bathgal24 I totally understand what you are going through , I happen to do the same things, mine is so bad I have a hard time being around women with morning sickness and I know at heart thats not contagious. Im praying on a daily basis, I am determined to overcome this fear in 09 I certainly want to have children and cant let this fear stop me from my dream of having a family and being able to care for a child. I havent really found much help in the world. All we can really do is pray for strength God will bring us through. We have to remind ourselves that getting sick isnt a death sentence and trust me I have to remind myself of that on a daily basis. Ive recently been exposed to the norovirus and Ive been getting nervous, but all I can do is pray. angel11 Ill add you in my prayers as well. This fear is so dominating I feel your pain :cry:

Hello all, Its been a while since ive been on this website,Havent been able to bring myself to talk about my problems,trying to put them to the back of my mind,but it isnt working,i need to speak to people who understand what im going through.
About a week ago i had the most horrible panic attack ive ever had,im so terrified of it happening again,im not keen on going out anymore.I cant bear to feel this way.. My partner really helps me but i feel as though im making his life hard with my constant worries and needing to be reasurred about things.
I just really feel the need to talk about this problem,been bursting to talk to people like me..
So whoever reads this thanks for listening :mrgreen:

angel11 :laugh:

Hmm, i don't like bein sick, suppose it's like my sa, avoiding anxiety situations like emetophobics avoid sick :? .?
Thunder/Lightening has me crying like a baby. HATE the dentist, suppose there can be an emetephobic element there aswell, i had literally avoided the dentist to have anything done, and then needed 8 fillings..ended up gettin toothache after a few fillings so i never did go back for the rest, i'd rather my teeth fell out. :|
going on planes (possibly bein sick) ..and the embarrasment that i'd feel in a public situation if i was sick in public (thank god i never have lol)
I feel sympathetic for yous all i'm glad none of my other fears are as bad as my sa
xx

bathgal24 Wrote:So whoever reads this thanks for listening :mrgreen:

I listened.

There are 2 things you can do -

1. Try to reduce the frequency and intensity of the panic attacks - takes some time but can be done

2. Learn to live better with the panic attacks - an easier solution that makes living with panic more bearable

I feel your pain, KirstYAY; I'm now living in student accommodation (an emet's worst nightmare; seriously, I might post some pics of the bathroom and kitchen) and my parents are ringing me every hour to tell me to eat something; most of the time I just lie and say I will/have had a proper meal. Last night I had one of those tiny tins of baked beans, some water biscuits and a piece of cheese - I usually have breakfast but skip lunch and dinner. Why are you not eating? (Sorry if I haven't been following your posts.) Is it simply because you hate having the food there in your stomach, or because you feel like there's a threat of an illness around?

I understand how you all feel :cry:
Dont u just wish we could all wake up in the morning and we feel better and all the worries are gone , That would be excellent happy11
But it isnt that easy
Ive had enough worrying about being sick,eating cos i might be sick,being near people who are ill,i just cant stand it anymore.
I just want a normal life,with the normal anxieties of life,eg Money, things like that.
Im due to see a shrink to have a accessment about my problems,but im just worried because the person is coming to my house to visit me and i know they work at a hospital where bugs go around all the time, so im in a dilemma,agree for this person to come and visit me,risking that i may pick up a virus,or cancel and not recieve the help that i desperatly need

Any ideas?

Thx for all who read this, Jen x

Hey all,So i had a really bad panic attack last night, was so convinced i was going to be sick,i nearly was,because i had got myself into such a panic..
Ive got the hairdressers this morning which im dreading,not because of a fear of getting my hair cut,but the fact im walking up there on my own,my partner was going to drive me but he has been calling into work,I know it shouldnt bother me just walking to the hairdressers,but im so worried ill catch something on the way,or in the hairdressers itself. i sometimes hear the customers talking about all the illnessess they have had recently,and i just want to run outta there,but in mid hair cut that is a little difficult.
I have come to the conclusion that i do really need some help of some kind,i really cant go on like this,Im never free from worry,i just want to be able to go out for a meal, night out, without this constant worrying :cry:
I want a job,Kids,but how things are at the moment these things are just pipe dreams
Im sorry to moan at everyone on this forum because i know we all have similar problems,Its just nice to be able to talk to fellow sufferers and know that they truely understand what im talking about angel11
Plus talking on this forum clears my mind of a few things _cheesygrin::
A message to everyone on this forum, Try and stay positive, i know its hard believe me,but sometimes it helps to look on the brighter side of life,even if thats only for a couple mins at a time.
Thanks all for reading xx
Jen

