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Ptsd Causing Nausea And Vomiting? Thoughts, Advice, I Need To Rant

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AmandaMay520

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For the past 8 or so months I've been dealing with constant nausea and I vomit every day. I've been through tons of testing on my stomach, and everything surrounding it. Everything is always "fine". My charts say I should be completely healthy other than a slightly elevated white blood cell count, but I can't keep much food down and I can't find a medicine that helps. I was diagnosed with chronic appendicitis and I had laparoscopic surgery to remove my appendix almost two weeks ago. My white blood cell count has gone down some but my doc says that it should have balanced out by now. I'm still sick, and now this doctor says that my problem must be outside of his field because all of the tests he ran came back normal and he doesn't have any other ideas on how to help me.

Growing up I was taught to trust my doctor, that they will fix me. I've been to tons and no one has been able to solve this. They keep giving up and sending me elsewhere, and now I'm not sure where to turn. I was being treated for a mood disorder last year, but then I let a less than helpful relative convince me that it was the pills that were making me sick. I quit taking my mood stabilizer, my antidepressant, and my anxiety med all at once without telling anyone because I thought that I knew best (I figured out that I really don't). Before I quit seeing my psychiatrist she was talking about how maybe my mental instabilities (for lack of a better word) could be linked to PTSD from prolonged exposure to high stress situations growing up.

Now that you've kind of got my back story does anyone have any input? I'm seeing the psychiatrist in a few weeks, I just want to know if anyone has any suggestions or thoughts... or anything. I just feel so alone in all of this
 
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I have been throught the same. Unexplained eating problems and nausea. I have had lots of checks from the GP too. All say I am fine. That rules out the physical and you have to consider the mental effects that stress and PTSD has on your body. They are very closely connected. Also the fact you had problems with appendicitis on top of this probably doesn't help. If you read on this forum and do some research, you will see that it is possible that there is a psychological cause for your problems. At least you have ruled out all other possibilities.

I thnk it's a good idea to be seeing the psychiatrist again, hopefully they will be able to help this. Just know that you are definately not alone.
 
Stress causes inflammation and inflammation equals acid and that causes all kinds of illnesses. Nausea and vomiting will create and/or result from an acidic environment for sure. You can Google this.

Please try and raise your pH which will help remove inflammation. Research and eat alkaline foods to do this.

A quick remedy is the juice of one lemon, cold water 8 oz., and 3 tbs. apple cider vinegar. Sugar or maple syrup to taste. Like lemonade!

Or take 1/4 tsp. baking soda and 8 oz. water a couple times a day.

Keep getting blood tests to watch that white cell count.

I was nauseous most of my life from stress. Take care of yourself. The doctors don't prescribe home remedies - only chemicals usually - but they've worked for centuries. And if you research, you find the science behind it.
 
I just checked again. Lemon too is metabolized alkaline. You can Google how those two are metabolized in the body.

I have pH strips from the pharmacy to check my urine. The results with either drink are powerful bringing my naturally stressed acidic pH up to 7.25 or thereabouts.
 
I also drink a glass of lemon in hot water first thing every morning either with a slice of ginger or a pinch of cinnamon in it. Then later on in the day I take apple cider vinegar (with the mother - very important to buy that version - though strange name) in a glass of cold water. It makes a big difference. It does clear your system and balance your internal flora.

I'm sorry you're struggling so badly. Take it slow after your op and it might be wise to seek out a trauma therapist to check whether trauma is indeed the root.
 
I have the same problems. My PTSD caused gastritis. i.e. an irritated and inflamed stomach. All my blood work comes up as normal. My doc gave me various acid blockers, and they helped. I stopped them and now I avoid acidic foods (including chocolate) and when it gets bad, I drink baking soda mixed in with water too. It has resolved all my nausea. I'm still working on the stress.

Mild inflammation and even the slightest colds can cause an elevated white blood cell count.

Vomiting can further irritate the lining of the stomach, especially if you are vomiting mostly stomach acid. You might need some nausea meds for a short while to let things calm down. Or you could see a gastroenterologist specialist. I have to take nausea meds when I take other medications to keep them down.

Stress can do all kinds of things to the body. But this stuff can heal and settle back down. I hope the psychiatrist can help too.
 
Thank you so much! I will try the home remedies. I'm not going to let myself suffer anymore. I deserve better, and I'm working on getting back into therapy. I didn't realize that stress was actually capable of causing this much physical pain. I read quite a few threads on this website and I'm starting to feel less alone. I am going to try to start meditating again too, its not going to hurt anything to try.
 
I manage my eating issues with a lot of distractions. When my stress levels are up, when I stop sleeping, when I'm flashbacking all over the place, first I stop getting hungry and then I start vomiting everything I eat. Stress.

I can eat, if I don't let myself know that I'm eating. Think, tv on and a mp3 player in one ear while reading a book and checking email all at once. I can do one bite every few minutes. The second I let myself realize I'm eating it's like my stomach says "Oh shit, I'm doing this, make it STOP now" and I start heaving.

I just did this again all last week. Not fun. Pretzels are good. Dry cheerios. Anything blandish that will fill you up enough to get the stomach working on something. I call it "disposable food", because it's all stuff that won't be totally vile if I do lose it.

Maybe TMI but there are things that you do not want to accidentally have coming back up and out through your nose...
 
Hello everyone and good morning. My name is Tyler and I'm a 28 y/o Marine veteran. I've taken the time to read through everyones post and the discussion as a whole relating to ptsd and naseuas, my experience has been much the same, only I vommit blood as my stomach becomes more and more inflamed.

My problem, I have horrible ptsd I feel. This started some years ago after separating from service. Every morning I'd wake up and feel horribly naseuas for the first half of the day and later would dissapear. For the past year, it's gotten worse. I'll wake up from lying down in bed and almost instantly I'm naseuas and running for the toilet or bucket. Once there, I begin to throw up everything in my stomach, it's so painful. After the retching and my stomach being cleared, here comes the blood. Now, when I begin vommittng blood is when I drive myself to the hospital.

Tests have been done, I've had an upperoscopy where a camera was inserted through my mouth into my stomach, everything checked out fine. That's the problem though, tests come back fine but only after the nausea has been treated, hours after being in excruciating pain.

Cannabis and zofran help slightly but don't fix the problem as a whole.

I agree with everyone here and so happy I've found others this is happening to, although it is unfortunate it's happening. I feel as if PTSD is directly causing the nausea which also brings racing thoughts, severe anxiety and the nasuea.

I don't know what to do anymore.
 
@TylerS mine is mostly the nausea now but I went through the throwing up blood thing for a long time. Seems stress related. I think you have to not have it occur for a while to heal enough to stop, if that makes sense? Yes it is miserable, even the nausea. I find the nausea when I wake up in the night or morning when laying down particularly difficult. :(

I eat copious amounts of yogurt, but in small amounts, very little else helps, except maybe plain white cake or cream of wheat. I can only eat small amounts at a time or I get sick.

:hug:
 
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