Avoiding places where you’ve been ill

[Dunarunner]

Well places and things associated with being ill. If I’ve ever been somewhere where I’ve had a bad cold or bug, I then associate it with being ill and don’t really want to go back there, even though rationally I know it has nothing to do with me getting ill. Same with distinctive things I’ve eaten around the time of getting ill, even though they’re impossible/unlikely to have been the cause. Does anyone else get this? Isn’t the brain weird?

On my avoid list are

A certain hotel in Scotland, where I arrived for a wedding but then came down with the flu and couldn’t go. I had a room service BLT there and therefore cant eat BLTs ever again because they remind me of the flu shivers

Crunchie bars - ate one as I was coming down with bad chest infection, now ruined forever

Peanut brittle - had some and later that day had d&v. Obviously not related but for me now peanut +sweet things = vom

Also a holiday destination in south of France where I had morning sickness. I don’t want to say the whole of the south of France is forever tainted with the sensation of vomiting, but it kind of is...

I can’t drink cider because it reminds me of throwing up as a teenager.

My husband also cant stand cider from his uni days when they were 50p a pint!

No, I'm rarely sick and wouldn't boycott a place even if I was. DH got diarrhoea in Thailand once, and I was nibbled on by sea lice, but I've been back several times since without incident! Also, if you are ill and living in the hotel room, its nice to return to see the places you missed.

Vodka and lime-after a bit of a night out in Birmingham city centre in my teens I have never drunk it again.

Heinz tomato soup-can't eat it unless I am ill as it reminds me of feeling ill.

I haven't felt the same about stir fries since being very sick after one, but I might try one again soon.

It’s not that I’d boycott the place because it wasn’t the reason I got ill, it just by body/subconscious doesn’t seem to agree. I just have to picture the place/food in my mind’s eye and I feel sick again! Funnily enough I’m fine with red wine, despite multiple bad nights!

I haven't eaten a banana since I was seasick, about 4yrs old. Bananas make me seasick. I still can't be around them, 50 years on.

I avoid foods that have, in the past, given me food poisoning.
I know it’s crazy because it was obviously just bad luck (the food not stored or prepared properly / handled my someone who hadn’t washed their hands etc) and that was the reason for the food poisoning, rather than the actual type of food itself iyswim.
But those foods now just remind me of being sick and it puts me off, which I think is pretty reasonable and common.

I can’t drink red wine because of one bad hangover 15 years ago. The mere smell of it makes me feel sick. I used to love a glass of red

I can't eat fishermans friends as it reminds me of the time I had glandular fever. Never been so ill.

When I hear Rollercoaster by Ronan Keating and Like a Bird by Nelly Furtado it makes me feel nauseous as I had bad morning sickness when those songs were out.

Rum punch! The devil's work.
Garlic, crucifixes, the holy water... they all come straight out for rum punch. I won't touch it or rum after a near-death-by-rum-punch experience when I was 21.

Green olives and chardonnay (very '90s). Ugh. I can still feel that burning in the back of my throat. Ulcerative memories.

I developed Hyperemisis Gravidarium (sic?) at the beginning of a 3 week trip to Sri Lanka.

I can never go back there... I couldn't even think about my holiday there for a good year afterwards as it would make me nauseous.

Amazing country- forever tainted!

Yes!! Couldn’t eat hummous for years after getting food poisoning from it. Same for smoked salmon bagels after getting one when far too drunk (Brick Lane! I know it’s not a standard drunk choice ).

Morning sickness put me off a lovely Molton Brown shower gel. Just makes me feel sick. I also had lots of bleeding during 2nd trimester and the smell of a Korres shower gel that I was using at the time makes me feel anxious and sad.

Smells are such a powerful thing.

Won't go to Edinburgh thanks to morning sickness.

Feel fine about Barcelona itself but Barcelona Airport is a no go thanks to a panic attack

Steak and kidney pie was my last meal before sunstroke hit and I havent eaten it since so about 15 years (the frey bentos ones. A pub one is fine!)

I also had to move out of my old house thanks to severe PND. It sounds extream but it was a 2 up, 2 down so I felt trapped in the front room constantly. Moving on from there helped me move on with life again

It wouldn't stop me going back but any mention of Cuba reminds me of salmonella poisoning and projectile vomit.
Can't even look at a bottle of Southen Comfort let alone smell it .....!

I got bad food poisoning from some street vendor pistachios on holiday in Naxos many years ago. I wouldn't go back to Naxos for a number of reasons but that's top of the list (and I have never eaten pistachios again either).

@HairyFloppins anything Ronan keating makes me queasy and I didn’t have morning sickness when he had a song out

And I forgot, orange matchmakers are the flavour of pregnancy nausea and always will be. And Lotus Biscotf spread by the jar is the flavour of abject despair during a bereavement which is a shame

And I can never take the Red Eye from NYC again as that is a migraine

Rum & blackcurrant. I was mega shitfaced on my 21st and had downed substantial quantities of beer, cider and Malibu&pineapple juice. At the end of the night I simply had to order a drink I'd never tried before in rum&black. I became extremely friendly with the toilet bowl that night and DP though it was so funny she ordered a little plaque for above the loo (that we still have over 20 years later) which reads "Why do you only hug me when you're drunk?" sigh....

"Why do you only hug me when you're drunk?"

I was eating a coronation chicken sandwich when my contractions suddenly started going crazy while I was in labour. I was really hungry and the contractions weren't too bad before I started eating it but they came on so quickly. Now I just remember trying to eat this bloody sandwich whilst being in so much pain 😂 haven't had a coronation chicken sandwich since.

I can't play Candy Crush or games like it as when I was newly pregnant it made me nauseous

I went to Finmere Sunday Market over 30 years ago, and had some takeaway food from a stall there. The following day I started throwing up and spent the next week suffering from far and away the worst stomach bug I have ever had in my entire life.

The last thing I ate (about an hour before starting to throw up) was a Bounty bar, so not only have I had an aversion to coconut for decades, but I can't even drive past a road sign with 'Finmere' written on it without shuddering.

Chinese chicken curry and fried rice.
Norovirus hit a few hours after eating it.
Irn bru is morning sickness.
Heinz cream of chicken soup is childhood illness.

I get you op!

As a 16 year old I was very sick after drinking ted wine, gin and brandy. It took me many years to like red wine, even more to drink gin and I'm still not over brandy.

When we went to Turkey we both had diarrhoea and I couldn't imagine going back.

Was just talking to my husband about a hotel we stayed in for his 30th. I got a virus and had shivers etc. Our memories are do different because of this.

Prawn cocktail Pringles taste of crippling anxiety and depression after DC2 was born and everything had gone tits up.