Does anyone deal with constant nausea? Or the fear of throwing up? I need someone to talk to about this

You’re fantastic. Thank you so much for this post. I’m so glad you’re doing better and the work you’ve done is helping you so much.

I truly appreciate you taking the time to give us this helpful information. I wasn’t talking about my nausea issues for a while, since I was dealing with other issues, but I’m currently focusing on them in therapy. I try to keep calm and just realize that it’s my anxiety. **trigger warning coming so Don’t read of easily triggered**This whole nausea thing started for me after a 4 hour car drive that eventually made me throw up. Ever since then, I’ve been scared of being in cars. Now it has transferred over to public transportation. I’m going to start doing ERP soon. This is just hard

I’m currently considering on maybe taking meds for this. I have become dependent on dramamine and my therapist was so concerned that I had a breakdown. It’s so hard

May I ask if you’re doing ERP for the emetephobia? Also, do you take medication for the anxiety it causes? I’ve not started ERP yet. Am supposed to talk with therapist on Wednesday for the first time. I’ve been reading books about it and trying to do the techniques it says but it is hard. I do know that the only way to get to the other side of the fear is to through it and face it head on (from what I’m reading). I do some breathing but that is certainly hard mid panic. I am trying hypnotherapy for it soon as well. Have you ever done that? It’s such an awful phobia that for me, I think, is less about the act and more about loss of control. So this phobia has kind of transceneded itself into being sick in general. Dizzy. Vomiting. Etc and being alone while being sick. I’m single and live with my dogs but it’s hard when you’re going through something like this to go it alone (even though you’re alone in what’s happening to your body). I am happy to see (not happy others feel the way I do because I don’t wish it upon anyone) but happy that there are others out there like me that understand and can relate to me. No one in my life understands because they don’t have these fears.

I try to focus on other things and I tend to journal or play WordSearch games. I have become dependent on dramamine for me to go anywhere. My nausea happens all the time on public transportation and it makes me so nervous. I’ve gotten off of trains because I felt so sick and close to throwing up.

@yougotthis I’m sorry you feel that way. And I think starting ERP is a great step. I start on Wednesday. So yay for us! I also do a lot of games on my phone. I started meditating twice a day as suggested on this post, and I started “tapping”. You can Google it if you don’t know what it is. But it’s also helped lower my anxiety level.

Ugh idk how to deal with it. I take public transportation to get to work and to go out sometimes and I always feel so nauseous and like I’m going to throw up, which sends me into panic mode. I’ve always gotten car sick since I was young and actually had a bad experience that has triggered this whole nausea fear.

@yougotthis Mhm! I believe that’s where mine originated from too.