u/forest-fairyx

Just wondering if anyone else here finds that their symptoms get worse around that time of the month because I am currently PMS-ing right now and the bloat/water retention is making the gaggy sensation in my throat so much more intense.

My tummy doesn't feel nauseous but good lord the throat nausea goes crazy. I get so much trapped air in my oesophagus that I have to bang and thump my chest/breastbone like an ape to to get a small amount of air out only for the feeling to return within a few seconds/minutes and the whole cycle starts again :(

Wondering if any other ladies have the same issue and if so what do you do to alleviate symptoms? Mine always peaks a week before I'm due which is rn and when you add in the hormonal mood shifts, boob pain, hot flashes and cramping, among other things, I have along side it it makes me want to die lol

Does anyone else struggle with this? I’ve suffered from throat nausea all my life but it’s gotten so much worse and debilitating now that I’m 30.

Add it to being extremely emetophobic and everyday is like my own personal hell. I feel nauseous 24/7 and 99.9% of the times it stems only from my throat and not my stomach. It comes on out of no where too, I’ll be downstairs making food or coffee and bam I feel like I’m gonna projectile vomit so I end up running upstairs to the safety of my room with my head in a bucket. Nothing usually happens, no gagging etc but the feeling of needing to gag and throat tightness is so intense and doesn’t ever go away.

I’ve noticed it’s worse when I haven’t eaten for a while/am hungry, straight after eating and also funnily enough if I need to poop. My period seems to make it worse too and whenever I’m super gassy (which let’s be honest is constantly) it gets bad more intense too, like it’s trying to come out both ways but can only exit through my ass 😭

The randomness of the throat nausea throughout the day has been absolutely abysmal to live with thought. I can’t do anything anymore because of how nauseous I feel and since I’m an emet the constant feeling of nausea causes me to panic and now my mood is affected and I get really snippy and antsy with people because I’m constantly in pain/nauseous/uncomfortable and trying not to burst into a full blown panic attack most of the time.

I guess I’m just venting but also asking for some advice from others who suffer and to see what works for you and if there’s anything I can try because I’m desperate.

I’m currently on the waiting list for the botox treatment but because I’m going through public healthcare it could be years before I get an appointment date :( I can’t afford to go privately as I have no job due to this condition and my mental health so I can’t speed up the process either.

Please let me know if all your tips and tricks to help manage this awful symptom please as I feel like I’m going insane from feeling discomfort and panic 24/7 :(

It’s been two days since I had to put my soul girl to sleep due to a rare and aggressive form of cancer, she was only 7.

Her littermate/brother is so sad without her and I hate that I can’t explain it to him and explain how much I and my family miss her too. Time feels frozen but also moves slowly, it still doesn’t feel real and I don’t know what to do other than bed rot.

Some minutes I’m fine and I feel like I’ve come to terms with it, other times I break down and if I even start thinking beyond the next minute of the current day it all feels too much.

My girl was so special, we were inseparable and now the silence left from her absence is deafening. I’m only 30 I don’t know how I’m supposed to go through the rest of my life without her, another 40+ years if I’m lucky without her here sounds like torture.

I know I’ve got to stay here for her, she wouldn’t want me to go before my time but by gosh if her passing hasn’t changed my view on my own death. Before I was always a little nervous because no one knows who or what waits for us but now that I know she’ll be the first one to welcome me I’m no longer afraid.

I just wish I could have my girl back, my girl whose body wasn’t destroyed and taken away from her by cancer. My little feisty stinky bum, my cuddly, chirpy Oíche who always clocked in for a shift at the biscuit factory, right up to the very end. My gorgeous girl I’m so sorry I couldn’t do anything to get rid of the awful growth inside you, I’m sorry you had to endure that pain and I saw how much you fought it for me.

To anyone who has experienced cancer or lost a love one to it my heart goes out to you because it is an inhumane and cruel disease. Fuck cancer.

Hey everyone, today I got the devastating news that my little tortie has lung cancer. She developed a cough at the start of the year which we originally assumed was hairballs but it progressively got worse and more frequent. We had to bring her to an emergency vet and the another vet for X-rays and a lung wash. She was originally diagnosed with asthma, then pneumonia and now lung cancer. The xray results showed that the mass hasn’t changed since her first xray over 6 weeks ago, even with the help of steroids and antibiotics and even though she’s eating she’s losing weight rapidly. She was 4.7kgs and now is 3.7kgs even though she’s eating normally.

We and our vet are currently waiting for a confirmation of cancer from a radiologist but the prognosis is not good. We asked if surgical removal would be an option but the mass is too big and the vet advised us (my family) against it.

We’re absolutely devastated, this girl is my whole world and has been attached to my hip since we got her and her brother as kittens. Every morning we have coffee time together where I go back to bed (unemployed due to a disability) and she comes up, sits on me and cuddles up while I sip my coffee away. If she’s not already curled up on my bed during the day she will come into me throughout the day looking for cuddles and affection. Every evening, like clockwork, she will appear by my bed and we have evening cuddles together too, she sits and curls up on me while I read or watch tv.

Any time I’d leave the house or not be around in the mornings she’d cry for me and would be full of complaints for me whenever I arrived home (meowing while headbutting me just so I know that we’re still cool but that I’m on thin ice and how dare I leave without her lol). Even if I took a bath she’d come in and say hello and sit on the floor while I bathe or even when I’m peeing she’d meow at the closed door, not stop until I let her in just so she can say hi to me and then she moseys on back out.

She is my little shadow through and through and so much so that after her first xray and lung wash she was so scared and bothered that she wasn’t making any noise, not at the vet or at my sister (she’s usually v vocal in general, specially when she’s in the carrier) but as soon as she heard my voice she let out the biggest meow and wouldn’t stop crying while I chatted away to her, even my sister was like omg she recognised your voice instantly.

Heartbroken doesn’t even begin to cover my emotions right now, she’s only 7 years old, turning 8 this year…she should have many more years ahead of her…I just don’t understand how can life be this cruel and unfair.

How did we go from being told that the mass was benign a few weeks ago to now being told it’s terminal…I don’t know how to process this or how I’m going to cope when she’s gone. We do everything together and I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle the silence of her absence.

Obligatory fuck cancer, one of if not the most cruelest and inhumane diseases on this planet.

TL;DR my soul kitty got diagnosed with lung cancer after a previous diagnosis of asthma/pneumonia and a benign mass. Waiting for confirmation and don’t know how long left or how I’m supposed to cope with her no longer being here. We do everything together and I’m not ready to hear the silence of her absence.