Hello. My name is Darrin. I am a new member. I have had emetophobia for many years. In fact, I have not vom**ed in over 15 years. I hear that is typical for emets.

I refuse to ride elevators, planes, or carnival rides because of motion sickness. I am amazed that some of the emets on here are able to fly. There are too many vom*t bags for my tastes. I also sometimes have psychosomatic symptoms where my body convinces me that I feel "naseus" when I am not sick at all. I have adapted a facial tick where I shake my head whenever I have a nauseating or gory thought. It seems to help a little.

I don't take cough syrup because I am afraid of the taste being so gross it might make me gag. I would rather cough thank you. I also think I would rather die than take ipecac syrup. I can't imagine the anticipation anxiety of waiting for the ipecac to kick in and vom*t!! Yikes! It sounds like torture! One of my biggest fears is getting cancer because I am terrified of vomi*ing during chemotherapy.