Do you consider antibiotics to be drugs?

 
I think he was talking about the antibiotics, but to answer your question "kinda". Antibiotics aren't psychoactive like most things considered "drugs", but people still call them drugs sometimes.

Are you afraid of bacteria?

Depends on the type. I eat yogurt regularly and am brewing some kombucha because I like some bacteria, but the kind that had me peeing out of my butt for a week is not my friend. Neither is anthrax nor the bubonic plague.

 

What do you eat mostly?

Recently its been a lot of raw steak and raw salmon with a lot of half and half to drink. Some eggs and bacon when I can get my girlfriend to cook for me, stuff like that. Why?

I'm almost all better now and my stomach seems to be ready for more raw meat

I thought I'd give you guys an update.

Still haven't gotten better, so I went to the doctor. He basically said "don't eat raw meat, here's some antibiotics (ciprofloxacin)".

Thanks for the replies. I think I have a good idea of what not to do next time.

My fever is gone (for now anyway =\), but I still have the other symptoms.

From my previous experience and what I've read, garlic is supposed to do a pretty good job killing bacterial infections. Since it hasn't seemed to help me, am I supposed to conclude that garlic isn't as useful as I had thought or that I have a virus like the norwalk virus?

If its the latter, it means that eating the sealed meat wasn't my problem, since viruses can't grow outside a living host.

Hi,

I've been eating raw meat for the last couple weeks, and it's been great- until last night...

Last night I developed a slight fever which went away after taking motrin and garlic. In the morning my fever was still gone, so I figured garlic had done its job. An hour or so later, the fever came back and the diarrhea started. My symptoms include a fever (up to +3degrees), a slight headache, some achiness, stomach/intestinal discomfort, and plenty of diahrrhea. Continued consumption of garlic seems to have been ineffective.

I know food poisoning isn't common among raw paleo dieters, so I'm wondering what I've done wrong. The most obvious possibility is the raw (unrinsed) steak that had been sitting in the fridge for a few days and smelled/tasted funny. My stomach said to stop eating it, but I still ate a significant amount. The thing is, that was Saturday, which is kinda long ago.

Sunday I tried raw chicken liver for the first time, and my first attempt to eat a whole (again unrinsed) liver ended with me spitting it out. I did end up eating another liver piece by piece that had been rinsed off, but my friend who tried a piece didn't get sick.

Other than that, the only 'questionable' part of my diet has been the same raw salmon and (freshly dethawed) steak from the grocery store that I've been doing well on.


What's going on here? Virus or bacteria? How do I prevent this in the future?