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Cave "Stagnant" water

and to think as kids we swam in all the nasty ass stock tanks around our place. and none of them had 6"s of visibility.
 
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gunracer1 said:
and to think as kids we swam in all the nasty ass stock tanks around our place. and none of them had 6"s of visibility.
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There is a big difference between stock tank water and stagnant cave water. At least with stock tanks you have an idea how old the water is and what parasites you may be dealing with. Hell, I used to give goldfish to ranchers for stock tanks. If a goldfish will live it probably wont kill you but your still going to have some bad times if you get something.

I family friend growing up, war vet SE Asia area, would drink from any stream or creek there was. He said is was awful getting that strong of a gut but he figured since he had it, it would be foolish to lose it. And also some people are just tougher than others.
 
evernoob said:
Here's what I googled and am going to post so retards on the internet will think Im smart:
  • Don't jump into a surface pool of water anywhere near a hot-springs area, without testing the temperature first (I think I got that from Dante's Peak but it really happened)
  • There are deadly dissolved gasses in stagnant pools of water. Such gasses are released by disturbance, Lake Nyos in Cameroon kills people, some by deadly gas, some by explosive gas.
  • Cave water can travel in a column 100s of meters high in just a few seconds. You could be sucked into the earth or shot into the sky and you would be dead just from the water pressure. Basic hydraulic principles at work here and monitoring cave water is one way to measure seismic activity.
  • There are cold-water parasites that hang out in pools of cave water for literal thousands of years, at one point the oldest organism on earth was some type of ameoba in a cave pond, and it was thousands of years old they figure. Brain parasites fucking suck.
  • Hillbillies could be dumping toxic waste down there as part of a deal with the local city-slicker politician. I got that from a Seagal movie but again it happens in real life
  • Lost soccer teams down there
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FIFY everdouche.
 
Mr.Ratbastard said:
He is on the bat shit parasite diet plan.
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Looks fine from here.
 
Is this the one time drink bleach is the appropriate answer?
 
Sterlingfire said:
:rolleyes:No this is the one time an Irate member should absolutely go to the er with a sample of that water and get some meds going
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No doubt. I went through something last winter. Almost 4 months of explosive diarrhea, obnoxious gas and severe cramping about 30 minutes after I ate anything. It was agonizing. All kinds of tests colonoscopy, fecal samples, blood tests, urine tests, ultrasound for illness, disease, infections, parasites and everything came back negative. Finally my Gastroenterologist wrote me a scrip for some high falutin antibiotic (xiflaxan or something like that) that cost $2800 for a two week supply. After the first week things got better and at week 3-4 I took my first sollid dump. That was the best shit I have ever had. Dr. thinks I picked up a bad case of food poisoning and my guts just didnt recuperate on their own. Now every time I get the shits from something I get worried. I do not ever want to go throught again.
 
Stuck said:
No doubt. I went through something last winter. Almost 4 months of explosive diarrhea, obnoxious gas and severe cramping about 30 minutes after I ate anything. It was agonizing. All kinds of tests colonoscopy, fecal samples, blood tests, urine tests, ultrasound for illness, disease, infections, parasites and everything came back negative. Finally my Gastroenterologist wrote me a scrip for some high falutin antibiotic (xiflaxan or something like that) that cost $2800 for a two week supply. After the first week things got better and at week 3-4 I took my first sollid dump. That was the best shit I have ever had. Dr. thinks I picked up a bad case of food poisoning and my guts just didnt recuperate on their own. Now every time I get the shits from something I get worried. I do not ever want to go throught again.
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Nice, a colonoscopy, did you enjoy it:lmao:

When i woke up from mine, i thanked the Dr for a good time:laughing:He laughed a bit
 
I got Giardia from eating snow back when I was younger and dumber. That was a hell of a thing. Took about a week to show up, and then when it hit, if I even drank so much as a glass of tap water, I had better be sitting on the toilet in the next 15 minutes because it was coming out no matter what.

Only time in my life I was checking the back of my calves after pooping to see if anything blew out the little gap between the toilet and the toilet seat.
 
while you weren't looking, long stringy worm things swam up your crimper. In 60 days, you'll shit a kidney and they'll find your insides have been hollowed out... except for any fat, that shit will still be there.
 
Harry Johnson said:
I got Giardia from eating snow back when I was younger and dumber. That was a hell of a thing. Took about a week to show up, and then when it hit, if I even drank so much as a glass of tap water, I had better be sitting on the toilet in the next 15 minutes because it was coming out no matter what.

Only time in my life I was checking the back of my calves after pooping to see if anything blew out the little gap between the toilet and the toilet seat.
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When I lived in western Colorado, giardia was so rampant, it was in the tap water in the spring... they just couldn't get it all. You get kind of resistant to it... the first time, it makes you very sick as you report.
 
Sterlingfire said:
Nice, a colonoscopy, did you enjoy it:lmao:

When i woke up from mine, i thanked the Dr for a good time:laughing:He laughed a bit
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They did the colon and endo during the same visit. I just asked that they do the endo first. I didnt wake up tasting shit so I guess they acquisced to my request.
 
clodhopper said:
a natural body of water that has no life of any sort growing in it probably has elevated or toxic levels of metals or gases. Think before you drink.
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that would be my primary concern. swim in it? not a big deal. drink a little while trying to avoid drinking? probably fine.

intentionally gulping it down? get fucked :laughing:
 
I just took a group of Boy Scouts to Mega Caverns in Louisville, KY. We did the cave tour and the guide said the water in the cave was 98% pure...the other 2% is manganese.

like super duper laxative manganese

she told a story of a cave worker drinking 2 ounces of water and spending 2 weeks in ICU due to extreme dehydration due to the laxative effect.

after hearing that story, i wouldn't drink the water!
 
A guy I used to work with got Giardia water skiing on the Sacramento River. Goes to the Dr after shitting his brains out for a few days, Doc tells him "You've got Beaver Fever", and Gus says, "Doc, you gotta tell me I've got something else. If I tell my boss I can't come to work because I've got Beaver Fever, he's just going to say 'Gus, I've got that every damn day and still make it to work'".
 
jeepnmatt said:
I just took a group of Boy Scouts to Mega Caverns in Louisville, KY. We did the cave tour and the guide said the water in the cave was 98% pure...the other 2% is manganese.

like super duper laxative manganese

she told a story of a cave worker drinking 2 ounces of water and spending 2 weeks in ICU due to extreme dehydration due to the laxative effect.

after hearing that story, i wouldn't drink the water!
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On our honeymoon roadtrip, wife and I stopped at some caves in VA. Mammoth Caves I think it was. It was only us and the guide so she let us explore a bit. I climbed down to running water and she said not to drink it. They had underwater divers there the year prior collecting fish of all things, and the fish had some form of parasites on them. Kind of weird to be catching fish who knows how deep in a cave. :confused:
 
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