serenity
09-03-09, 13:31
Hi, I am just wondering if anyone can help me with these symptoms...
The past few months I have been through extreme amounts of stress with health worries (heart concerns and a long story but all appears okay). that went on for a few months... Prior to that I had been put on Protonix (Proton Pump Inhibitor) for severe burning in my stomach which fixed that and I have been on the Protonix ever since.
Recently a close relative was killed by a car as a pedestrian and that was so tragic and emotional and stressful a time as you can imagine. He was only 32 and was a lovely guy.
After that incident I started getting heart palpitations which really worried me and I went to see a cardio guy who has now set my mind at ease.
Then out of the blue 3 weeks ago I had intermittant bouts of quite severe nausea. At first I thought I was pregnant because it is the sort of nausea that makes you sick to your stomach, the thought of food is very off putting and I even have trouble cooking at times because of the smells. Well I am definately not preggers as tests came out negative and I had a full and normal cycle between all this. then the nausea became more and more frequent and for the past week it has been constant and very debilitating. I have never been emetophobic and have never been a 'nausea' sort of person. Even with my two pregnancies!
So I am now very worried as to what is causing this. Do you think it could be anxiety? Have others experienced this sort of thing?
I think I will have an endoscopy because I need to check out the stomach burning thing and I have had H.pylori in the past and don't know if the last treatment was eradicated fully (that was in 2002) and I am also worried about an ulcer so I want to get it checked out. I think, with the sedatives I could cope with an endoscopy......(eek)
Basically, sorry this is long, but I am wondering if you think this could all be a residue from all the emotional stress I had before? Magically the heart palps went as soon as the nausea set in but I am confused because I have never experienced nausea as an anxiety symptom before. I have also been getting severe stomach bloating in the evenings after main meal especially. Also, I don't feel particularly anxious (apart from over this) at all and I thought nausea went with anxiety when you were really stressed/fearful over something?
Please help, any advice or reassurance would be much appreciated.
The past few months I have been through extreme amounts of stress with health worries (heart concerns and a long story but all appears okay). that went on for a few months... Prior to that I had been put on Protonix (Proton Pump Inhibitor) for severe burning in my stomach which fixed that and I have been on the Protonix ever since.
Recently a close relative was killed by a car as a pedestrian and that was so tragic and emotional and stressful a time as you can imagine. He was only 32 and was a lovely guy.
After that incident I started getting heart palpitations which really worried me and I went to see a cardio guy who has now set my mind at ease.
Then out of the blue 3 weeks ago I had intermittant bouts of quite severe nausea. At first I thought I was pregnant because it is the sort of nausea that makes you sick to your stomach, the thought of food is very off putting and I even have trouble cooking at times because of the smells. Well I am definately not preggers as tests came out negative and I had a full and normal cycle between all this. then the nausea became more and more frequent and for the past week it has been constant and very debilitating. I have never been emetophobic and have never been a 'nausea' sort of person. Even with my two pregnancies!
So I am now very worried as to what is causing this. Do you think it could be anxiety? Have others experienced this sort of thing?
I think I will have an endoscopy because I need to check out the stomach burning thing and I have had H.pylori in the past and don't know if the last treatment was eradicated fully (that was in 2002) and I am also worried about an ulcer so I want to get it checked out. I think, with the sedatives I could cope with an endoscopy......(eek)
Basically, sorry this is long, but I am wondering if you think this could all be a residue from all the emotional stress I had before? Magically the heart palps went as soon as the nausea set in but I am confused because I have never experienced nausea as an anxiety symptom before. I have also been getting severe stomach bloating in the evenings after main meal especially. Also, I don't feel particularly anxious (apart from over this) at all and I thought nausea went with anxiety when you were really stressed/fearful over something?
Please help, any advice or reassurance would be much appreciated.