Night time Nausea, Constipation & diarrhoea - Help please

[hollygrace99]

Okay, so I have this strange thing that has been going on for a long time.

It started when I was little and used to happen often, now it occurs rarely but still is really painful and traumatic.

So whenever I watch any movie, read a book or experience something “scary” this is what happens. I’ll give an example.

Last night I went to see the new Avengers movie. I wasn’t scared during the movie, I enjoyed it a lot. I got home and went to sleep. Woke up an hour later with this awful feeling. It’s like my breathing is strange, extremely nausea, and a mix of diarrhoea

and constipation. I feel just dreadful and my mind goes off and has “scary” thoughts. I tried to watch fun youtube videos but pain is over powering and constantly rushing from cramped up in bed from the nausea to sitting on the toilet. I get so exhausted but too scared and not able to shut my eyes. I have that feeling that I’m going to vomit constantly and can’t. I tried taking panadol, took me 4 tries and most came back up (but never rally went down so not a vomit). Then afterwards i did manage to vomit and felt a little better. Then went rotten again and wasn’t until I had this anti-nausea wafer thing for chemo patients that I felt better and could sleep (but still woke up feeling terrible) and has taken few hours to get back to normal with queazy stomach.

My mum goes to Chinese Acupuncture and she seems to thing that it’s my nervous system interacting with my physical system?? Not sure.

Any ideas? It’s so horrible and there’s nothing I can do. Please advise.

[Fatima_sh]

Now I’m no doctor, but do you suffer from anxiety/stress ? Because your metal state can affect your bowls, try to relax as much as possible and distract yourself as soon as those scary thoughts start to creep into your mind. Do something relaxing like painting or reading it might help 🤷🏻‍♀️

[willow24 Administrator]

It sounds as though its a reaction to the body releasing adrenalin. Do you have IBD?