I'm feeling nauseatic since past 5 months, what should I do?

Digestive health
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I am constantly feeling sick!! it doesnt start first thing in the morning but throughout the day it just emerges. its now at the point where i choose not to eat if i feel sick because i completely loose my appetite, which is making it worse because im then hungry too( but eating just makes it worse)

I also have severe emetaphobia (the fear of vomit) so i am constantly worried about being sick due to it(another reason i dont eat if i feel sick, to prevent vomiting)

I have counselling for the emetaphobia so when i feel sick it is cast off as being 'in my head' by my counsellor and family.

i feel like i am stuck because i dont want to go to the doctors incase they give me any medication that has vomiting as a side effect but i cant keep feeling the way i feel because it is taking over my life.

There has got to be a cause for the nausea, i refuse to believe it is my 'anxiety' from emetaphobia that is making me feel this way.

I sometimes have really bad headaches that last for 5-10 minutes consisting of sharp pains in the head and over the eyes. I also have shooting pains in my lower abdomen, but whether this is linked to the nausea i dont know.

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l started with bouts of nausea year and a half ago, on and off, then last oct it became conistent daily, lost appetite, managed tea and toast day time, some eve if more settled a little fish or chicken, so lost one half stone, though being overweight not thin with it. Mine worse on exertion, debilitating, get tired and sleepy with it. l finally got referral to gastroenterologist, who did a scope and scan, found a bit of gastritus, l can get a bit of pain when bloated but its mainly nausea the problem. l,m sure mine has been thought of as anxiety, and it can make it worse, but l dont believe it the cause. l was prescribed omprazole, after several other gp meds for it, and chemist bought stuff.  But after the omprazole didnt help over 3 wks, l decided to come off it and other prescribed meds,which ologist knows about, now kept to essential minimum, and the nausea has improved, But were all different re causes and what we respond to. There are natural things you could try, ginger, peppermint, quite a few things listed on gastritus thread, if those dont help you maybe need to see gastro enterologist, Good luck.

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sorry I can't really help you but I do know what its like to  have everything you  have blamed on something you already have,I suffer with depression and have done since I was 12yrs old,I also suffer with a bad back.Every time I go to my doctors about something they would turn it around to my depression,8 weeks ago I went to see my gp about pains I was having on my right side under my ribs and higher up back pain.they told me I wasn't managing my pain very well and would referred me to the pain clinic.I paid to see someone for my back and was told that it was not being caused by my previouse back damage and was something else.the doctor sent me for a scan and it came back that I had gallstones.Iam now waiting to see someone about having a op to remove gb.keep on at them to find out what is causing you too feel so sick and in pain.only you can tell if this is something new,don't let them lable you,I felt that all the doctors I saw belived it was all in my mind and was so glad when it came back as something

good luck

hope all goes well for you

pat  

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l can relate to what your posting, and agree.  l had frequency, pain and ill health for years, went to docs, had samples taken, tests, first they thought post op following csection, then gyny, hormonal,  finally when they couldnt diagnose anything it became  phycalogical diagnosis,  hypacondria etc, more so if youve had a previous diagnoses of depression, then labelled, and anything unusual thats not easy to diagnose in surgery, can lead to cop out for some gps to refer back to phycalogical, l was even offered councelling, therapy, whlst you know what is real and  physical, and what isnt, often its the physical symptoms thAT  lead to phycalogical ones when neglected, more so if your fobbed off or labelled, causes upsets and infuriates.

l put up with it far too long, years went by, you cant get them bad years  back, l also paid for consultation.  l did eventually get a good gp who sent me to the right type of consultant urologist and later scope diagnosed intersticial cystitus, with meds and support symptoms improved 90 percent, and l,m not unique, in many women have gone on for years with symptoms and suffering, partly due to it being an unusual condition, which gps dont know much about if anything, but are slow reluctant to refer you, also patients trusting them to know, more so  if youve seen a few,  you can then start doubting yourself,  but you find out in time  from your own and others experiences, and l know some patients whove ended up going into a and e when gps have found no diagnoses after several visits to them, if symptoms worsen,  and some do get diagnoses in a and e of something that needs signigicant  treatment. l also got gall bladder probs in that time, choicylitus, had op by keyhole surgery, unbelievable, in one day home the next, minimul discomfort, walking in park 3 days later, so good luck to both of you.