To have almost called an ambulance due to being in extreme extreme pain with food provisioning

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Had a curry sat night went to bed at 12
Was fine

Woke at 3am and had terrible sickness and diarrhoea
Non stop until 7am
Was in exscrusiating pain
Was sweating shiver
Could only crawl along floor

Fell asleep about. 730am till ten am
Then felt rough all day but only
Had two more lots of diarrhoea

Why would you have rung an ambulance?

Yes it would have been extremely unreasonable! It costs about £500 to get an ambulance. your DH could have driven you or taxi? Or you could have rung out of hours GP who could have done a home visit.

Ambulance indeed - for 4 hours of vomiting from food poisoning!!!

Yes albertata - which is why the poor woman didn't!
I don't like to wish ill on other people but seriously - you try feeling like you are dying, unable to move whilst your insides explode all over the bathroom and thinking rationally about the help you could access.

I would have gladly paid £500 out of my own pocket to make it stop.

In fact I think you are on the wind up. No taxi would take someone in that state!

Yes, a taxi that won't be cleaned properly and could infect lots of other people - great idea! Hope you feel better soon op - food poisoning is horrendous.

Second the salmonella diagnosis. I had it when I was 19 and honestly thought I might die. I ended up in hospital on a drip for almost a week. The thing I remember most clearly was that before I got to the hospital I was so out of it that I was literally hallucinating, hearing voices and seeing colours in front of my eyes etc.

I've actually now got IBS which the consultant has put down to that incident fucking up my bowel in some weird way. He has said I should have immediately gone on strong probiotics after the illness so that may be worth considering, OP.

What sortof probiotics vitamin things

my botty feels a bit sore
might be a hermmariod or somethIng

Tbh I dont think I would have been able to call 999 and explain what was wrong other than help me

And dh wasn't about to call them either

considering he just oh you'll be ok

infact he should really be In the bad books
shouldn't he

Yes he should!

I had similar when I had norovirus, and the pain was horrendous

Yes, he should have looked after you, I bet you would if the roles were reversed. A worthy candidate for the Bad Books IMO. :)

2 weeks ago I had to drop everything as my father was taken in to hospital in London (we are East Mids) with suspected food poisoning. Mun had rung 101 and they sent an ambulance. He was on his way on hols, staying over at Premier Inn St Prancras for an early Eurostar. He was told not FP, probably gall stones, then ended up with emergency surgery for appendicitis.

If you are not sure call 101, they make the judgement call not you.

Your issue here is a DH that would rather you suffer than disturb his night. Asshole.

I get grapes of wrath (piles) after any kind of bottom explosion. Eat lots of fruit and an fibre and it should be ok within a week or so, Anusol helps any itching or bleeding.

I wouldn't have but then I didn't call them when I was having chest pains, got to the doctor 12 hours later by which time I was seriously ill and rushed to hospital. TBH if you know what is causing it and it isn't lif e threatening and there is no underlying problem then I would either leave it and go to GP or ask OH to drive me to A&E.

I had a terrible bout of D&V about a year ago. Fainted on the loo too which was scary. Apparently it's quite common though as your BP drops as it's ahem, released.

The pain was awful, almost as bad as childbirth. I lost half a stone in two days.

Food poisoning kills people every year, I wouldnt be ashamed to call an ambulance if I was really ill.

Sounds similar to when I had norovirus - now that was grim.

albertata the OP has assumed it's food poisoning but there are quite a few things that can cause those symptoms, some of them very serious indeed. Extreme pain and severe d&v can definitely hospitalise someone.

I passed out from food poisoning last year and someone called an ambulance for me. I also passed out a few years ago from food poisoning and was admitted to the ER to be rehydrated to stop me fainting.

Similar happened to my mum. When the paramedics checked her BP it was so low they couldn't measure it.

Not at all unreasonable to call an ambulance if you are so ill you can't get up off the floor.

Y wobbly and paramedics really don't mind. It's not timewasting if you're really ill, and d&v can turn serious much more quickly than you'd think.

I suffered for a week with what I thought was a bad case of food poisoning/norovirus. Extreme pain and vomiting every evening but then I'd feel better in the morning, risk some lunch, and spend the evening in agony again. I eventually went to a walk in centre, who phoned the hospital in the nearest city and got them prepped for my arrival, and was told to get there ASAP (as DH had driven me to the walk in centre, they said it would be quicker for us to drive over than wait for an ambulance to arrive. If we had arrived any other way they would have phoned an ambulance for me). They first thought it was appendicitis, once they ruled that out they thought it was gallstones, but eventually they diagnosed me with Crohn's disease.

So as Myrtle says, there are other things that can cause those symptoms, and they could require hospitalisation or urgent treatment.

It would be interesting to phone 111 with those symptoms and see what they say- when you phone they first ask questions designed to see if you are in need of an ambulance, but I can't remember what they are or what the 'red flags' are. But I am guessing their advice would be to phone for an ambulance due to the fact that appendicitis can't be ruled out over the phone (unless you've already had it out, that is!)

I wonder what type of bacteria or virus it was
as it came on suddenly was v violent
But the next day although I felt rough it was over fairly quickly thankfully
unlike some of you that where like this for days

boy that must be horrendous

I wouldn't have been able to phone 111 and answer all there 111 question s I could bearly talk

plus we had a child and a baby asleep in the same room
so would have been tricky for dh to drive me to a and e

There's a particular bacteria which very quickly causes horrendous food poisoning known as 'fried rice syndrome'. This is because it caught from eating rice which has been kept warm, but not hot enough to kill bacteria, for long periods of time. When people get ill after eating curry, this is usually the culprit ie the rice, not the curry itself, because restaurants cook the rice in advance and keep it warm until it's needed.

Do you think I should call the restaurant and let them know
or anyone else?
I did notice in the windows they have a five out of five food hygiene rating

Contact environmental health and let them deal with it.