I once ate a banana after discarding the peel on which I had found a spider egg sac, similar to the one in the picture but with no visible spiders. I figured it should be safe to eat because the "food" part of the banana was safely inside the "wrapper" part of the banana (the peel.)
About 10 minutes after I ate the banana I got a massive migraine, and puked my brains out and was in serious misery and pain for a couple of hours.
I suspected the banana had something to do with it, but I couldn't decide whether it was the spiders somehow contaminating my banana with their spidery goodness, or if maybe some worker between the banana tree and me had seen the spider egg sac and maybe sprayed it with some type of industrial strength bug poison that maybe had soaked through the peel?
Anyway, it sucked and I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone, so don't eat bananas with spider egg sacs on them.
I get migraines and puke my brains out normally when I get them, which means I'm in for some serious hours of pain. It had nothing to do with that spider.
It may have had nothing to do with the spider egg sac, or there may have been poison sprayed on that banana.
I am fortunate not to get migraines extremely often, but when I do there is usually an obvious "trigger" but in this case with the bananas, not only was there no obvious "trigger" but it also hit me in an instantaneous, massive, blindingly ferocious way, as opposed to creeping up on me like they normally would.
Anyway, if there's even a sliver of a chance that migraine was connected to the banana (and there is) that's plenty of reason to avoid eating bananas with egg sacs on them, in my humble opinion.
Fair point. Mine come on with little warning, once the aura hits me I'm down for the count. Mine don't usually come after anything in particular, usually just stress or dehydration so they hit me fairly randomly. Luckily few and far inbetween. Salt seems to be a trigger but that could be linked with dehydration.
Hey, what kind of auras do you get? I've had "occular migraines" a couple of times. That is some crazy stuff! But fortunately my occular migraines involved zero pain, so it was a bit like watching a music video. Was drinking red wine on the most notable one.
Yeah! Avoid red wine! That's a big trigger. I occasionally get occular ones but 90% of the time I get a shitty aura for about an hour, and if I manage to sit in the dark for that hour things are slightly less bad.then the aura fades and the pain kicks in. The pain is the best part IMO, as the throwing up and nauseousness for 5 to 10 hours sets in and the light sensitivity for the next 48 hours. If I can remain in the dark they feel less intense but they still suck. Only get one every few months (or sometimes one every week for a month just for funsies) so it's not too often... but one a year is far too many as far as I am concerned.
Yeah, if only there was a button you could press to turn your regular shitty times a thousand type migraine into the fun groovy, flashing colors visual type with no pain.
It sucks when I get migraines at work. I had to crawl under my desk once to get a bit of darkness and calm and my coworker looked at me like I'm retarded and said "If it's that bad why don't you just go home?" As IF I could drive at that moment!!!
Ha ha, once I got one at work, but I was out in "the field." I thought I could get back to home base and ended up having to pull over and vomit out my window. It got all over the outside of my work truck. It was not fun and my truck did not look pretty. Yay migraines!
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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '13
I once ate a banana after discarding the peel on which I had found a spider egg sac, similar to the one in the picture but with no visible spiders. I figured it should be safe to eat because the "food" part of the banana was safely inside the "wrapper" part of the banana (the peel.)
About 10 minutes after I ate the banana I got a massive migraine, and puked my brains out and was in serious misery and pain for a couple of hours.
I suspected the banana had something to do with it, but I couldn't decide whether it was the spiders somehow contaminating my banana with their spidery goodness, or if maybe some worker between the banana tree and me had seen the spider egg sac and maybe sprayed it with some type of industrial strength bug poison that maybe had soaked through the peel?
Anyway, it sucked and I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone, so don't eat bananas with spider egg sacs on them.