advice please!!

[Babyelxxx]

hi everyone,

Recently put up a post about starting a new medication(not Ibs related)… have been VERY stressed and anxious about this because of health anxiety & a fear of taking medicine..

anyway, a couple days my tummy’s been hurting, it feels blown out, and when I go to blow it out I can’t blow it out LOL!! I get nausea and D along with the pains when I’m panicky or having a bad Ibs time. Recently I get worse panick attacks when I get the nausea due to actually having a couple of sick bugs a few months ago.

Just stood in tbe kitchen and the nausea started, then had to run to the loo with D.. obviously due to the sudden panick of the nausea… still not feeling toooo good right now. Anyone else ever feel like this? Like one triggers the other? It’s just so uncontrollable I don’t get how stress can make my stomach explode lol. Gross I know. Jsut searching for reassurance I suppose.

thanks.

[Sparrow58]

Hi I am an emitophobic I have a fear of being sick and others being or saying they feel sick. If this happens my IBS starts almost instantly. So stress can make your tummy explode especially if things have happened in the past. New meds always worry me especially if the side effects list nausea or vomiting. Take care x

[Luisa22]

I do hear you re: the anxiety, and symptoms. But with me it's the other way around. I am fine and not anxious generally, and if my guts are OK I'm okay too.

But if my IBS sets up bad again, that causes a horrible anxiety. Not worried about "what it might be" etc. Not that kind of thing, rather a horrible anxiety-type reaction which seems to come direct from my gut. Shaking and trembling with the D, heart rate all over the place, palpitations etc. All those things hitting me together cause something like nausea too. Doesn't even feel like nausea from my actual stomach, but from anxiety. (if that makes any sense!)

My body misbehaving seems to take over my mind and mood and it feels like dooms day which sounds extreme but that's the way it makes me feel.

[Moggiedee in reply to Luisa22]

I can relate to all your anxieties. To quote a nursery rhyme? "when she was good she was very very good & when she was bad she was horrid"