Hi! It's great to read all this, I thought I was the only one and I was being stupid! Been sufferring for 5 or so years now after a bug left me with permanent nausea for 1 year & 2 weeks! After the 1 year and 2 weeks I suddenly had a couple of hours that day without nausea and the time without nausea increased slowly. I also suffered from really bad irritable bowel syndrome and a stomach ulcer which caused nausea. I've cut out wheat and dairy which has improved the IBS no end and have been taking medication for the ulcer which has improved that. Unfortunately I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia March 2010 which means I have pain in every joint in my body all the time. Coping with the pain and other symptoms of that had put the emetophobia to the back of my mind a bit, especially as I can no longer go into the office so spend most of my time in the house which has cut down my anxiety quite a lot. Unfortunately it reared it's ugly head again with full force last night and I realised I haven't got rid of it at all - we run a brass band and one of the kids last night said they felt ill, a headache and dizzy, one of the other band members (a teacher) said that that is how the stomach bug that has been travelling round her school starts. Of course, my system just went completely haywire, internal panic while trying to look alright on the outside when all I wanted to do was run as far away as possible and hide (& scrub all the germs away!). So all day today I have felt nauseous and the stomach ulcer hurts and I can't control the anxiety again. I can logically tell myself that it is the anxiety causing the nausea but I still can't control it!

I guess no one's around anymore, but even just typing this out should be cathartic.

I'm 17. I've been emetophobic for as long as I can remember really, and haven't V*d since I was six. I think it's been getting worse as I get older - I remember being really uncomfortable with the concept and on edge and stuff as a kid (and almost strangling someone who pretended to be ill to provoke me when we were 9) but ever since I was 12 or so it's been moving into full blown panic attacks at the thought of someone else being sick. I can't go out with my friends anywhere where there may possibly be alcohol because of the connotations that makes in my mind. I have a very strict criteria of people I'll let travel with me and hate boats with an absolute passion. Over the course of a couple of weeks I had to flee a classroom because of perceived 'danger' (once was just a teacher passing a student who had been coughing all lesson a bin to put her tissues in) and then spent the rest of the period having a panic attack. There is a massively large amount of sitations that put me on edge, but I'm sure you guys all know what it's like.

I don't think I'm capable of ever having kids. I'd spend my time constantly in fear of them.

Most people around me know by now due to having seen or heard about my freaking out at nothing, but nobody really understands it. There's a group of boys who occasionally make retching noises at me when they pass me in the corridor and one of them forced me to watch a 'graphic' video on his iPod. My parents pretend to be understanding but I can tell they don't actually get it and that I'm a burden to them. My mother has threatened to hit me if I didn't snap out of it before and they gave me an ultimatum that I have to 'get over it' before the summer or else I can't go with them to visit my family on the other side of the world, including grandparents who I don't know how much longer will live for. The only person who seems remotely understanding is my boyfriend and he's started to be on edge too because he's constantly looking for situations that could trigger me.

I don't know how much longer I can do this for.

Have you actually sought any professional assistance or counselling? Its not something that you can defeat on your own, your boyfriends support will certainly help but a professional counsellor may well have some ideas that could help.

Yeah. Tried hypnotherapy a year and a half ago maybe and that didn't do anything. I'm seeing a therapist now for that and other issues and she's referred me to a more specialised organisation but I need a GP referall for that and it will take a while to get organised.

At least you are being smart and brave enough to seek help, many people dont. Its a long hard road but hopefully you can eventually achieve what you are after and then......you will never look back