Ate raw oysters. Why am I such an idiot?!

[MadameSzyszkoBohusz]

I know the UK coast is being pumped full of raw sewage, so what the hell was I thinking?!!

Now I’m as sick as a dog (well not my dog, he’s snoozing right to me quite happily) and feel like death.

I’m an idiot. 🤢

I'm really not. The British oyster is one species. Ostrea edulis. The species eaten is the Pacific oyster. Magallana gigas. I had to check it's name as it changed.

Definitely let the restaurant know you are ill . If anyone else ate a dodgy oyster they'll be having similar effects . As you say , not everyone is affected .

Fluids , painkillers and rest .

I have never eaten one ( I don't eat fish anyway ) but I cannot imagine how rough you must be feeling .

I've eaten literally thousands of oysters in at least ten countries and I've never once got sick after them.
People are to willing to blame them. Could have been any number of other things

Been there. Done that. Never again.

OP, I have never been so sick in my life as I was on honeymoon after eating a duff oyster - I was also pregnant at the time, so it was just awful. Never again, I hear you say - but I did have a good oyster in Ireland about thirty years later!

That’s really interesting. I’m from NYC and the oysters we get there are from Long Island, Canada, the Pacific Northwest, etc and are really fresh. I’ve also troughed loads of oysters when living in Belgium and France. I live in the UK now so I’ll be aware regarding all the bad sewage issues lately here. Thankfully I’m in Scotland so the water management is better.