Please help!

Took me forever to figure out what emet was. I suppose you mean you are a Emetophobe? Which means your fear throwing up and likely that fear is making you panic which makes you want to be sick even more so it's a never ending cycle of being ill and miserable. I understand. Kinda. When I was sixteen or so I started feeling sick every morning. It would last until about 1oclock in the afternoon. I felt so sick. Doctors looked and did little. They blamed it on anxiety mostly and some mysterious bumps in my stomach but no one did anything useful. I lived with nausea for ten years and still do occasionally. And when I'm having a panic attack I feel sick and vise versa so I too live in that cycle. However I found immense relief in changing my diet. It was a pain in the butt but I did it and it was worth it. I cut out gluten and though it hasn't fixed the problem it has made my life bearable. I eat a lot of natural foods and fruit and crap. When I'm sickly feeling I have Sea Bands that I wear on my wrists, eat ginger chews, and drink baking soda water. The following is also helpful when treating nausea: Calcium, Aloe, Chamomile tea, Mastic gum, Slippery elm, Vitamin E, and Zinc. Also if you have a Vitamin Shoppe near where you live they have a big jug of some sort of aloe juice from Lily of the Dessert with slippery elm in it and a bunch of other good stuff that will help your stomach out. Mostly though, my friend, you need to get your anxiety under control somehow, with medication or through PMR, meditation, or something. Go to the library and get some books with exercises in them, get a pocket sized notebook from walgreens and make yourself a little booklet to carry around with you full of techniques to use when you are panicking. That is a project I am slowly working on. It's a nice distraction.

I am on seroxat for my anxity and although I don't seem to feel it helps when I try to come off it I relise it does! I have tried various forms of therapy and they don't seem to work :( I am going to try the sickness bands and see if they help :) I know its all in my head but I can't control it :(

You said you have 3 boys, how did u manage pregnancy and birth? I am scared I will be sick! So havnt tried for a baby yet! Do you all feel sick on a daily basis? I do and its awful

I agree with S.C. on the pregnancy nausea vs. the stomach virus kind of feeling. I did get sick with my pregnancies, but I knew it wasn't a constant feeling...usually just when my stomach was empty so I ate small snacks very frequently. I never really worried about it too much back then because I knew it would pass quickly.

I got 'weird' when my boys always got the virus each year and ended up being hospitalized about 10 times between the 3 of them. They seem to have violent reactions to viruses and always had to be admitted for IVs. I followed the Dr.'s instructions, but no matter what, they dehydrated quickly.

This emetophobia has been torturing me for 12 years now. My 'baby' is now 16 and I still panic daily worrying what he's going to pick up at school and bring home to me/us. I hate feeling this ridiculous anxiety every single second of each day, but I cannot turn off my mind. It's frustrating beyond belief.

But, motherhood is so fabulous so I muddle through!

pink princess

I am sorry to hear of your problem.  Do you feel it is your anxiety that is causing the emtophobia?  If the answer to this questions is yes, then working on your anxiety is the best way to conquer your fears. CBT therapy seems to be the therapy of choice for what your going through.  There is a free online version you may want to look into and I will post the link for you here.  You can work this program from home on your computer:

Free on-line CBT program

http://www.moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

As far as morning sickness when pregnant many people do not have this problem and I was one of them.  I had 4 children and have no idea what morning sickness feels like. 

Kindly,

Kitt

 

Pink,

That link that I posted for you... the emetophobia website/support group has chat rooms. I am sure that you will find a lot of people there with the same fears.

My youngest daughter had a bout of 'D' the other night, and I really stuggled not to get anxious...but I still was worrying about the stomach flu the rest of the night. I have also had nausea off and on with my anxiety symptoms, and in the beginning it really freaked me out...but eventually I was able to not worry about it everytime...it depends on my stress levels. It does still challenge me, but I really do recommend the CBT, it helped me...and if you can also see about focusing on your specific phobia with the therapist, that would be ideal:)

Check out that site, and keep posting with us as well...you are not alone in this and we can encourage each other.:)

S.C.