re is msg sensitivity superstition in article apr lmpsbbs comm mot com dougb comm mot com doug bank writes here is another anecdotal story i am a picky eater and never wanted to try chinese food however i finally tried some in order to please a girl i was seeing at the time i had never heard of chinese restaurant syndrome a group of us went to the restaurant and all shared different dishes it didn t taste great but i decided it wasn t so bad we went home and went to bed early i woke up at am and puked my guts outs i threw up for so long that i m not kidding i pulled a muscle in my tongue dry heaves and everything no one else got sick and i m not allergic to anything that i know of suffice to say that i wont go into a chinese restaurant unless i am physically threatened the smell of the food makes me ill and that is a psycholgical reaction when i have been dragged in to suffer through beef and broccoli without any sauces i insist on no msg i haven t gotten sick yet i had a similar reaction to chinese food but came to a completly different conclusion i ve eaten chinese food for ages and never had problems i went with some chinese malaysian friends to a swanky chinses rest and they ordered lots of stuff i had never seen before the only thing i can remember of that meal was the first course scallops served in the shell with a soy type sauce i thought well i ve only had scallops once and i was sick after but that could have been a coincidence that night as i sat on the bathroom floor sweating and emptying my stomach the hard way i decided i would never touch another scallop i may not be allergic but i don t want to take the chance amy mossman
