# What was the longest period of time you ever went without eating?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 28, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-longest-period-of-time-you-ever-went-without-eating/70492 "2001-06-28T17:40:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-longest-period-of-time-you-ever-went-without-eating/70492/21 "2001-06-29T06:10:07Z")

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THe longest I ever slept was about 14 hours, so the longest I went without eating was about probably 14.5 hours.

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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-longest-period-of-time-you-ever-went-without-eating/70492/22 "2001-06-29T12:00:56Z")

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About 4 days. I was in college at the time and it was Christmas break. I had come down with Mono and Strep Throat. My tonsils were so swollen, the only thing I could ingest was water. The idiots at the campus medical center kept telling me that they couldn’t give me pennicillin because I had mono and that I would break out in a rash (they were wrong). After several other drugs, and about 4 days later, I finally gave up on them and went to my family doctor. Got on some steroids and the inflamation went down in 1 day. As a result, I lost about 15 lbs.

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