Emetophobia - any fellow sufferers? What do you do to cope?

[swimming]

I've just woken myself up having a panic attack and convinced myself in going to be ill. So sick of this phobia!

I had an attack of either panic or anxiety at 1:30 this morning and it went on till almost 2am it was awful my stomach was in knots and I’m doing my mental 48 hour countdowns in my head where I’ve been and has my son put his hands in his mouth etc

I’m still a nervous wreck this morning it’s so bleeping isolating and tiring but we’re all in it together x

 

[Summer2011]

Well, she seems fine now. Was back to herself by about 10am. It’s so weird, because it was exactly the same symptoms as about 18 months ago - wake up around 7am, feeling hot, throw up bile a few times over 2-3 hours, then recover.

When it happened before, the bouts were almost exactly four weeks apart so I thought it was somehow period related. Also considered cyclical vomiting, or abdominal migraine. She had bloods which showed slightly low iron but that was it. But then it never happened again so that was that.

I’ll be on alert in around a month in case it happens again. The annoying thing is not having a clue what could be causing it.

I had this with my 13 year old daughter. Roughly 4 weeks apart so I assumed cycle also. But same as you, would wake early morning 6/7am boiling hot with a bad head, would always bring up bile and what little water she had drank as she would be panicking about the impending sick. She would also have to go to the toilet a few times then would go back to sleep for a few hours and be much brighter. She wouldn’t really eat out of fear but if she wasn’t scared she would have been able to eat.
I thought about getting her the pill but I wanted to avoid hormones in the body for as long as possible.
It was every month for around 5ish month but has completely settled and she’s been fine for 4 months now.

 

[maytoseptember]

How weird @Summer2011! When I spoke to a GP about it they didn’t have a clue what it could be. Interesting that your daughter had almost identical symptoms.

There’s absolutely no way I’d put her on the pill (I won’t touch it either due to side effects) but I’ll take her back to the doctors if it starts to repeat again.