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I have a fear of vomiting too!!! I have never, in ten years of nauseous IBS, actually vomited from it..have you? I have come close, and esp as my IBS has been awful for the last 6 months (I caught a tummy bug and was soooo close to puking..and it ruined my ibs for me)..I haven't ruled it out for the future. I am trying to be more mature about the puking fear, but its hard, seeing as fears are irrational!
Well, I can safely tell you that when my bowels are better, so is the nausea and even though it can return sometimes, it is much much milder when the bowels are better. its the kind that you get when you get that majoooorrrr hunger with the ibs and eating some dry carbohydrate settles it. With my IBS I get lots of different kinds of nausea - all settled by different things.
There is a drug that is my saviour that has recently been banned in the US (I bring it in illegally woooooo) but is available over the counter in Europe and probably Australia. It is a gastric emptier and an antiemetic (anti puker). It is totally safe, and has been used for decades all over the world. The reason the US banned it is because one of its potential side effects (never got it)is increased lactation in boobs. So women who are nursing and who feel that their milk is drying up take it to increase their amount of milk. Studies haven't been done to see the effects on the babies recieving the drug through the milk so they took it away. Its a crime, because people that suffer with gastroparesis (stomach that has delayed emptying or none at all in extreme cases) were saved by this drug and now they have nothing!! Its name over the counter is MOTILIUM but its actual name is DOMPERIDONE. Its fantastic and really really helps for the nausea associated with bloating but will not help nausea associated with hunger, which doesn't matter because it is easily fixed with crackers or a good chunk of bread! I am sure you can get it in Australia. Get a prescription from your GP, to make it cheaper for you!
As for colonoscopy - I am not sure if I am going to have one. Its a big deal and I have spent some time looking at the symptoms of Crohns and Colitis etc and they involve pain and blood and diarrhea etc I hardly ever get pain and its even rarer that is stays for a long time or doubles me over....so I'm still not sure if I am going to put myself through it.
So glad to have found an anti puke mate!!
So where are you from in Ozzieland - I was travelling on the east coast there for 2 months last year. Love it!!!

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