struggling

[Daisy425]

last night was very hard for me as I almost got sick. Thankfully I didn’t. But now today I’m not feeling the best but I can’t tell how much of it is anxiety. I was able to eat a bagel for breakfast and I had a PB&J for lunch. I also had some crackers. But throughout the day, my stomach would feel unsettled at random moments. I’m assuming that if I had some sort of bug I would’ve thrown up by now considering I’m keeping food and drink down, I can’t tell if this is anxiety, but it doesn’t feel the same as when I have an anxious belly. Nothing is painful I don’t think I need to see a doctor. I just want to feel normal. I was going to take Pepto but it says I can’t with Zoloft. My boyfriend wants to grab dinner tonight and idk what to do

[b1b1b1]

Go out to dinner, but eat something bland and easy to digest.

[Daisy425 in reply to b1b1b1]

Would pasta with plain marinara sauce be ok?

[b1b1b1 in reply to Daisy425]

What about pasta with oil and butter. I am not sure about marinara sauce as I know it is acidic. But you can use your own judgemennt and see how your stomach feels when you get there.

[Vonus5591]

a healthy soup or lentils help me at those times

[hypercat54]

Daisy no one ever goes through life without getting poorly at some point. What do you think will happen if you do? What are your fears over it?

[Eggy386]

hi Daisy,

Reading through some of your posts..I can relate so much. My issues have gotten a bit better since I moved back home with my parents…but god damn so many days feeling anxious and nauseous and having headaches and afraid that I’m dying cause my symptoms match every disease under the sun. And thinking I constantly have COVID, and hating making chicken cause I’m always afraid it’s under cooked.

Going to the ER for stomach pains, and it being absolutely nothing. In and out of doctors appointments cause something must be wrong since I feel so crappy all the time (still working on this), but I think a lot of it had to do with anxiety.

My boyfriend and I lived in an apartment for 2 years, but at the time I was going through a really stressful work period and it got to the point where every day I was basically doubled over at work between the headaches, brain fog, nausea, and anxiety that I’ll throw up or pass out at work. But being out of that environment, it has gotten better so it probably was just a lot of anxiety symptoms.

Doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel god awful in the moment and wondering if it’s the environment or your body and not having a definitive answer. Like I’ve said, I’m still dealing with a lot of it still. I think I’ve developed a phobia of throwing up in recent years because despite all of my nausea, I haven’t thrown up from it and now I’m afraid that when I do throw up next it’ll mean there’s something super bad happening.

So if you ever want to talk about things you’re going through, I’ve probably thought about it or lived it.