Yeah, that's how botulism kills - or one of the ways. Your whole body is trying to violently expel any fluids and your heart ruptures in a heart attack. It's a horrible, horrible experience. You will shit out your stomach lining. After the yellow bile is gone, you try to puke and puke and puke except nothing comes up but the brownish inner linings of your stomach. Your literally expelling everything to the point where just the lining is left.
It's fucking horrible. It will kill you.
That's why I always laugh when someone says something about how they had botulism. "Oh, I had it last night. It was terrible!" No, you're out for two weeks and it takes a full six months to really get back to feeling normal. I had it once in Indiana while on the road and once in Mexico while on a trip - they flew me into San Diego for that, on a flight with a nurse. That was in like 2009 and the last time I had botulism.
The first time I got it was from a Chinese restaurant. I'm not sure about the 2nd as I'd eaten in multiple places.
Botulism is the deadliest virus on the planet. A tiny drop is enough to kill hundreds or thousands of people. It's fucking horrible.
No... No they didn't have botulism and get up and move the following day. No.... So, anyone trying to tell you that shit is a moron that has no idea what botulism is like.
There are other food-borne viruses and bacteria, but botulism ain't nothing nice.
hope I never get that, that sounds awful
Have you ever puked so hard that like the veins on your head throbbed?
Well, multiply that by like 50 and keep it up for about a week. Really, it's mostly over after about 96 hours, but you'll keep puking for at least a week. It takes MONTHS to feel completely better. Plan on two weeks in the hospital. You will shit yourself, but it's just a puddle of viscous fluid and not much because you're already drained.
Imagine still wanting to puke that hard - for like 3 hours at a whack before it subsides for an hour or two - if you're lucky - for days. That's why your heart explodes.
I forget the exact numbers, but enough to cover the head of a pin is enough to kill like 500 people - something crazy like that.
It's so deadly that we can't manufacture a toxin deadlier than botulism. The deadliest toxins we create don't even compare.
I'm a bit surprised we've never had this discussion before. Well, the next time someone tells you they had botulism, you can call 'em a goddamned liar (unless they were pretty much dead for a couple of weeks).
I might have had it a third time but I didn't go to the hospital. I dealt with it at home and pretty much lived in the bathroom shitting and puking while having nobody check on me as my girlfriend was across the country and I was in a 'loner' phase. My son was still at home, but he had no idea what to do. I had him help by bringing me liquid. You'll drink a sip of water and puke out the water and some more stomach lining. You drink the water anyhow, just so you can puke something up.
That really does not sound like fun
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