Frequent Nausea...

Finally someone else with the fear of vomiting. I am not the only one! First of all, I have the same problem. I get nauseas everyday, it doesnt matter if I just ate or havent eaten all day, the nausea rears its ugly head. I drink cold ginger ale through a straw, within minutes I am belching and with each belch I feel better. If its really bad I take tums with the ginger ale. Like I said I too suffer from the fear of vomiting. I rarely vomit, and there have been times when I could have, but I actually held it back. When I get really nauseas I get panicky and have to take an ativan. I researched the fear of vomiting, and it is called emetephobia. The sites said that emetephobics can go through pregnancies, appendixcitis, vomiting inducing supplements, anethesia, and stomach viruses without ever vomiting. Also, back to why your nauseas, I have acid reflux and I take prevacid. It seems to help but I drink my gingerale and take tums everyday anyways.

I am going through something now with my health and have not been able to get any solid diagnosis. My main complaint is the nautiousness. I can't stand it. It is bringing on anxiety attacks simply because I am afraid I will get sick if I go out anywhere. THe only thing they have found is I also have acid reflux and just started taking NExium. I haven't had a chance yet to notice if my nautiousness has decreased. Is that a common symptom of acid reflux?

I'm having the same problem as you two are. Since last October I've been suffering from nausea everyday, no matter what. I when i went to my family doctor she told me i had acid reflux and gave me a prescription for zantac 150mg. It helped for a couple weeks then got worse. When i went back my doctor pretty much said "well good luck with that" and sent me home with nothing but an even bigger stomach ache.

I made an appt with a gastrointerologist who had absolutely no idea what could be wrong with me. He said I may have reflux but wasn't completely sold. He gave me samples of Protonix to use once a day. He had me get blood work done to check for a gluten allergy and what not, came back perfectly fine. So he went ahead and did an endoscopy on me, told me my insides looked perfect for a 19 year old and that he had no idea what was wrong with me. I have an extreme fear of throwing up and because of this i tended to stay home everyday and dreaded going out into public because i was afraid i was going to vomit, and felt safer in the comfort of my own home. He did though, give me a prescription for Phenergan, an anti nausea medicine, and when the prescription ran out i bought it online from an canadian pharmacy OTC so i have an enormous supply of the pills so when the nausea gets to me too much to handle i take one and it makes me feel better. Unfortunately the medicine makes you veryyy drowsy so i end up falling asleep when i'm feeling better and waking up after the medicine has worn off.

I made an appt with a natropathic doctor who told me she also had no idea why i was dealing with constant nausea. She gave me DGL (deglycerinated licorice root) supplements. Which worked wonders, i take 6 of these horsepills a day and they helped a lot for about a month, the nausea never went away completely but it was somewhat dulled, but then it started coming back. She did more blood tests on me and stool samples and both came back perfectly normal.

Now i am not only nauseous constantly but i get really bad diarrhea out of nowhere, 3-4 times a week. so I keep a bottle of pepto bismol in my purse.
At this point in time i'm taking 13 pills a day, 2 zantac 150mg, 1 protonix, 6 DGL supplements, 2 pancreatic enzymes (to help my food digest faster) and 2 of these pills, supplements that help digest food as well. After all this i am still feeling sick everyday, worse now that ever because i'm not only dealing with the nausea but also the diarrhea.

Any Ideas?

I know how everyone feels. I am glad that I am not alone. I too have a fear of vomitting. I thought I was the only one. I dont know why, but I do. I have not thrown up since I was 9, and I am now 28. I too have nausea at least 3 times a week sometimes more. My doctor has prescribed me Phenogran, and it works wonders. They do not know why I am nauseated all the time. I do not have a medical condition that would warrant me having nausea all the time. My doctors think that it is all stress. I am in a very sterssfull situation, and I am sure that is my problem. I will continue to take the Phenogran, until I can learn to deal with it. This is the best medicine, and it does not damage your body. I love it, and would reccomend it to anyone that has nausea all the time. Good luck everyone

Hi!

This is pretty strange to me as this is the first post I've ever found that describes my problems in detail. You guys seem to have the exact same thing that I have.

I have a fear of vomiting myself, I'm on 2 pills a day to control my reflux and I feel nausea all the time after I've eaten a "large" meal. I also have a fear of going out because I think I'm going to feel sick. But I almost never vomit. Been at least 5 years ago now.
I've already figured out that a part of the problem is most probably stress related. When I'm in a situation that I start feeling a bit sick and I'm not in a private place (home/car/toilet/outside/whatever), it tends to get worse because of, I gather, my fear of vomiting and more specifically, my intense fear of vomiting in public.

It's not that I'm a social outcast who sits home all day afraid to go to work or go out. I refuse to let it fully control my life so I place myself in social situations which could cause a problem, just to force me to deal with it. But when I have a meeting or when I'm going to friends or wherever, I just don't eat before I leave. When I'm going to go to a restaurant (which I really don't like to do because of my "condition"), I eat there but I make sure that I don't eat a lot. And I take an antacid right after the meal.
I can't eat during a long period either. So I can't do the appetizer, main course, dessert either because when I eat something and wait a short while, I tend to lose my appetite or start to feel a bit bloated/nausea. Which is a problem when you're at social events. I always have to refuse food/drinks which causes some strange looks and reactions.
I can't drink that much either. Alcohol that is. When I was 18, I used to be able to drink beer like the next guy. Now I'm 29 and when I've had three beers in a full evening, I have to really watch out or I'm very very nauseaous.

