Who's afraid to throw up??

[momtoallie]

that would be me

 

[LittleBlue22]

Can I share a story?

Gather around all... I went to a local department store yesterday and I went to one section of the shoe dept. and walked to the other side. When I was about to walk back to the other side I was previously on there was a long trail of pink vomit from the register to the common walkway (hallway dividing the kids dept.). The sales associates were so "freaked out" that I put a chair covering the largest portion of the muck so people wouldn't step or fall in in it. I told them, I have to leave or else I'm going to vomit and left.

O.k. I need to step away from the thread for a little bit

 

[slk537]

I hate throwing up when I'm nauseous or sick. I have a weird sensitive stomach and it doesn't take much to make me want to vom. However...

(I'm so proud I'm admitting this... Not.)

I AM bulimic...recovering most of the time. It's completely different. Gross? Sure. But without the nausea and the stomach cramps and the stomach acid it's just...different.

On the other hand, when I do have the stomach flu, I don't have to lay on the bathroom floor and suffer, I can make myself vom and feel better quickly. Yeah. Not exactly a "win" and I'd certainly rather not have bulimia, but you take your silver linings, no matter how tissue paper thin they are.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I try to stop it. Hate doing it. Get a little anxious when I think it's coming, but I can't say I have a true fear of it.

Which is a good thing since I was severely sick (throwing up 10 - 20 times a day for 6 - 7 months) with my pregnancies and just had a killer of a stomach flu last week.

 

[karenbaco]

Yes - I am also very much afraid to throw up. It makes me nervous, I cry, etc. I also can't stand to watch other people throw up or hear the sounds. It's called emetaphobia. (I looked it up once.)

I avoid bars (since I'm afraid people will get drunk and throw up on me). Very weird, but my friends and family are used to it. I also don't drink much myself.

I am right there with ya......I avoid alot of things....
I avoid amusement parks for the fear of someone getting sick, I even was a nervous wreck at Disney. I remember going into the restaurant near Splash Mountain...forgot the name. Anyway went to bring my kid into the bathroom and someone was puking in there....i bolted so fast! You couldn't give me a million dollars to ride MS. I also avoid boats for the fear of sea sickness, I'm starting to avoid public bathrooms all together now. I don't drink for the fear of getting drunk and sick. The list goes on........
I am Emetophobic! Not a fun way to live your life let me tell you. I hibernate in my house all winter so we don't get sick. Although my kids bring it home from school. I've become OCD with washing my hands, sanitizing door knobs, etc. SPRING HURRY UP!!!
Is there such a place to live where the stomach virus never happens cuz I'm ready to move!!!!

 

[SamIAm21]

Oh yeah, I have the profuse pre-vomit mouth watering, if that's what you're describing.

Oh yeah, I remember that mouth watering thing. Ugggh!!

I know where my phobia of being physically ill comes from. I was at Girl Scout camp when I was 8 and I was sick all night from something I ate (spaghetti if I remember right) and there was no one there to help me out or comfort me and nothing to wash my mouth out with. At 8 years old, a long way from home, and without my Mom to give me a cold cloth or a cool drink and that set me up with this fear for the rest of my life. I haven't been sick since then. I just flat out refuse!

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

Do y'all ever have "puke-o-ramas" on the peds floor? You know, one kid pukes in a particularly heinous fashion, then y'all call a code...what, green?...then some poor LPN comes in and loses it, then the dominoes start to fall? Seems like that would happen on the peds floor, or maybe y'all all have iron guts.

Oh yeah, I have the profuse pre-vomit mouth watering, if that's what you're describing.

Not really iron guts as much as you learn not to actually look at the stuff and you never, and I mean NEVER breathe through your nose. And yes, unfortuantely I've witnessed the puke-o-rama on more than one occasion. I've even seen a doctor fall prey to that. I also worked OR for about 5 years. Thats where you can loose your lunch. Oh, the stories I could tell.

 

[JoyG]

My DD, on the other hand, was your average kid in terms of throwing up, until the year she got a terrible stomach flu. She threw up so much she lost 10 pounds overnight, and continued to throw up for about 4 days afterwards. Ever since that time, she throws up at the drop of a hat. It's like all of a sudden her body had gotten the message that this is what you do when anything's wrong, whereas my body has somehow gotten the message that this is unnecessary except in very extreme circumstances.

That sounds like what happened to me!!

I've always been afraid of throwing up and hadn't done it in more than 15 years...then about 2 years ago I got a stomach flu and the vomiting started. Since then I've been sick to my stomach about twice a year. All those years nothing, and now every six months or so I get it.

What's up with that?

 

[mking624]

I'm definitely terrified of throwing up. The lack of control over it, the not being able able to breathe...all that.

I did throw up big time when I was 15 due to a migraine. I was so scared. After that the only time I threw up was about a year and a half ago when I threw up the three sips of water I had after surgery. Such a tiny bit and yet I was terrified.

Oddly enough, other people vomiting doesn't really effect me other than I just hope that they feel better.

 

[DMickey28]

ME!! Thank goodness I didn't get morning sickness...