Is this anxiety?

[j17c27]

Today, I have felt fine until now.  I have emetophobia (fear of throwing up) and i get sooo worried when i have any symptom of being sick.  Well during the superbowl I had a mixed drink of grapefruit juice and about 2 shots (maybe 2 and a half) I didnt measure exactly.  About 15 minutes after the superbowl I started feeling warm, and in turn I started to get a little worried and a little nauseous.  THen things escalated and now im having a full blown panic attack because my boyfriend check my temperature (with his hand) and said I felt warm. But i felt perfectly fine until i started feeling a little warm.  Can liquor make you feel like you have a fever? or raise your body temperature? I know I shouldnt drink, I know its bad, my father is an alcoholic so i see it for myself and i dont drink a ton...i just did because it was the superbowl and am in college. I have a ton of anxiety and just want to see if it makes sense that i would feel warm after drinking alcohol.  Any insight is appriciated

[j17c27]

Hey! Im going to inbox you!

[nlk259949]

Wow, we really are SO similar when it comes to anxiety haha! I do the same thing--when I am not with my fiance, I am asking my mom or dad to feel my head, or asking them other questions about how I am feeling, to make sure I am going to be alright and won't die or anything haha. When my anxiety isn't as bad, I notice that I don't do it half as much, if at all, so it definitely ***** when it's bad, because I know it can be better (I just can't calm myself down in the moment). I think tobacco might do that because tobacco has a ton of other chemicals and **** in it lol, I know it makes a lot of people feel bad. I guess it could be good in a way, because weed is a lot better for you to smoke, so it makes it easy to stay away from cigarettes haha, but I hate that it makes you feel that way =/. DEAR GOD 6 bowls holy **** LOL...that's intense. I am SO sorry...I know any type of panic feeling while being high is terrible. That sounds extremely scary...I'm sorry you had to experience that. At least you got through it, I ended up having one really bad panic attack while high, where I made my friends call 911 lol (I thought I was having a heart attack...it literally felt like I was going to die), and was really scary too, so I can't even imagine how bad it was for you. Sometimes I try to smoke a lot, thinking it will help, but then I smoke too much and it makes me feel too out of it and scares me. After the 911 call, I ended up having 1 or 2 more small panic attacks, but my fiancee and brother were able to calm me down, and it wasn't as bad. Weed definitely does help though, and it's so awesome that it helps you too! It's nice that you smoke and understand how it helps, so we can talk about that! My fiancee got me into smoking more for anxiety, and it really does take the nausea away. Sometimes at first it will intensify it but then it will usually almost all the way go away. You're welcome, I don't mind at all! I enjoyed talking to you before, and when I saw what you wrote, it instantly made me think of myself, and how similar our situations are. Thanks for being so open with what is going on with you...because just knowing that someone else out there goes through similar things and gets it is really helpful! I am so sorry that your previous boyfriend couldn't handle the anxiety...I know it can be really hard on our significant others. I am really lucky and so thankful that my fiancee has not left me, because he has been through a lot with my anxiety. I think probably being in high school or right out of high school, is probably a hard age to handle anxiety. I guess because we are a little older, that has helped him to be strong, but I still know how hard it can be. I am so sorry it didn't work, I remember you telling me about that, and I hope everything is alright now. Just know that you do deserve a wonderful guy, regardless of your problems. I guess sometimes it just makes it easier if the anxiety gets somewhat better. Do you notice that when you are happier, your anxiety is better at all?

[j17c27]

Yeah! I do that all the time to my poor mother and boyfriend.  Im at college so when im not at home asking my mom to feel my head every half hour, im asking my boyfriend.  I really hate putting pressure on them too. Especially because my last boyfriend broke up with me because he couldnt handle the anxiety.  But what you said does help! Normally im fine when i drink.  For some reason tobacco gives me horrible anxiety/panic attacks, not weed.  I cannot smoke cigars at all because just even a few puffs can set me off in a panic attack (i mean like good cigars, the ones filled with tobacco not the little ones from gas stations). I got a panic attack from weed only once, but that is because i literally smoked about 6 giant bowls right in a row and i lost all functions and the only thing i could literally do was sit and stare...i couldnt speak, or move any part of my body.  I remember my friends freaking out and like yelling are you ok? and they were gonna call someone but i was fine, i just physically couldnt tell them. it was really scary and stupid.  All other times it actually has helped me.  I get nauseous a lot over like no reason cause my body likes to send me into anxiety attacks, and if i just smoke a little, it takes the nausea away.  Thanks for your response though...it helps knowing im not alone! and we are a lot a like!

[nlk259949]

Hey! I know we have not talked in awhile--I have not been on in forever, so that is why I didn't message you back, sorry about that. I have been going through a lot of anxiety issues for awhile, and I guess just didn't feel like getting on and talking to people about it for some reason. Anyways though! It's funny you mentioned this, because the exact same thing happened to me last night! I am so sorry that you had to feel this way though =/, it sucked last night, so I understand how horrible the feeling is. What happened was I had gone out with a friend and drank one cup of wine at this Cancer event we went to. Then we went back to her house, and I drank a glass of Smirnoff Original (that super sweet drink haha). Anyways, I felt fine the whole night I was there until I smoked a blunt. I then started to feel a little sick, but just assumed I had smoked too much, and smoking out of a blunt caused it. I then went inside and started to feel fine, and then left. When I got home I ate a lot of food and felt fine, and then randomly noticed I was starting to feel bad and get really hot. I figured it was just from stress, and brushed it off. I then took my temperature and it was high, so I started to panic in my head (I always panic if someone says that my head feels hot or if I have a temperature), because then I think I know that I really am sick, and my nausea might turn into throwing up (which I also really fear). I have not thrown up in about 6 years, so I am petrified of it. Anyways, I ended up feeling sick for awhile, the nausea escalated to the point of feeling like I might end up throwing up reaching it's ultimate high, and then slowly started to die down (that's when I knew it was probably my anxiety just reacting with the alcohol). I had the same thing happen today after I ate breakfast, and the same thing happened a few weeks ago when I drank. I definitely think alcohol reacts this way in anxious people. Sometimes even if we don't feel anxious at the moment of drinking, we really subconsciously are. I think somehow this causes the alcohol to "feel" it as it is poisoning our systems, where as when most people just drink a small amount they feel fine. I think this because when I have going through great periods with my anxiety and nausea, I can drink a lot and it doesn't effect me this way. Anyways, I hope this helped you though!Just know it is normal, and it somehow is a relation between the anxiety and alcohol. Just know that more than likely you won't throw up. Pretend like that feeling of being sick is like a roller coaster...you are already strapped in and on the coaster, so there is nothing you can do but surrender, and go for the ride. That's how I try to view that feeling of the nausea building up, from the anxiety of being sick and throwing up. This usually helps for the feeling to pass faster. I am sorry though that you have to go through this. I know how hard it is though. My anxiety has gotten a lot worse, and I rely so much on my fiancee and family for answers. I hate putting pressure on other people to cure me--only I can do that. I just worry too much so I am always asking them questions to  make sure I will be alright. Do you ever do that?