Morning Sickness/not pregnant

tobewell said...
Hi.. just found this forum and I can sympathise with you all. I too have had similar symptoms for the past two years. Constantly sick in the mornings, and stomach pain. I've tried all sorts of things and basically live on Zantac but to little effect. It helps the discomfort but i'm still sick every morning. Have any of you considered a test for helicobacter pylori? http://www.helico.com/h_general.html
The symptoms seem to be consistent but obviously tests can confirm this. I personally am waiting for tests but im worried about an endoscope as im a singer and have heard that its possibly damaging to the vocal cords.

I have however found relief for the past weeks now by taking something I found in the mountains of Rhodes, Greece called Suoma. Its basically distilled grapes! A rather potent drink but i've not been sick in the morning for 7 days since taking a simple shot of it at night. Its strong stuff and id not suggest taking it in the day (before driving etc) or if you are on certain meds that discourage alcohol consumption. I'm no Doctor... but I know my body.. and I found this stuff by accident,.. but realised that i was no longer being sick after taking it.. (it was the only different thing id taken than usual).. I continued taking it and it seems to be working... There is still nausea but i feel it takes the edge off enough to deal with it.. not that Im at the stage to take breakfast though!! Possibly placebo effect.. but as i said id found it by accident and not been told it could at all help my symptoms. If you happen to be visiting Greece try and get some.. just take it easy... its strong stuff!

I'm still interested in helicobacter pylori and if anyone has been tested for this.

Let me know

Good health!!

From Hara: The Endoscope is a breeze you have no worries there. This is coming from someone who's had it done.

I am with all of you. I am frustrated, mostly because I'm a nurse and none of my nurse friends can narrow down my symptoms (even though, yes, i know only a doc can diagnose).

When I was in Jr. High, i would wake up in the morning, take a shower, and either be nauseated all day or vomit before going to school and feel a little bit better until I "walked it off" and always felt better leter in the morning/early afternoon. My doc diagnosed post nasal drip, which was excess producation of musous dripping down my throat into my stomach being digested during the night and when I woke up, the excess was too much for my body to handle. Some allergy meds "fixed it" and i stopped taking the meds after a year or so, and the symptoms never came back.

I knew I wasnt pregnant due to the fact i was 13 and not having sex yet.

Now I am 23 (AND NOT PREGNANT) and about a month ago I woke up about 2-3 am with severe... I mean... SEVERE abdominal pain. I thought I had to have diarrhea so i ran off to the bathroom hunched over, and when i got to the toilet, all of the muscles in my abdomen were so tight and painful that i couldnt release my bladder or bowels. I honestly felt like my bladder had exploded and I was going to die.

If i wake up in the middle of the night with any pain/nausea/vomiting/diarrhea i never wake my husband up. This time I was so scared that I woke him up and when he asked me what was wrong i said "i'm dying." He got me some water and asked if i wanted to go to ER which after about 15 minutes i didnt feel the severe pain anymore so i said no. My abdomen stayed cramped for about 2 days. Not severely, but enough to where it hurt a little.

Now i am waking up about 3 am-4am having to run to the bathroom, or if i wake up early, or something wakes me up (like one of you had said) my stomach hurts, i feel completely nauseated and have to have diarrhea. if i sleep in, i feel fine and not sick when i wake up. i have been taking zantac in the AM and before bed, and it doesnt help. The first thing i did after about a week of feeling nauseated and i realized it wasnt the flu was i took a pregnancy test, which came back negative. i have been trying to eat something before bed.... and ive tried NOT eating something before going to bed.

When researching ulcers, i found that people who have duodenal ulcers usually have pain between 3-4am so maybe its that? if anyone has any advice, i'd love to hear it. i'm from a small town and getting in to the gastro doc is kind of hard.

I wish all of you the best, and I sympathize with all of your "morning sicknesses"

Hello there,

Morning sickness refers to the nauseated feeling you get during the first trimester of pregnancy.

I think perhaps it would be wise if you were seen and evaluated by your family physician for your continued morning illness.



Take care and do find a good physician that will look into your concerns.



Kitt

I am talking about Toyot_kamri :)

vYou maybe having morning reflux.
Try lifting the head of your bed six inches. This may help.

