I get these tummy aches very often. It's like a dull pain right below my sternum and I burp constantly. I guess it's a gas bubble, but it also causes nausea and just a plain feeling of sickness. I have that right now and have felt this way for about an hour now. I usually just take some gasx and try to ignore it and burp as much as I can, but today I am worried and obsessing about it. The reason I am so scared is because I ate lunch at Boston Market today and had a chicken pot pie. Well, as a rule of thumb I never eat meat out unless it's at a really nice place and even then I worry. I ate like half of the chicken out of the pot pie and now I am worried that I have food poisoning.


I guess I should mention that the last time I got sick (11 years ago) was after eating chicken at the Cracker Barrell and it began with this sinking, yet gassy feeling in my tummy.


I am just looking for some words of strength, comfort, logic, reason, similar personal stories. I am at a bad emet point for me these days. I've laid off of therapy because life has begun to overwhelm me, and I would prefer to not spend the rest of the night worrying about the what if's, but don't know what to tell myself to stop the thoughts.