r/EmetophobiaTalk

I work in retail. While I was out stocking shelves, I noticed a yellow puddle on the floor from kinda far away. I got a little closer, but still couldn't really tell what it was. I didn't really smell anything nasty. I was kinda far away and don't have the best sense of smell.

It as sorta near the kids section and the bathroom. So I'm kinda worried that it was barf and that I'm gonna get a stomach bug from this. I didn't wash my hands until I got home bc I would have to get close to the potential barf puddle.

Last night me and my boyfriend were going to my house from work with a McDonald’s, he hands me the burger and I took a bite of it then gave it back to him.

This was such a mistake as 4 hours later I wake up and hear him projectile vomiting and start panicking
He’s like “this came out of nowhere idk what’s going on” and I felt so bad but I can’t handle vomit at all I was having a panic attack and left to sleep in the living room for the rest of the night (did not get one blink of sleep)

Now it’s 10pm the day after and I’m starting to feel a bit nauseous although I haven’t really eaten food all day and haven’t slept much either and I can’t tell if it’s coming on or if I’m just being over paranoid.

I actually called my doctor and asked for an anti vomiting med and he gave me Valoid so that is the only thing reassuring me right now although I’m not sure if I can take it as a precaution going to sleep?

Pls reassure me because I’m going crazy reading about the norovirus and this night is going to be HARD along with the next two waiting with anticipation.

I’ve been telling everyone I’m so stressed out I’ve washed my hands about 50 times today and everyone is like “if you get it then you’ll get it” but doesn’t understand the actual fear I have about this

I got a fountain soda about an hour or so ago (usually they make me a bit nauseous but i LOVE them - so i get them anyway). obviously im going to feel nauseous from that because like i said, they usually make me nauseous. HOWEVER, im also supposed to be starting my period soon (im 2 days late - this also means my hormones are all out of wack), ive also been having some school anxiety (shit load of homework to complete in a small amount of time - my honors classes do that to me 💔), so now i genuinely feel like im about to vomit (it’s been almost 30 mins though and i felt nauseous earlier too - fun fact: after being nauseous for 30+ mins, it’s very unlikely for you to be sick :) ), so i’m not sure if im actually gonna be sick or not & now i can’t focus on my homework because im over here panicking. somebody help 😭

Hi, I've never posted on Reddit before but I'd like to have other people's insight. Ever since I can remember I've lived with emetophobia and have always been someone who's easily stressed/has anxiety. Only since the past year or so I've been questioning if I may be on the spectrum. I will soon live in a dorm, with 6 other girls (I'm starting college soon). We share a bathroom which has 2 toilets and 2 showers. Fortunately, my room is at the end of the hall far away from the washroom, so I have less chances of hearing anyone being sick (except, of course, if I go in the room at the same time if someone ever v*) .

Moving out is already stressing me out and now the thought of living with other people has also started to stress me out because of my emetophobia. Anyways, I want to know if other people have lived through this and if they were able to make it through!

If possible, I would also like to have some strategies to help me get through the two years to come while I'm over there (if you have any).

Thank you in advance!

Im freaking out rn. Ive been at work for three hours already, i still have another hour and a half left. Not even thirty minutes to my shift i had to use the bathroom. It was straight watery d*. Earlier this morning my stomach had been cramping a lot. I had a granola bar for breakfast but rn i have no appetite whatsoever. Im feeling really hot and im sweating like crazy. Im currently on my 15 minute break but just walking to the back i was starting to feel really n* and feeling kind of dizzy...

I dont know if im s or if i got the parasite:( and i cant leave early because im part time so i already dont make a lot, and unless im actively v* he wont believe me, tell me im not sick. So i have to struggle or end up facing my worst fear in public (which is already one of the biggest parts of my emet...)

I dont know what to do, my gum doesn't seem to be helping at all. Please is anyone here?

I made myself some ham on toast this morning. I bought 2 packets of ham on the same day and the one I finished had the 19th use by date. I got the other pack out and didn’t think to check the date. I ate approximately one piece but when getting it out the packet I noticed it had a slimy film feel to it… WHY DIDNT I CHECK THE DATE?!?! I ate approximately one piece from what was a sealed packet which had been refrigerated. I go on a business trip which is a 2 hour drive later today and I am terrified I am going to be ill. The use by date was 15th and I ate the ham on 16th at 10:30am. Please can someone give some anecdotal experience that I will be fine because ChatGPT isn’t helping 😭

No joke I literally tell my bf « my stomach feels weird » every single day. Every single day I feel sick. Every single day I wonder if it’s the day I’ll throw up after 14 years of it not happening. Every single day. I don’t remember one day where my stomach didn’t feel bloated or achy or crampy or nauseous.
I have been to tons of doctors over the years and the conclusion is that it’s mostly stress which I agree with, it is definitely psychosomatic. Nevertheless it’s exhausting….
Today it feels like there is a brick in my stomach… yesterday evening I couldn’t fall asleep because everytime I would close my eyes I would get violent nausea, the day before I felt super bloated and my intestines were cramping like crazy.
I am tired….

