Fay13
03-07-17, 10:40
Nausea has always been a large part of my anxiety and probably the most difficult symptom for me to deal with as I have quite bad emetophobia. Recently my morning nausea has been getting worse and becoming quite debilitating. I struggle to get to work on time and when I’m there just sit at my desk sipping water trying to calm down.
In my head I know it’s ‘just’ anxiety and I’ve never thrown up from anxiety but I know that other people have so even telling myself that the cause is anxiety (rather than a stomach bug etc.) doesn’t really help me calm down as it doesn’t remove the threat of vomiting. It’s getting so bad I was worried I could be pregnant (even though that’s essentially not possible, and even if I was it would be so so early on that I doubt morning sickness would be causing an issue yet).
I drink water as soon as I wake up, I meditate, and I make sure I do eat something, but even so the nausea just gets worse from the moment I wake up until mid/late morning, it reoccurs in small waves throughout the day in general but the morning is the worst. It doesn’t happen at the weekends, just days when I have work and this is the only thing that makes me sure it is anxiety, because otherwise it’s so bad I would be querying whether I had some other condition or stomach problem.
Does anyone have any other tips for dealing with it? In addition to the things I do in the morning, I don’t eat late at night, don’t drink alcohol, don’t drink coffee and try to get enough sleep.
In my head I know it’s ‘just’ anxiety and I’ve never thrown up from anxiety but I know that other people have so even telling myself that the cause is anxiety (rather than a stomach bug etc.) doesn’t really help me calm down as it doesn’t remove the threat of vomiting. It’s getting so bad I was worried I could be pregnant (even though that’s essentially not possible, and even if I was it would be so so early on that I doubt morning sickness would be causing an issue yet).
I drink water as soon as I wake up, I meditate, and I make sure I do eat something, but even so the nausea just gets worse from the moment I wake up until mid/late morning, it reoccurs in small waves throughout the day in general but the morning is the worst. It doesn’t happen at the weekends, just days when I have work and this is the only thing that makes me sure it is anxiety, because otherwise it’s so bad I would be querying whether I had some other condition or stomach problem.
Does anyone have any other tips for dealing with it? In addition to the things I do in the morning, I don’t eat late at night, don’t drink alcohol, don’t drink coffee and try to get enough sleep.