Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | same crazy fear, but i am getting better

I have been the same way forever, this innate fear of throwing up or catching the stomch flu or getting food poisoning leading to throwing up. I tried hypnotherapy to no avail and found that my fear got all consuming when i went off AD's for a year and tried al things natural as my nausea and ibs came back full force and since off the AD's i was not able to deal with it rationally, so i became a recluse feared going out in case i felt sick, feared foods, etc, it got really bad. I am now back on the AD's and am much better, got all my foods and courage to be out an about back, but also did a treatment called EMDR that I believed really helped me a lot. I still fear throwing up, but i no longer think about it everyday and no longer get myself incredibly riled up when i feel a bit nauseous, i am now able to put it into the back of my mind and go on with my day. As opposed to when everyone in my BF's family systematically got the stomach flu and i was a neurotic mess, i had to listen to him all night in the bathroom and then i was taking double probiotics and colloidal silver to avoid getting it and was counting the days from when he got it from his sister in law to what day i could finally relax as it may have passed me by. It was an insane 2 weeks, not fun.

so all in all for me if i am a bit nauseous i will chew candied ginger or drink ginger tea, if that doesn't work i will take a homeopathic for nausea, if that doesn't work or i am getting to wound up i will take gravol and go to sleep as it knocks me out good.

Look into the emdr, i urge anyone, it was weird and seemed like it couldn't do anything, but seems to have made me so much more calm about the concept, it didn't take away my fear, but has helped me to be able to deal with the thoughts and situations where it is involved.

I also fear being pregnant and having morning sickness, but will never let that stop me from having kids. Also when i was with my friend in montreal when i was younger and she got alcohol poisoning i was somehow able to just deal with it and sit with her and hold her hair and rub her back.
The good news is that my fear of thorwing up has kept me from doing many of the things that kids normally do like drinking too much, drugs, cigarettes, etc, i have been too afraid of what it would do to my stomach, also i just never really wanted to anyway.

wow, its great to know that i am not alone with this crazy fear, i am just glad i managed to get beyond having nausea as one of my main ibs symptoms, pain i can handle, nausea i can't.

Print Remind Me Notify Moderator