I have been suffering for 13 years with
the fear of vomiting. I feel nauseous 99%
of my normal day. It messes up my eating,
I dont like leaving the house or traveling
because I am afraid I will be sick, or
what if I get sick! I know this sounds
crazy! I suffer from panic attacks really
bad and this is effecting my life. I have
stomach problems for over a year now,
hiatal hernia, gerd, colitis, etc. I
tryed paxil for the panic I feel every
single day, but I got really sick from
taking it once,which made me panic and
scared to take medication, and it seems
noone around me can relate to the panic I
am in, and since I suffer so much from
this it effects everything, I am a
miserable person, can anyone relate? Does
anyone have advise? Please help.
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itdoesgetbetter
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 2
Posted: 08-30-05 14:19pm
You arent alone, I suffered from this most
of my life and it crippled me in every
aspect. I no longer have this phobia,
although I still dont like throwing up. I
suggest you take a look at this site, and
also go see a doctor and councelor, they
can help a lot.
Man I know exactly how you feel! My
problem started a couple of years ago.
Whenever I eat something, I feel like
throwing up in the end. While i'm eating,
it doesn't bother that much but when I
start getting to the end of the meal the
fear of throwing up starts to come over
me. Thats why I try to avoid going out
with friends for dinner or lunch, and try
to eat alone to be "safe" if I ever have
throw up. And its not just food that gets
me nauseas. It seems almost everything
makes me feel like throwing up. Waking up
early in the morning, doing some physical
activity, running, ... Everything! I
have been trying to deal with all of that,
but the most critical problem that I am
facing currently is speaking! I'm a phd
student and I have to make presentations
and give talks from time to time. Right
before I start to talk I get cold and I
feel like a lump of metal is stuck in my
throat and it gets me choking. On a
number of occasions I have had to run away
to the bathroom right before my
presentation to puke my guts out. I don't
think this is because I have a fear of
speaking ... Trust me, I don't. I also
teach classes, and that doesn't make sick
at all. In fact, once I start talking I
feel very confident and good about myself.
This is really frustrating for me and I
feel embarassed and weak. I have to keep
a piece of candy in my pocket at all
times, but lately it seems like the candy
isn't doing the trick anymore... I
continue to feel crappy. If anyone out
there has any cure to this please please
please let me know. This thing is setting
me back a lot and preventing me to keep up
with my academic career. I would be very
much grateful.
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mum???
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Gloucester UK
Hey There........ Posted: 04-27-06 16:30pm
"emetophobia" if you read this please get
in contact with me...I did write you a
huge letter explaining how my emetophobia
ruined my life and is still there but the
damm site logged me out as I was so long
writing it...I am very sorry about that.I
want to chat to you about all this as I
have alot of things you can do and try for
your phobia and they have been tried and
tested by me.They do work and I would love
to help you.My name is jade simone worrall
and i'm 21 years old and I have this awful
phobia since the age of 6.Its so bad that
my mum is my full time carer.My email
addresses are: jswo
rrall@hotmail.Co.Uk and
jsworrall04'yahoo.Co.Uk. The hotmail one
is a msn address which we can chat on so
if you ahve msn just ad me,i'm on msn most
evenings.In the meantime ginger is so good
for nausea in any form,obviously the more
powerful you can tolerate it the
better...I took this while pregnant (that
was a very worrying time as you can
probably understand,but I didn't get
morning sickness.
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mum???
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Gloucester UK
Posted: 04-27-06 18:08pm
Sorry its jswo
rrall04@yahoo.Co.Uk with no ' in
there.Please do contact me for a chat
about things,jadexxx
