Food poisoning from veggies at a deli??? Help! Just ate and feeling scared :(

[k10]

I just got a veggie sandwich on a bulkie roll from the deli in the student center at my college - I've gotten these kind of sandwiches there many times before. This time I'm really worried though because the deli was about to close (I got there at 2:45 and it closes at 3... I think it opens at 11)

It had tomato, lettuce, peppers, olives, provalone cheese, and mayo. I'm nervous that they could have gone bad sitting there for a few hours, depending on how many people got sandwiches and how cold they keep them in the trays. There aren't very many people around in the summer.

I had d* within like 10 minutes of eating! That might just be because in scared and anxious though! I also feel a little n*.

What do you guys think? Can you get fp* from these kind of things? How fast would it happen?

[butterfly91]

Maybe the cheese and mayo, but not the vegetables...I doubt u have food poisoning because it would of taken 2-12 hours to hit you,not as quick as 10 minutes, its probably because your anxious, but i reckon you'll be fine

[TryingToBeBrave]

sounds more ibs-like to me if it hit that quick. the veggies are very safe. the mayo is the only thing i would worry about, but they are required to keep it cold all day.

[xxsophiaxx]

Actually, leafy vegatables cause the most cases of foodborne illness, contrary to popular belief. However, I do not believe this is your issue, because as others have said, it would've taken a good couple hours or so before you started feeling sick. This seems very IBS related.

[k10]

I wonder if I do have IBS, or if my anxiety just messes with my stomach :/ I ended up fine through the night though!

[Mel_127]

Anxiety is a horrible thing, and can do terrible things to your stomach! definitely would not affect you that quickly though

[missj]

Same thing just happened to me with precut apples I eat all the time and I have IBS. Within minutes I had d* and got panicked. I think you should look into IBS. It really sounds like that's what is going on and it gets progressively worse with anxiety!

[chris_alice]

If you had diarrhea 10 minutes after eating, it's not from anything you JUST ate because there's no way it digested that quickly.

I know we've all been brainwashed with the two hour rule for keeping food out of the fridge but honestly, unless it's sitting in the blistering sun during a heat wave, food does not go bad THAT quickly. Also, I'm sure the deli follows proper food handling/storage? You've eaten the sandwiches there many times so there's no reason to believe there's anything wrong this time. Don't talk yourself into feeling sick when you're not.

[jennjt]

It sounds like an IBS flare up to me. There are some places that I canNOT eat salads-- sends me straight to the bathroom. My dad is the same way. It's not that the food is bad-- just that your stomach didn't like it at the moment. Hope you're feeling better now!