Anxiety symptom makes me gag

[Jill_G]

Hi its ny first time posting. Ive been suffering anxiety now for over 3 months and it came out of the blue. ...wasnt sure what was happening to me. Been to doctors and dicussed all sorts of treatments. Lots of ups and downs. One sympton lve been having over the last month is gagging every morning abd there is no medical reason for it. ...has anyone else experienced this ...its really imoacted my life terribly

[Happygoluckymiss]

Hi jill,

thank you for the update. I’m happy the visit went well and you’re working through the anxiety with them. I started this recently and it’s been an amazing help for me. Im proud of you.

Mum sorry about the nausea. I hate that overwhelming feeling. I have trouble at times with it too and have found a wonderful drug that helps me enormously with nausea. It is expensive and tastes gross for a couple of minutes but I will take that over the nausea any day. Maybe speak with gp about it.

Take care and thinking of you

- happygoluckymiss

[Jill_G]

Hi Happy thank you for replying. The anti nausea tablet is it the one that disolves on your tongue

[Happygoluckymiss]

Yep but can also be in a tablet form too. I got very sick a few years ago and I am allergic to a number of anti-nausea medications but this one saved me

[tiny505]

I have been suffering anxiety off and on for about 3 years, tried some medications whilst they helped a fair bit they were mostly addictive, have used alcohol and other stuff to try to deal with my anxiety I'm very hopeful and praying that a psychologist may be the answer i'm working with my doctor to try and get me booked into one. Right now my anxiety is pretty high under alot of unnecessary pressure from family to loose weight, worried about money as well as loss of some pets a while ago. Last year i made it a focus to try on breathing teqniques instead of medication but it didn't work much for me. It's just a never ending battle anxiety and not well understood by my family I also get critizised over little things this builds up anger in me as i'm only trying my best e.g dishes not clean enough. My family should be more supportive but i feel i'm sliding further and further into depression. I've had so many psychological assessments over the years with doctors not knowing how to help me. It would be fantastic to get a real diagnosis I too had a few issues with panic disorder but probably handled it the wrong way

[Mitchy1967]

Hi Jill G, Still have the nauseu! I am off to see a psycologist on Thursday. I am a bit aprehensive about it but hoping she will be able to help me. This morning I was laying in bed and started having an attack, don't know why but my heart was racing and my head as well. It is so annoying because half the time I cannot work out what my trigger or triggers are? I took my new medication that my doctor prescribed to me and it is starting to ease a bit now. The nauseu is so horrible, I eat thinking I am hungry but it is still there, then I don't eat and it is still there. So I am not sure why it has to be with me 24/7? I am at my wits end! I know medically everything is fine, I have had every test under the sun, but when the heart starts racing I think oh my god I am having a heart attack but I know logically in my brain that my heart is fine. Being an overthinker doesn't help me either. So I am hoping that the psychologist will be able to help me and give me some tools to help me deal with and manage it. I don't know what else to do 😞
Thank you for checking in on me I appreciate it xx
I hope you are doing ok as well?

[Mitchy1967]

Hi Jill G, Glad your appointment with the psychologist went well. I am hoping my appointment Thursday will be the start of a new journey for me. I really want to get this anxiety and over thinking under control. I have had enough! Please keep us updated on your journey and I hope that the psychologist will help you with your problem. Hopefully with a bit of help we will be able to have a somewhat normal everyday life.
xxx

[Jill_G]

Hi Mitchy lm so sorry to hear the nausea is still happening its awful. Im not nauseas all day but certainly still dry reach each morning it drives me crazy to.l hope the physcologist helps lm seeing mine on sat...l still take anti nausea medication when l need it.l totally understand. Take care and keep me posted.

[smallwolf]

Many years years ago I had that dry retching in the morning and not so much these days. It really sucked/sucks. But don't ask me what it was that stopped it. I think for me part of it is related to reflux. I am hopeful your psychologist will be able to help you, but I also think that patience is needed when they tell us new ways of looking after ourselves as some may not happen instantly.

Mitch,

Good luck with your appointment on Thu. Hope it work out well for you. Also note there are threads on the forum to help you deal with worry and negative thoughts. If you are interested I can post links for you. And as a real distraction, the Cafe spot with random chatter is worth checking 🙂

Peace to you both,

Tim

[Mitchy1967]

Thanks Tim. I will try and find the cafe spot? Haven’t seen it on the website but I’m still trying to navigate the site.

if you could post the links Tim that would be fantastic!

Thanks everyone for the feed back and support ❤️❤️❤️

[smallwolf]

Hi Mitchy,

The links are...

Cafe - https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/bb-social-zone/the-bb-cafe/page/452#qr8HBXHzvGGEbv8AAOnT_A

Grounding - https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/staying-well/grounding-yourself-what-is-it-and-how-do-you-

Mindfulness - https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/staying-well/mindfulness-what-is-it-(even-if-you-dont-know-please-post-so-we-can-help-grow-the-forums-accordingly)

The can be a little hard to find, but if you are doing a google search, just search for

term-of-interest beyond blue

for example:

mindfulness beyond blue

and generally one of the results on the first page is what you are after.

Tim