Mental effects on stomach - General Health Message Board

toaskornottoask · 06-02-2007, 09:44 PM

Since about last december, I've been randomly (usually about a month apart or so, sometimes more, sometimes less) waking up in the morning or falling asleep at night and im very queasy. i dont usually actually vomit, but sometimes i do. usually ill be to the point of just dry heaving. anyway, this can last for several days and keeps me down, sometimes keeps me from going to class. ive been to my GP about this and he thought maybe it was a lot of acid (since at the time, it was associated with a weird pain) so he prescribed seom Ranitidine (zantac). that seemed to help for a while until it went away.

when this came back the second time, i went back and got more but it didnt really help that much. now it doesn't seem to help at all. i dont have any more specifics pains associated with it, ill just randomly get this way. however, ive been noticing what could be a trend. even though i dont THINK im nervous about something, i could actually be nervous. my stomach is VERY sensitive to me being nervous and if im in a new situation or something (a really insignificant situation even) i get nervous and ill start feeling terrible. everyone gets this way sometimes, but stupid things such as going to visit my girlfriend (whom ive been with for YEARS, and i dont think im nervous about it still) or just going to meet some new people or even going to take a test seem to trigger this.

does anyone have any advice for me to help this situation? are there any medicines i can check out to sort of help me relax more? again, these are situations that would not make a normal person nervous, and even if they did, no one else seems to have a stomach so easily upset by their mindset. i can eat tons of greasy food (but i dont) and not feel sick at all, it seems to be just in my head thats making my stomach feel so bad. thanks!

miyu · 06-02-2007, 11:36 PM

The first thing I thought is maybe the meds stopped working because you became immune to them, sometimes meds don’t always work, and the problem continues, and the first thing you are asking us, and we are not doctors is what OTHER meds you can use. You need to ask a doctor what other meds you can use, but if you want to do it without meds, I think many people will be willing to try and help you.

I also use to go to bed sick and wake up. For 2 years!! People always said I was pregnant, so no one took me seriously. You are lucky you are not female. I do have GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) and there isn’t much you can do about that, well the doctor will always give you drugs, but I learned to live with it and I try to strengthen my brain. Since it is a muscle it is always good to keep it fit, and you lose 50,000 or more brain cells a day. So it is always good to make sure you brain is capable of creating new pathways. For a long time when I felt sick, I had to eat a lot of crackers, and they worked most of the time. Only now that is gone, I have other stomach problems, and my doctor is testing me. Talk to you doctor if you have more symptoms other than just nausea, but also bloating problems with your bowel movements. If you already have those and you didn’t tell your doctor then you could be miss diagnosed.

toaskornottoask · 06-03-2007, 07:32 PM

Thanks for the reply Miyu, I am going to try going to my doctor again about this. After reading some more posts here, I think I could be dealing with anxiety. For example, this morning I went wakeboarding for the first time and while I was very excited to go, I guess I was also very nervous. I wasn't really able to control it even though I kept telling myself I have nothing to be nervous about. Nervousness seems to make my stomach feel terrible and I even vomited some before I left. My stomach was on the edge for the first hour or so out there. As I'm sure you all can tell, this is VERY inconvenient. I was very very close to calling and cancelling for the day. I having to do that often (cancel my attendance of events) and that just isn't a good way to be. This is also associated with several bowel movements when I'm feeling this way.

Another somewhat separate problem is that my stomach can completely randomly feel bad...such as right now. I don't have any events coming up, nothing that seems to stress me out, in fact I just woke up from a nap and I feel this way. What is a good wayt o contorl the nausea? Thanks!

miyu · 06-04-2007, 12:27 PM

eat crackers and never let the anxiety win, so never cancel your events becasue your GAD, if you continue to live life even when it is so hard to do so, you will get better. if you stay home ans let it win, it will get worse.