knows, maybe Hostess IS to blame?

In my experience, food poisoning seems to manifest itself about 4 hours after ingesting something tainted. 2 hours seems fast, but who knows? Also, I'd expect worse than just GI pain, i.e. rapid expulsion of the offending substance.

[bluepapercup]

Food poisioning, from the mild to the extreme, always sucks. I am so glad that yours passed relatively quickly, and that you're better today!

Could have been any of the things you ate at IHOP - old steak, off eggs, whatever...but it's fun to blame the twinkie. ;)