To think I'm about to get very sick

[ohnowhatdidido]

I just ate one week old cooked lobster. It was in the fridge the entire time. And I looked at it and it looked fine. And it smelt completely fine. After about 10 mouthfuls I noticed green specks everywhere.

This was only 5 minutes ago. I'm probably about to be very very sick aren't I? To make matters worse DH and I had a raging argument just an hour ago, so he'll probably be quite pleased that I'm going to be spewing and shitting my insides out.

Yes and Pepto bismol?

There is a portion of the inside of a lobster that is normally green and is, in my opinion, really nice to eat, full of flavour. It might just be some of that scattered about.

It sounds like the poisonous influence in your life is coming from your partner, rather than the lobster.

Hope you're okay x

Why would your DH be happy that you are suffering with food poisoning????

Oh OP, I am so sad for you; this sounds like an awful situation to be in considering what you just shared about your relationship and how different you and your partner are :(. Sending hugs, whisky, sympathy and hoping you can make a good decision for yours and your daughter's life and future happiness. lots of love 💐

Because it’s largely pointless. Vomiting doesn’t fully empty your stomach and will almost certainly leave behind some of the infected food you’ve ingested. And by inducing vomiting, the acids also induced can cause injury to the throat, and mouth. If you think you may have food poisoning your GP or 111 is the way to go. If the food has gone bad the body will reject it soon anyway by making you vomit naturally and more effectively.

In ice cubes

It may be that you’ve eaten some of the tomalley - the soft green paste inside. It’s not recommended that you eat it, but lots of people do with no ill effects. If lobster is on the turn it will smell ‘off’ and the flesh will be squidgy instead of firm - the shell also turns slimy. If none of these things were present when you ate it, you may be OK so I wouldn’t try to make yourself sick, as you probably won’t bring back all of it anyway. If it was in any way suspect your own body will take care of it by making you naturally sick anyway.

Good point 🤣. Wishful thinking on my part maybe!

I think you'll be fine. As someone else said, eating off food isn't guaranteed to make you ill, and off seafood tastes bad really quickly so you probably would have noticed. I ate some off mayo yesterday (didn't think it could go off but it was a years old sachet and tasted foul, and I've been fine, though I guess it was only a small amount).

I once did take a risk with left out overnight salmon risotto and did get horribly ill, it started about 24 hours after eating. I've never been able to eat food left out since, though I accept fish AND rice was a particularly idiotic risk, though I was extremely risk averse with food and ate week old food for many healthy years before that 😂. Now my limit is 4-5 days if not fish.

this has taken a turn

You might be surprised. We can deal with a lot more than you'd think. You'll make yourself ill if you worry too much about it though. I always think what will be will be. Change the things you can, don't stress about the things you can't.

This

If I actually thought my DH would be delighted if I were sick, I would think the relationship was well over.

Well this is a different thread all of a sudden...........

It's amazing stuff. As I learned from an episode of French and Saunders "If you leave a cow in a glass of cola overnight, it won't be there in the morning".

And it's true!!!!

😂

Could you make yourself vomit, @ohnowhatdidido ? {Probably too late now }

I really hope you are ok.

Coke doesn't neutralise stomach bugs {the acid in our bellies is FAR fiercer than what's in Coke, but it's said that FLAT Coke can help recover from a stomach bug, Rehydration salts are probably better. I'm obviously not medically trained or a Chemist.

• I think {don't quote me} it contains a minute trace of phosphoric acid. It cleans copper pennies, for sure!

@Kittylala why?

All you’d do is dilute the stomach acid, one of the jobs of which is to kill pathogens in the stomach.

I’d be drinking some strong spirits, personally.

This reminds me of my first night in Florida. We’d been out to one of those all you can eat restaurants and I’d never had shell fish before. So I ate lots of it.

A couple of hours later I’m on the bathroom floor of the hotel throwing up whilst explosive diarrhoea shot out the other end. The bathroom was a right mess, I was on that floor all night. Didn’t dare let the maids in the next morning as the whole room stunk.

When I was telling my mum what had happened she breezily replied “yeah you’re shellfish intolerant, that’s why we never let you have it as a child”

You’d have thought they would have mentioned it over the years 🤦‍♀️

@SeaBlueSky it's Burns night! 🥃

This is awful for your poor child. I can’t imagine arguing if my child even so much as noticed let alone cried. I’d be more worried about this than food poisoning!!

i imagine the op's argumentative isnt a routine occurence

OP, I'm so sorry. The lobster seems to be a bit of a red herring, pardon the pun. Wishing you well.

Food toxins usually take about 6 hours to affect you. That's why so many cases happen at night. After an evening meal.
Cold comfort OP. I'm sorry. I truly hope you'll be OK. As pps have mentioned, it's by no means a done thing. You may well be fine.
💐about your relationship. X