Don't read this discussion if you get grossed out...
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
May 9, 2009 9:49pm CST
because its about a disgusting bodily fuction that happened to me on Friday.
STOP!! YOU'VE been WARNED!!!
Okay, if you are still reading, I want to tell you about what happened to me on Friday.
First, let me explain, that I bought a fresh, tasty sandwich for breakfast and ate that before 11 a.m. I had also gotten some sodas and was drinking them the rest of the day at work.
Well, I got off at 3:30 and drove home, no problem. As I was turning onto a road near the house, I burped.
FINAL WARNING!!!! STOP NOW!! THIS IS WHERE IT GETS GROSS!!!
I burped up something. I really had no idea what it was.
However, I was not in a place I could safely pull over either. So, I carried the stuff in my mouth until I could safely pull over the car, put it in park and open the door.
I don't know exactly WHAT I spit out, looked like dark brown strings. It could've been soda "stuff" that had started digesting, it could've been something else - but I don't know what - it had been over 4 hours since I had eaten.
I will say it really didn't taste bad after that first arrival in my mouth - probably because the soda is sweet, but I sure as heck wasn't going to swollow it again!
So, any of you have something gross like this happen that you really had no control over, but after it happened, you could "Pick your place" to spit it out?
I've thrown up in the car before, happily, I've always been at a stop light and could open the door and do it safely. How about you?
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
10 May 09
I swallowed a live fly once. I was yawning it just flew in and down my throat. No kidding. My brothers about fell over laughing and I was so grossed out I started to cough and out came the darn fly!!! THAT shut my brother's up right quick because I told them only a witch could do that! LOL
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
10 May 09
my former roomie, twice, swollowed bugs, both times in the car, both times going to church when we were fasting, and both when her mouth was flapping, talking
both times she guilted about not fasting and I told her that maybe God was telling her to shut up! but since God put that bug down her throat, it obviously wasn't a sin, because she sure didn't intentionally EAT it!
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
10 May 09
LOL I do believe your right!
ROFL Your poor roomie. Sounds like a gal after my own heart.............
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
10 May 09
bless your heart, that had to be awful. glad u were close to your house. i have never had that happen & hope & pray it doesn't. i have never thrown up manytimes in my lihe , i hate it. the last time i did was 2000. i remember it vey well. stay well. hope it doesn't happen again.
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 Oct 09
that was just a couple of days before I went to the hospital and was admitted for the gall bladder surgery - I was very sick, and didn't want to be out of pocket because of it. I'm all better now tho, better than all better in fact, best thing to happen to me...
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
11 May 09
omgosh. hope there is not something going out again. take care of yourself.
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@riyasam (16556)
• India
10 May 09
i always throw up in the car and now i keep a plastic bag handy so that i can spit out the contents.usually the vomiting is projectile and the driver doesnt have time to stop before i make the place dirty,so the safest is a plastic bag.
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
10 May 09
Now that's just gross! LOL
I don't recall ever burping something only to have it come back up. Throwing up, yes, burping something up, no. I don't think I could have handled it like you did and I would have had to spit it out somewhere. Where? I don't know and hopefully I'll never have to find out. 
After what I went through last week with what my husband believed to be the stomach flu this discussion doesn't gross me out like it could have in the past. Because what we went through was just plain gross!
After what I went through last week with what my husband believed to be the stomach flu this discussion doesn't gross me out like it could have in the past. Because what we went through was just plain gross! 2 people like this
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
10 May 09
well, its not like I didn't warn ya
the closest I could discribe it would be like reflux - talk about yukky, except that this really had very little of the burning that I get from reflux
yes, I got some, but when I wake up with reflux it can be hours before I can lay down again because of the burning.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
10 May 09
Well unfortunately, I have the unhappy habit of getting car sickness if I travel too far without being able to pull over and get out for a few minues. I can normally tell when it's coming, but occasionally it has snuck up on me. One night as we were coming home from one of my son's ball games, I started getting sick. There was no place to pull over. By the time Mike did find somewhere to get off the highway, I barely got the door open before I was upchucking.
So here I am sitting on the side of the road, puking my guts out. When I see blue lights pull up behind us. The state trooper walks up and sees that I'm sick and starts talking to my husband about car scikness and other people he's met in his line of work.
So I think I've finally quit and I stand up straight and the trooper is asking if I'm alright when all of a sudden I feel another wave rock my stomach and before I can step back, I have projectile vomited all over this poor state trooper's shoes!
Talk about being embarrassed!
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@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
10 May 09
Well, I don't think burping is disgusting unless something like that happens. I've never had stuff come INTO my mouth, but up TO my mouth where I could taste the bile. I swallowed as quickly as possible to eliminate any possibility I'd gross myself out and lose what was left. Nasal mucus is pretty much the only thing that grosses me out - I can talk about anything, but I can't view everything.
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
10 May 09
EEwwwww LOL The brown stringing stuff could have been a combination of the sandwich and soda as it was being digested. I don't drive but I used to get carsick alot...I'd try to hold it in till we could pull over and it usually helped if I could put the window down and have cool air on my face. I have had to vomit in a bag before b/c we couldn't get off the road. I also can't count the number of times I've been sick in a car after alot of drinking in my younger years...but that doesn't count, right?
