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

[Whirlwind]

I read somewhere that the gut is our second "brain" and it doesn't lie so to speak. My PTSD sparked ancient eating issues aka I'm a stress barfer, have been since a kid.

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.

I do similar and I am learning to head this off before it gets too bad, try to calm via breathing exercises and trying to recognize stress/ptsd buildup. I have learned how unaware I can be! but the trick is it can feel like a race in that my gut has it figured there's a problem long before I do. To be honest, sometimes I simply stop eating until I feel ok, day or so and then I carefully eat again and i am usually ok by then.

do you eat pretty good in general? If not, fixing that is a start, it helped me despite not being a cure for the underlying issue. for what its worth, it can get much better, mine has despite occasional flareups.

 

[Friday]

@TylerS My nausea isn't that bad usually, I carry most of my stress in my neck and shoulders, but yep. Nauseous & burning every day, all day (and violently ill a few times a week) ...except... when I'm happy (as in consistently happy, minor ups and downs but overall good and doing well. I have had those years); emotionless (no guilt, no fear, no remorse, but anger & amusement pal around, I've also had these years); in a crisis (either cold or just dealing, I'm busy. I only get sick again afterwards, am there right now in fact / howI found this thread), or medicated. (Not for the nausea. Sure, compozine will help a bit, but it's anti anxiety or painkillers that stomp on it. Neither of which are long term solutions. Addiction is just one more problem.).

For me, certain things make it worse. Non-crisis stress, shame/embarrassment/guilt, all things dairy (my body has quit digesting and rapidly expels all things dairy, right down to "dairy free" items, that do in fact had dairy sourced stuff: like the starter enzymes in salamis or the calcium mold inhibitor in bread... Meanwhile other like @Junebug can only live on yogurt. Stress just does odd things to our alimentary system), anxiety attacks, nightmares, etc. Yep. The more symptomatic I am in my everyday life, the more the individual symptoms exacerbate each other. So much fun :wtf:. Pile on, everybody! It's party time. Reducing any or all of them does a whole lot of 'tide raises all boats' kind of thing. Which I know. But I still keep tabs to see if anyone has found some tips and tricks.

One odd one, is to run my wrists under cold water. No idea why. And not long term, either. (But every time I use the restroom I can grab a minute or six of borrowed calm).

The only long term one I know of is reducing my overall symptom load. Those happy years.

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