Panic With Vomiting/Diarrhea

[Worrywort626]

I fear both these symptoms so much. What can I do should I ever have these and start to panic? I fear getting so dehydrated I’ll have to go to the hospital for an IV. Never happened before but I dread it. I’ll even think about it when I just feel a little queasy or if I read of someone coming down with a bug. Such a trigger for me.

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The last med I was on dehydrated me bad. I did go to the ER and got an IV, wasn’t a big deal.

Electrolytes will help out big time- gatoraid,

[Jeff1943]

Worrywort, maybe it's time to stop worrying about illnesses you don't have, won't have. You worry yourself sick about vomiting and diarrhea but you have never had either of these things. If you were going to experience them I think they might have manifested themselves by now. Definitely. So you know and I know that these are false worries.

Why let a false stray thought reduce you to misery? You know what's causing it: health anxiety. The unrelenting struggle with fear caused your nerves to become over sensitive and this has kept you in vicious cycle of fear causing anxious thoughts causing more fear causing more health worries.

It doesn't have to be like that. All you have to do is persuade yourself to accept (for the time being) the panic attacks, the bad feelings and strange thoughts. Simply stop fighting them and accept them for as long as it takes. Accept them passively since they can do you no physical harm.

Through understanding, reassurance and accepting (for the moment) all the anxiety-based symptoms that come your way you can recover from your disorder no matter how long and how deeply you have suffered.