Upset stomach, urge to vomit along with mental suffocation

[Nahiyan]

I get the sudden urge to vomit, it happens randomly, with and without full stomach. When that happens, I’m confident that I won’t vomit but my stomach forces me to do so, my mouth gets filled with saliva which I have to swallow repeatedly. My conscious mind acts abnormally, thoughts which make no sense (as if in a dream) pops up in my brain. The thoughts are similar everytime it occurs. After some struggle with my stomach (lasting 1-2 minutes), I don’t get the urge for vomit anymore but I feel nauseous, my energy level drops, I feel like resting, my body starts shaking and sometimes I fail to remember anything (e.g. something as simple as whether it’s morning or night) and my brain feels so useless (can’t study, think or respond properly), I feel like drowsy even when I was energetic and active few minutes before the ‘urge to vomit'. Everything gets better slowly but my body and mind doesn’t fully recover unless I sleep.

Events like this occur several times a week, sometimes twice a day. After a week or two, sometimes it still continues but normally it ceases to occur. I lead a normal life for several months, that’s a long time but it comes back. Worst of all, it has been happening to me for several years.

Followed by these events, I usually feel mentally suffocated. For example, I can’t stay in the shower for much longer, pouring water on my face feels intolerable. Like I said, I feel mentally suffocated and I don’t have problem with breathing. I usually feel mentally suffocated all the time, distracting myself with different tasks make me feel better though, social interaction helps too. Whenever I feel mentally suffocated, my stomach usually feels gassy (upset stomach). When my stomach feels okay, I don’t feel mentally suffocated. Something is connected between my mind and stomach. I don’t think that my stomach gas/acidity is caused by my lifestyle, if my stomach is alright now, it may get acidic and gassy within 5-6 minutes along with change of state of mind (mental suffocation). I feel depressed too and lose interest in doing things I love, everything gets normal instantly if I don’t feel suffocated anymore. My stomach turns out fine too when that happens.

My diet is okay, I don’t take any food which causes gas, my lifestyle is normal, I can’t see anything that may be causing the issues. This time, I’m getting the urge to vomit like before, every 3-4 days, I feel mentally suffocated almost all the time for the past 2-3 weeks. I can’t live like this, feel like being tortured mentally.

[anonymousroxy40]

FYI, certain foods trigger anxiety too watch yourself

[selmaS]

  Hi and welcome to the GERD forum.

In your explanation of your issues you did not mention being seen by a medical professional....and that is what you need to do.....the Dr will do testing to find out what is wrong.

We are just people like yourself and we share what we have learned along the way with our own conditions....but one thing we all have done is go to our Dr...then we use the support here to decide how we want to proceed.

[anonymousroxy40]

dude you have anxiety, Ive had it since I was 11 guess what my symptoms were feeling and physically throwing up. I stopped eating as a teen cuz Id throw up. Then suddenly Id go months without feeling nauseous. Im now 31, I still cant sit and eat in restaurants. My minds been conditioned to associate that with vomiting. I am on meds now theyve helped certain situations, but if I feel excitement like meeting a date, the nausea is just unbearable. I also have a fear of throwing up because when I do I have a panic attack and cannot breathe. I literally believe I could die choking. Try to control the anxiety now b4 its too late. Im against meds and for awhile I could do it on my own, but now I cant.