Trying to drink coconut water to re-hydrate me, but I’ll just go get the hydration sachets instead and see how they work for me. The worse symptoms I have right now is dizziness, which is probably caused by the dehydration.

Thanks for your article!

Well, well, well, Gary, you basically just told my 34 year old self what to do next in Thailand…I’m going fire jump roping at the Full Moon Party lol I know I just “lol’d” but I’m not kidding. I may be old and I may totally be stupid if I get hurt but one of the things I keep repeating to myself daily here after seeing something insane is, “Can’t do that in America”

Sorry about the food poisoning, obviously I am on here for that reason but I don’t know what I have. I have never had such severe cramps in my life followed with multiple trips all night to sit on that toilet. We brought (plan on living here for a few years) charcoal pills and I think I better start taking them tomorrow. I have a sensitive stomach as it is.

Glad to hear everything worked out for you in the end! Man, don’t give up on all the fire activities just yet, maybe just have only 1 beer first then multiple buckets afterward!!

Thank you much!! Tuesday went to a&C bakery that did it ! 1 week later still recovering from the worst ever bad food illness. Pastry is all we had.
We have had an item ( random) from other places in Thailand where it was minor and only lasted a few days but this was brutal!
Fever and all. This has helped me see light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you.

When I arrived in Bangkok, I decided to go and see a doctor eventually after about 3 days of not keeping anything down – I went to medconsult Clinic in Bangkok. I would soo recommend going to see doctor, they didn’t overprescribe which I was scared about – had some antidiarrhoeal tablets (domperadone) as the ‘infective’ cause of the diarrrhoea had passed, loads of rehydration salts ( Dr donna said that a very common mistake is only drinking water rather than cokes/ electrolytes/ etc. which is why I felt so tired after a bit). cost about 1000 baht in total with the medicines, which is about £20.

Hi there, I’m not sure what you mean. The doctor was in Chiang Mai at the address given above. Full details can be found on the website, also listed in my previous comment. 🙂 Have a nice day.

Why was your Chiang Mai doctor in VietNam ?.
Is that not a tad impractical, particularly if your suffering from acute diarea 🙂

It wasn’t until a few days after I got back that it all started for me. It’s been 3 days now (feels like 6) of hardly anything coming out my bottom but frequent trips to the porcelain throne and have luckily only vomited once but fever and general feelings of wanting to die have been very real. Shivering and nausea, sweating profusely and not having the energy or will to move as well as not wanting to eat anything have been my life for the last 3 days.

I can’t imagine how bad it would have been to have felt like have when I was there and I’m very grateful that it didn’t hit me until I got back. I feel terrible for everyone that got ill whilst on their travels. I didn’t realise how common this was until I started reading up online about it. Four local people that I met out there were sick whilst I was there and a friend was sick from his 2nd day until the end of his weeks trip too. It does put me off going back slightly but it was my first time visiting Thailand and I fell head over heels for the place. I realise now that we can’t live our lives in fear of being ill and can only take the best precautions and remedies if it does happen.

I seem to be coming out of the other end of my gruesome ordeal now and it’s the worst I’ve felt in a very long time. I’m really glad I stumbled upon this page, it’s been comforting hearing that I’m not alone in my food poisoned misery!! I haven’t read the precautionary stuff yet but have just read all of the comments and will have a look now.

I’ve just necked an activated charcoal tablet and have some rehydration packs that I’m just going to take now and fingers crossed, it doesn’t last much longer as I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy!!

Thanks again for starting this page, it’s definitely make me feel better and to anyone else in Thailand or at home feeling sick from food poisoning, my thoughts go out to you!