Hey all, not censoring anything, so TW.

I'm sorry for posting so much this past week, I don't know what is going on with me anymore, but my body is just going haywire this week.

I made a post a few nights ago about having bad cramps, diarrhea, nausea, the whole gamut. The nausea and diarrhea lasted for about 5 hours, I had a brief break, then my stomach just kept having intense spasms.

Later that day in the afternoon, I had such bad trapped gas, I couldn't even stand up straight, or breathe properly. That lasted for another 6 hours in it's intense state, and I felt like it could come back at any moment for the remainder of the day.

So for over 24 hours, I was in pure hell.

I got up this morning feeling slightly better, but still off. Very weak (definitely from not eating), dizzy, kind of gassy still, headache, and mildly nauseous.

I decided to test the waters and eat some crackers. I got a little more gassy, but knew I needed to eat something, so I finished the small sleeve of crackers I had.

Later in the afternoon, I had some more crackers, and had 1 small piece of chocolate because I could feel my blood sugar tanking.

Again, didn't really feel any worse after eating that, so I figured maybe I was in the clear and would be okay.

A few hours later I decided to take a nap, so I put my heating pad on, and fell asleep for a few hours.

When I woke up, I had this intense, sharp pain in my stomach and waist, and could feel I was super full of gas again.

After I got up, this pain kept coming and going. I still can't tell if it's like a muscular pain or not, because my ribs feel tender to the touch, and sensitive. Like I don't want anything touching that area. It's all across too, not in one specific area.

Also, my throat feels terrible. I feel like I want to heave/gag, but I've been resisting the urge to do so. I also have been having waves of nausea along with this.

I've been trying to take it easy, and distract myself, but things are getting worse.

I took a shower, and right before I got in, a massive gas cramp hit me, and I wound up shooting out nothing but mucus.

While I was in the shower, I could feel I had a tonsil stone in my throat, so once I got out, I went to take care of that, and anytime I do, it makes me violently gag.

After I calmed myself down, I gargled with water, and while doing so, felt like someone stabbed me in the stomach.

It's in the dead center of my upper stomach, radiating both up into my chest, and down into my waist.

This is beyond ridiculous at this point. I'm so physically, and mentally worn out from being in consistent pain, and distress for the last few days.

I know I need to see a doctor, and I know you guys aren't doctors either. But what does this sound like to you guys?

Just gas? Possibly a virus? I will say, allergies are high here already, so I'm thinking maybe this is my histamine intolerance kicking into gear for the season (yay...).

My mom has been complaining of similar symptoms for the last few days as well, but not nearly as bad.

Again, I know you guys don't have all the answers, and can't tell me anything definitively, but I just wanted to vent my frustrations, and possibly get some opinions.

so i was up till 2am with bad anxiety and i finally managed to fall asleep, i had a dream about throwing up and it felt deathly real when i woke up i was gasping for air and trying to catch a breath and had this horrible feeling in my throat. i am so scared to go back to sleep and can’t settle after having that bc of how real it looked and felt

So my step dad tu* all the time like even when hes not sick,he will like have a headache and it will make him do it and he does it VERY loud and my room is next to the bathroom. For the past few months i am not able to sleep because he is usually awake during the night and everytime i hear him walk or cough or anything i get so scared that he will do it. Its 5:30 am rn and i haven't slept at all and i keep focusing on the sounds around me and idk what to do

He knows about my emet but he doesn't care and he thinks its stupid,he never said it but i know he does becouse of his behavioe and he would sometimes gag on purpose to scare me he doesn't do rhat abymore but yk.. I know he cant control it but i dont think it has to be that loud because its like crazy loud..

I know that i cant get rid of the fear of the sounds but i js want to be able to sleep normally

my grandma keeps a lot of seasonings LONG after they expire. I wanted to make french fries and for my fries I add a lot of different seasonings and some bbq sauce. some of the seasonings I used are 2-6 years past their expiration date, and I’m worried that I’m gonna get sick eating them with my fries. I keep telling myself that seasonings don’t ever rot or generally “expire” (I even put 15-16 year old ginger seasoning in my tea a couple weeks ago, and I was perfectly fine - but still), but my mind keeps spiraling over it still.

Hey all, not censoring words, so TW.

So I really don't know what's going on with me, but over the last month now, I've really been struggling with not feeling well.

I have been having really bad back pains, that also cause stomach pains, and as a result of this, I'm not eating right again, and I'm also not sleeping right.

I can't really take painkillers. Even a low dose of acetaminophen is enough to upset my stomach on a good day, so I've been trying to help my back pain with other methods such as a massage gun, sleeping in different positions, and also sleeping with a heating pad on.

Well because my stomach has also been upset, I've been using the heating pad for that too.

Almost every night for the last month, I have been using my heating pad. I always leave it on the lowest setting, and I feel good when I fall asleep, but then a few hours later, I wake up feeling overheated, in pain, and sick.

