Out of date pastry anxiety

[Kaykay2]

Hi all,
a couple of days ago I was getting lunch and cooked a meatball pastie and I obviously ate it. I had 3 types of pastries in fridge 2 of them were ones I knew where in date and 1 where I was meant to throw. And I’ve realised I eaten the out of date one which like a month out a date roughly. I’m a mum to 2 kids which is probably why I didn’t even think to look. I don’t think I had any illness from it apart from feeling dizzy, back pain and just feeling off.
my anxiety is really high and I’m just scared and worried that any bacteria/food poisoning will affect my fertility in anyway or something.

i understand that to some people it might sound silly but to me it’s making me overthink and anxious about my future.
so please kind comments whether it will or not

thanks

How long ago did you eat it, and are you feeling better now?

If so, it won’t have done you any permanent harm. If you had serious food poisoning of that scale you’d likely not be in a fit state to post on here. Hope that helps, OP.

I can’t remember exact day but it was roughly 4 days ago

If you were going to be ill you'd be ill. You're fine.

You'd be I'll in a matter of a couple hours or less if it was bad. After four days you have nothing to worry about.

I understand where you are coming from I have a similar anxiety over out of date products
I hope everyone can reassure you that by now you would have been very Ill if you had food poisoning and or also would have smelt awful and if you ate it without concern it obviously didn’t. You are ok, try to distract yourself if you can with anything else at all

Even if you had food poisoning, it would never affect your fertility.

If you get I'll from food, you get ill within 1-2 days. Not 4 days. You will be fine. There are no long term effects on fertility from eating particular foods.