I am just curious as to what is the sickest people have ever felt. For me it is probably sea sicness. I can remember being on a frigate(Leander class) as a youg 18 year old ordinary seaman running pass the galley straight back to the head to throw up time and time again. One P.O telling me up on deck to focus on the horizon instead all I could do was focus on the waves below and what I was sending into them. Man my first 3 months at sea were pretty miserable. I lost alot of weight I would not eat only drink water. When I arrived in the US and joinded NOAA I was a little better and generally came round after my first week at sea. Remember one time when we were on our way to Ecquador the whole deck department was laid up due to one hell of a night in Hilo, Hawaii I think it was the night before.Did my heart good to see my roommate go through the same trials I had been through years before. He to got over it with time.
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The sickest I ever felt was after some asshole put epilepsy medicine in my beer at a house party about 20 years ago! I forget which anti-seizure drug it was now,( I think it was Tegritol ) but I was sicker than a dog for 3 days...puking, bedspins, the works!

Any more than that and I might have had to have had my stomach pumped!

Epilepsy medicine in beer not good.

The sickest I've ever seen somebody like that is when we were riding on an LCAC (the Navy's hovercraft). This one guy had eaten a very full breakfast. Later that morning we went for a ride on the LCAC in rough seas. Riding on an LCAC in rough seas isn't like riding on a ship in rough seas. The flat bottom craft does a "belly flop" each time it comes off a wave. After an hour of this, the guy puked like I have never seen anyone puke before. It was like the scene in Stand By Me after the guys ate the Blueberry pies and rode the carnival ride.

By the way, I served a year onboard navy ships while in the Corps. Since I don't get seasick I loved it when we would hit a storm. The chow lines would go down from 45 minutes to no time.

That WAS one big advantage of rough seas.

I only ever got a little queasy in the 40 foot stuff, but on a 1,092 ft long, 100,000 ton Nimitz class carrier, its still a lot less worse than the small boys.

I was on an LHA (helicopter carrier with the well deck in back) for the most part, which is pretty big and stable. But I was also on an LSD (The Fort Fisher) and a couple of LSTs, which have a flat bottom. Those things would rock pretty good in rough seas.

Square hulls usually weather the rough stuff quite well.

Yesterday..

I ate at Taco Bell.

Oh LORDY...Taco Hell? Sorry to hear that. Take BEANO first and you should be ok.

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Originally posted by HAL9000:
Oh LORDY...Taco Hell? Sorry to hear that. Take BEANO first and you should be ok.

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Thanks.. However, reading the above motion sickness posts.. I feel VERY lucky!!

I never got seasick ... I loved it when the seas were rough! Heck, I've had my 19' cuddy cab out in 7-10' seas - now THAT was rough!

I weathered a typhoon on a destroyer. The seas were so rough we were taking 45 deg rolls! There were bootprints on the bulkheads! They were passing the word "All hands not actually on watch - remain in your rack!"

It was fun to go down ladders, if you caught the wave right you could make it all the way up in one jump!

I did feel a little ill when 5 of the 7 guys on my watch team were puking in a trashcan for most of our watch! I had to stay far enough away that I couldn't smell it all of the time!

I guess the sickest I ever felt was when I had a wisdom tooth pulled and it got impacted ... the worst pain I was ever in!

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Originally posted by TOW Gunner:
By the way, I served a year onboard navy ships while in the Corps. Since I don't get seasick I loved it when we would hit a storm. The chow lines would go down from 45 minutes to no time.

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TOW Gunner, when I was a Tin Can sailor (59-62 we hit some storms (Full Gales and Hurricanes) that were so bad there were no chow lines!
During '58 I was on a LSD the ship's company was Marines and Sailors, the chow lines did get short in storms. But there is nothing like riding a Tin Can in a storm. Maybe a close feeling is a roller coaster, except you know it will come back to where it belongs!
Most people get a little nausea at first, but it does go away as you adapt to it.

When I was 16 I ate some deep fried onion rings on my way to the county fair...rode that ride called "The Zipper"...not a pretty sight...

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Originally posted by r36mx(2nd):
I am just curious as to what is the sickest people have ever felt. For me it is probably sea sickness.

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The greasy porkchops didn't help???

We rode out a typhoon in the South China Sea on a heavy cruiser - taking green water over turret #1; couldn't operate the galley - so they just handed out old 'C' rats from the Korean war era... I snuck out topside on the 06 level - just couldn't believe it..

Sickest I've been is when we had an outbreak of Amoebic Dysentery sweep the ship while we were out to sea - near half the crew came down with it - we were just laying around the decks in our working stations, puking in shidtcans, couldn't eat, dehydrating.. It was a godawful mess....

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Originally posted by AirborneSpoon:
When I was 16 I ate some deep fried onion rings on my way to the county fair...rode that ride called "The Zipper"...not a pretty sight...

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Lord am I familiar with the zipper..they got a new one now called the 'slingshot' that does just what it says and you have to pay extra for..I was alone, so was partnered up with a stranger who got sick..some of it got on me..I managed to hold my stomach until we got off, then promptly wiped the shit off and puked in the nearest garbage can.

But that was not the sickest I was. Sickest was when as a kid the whole family came down with the stomach flu which I had had, but got over first..so I spent days, weaker than snot, cleaning up the messes the rest of the family had made..Two parents, six kids, and only one bathroom, and plenty of bowls to empty...ack!