This just happened about an hour and a half ago. I woke up feeling like my blood sugar bottomed out, and sweating.

So stupidly, I got up, and quickly ate a few handfuls of chocolate. Fast forward about 30 minutes, and I start feeling very nauseous, my stomach starts gurgling really violently, and I'm filling up with gas.

Eating that chocolate threw me into an IBS attack.

I am now having diarrhea, and also acid reflux from this all, and am now panicking.

I know this is from eating too much candy on an empty stomach. I didn't really eat anything yesterday other than some chocolate and crackers because I was up all night last night as well not feeling well. I felt like I was coming down with the flu cause I stirred something up in my attic, and my stomach was really aching last night too.

I'm sitting here right now, and feel like I'm going to cough, and or gag, stomach hurts, back hurts, and I have this awful sweet taste coming up my throat.

I'm just so frustrated. I'm tired of not being able to sleep, not being able to eat properly during the day, which then breaks and I gorge myself on junk only to make myself feel like this later, and I'm tired of being afraid.

Now I'm going to be up all night dealing with feeling sick, and fighting the urge to panic.

I genuinely am terrified I'm going to puke tonight from eating too much sugar, because I feel awful right now, and each time I have to go to the bathroom, I feel a little worse. Ugh.

i just really need comforting words rn, my throat feels like smth is in it or like coming up? idk but im so so so scared idk

i just need someone to tell my im gonna be okay. i had a soft bm earlier and my stomach was cramping abit before and it just kickstarted my panic and im kinda freaking out my throat feels so weird like somethings stuck or like coming up and im so scared.

tons of cheese and fried processed food yesterday, woke up this morning gassy then boom d! i was at work fighting for my life! almost passed out! now i have the worst headache u could imagine . i could only afford to eat the cheap unhealthy stuff now im suffering. i dont wanna get s i juss want this to go away.

I just ate a chocolate covered peanut cluster from a candy store and it was fine but now I’m thinking like what if there was something wrong or what if it had been sitting there for a while or this or that

last year in march, i threw up over 15 times. After that, i had never felt like myself. i thought i was just getting over it. I've had emetophobia for as long as i can remember. then april 1st hit, and i couldn't get out of bed. i felt so ill. The smell of food was making me feel worse. ever since then, I've had nausea, the feeling of being hot, constant stomach aches, etc, since. It's been a year and 7 months, and i haven't felt better or like myself at all. every doctor I've been to has said it's just anxiety. I've had all the normal tests, and it comes back as nothing and that im fine. but i dont feel like it at all. I've recently become obsessively focused on the thought of food poisoning too the point is that i refuse to eat or I won't eat certain foods, especially meat. is this normal, or could it be something deeper?? advice would be great thank you!!

I know I’m okay in my heart but my mind is going crazy rn. I had a Burger King with my gran and cousins and it was amazing, everyone else is fine from what I know, I’ve not really heard from them. My brain is telling me I HAVE food poisoning when it literally makes no sense. I don’t feel sick, I don’t have stomach cramps, I’ve been passing stool normally there’s so indicators as to why I WOULD have food poisoning but I’m panicking so much of the thought of me having it?! Anyone else have this? I literally know I’m being stupid but I can’t get it out my head. The thing that set me off was a weird feeling in my belly but the only thing I’ve ate today WAS that Burger King and it’s currently midnight so like maybe I’m just hungry and I’m mixing hunger with feeling sick which I do often. Another thing is my throat closing up but that always happens to me when I get anxious over stuff like this. I always get super anxious when I can hear my stomach too if anyone else can relate? Like normal bodily functions such as my belly rumbling or feeling my digestive system work just FREAK me out and all that’s happening rn. I don’t know how to persuade myself that I’m actually fine and I’m being irrational. I KNOW that I am because it doesn’t make sense when I think about it but like my body won’t let me fully believe

I'm so stressed out.

I don't know what to do. My depression and stomach issues keep coming and going and coming and going. Plus, I ate a high-risk food for *that* parasite by accident. I'm just waiting until the 7 days are up, and it's so hard to accept my fate.

My body and my mind can't handle any of this anymore. I don't know what to do.

I was laying in bed then i felt the need to burp which sometimes scares me so i decided to sit up and then the burp or gas came felt it in my throat with very hot liquid i immediately swallowed that then it happened again 5 mins later and now every 5 mins i feel like a burp is coming in my throat with a little liquid and its scaring me 😭 im trying not to get reassurance but i really need to pee and i honestly see the bathroom as an anxiety inducing place bcs of this phobia so im trying to convince myself to go and ghat im okay🙏😭

i slept with him yesterday after he v days ago, his house isn’t the cleanest. i’m on my period and i have ibs and i woke up fine today but then idk i had a new food but it was juss chicken and rice and naan, and it immediately ran thru me. this was 3pm it’s 12am now i’m having some after cramps tonight im so scared i have a v and im gonna t u pls is anyone on i knew this was gonna happen…