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Nausea and eating

When nausea turned into something that needed seeing

Started 6 November 2024 · 17 replies · 182 hearts · read 3.9k times

Bell ANorwich, UK · 6 November 2024
1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: When nausea turned into something that needed seeing Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#1

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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IlseMaastricht, NL
#2

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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RenataKraków, PL
#3

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#4

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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TemSouthend, UK
#5

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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BramleyBath, UK
#6

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#7

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#8

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#9

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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MimiHong Kong
#10

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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CasperOdense, DK
#11

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#12

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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PerlaManila, PH
#13

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#14

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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VivLuton, UK
#15

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#16

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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GwynethAberdare, UK
#17

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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