Joy

I have had "morning sickness" even though I am definitely not pregnant since I was about 15. It seems to be the same thing almost everyone here is experiencing: it can happen all day, but it's generally isolated to the morning; I am more sensitive to smells; IF it happens later in the day, it's almost always when I haven't eaten, or when I have eaten something that I know gives me (burping) gas.

I've noticed a few things about it:

1) If it is cold in the room that I wake up in, it's completely unavoidable, I will be sick. I dislike being hot when I sleep, but it really seems to help (and also having a robe really close by to throw on when I get up).
2) It can be fixed with gas medication (like Gas-X), or just (carefully!) encouraging myself to burp.
3) If, for some reason, I decide that I really can't wake up in the morning and deal with my usual sickness, I take the highest strength gas pill just before I go to bed. I will wake up perfectly fine.
4) It increases TENFOLD if I am extremely stressed out about something. This may be related to the fact that if I am extremely stressed, I will stop eating.

I hope this helps some of you deal with your symptoms. Does anyone else experience this as well?

You are probably refluxing in your sleep.
Have you talked to your GI about this?

Joy

Can you guys describe this morning sickness feeling, if this is that what I think it is than I had It to. As lot of you I have the routine Gerd simptoms in the morning like bad sleep, short sleep, a lot off turning around while sleeping and so on... so, cuting these stomach pain away I felt generaly healthy and good... but than came a period when I would wake up with a coldness, sickness, weekness not similar to these gerd symptoms, It's the legs and the body that feels tired and wasted... not extreme though but It lasted during the whole winter phase and stoped for two weeks

Good Morning

At night during sleep, gravity is not in effect, swallowing stops, and the secretion of saliva is reduced. Therefore, reflux that occurs at night is more likely to result in acid remaining in the esophagus longer and causing greater damage to the esophagus.

A bitter taste in the mouth, a chronic cough, sore throat, throat pain, fatigue ... if you're waking every morning with these symptoms of nighttime heartburn / GERD, talk to your doctor.
Take care and do stick with us,

Kitt

Can you eat saltines to calm your stomach?

Make an appointment to see the GI. He can run some tests to help you.


Joy

okay so a few months back i wrote the site looking for info on "morning sickness" without pregnancy. since then, ive had an endoscopy with biopsies of my stomach, a colonoscopy with biopsies of my intestinal tract, MRIs, CT scan of my bowel, a ENT looked at my throat with a camera through my nose and all of these tests revealed: NOTHING. I continue to have "morning sickness" and then I started to have my period, which continued on and off for 7 weeks now. They did a vaginal ultrasound which revealed AN OVARIAN CYST. the severe pain i felt almost a year ago which felt like my bladder had exploded was actually the cyst dislocating from my ovary. normally the cysts dissolve by themselves but my cyst is now floating freely in my abdomen. the cyst creates my body to produce an excess amount of ESTROGEN which simulates the MORNING SICKNESS without being PREGNANT. So this FINALLY !!!!!!!! Explains why I have been so sick and I actually have been having morning sickness, because of the hormone balance, but not because of pregnancy. I am scheduled to have surgery to remove the cyst this Friday. I will continue to update you all on the progress. But maybe you all need to see your OB and get checked for cysts. This was the last thing I expected it to be, since my symptoms were all "stomach related" but I'm finally glad to know i'm not crazy and it really is something! Good luck to you all

Wow! that is so unusual! I'm glad you found a solution.

Joy

Have you seen a gastroenterologist about your symptoms? The increase in pain concerns me a little and it never hurts to just get things checked out. These symptoms sound quite similar to Chrone's Disease or the gluten-intolerant Celiac's Disease. Both have painful symptoms that intensify if they are not treated proply.

Paperweight said...
For the last three weeks I have been waking up at about 5:30am every morning. At this time I have diarrhoea and nausea. Twice I have actually been sick.
My alarm is set for 6:10 but I never actually end up getting up at that time because I wake up before then due to feeling ill.



This has left me feeling really tired a lot of the time. However, by lunch time every day I feel better. This is after a long walk.



I have IBS and I'd just started college so I thought maybe I'd triggered it. But, it happens at weekends as well and has been going on for weeks.



I don't know what to do. I have diarrhoea every morning now but by the evening it almost disappears. I was used to getting it every day but not this bad because it's more painful than usual.



I find it hard to eat anything in the mornings which just makes me feel worse at college.