And I firmly believe that it's not all in my head (stress related) either. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with my stomach or whatever but the effect is aggravated because of my fear of vomiting. My doctor couldn't help me so I went to a gastro specialist in the hospital. He gave me some medicine, which I have to take daily, that did wonders for my reflux (I used to have reflux _all_ the time, even after drinking water in the morning). I can't take sour stuff either, which I used to love (juice, lemons, oranges, ...)
Next to those pills, the only thing that really helps me is an antacid. I take one or two after every heavy meal and they really get the nausea down. So I kinda get the feeling that it's still an acid problem. Even though they looked in my stomach and didn't see much wrong except for a bit of an inflamation and my stomach that didn't really close all the way. But no extraordinary amounts of acid. I also did a stomach emptying test. Sounds gross but it's not what you think , it's a test wher you have to eat something on a sober stomach and they measure how fast it digests. And they said I have a really really slow digestion. Which would explain why my food seems to lay like a brick in my stomach and makes me feel nausea.

When I feel the nausea, I also have these "burping sounds" in my chest but they are not burps. They're kinda annoying and people sometimes look at me like what's his problem? But I can't stop it. But this is something I only have, I've had it since I was 12 or something, don't know anyone who has that.
And to top it off, I can't belch. Well I can, ever since I'm on the reflux meds I belch several times a day. But I can't induce it. And the belching helps enormously to aleviate the nausea! Sometimes I'm praying for a belch to come and I know it's just around the corner but I can't do it myself. It has to happen on it's own. I wish I could learn how to belch on command. I'm sure that would make the nausea so much more bearable.

Wow what a long post. I've learned to live with my nausea. But I would give anything to find a cure for it. Because although I say I'm not letting it control me, I know it actually is. It's crippling. I just want to live a normal life like anyone else. Sounds stupid but I would just love to go out and party like I used to do without knowing I'll be escaping to the bathroom or outside and feel sick.

i get nauseaus every day without fail. the doctors told me that i have a stomach ulcer. but the medicine doest to anything really to help im still nauseus *i hate that word*. ive missed 16 days of school so far, and if i miss like two more im being put in a detention home. it sucks too cause since my mother and i have a phobia of being scoped, like that test they do when they put the camera scope thing down your throat, we can do that. and i also have a fear of vomiting. that keeps me at home most of the time, and away from my boyfriend and friends.

I am facing the same problem too.

However my nausea feeling will be alleviated once I eat something.

I too willing to try anything that can guarantee a cure for my problem

Hello all,

I have read posts from the extreme nausea category and feel right at home. It was nice to read others share my same symptoms and fears. I have been experiencing a lump in my throat/nausea for 7 weeks now. It started out just w/nausea that would wake me up in the middle of the night. I cut out all items in my diet that would initiate a GERD-like response. After 1 month this continued and I saw my GI doc. He told me to take Pepcid complete b/c I refused Nexium. This helped for about a week and then it was same ol' same ol, except the nausea seemed even worse.

Now, 3 weeks after that initial visit, I am taking food enzymes, anti-gas herbs- but still experiencing extreme nausea! It's as if no food is digestable to my system completely. I feel like food is in my throat, but I am not vomiting. I also have a HUGE fear of vomiting since I have rarely done it in my lifetime. I went 20 yrs w/out vomiting- I am 29 y/o and broke my record when I caught a virus last year. Anyhoo, I say all this just to ask for some advice...I haven't read any comments w/people receiving a diagnosis. It seems that most of us have unexplainable circumstances, but that just doesn't mk sense to me. Obviously something is WRONG, but I just don't know what or how to mk it change. I am very concerned due to my diet changes and I am losing weight, which I certainly have none to spare!

Please, please help!!!

I completely know how all of you feel, it's SUCH a comfort that we're not the only ones.

Ever since about grade 4 (I'm in grade 11 now) I've had something like this.. I'll wake up feeling fine in the morning and as the day progresses I'll begin to get the gross burps, and then more and more of them. It gets to the point where I'm so nauseous and can't do anything but go to bed. Sometimes it'll become this bad by 3pm, other days 10pm. Often times during the night I'll be woken up by feeling so sick. One thing always remains the same.. I always wake up the next morning feeling completely fine. Spells like this usually go on for a month or longer, the rest of the year I'll be perfect! Coincidence or not, it is always a spring-time thing.

It's strange that none of us has been given a satisfying response from a doctor. I've gone to my family doctor as well as a pediatrician years ago, and all they've been able to come up with is that it's some sort of migraine phenomenon. Like many of you, I've done almost all the testing there is, and NOTHING has come back with useful information.

Best of luck to everyone.. I'll for sure be posting if an answer comes up for me.

And in response to the fear of vomiting.. I wouldn't describe myself as having that fear. However, when my sickness gets me to the point where I could be sick to my stomach, something holds me back and I never end up actually doing it.

hey again everyone lol
i dont know if this applies to you, but since we have similar problems, its worth a shot.
it was found that i have depression & anxiety issues. its a genetic thing, and looking back, ive been like this my whole life. granted, not to the extent i was recently but a little bit off.
So about a month ago i started a medication called Efexor for depression, and reading the pages about what it can help, i discovered that stomach acid levels are something it helps to control as well!
Maybe the stem of all these stomach problems could be something neurologic.
I can't tell you about my long term results yet,
but i hope this might help a little bit!
god bless.