Hi ya'll! So, i only found out about emet last night while researching ways to get over this phobia. I had no clue there was other people out there that had it as bad as me! My good friend has it almost exactly like me, although i don't know if shes open about and wants treatment like I do.
My problem with emet started when I was about 5 years old. My mother had met a new guy when I was three, and he moved in with us two years later. We lived in a decent house but with only one bathroom and it was connected to my bedroom. My stepdad was a pretty bad alcoholic, and also a smoker with bad asthma. He would get sick pretty much every night, and it was the most horrible sound ever. We didn't get a long to well when i was little, so it was hard for me to even feel bad for him or try to understand what he was going through. My mother would punish me and unplug my TV in my bedroom; unfourtanetly this happened on a lot on the nights my stepdad got sick. I was not a disobedient child, so i had to deal with having no other sound to block out him being sick. It got so bad after a while I just had to do the wrong thing and sneak up in the middle of the night to plug the TV back in.
I'm guessing this started my fear of people v*ing, not seeing it but hearing it.
I have no problem with me being sick, i'd actually perfer it over having someone else be sick.
It's affected me in lots of situations; I love roller coasters but i hate going to theme parks in fear that i'm going to see someone sick or they're going to get sick on me. I also hate staying the night at peoples houses after a night of drinking in fear they'll get sick.

I got married almost a year ago, to an amazing guy. He's in the Air Force and we're currently stationed overseas. It's our first house away from our parents and it's really nice. He has always had a weak stomach though, his mom would always tell me how he was sick A LOT when he was little. I was too embarrassed to express my fear of it, so I just got over it and never told anyone. Once we started dating for a while, he knew my problem with it.
As soon as I moved out of my mothers house and into my own, I thought my emet would dissapear since I was away from the person that started it all. I was doing awesome the first few months of living at my new house, and it felt really good.
We had a drinking party at my friends house (the one who also has emet) and her husband ended up getting sick right in front of me. I bee-lined for the house to warn her not to go outside, and because she deals with it like me, and my husband knows how bad I have emet he told me he would take me home as soon as possible but he had had a few beers. So they stayed up all night with me and we played games until 7am. After that my husband took me home. I've been terrified to drink with them ever since.
Nothing happened for a long time, and things were going great. Me and my husband had a few bad fights, normal marriage stuff. But my emet was doing great and under control.
A few weeks ago, my husband got a flu shot and it got him sick. It wasn't too bad, but our only bathroom is connected to our bedroom (in EXACTLY the same floor plan as my house that i lived in with my stepdad, aka how my emet started). it really traumatized me. So i stayed downstairs on the couch. I'd wake up every 15 minutes in fear that he was still sick and never got a good nights sleep. Every night after that, even after he was completely better, I would wake up through out the night in fear he was going to get sick again. This happened all the way up until last night, when my husband rushed home sick as a dog.
He told me he had never been sick like that before and was v*ing every 5 minutes. The night before I had not got ANY sleep so i was in a bad mood already. I couldn't deal with it this time. So I called my friend (the one with the emet as well) and she understood and came and got me. My husband begged me not to leave him while he was sick but i could not deal with it! i was having horrible panic attacks and really bad anxiety (which i have daily anyways). I felt like SUCH a horrible wife. How could i leave him sick like that?
After going to bed at my friends house, all i could think about was people being sick. It was horrible, ive never been that bad before. I was so worried about my husband and what if he choked in his sleep or something. I could barely sleep. I listened to my iPod all night in fear someone in her house would get sick as well, and every noise scared me to death.
It's 8:30am my time, I've been up since 6am since they left and now i'm babysitting their baby.
My husband took work off because he's still sick and i told him i'd bring him some gatorade later on today. He hasn't gotten sick since 4am. I hope he doesnt get sick tonight. I can deal with it throughout the day. I can be on the computer watch TV take our dog for a walk go out with friends, but at night i feel so alone and my anxiety gets horrible.

I've considered throughout the night about exposure treatment. I also read Sage saying that your anxiety shouldn't ever be over a 4 w/o a therapist present. My anxiety would never be that low if i was exposed to it! I don't think that will work for me

I've also read about the other treament for only about $70 with a money back gaurentee. I might look into that as well.

It's nice to not feel so alone anymore, and i really want to be cured for this. I want to be there for my husband when he is sick and someday for my children as well.

Thanks for listening!