[b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~
**STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
10 May 09
How long does it take to digest food — from the time you eat it to the time you excrete it in urine or stool?
Answer
from Michael Picco, M.D.
Digestion time varies depending on the individual. For healthy adults, it's usually between 24 and 72 hours. After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine. Food then enters your large intestine (colon) for further digestion and absorption of water. Elimination of undigested food residue through the large intestine usually begins after 24 hours. Complete elimination from the body may take several days.
Found this online for you.
[b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~
**STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
10 May 09
doesn't count for me, tho I never had that problem, once drunk was quite enough for me
I get car sick in the back seat, so I avoid riding in the back, probably why I prefer to drive!
I hope it wasn't the sandwich since I had eatten it 4 hours before! But, ya never know!
@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 May 09
When I was younger, I threw up into my coat sleeve...
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 May 09
Now who's calling the kettle chartreuse?
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
16 May 09
[b]LOLROTF&PIMP!!!!
And to think, SHE warned ME, it turns out, & I wasn't grossed out at all, really. Hearing ABOUT throwing up doesn't set me off. Seeing/smelling/HEARING it happen, howev...er...ulp....
Anyway, that was priceless! Thank you both for just about the best belly laff I've had today!
Maggiepie[/b]
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
16 May 09
[b]Ahem...SURELY you didn't mean I should answer this, ne? You've already SEEN (& cleaned up) most of my various & sundry gross events, at least for the last 2 years, & as roomies before that, I'm sure you saw more than your share! LOL!
Anyway, yes, sometimes the only control I do have is to try & hold things in 'til I can reach a "safe" place to let go.
Urg... Ooookaaaayyy...lunch stayed down when I wrote that, so I guess it's okay.
Maggie...urp..pie[/b] 
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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10 May 09
Hi Elic,
Lol! I have done that many times, I remeber one christmas when my hubby and I was coming back from my sister's I had such a bad migraine and felt really ill, I knew I was going to.... and it was a good thing my neice had giving a bag just in case and lo and behold, it came in useful, after that I was ok and went to sleep all the way home.
Tamara
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 May 09
once I had a bad migraine, took some meds, and the meds started me throwing up - along with the migraine, I drove to campus to pick up the former roommate and threw up before I went out the door. Got to campus and was stopped at the light on the highway on the way home when I had to open the door and do it again.
well, at that time we had a minor emergency place just on the other side of the highway and the former roomie insisted we go over there so I could get some meds
that's the only way to stop me from throwing up once I start
@Mikaela_taz25 (1842)
• Philippines
10 May 09
Hmmmmm, I just wanted to asked, What did you do after eating the sand which and drinking the soda, did you move soon with out resting after you had your meal. there are instances where food goes up when you are busy doing something while in your seat. just as that moment when you were driving and some how the food simply just found way it's back to your mouth from the stomach. you should rest after having your meal so that it will digested properly
.@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
10 May 09
well, it was over 4 hours from the time I ate until it happened and no, I didn't "rest" but I wasn't real active either
I was cooking my client's breakfast while I was eating, not real hard work, would go in, grab a bite and stir the burger cooking on the range or put the noodles in, or start the brocolli in the microwave. After that, I didn't do a lot of hard work either and was sipping soda all afternoon. Even watched an episode of NCIS with my client.
So, I wasn't real busy, but not exactly lounging around either - you know us "Americans" we don't siesta after lunch (or breakfast either.)
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@Mikaela_taz25 (1842)
• Philippines
10 May 09
but still you were doing something and that's not good either. rest after you eat something or the food would go restless and come out. it happened to me too you know.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
10 May 09
Okay you warned us but it was gross! Problem is the warnings made me more and more curious and I had to keep reading! I can't say I have experienced anything like that although I have felt something come up but nothing solid was in my mouth! My sister's friend had too much too drink and felt like being sick while his wife was driving him home so he opened the window, stuck his head out and proceeded to heave. Well this is the nasty bit, the wind blew all the vomit back inside the car covering the wife and his children sitting in the back; the car had to be professionally cleaned but he didn't have a drop on him, the culprit was spotlessly clean!
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@Youreyes4Today (2356)
• United States
10 May 09
In reading this are you sure it wasn't something that was in the soda, that wasn't suppose to be there? Just an idea is all. yep gross alright..lol
@bournecaindelta (2477)
• India
10 May 09
Yikes. That sounds bad. Luckily I never had to be in a situation. In fact there have been very few times where I felt like puking. The most times was when I was ill and if I'm ill I make sure to take a holiday for myself.
bourne
bourne
@SteveSlaton (552)
• United States
10 May 09
I went out for a run once in a rain storm for over 4 miles. I thought I passed gas but when I was walking down back inside the Coast Guard helicopter hanger people were looking at me a laughing. I took a showed in my sweat pants to wash out the brown streak...
How's that for gross?
My father's nickname for me was Stinky because I was so gassy.
Stinky Steve
@dreamweaverjan (3471)
• United States
10 May 09
{{poor Elic}}, Hey those things happen, and not to worry your discussion didn't bother me a bit.
Glad you got rid of whatever it was that "came up"...hopefully it won't happen again anytime soon for you;
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