terrible anxiety

i’ve been doing okay lately. but then tonight, my stomach started hurting and obviously that set off an anxiety spiral for my emetaphobia. and it went on for about an hour or so when i started feeling better and being more rational with myself. then all of a sudden, i’m hit with a second wave because my stomach started hurting again that i’m still going through. i’ve been having second waves of anxiety recently when i get anxiety attacks and they’re probably worse than the initial hit because i start to think “oh wait, maybe i am sick.” and i’m still not out of it and i’m currently terrified. i know the anxiety is making my stomach worse, but i cannot calm myself down when it hits. so i have an ice pack on my neck, heating pad on my stomach, turned my lights off, turned my fan on and have my tv on for background. i’m trying my best not to take a zofran but it’s getting hard

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reese.04

Date posted: 6d ago

i understand how you feel 100%, but i also think at this point, take zofran! you’ve held out for a long time and you can do that for yourself and im so proud of you! also, if you really don’t want to take zofran, remember that most of the time when someone is sick, they will v* within the first 20-30 minutes of not feeling good. so i know you are probably totally fine

flowerpetals

Date posted: 6d ago

@reese.04 hearing people say they’re proud of me when i go through anxiety always makes me tear up. thank you, i appreciated this 🫶🏻

byebyeocd4ever

Date posted: 6d ago

Going through literally the exact same thing. Except I have acid reflux and an ulcer, so it makes my emetephobia monster go crazyyy. Instead of engaging in safety behaviors I’ve been doing everything I can to not listen to the ocd. I took my acid reflux medicine even though my ocd told me it would make me puke, in reality it made me feel SO much better. I’ve been doing exposures to v* too - saying to my ocd oh yeah I’m going to be sick, go ahead! It has been helping. But this cycle is so brutal and I’m so sorry you are experiencing it too. I hope you and I find relief permanently and show ocd we CAN handle it!

flowerpetals

Date posted: 6d ago

@byebyeocd4ever this has been my life for as long as i can’t remember and it ruins my quality of life so much. i’m so sorry you have to experience it! i’ve progressively gotten better at knowing when i need to worry, but anxiety attacks are inevitable unfortunately. i’m proud of you for facing your fears! 🫶🏻🫶🏻

24ozpersepho...

Date posted: 5d ago

Have you talked about deep breathing exercises with your therapist? When my stomach is hurting and I don’t know it’s from anxiety or if I ate something bad, I, like you, lay down with a heating pad and do breathing exercises. They really really help. Your relationship with zofran is your business, but if it is prescribed by a doctor, and you’re taking it as prescribed, think about why you would feel bad taking it?

Anonymous

Date posted: 15w ago

Ocd

I'm having awful stomach pain and nausea and it's really worrying me and scaring me

Iceberg Climber

Date posted: 11w ago

Rolling Anxiety Attacks with OCD?

Does anyone have any experience with this? I wake up early with severe, severe anxiety and nothing seems to help. I try embracing the anxiety, breathing, and exercising. But these things only seem to help a little. Fortunately, I do think the length of the attacks are getting shorter (mainly because I'm still trying my best to live normally in spite of them), but they are still lasting a good 5-6 hours. They are quite debilitating. Does anyone have any advice for dealing with these? I've read much about potential solutions (being okay with the anxiety), but I was looking for some personal antecdotes. Thank you

flowerpetals

Date posted: 11w ago

panic/anxiety attack

i’m currently experiencing a panicky anxiety attack and i don’t know why. i’ve been on edge all day because of being scared to get sick, but right now, i know i’m not going to get sick but i’m just really panicked and cannot calm down. i’m currently listening to music that helps relax me with an icepack on my neck to help, but not much is happening. my sister and mom keep coming into my room and it’s only making it worse but i don’t know why. i just don’t want to talk or be around anyone right now. these kinds of episodes are worse than any other because i don’t know why i’m so scared. it just feels like it’s never going to go away.

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