waking up with strange feeling in stomach

[Kirst24]

Hi everyone,

Recently I have been waking up every morning with this horrible feeling in my lower stomach. It feels like butterflies and just a very anxious nervous feeling. It is almost kind of tickly but not in a nice way. I don't understand why it is happening when I wake up. Does anyone else get this?

Kirst xxx

[Kirst24]

Anyone?

K xx

[anthrokid]

heya Kirst, I get this some days along with a kind of tense feeling in my head. I'm pretty sure it's just anxiety related. May have been having anxious dreams at night then waking up anxious, or when you wake up you may be worried about getting these feelings which is actually causing anxiety which causes the feelings. Vicious circle isn't it!

[Raindog]

Hi Kirst,
It does sound like the anxiety giving you the stomach flutters, as amiekid describes. I would get the anxiety on me as soon as I woke up and it would sometimes give me the odd feelings in my stomach that you mentioned. Not very pleasant, but nothing that is dangerous at all. Anxiety tends to make your stomach produce more acid, which may be what is happening to give you the feelings you're having.

Try taking a couple of rennie or having a drink of milk to help ease the acid in your stomach and that may help a little, but don't worry generally, it's something a lot of us get at some point.