New Here, like to tell an experience

[derek]

Hi, I'm new. Here's an experience. I remember waking up in the middle of the night (March 19th, 2002, yea, I remember the dates) and feeling not so good. I got up, went to the bathroom and went number 1 (I hope it's ok to say that [img]smileys/smilies_02.gif[/img]), thinking what I was feeling was just gas or something. Then, all of a sudden, I got 'the feeling', and I'll never forget runnning to the sick and putting my mouth under the faucet and gulping down the water. I had that "head collapsing into throte" feeling. After taking several sips of water, the feeling did not go away, and I rushed downstairs to the kitchen, got a glass of water, and drank it. I then refilled it, and went to the couch in the family room and sat on it, not beleiveing what was happening. I then got up, went downstairs (we have a finihshed basement). I decided to pop in a movie, so I picked the Prince of Egypt from out VHS collection. Offcourse, it needed to be rewound, so as I was waiting, I rememebr getting the v* feeling, only stronger. I was pacing all over the basement floor, as the tape was rewinding. That's when I got a botteled water from the storage closet and chugged that, to keep "it" down. The feeling did go away after those mins of panicking. As I was watching the movie, I think that I did have a stomach virus, becuase, just like a person who v* during that virus, I'd get eh feeling in 30 min cycles, and when I did I just chugged water. Lol, I remember getting used to it, and not feeling so panicky after a while. But I REFUSED to put a bucker/trashcan near me, because I refused to believe that I MIGHT v*. I was awake for the rest of the night. In the morning, I told my dad about it, and he said it was "nerves" and that I really wasn't sick. I felt the v* in my throte, the feeling came in tntervals, it wasn't NERVES! That whole day, I basically hung out on the couch watchin TV (my dad let me stay home from school. I remember not getting the feeling again, but, in return, feeling REALLY crappy.By the end of the day, I managed to get through 4 reg. sized bottels of Poland Spring Water. As the enening came, I became frightened that, in the night, the feeling would come back again. Idid go to sleep that night, and I woke up the next morning ok. Although,fora whole week and a half, my body wasall out of wack. I got diarreha the day after getting the virus, and Ithink that was the only way for my baody to realease the toxins, since I refused the 1st way.a fewdayslater, I got the 2nd worst the, sour stomach, where I would burp REALLY nasty burpsevery2 mins. I wasn't worried at all, I rememebr reading Calvin and Hobbes before I went to bed. Well, et me tell you, I woke up, and I had a really strong urge to burp,so did, and it was very long,to the point where I needed to take a breath to continue it. I remember the nasty taste of it, and during the second "round", I fealt my stmach contacting, and I began to gag. Thank GOD I had a water bottel not too far from my bed that night, or I would ahve made a mess. I rememebr after gulping the water, I sat on the side of my bed for an HOUR.The radio was on in my room, so the songs that were popular around that time, remind me of v*, which isvery unfortumate, lol. Okay, I'm done. I think the purpous of this thread for me was to introduce myself with a really detailwed storyabout one of my many v* experienced

[Jenneh]

i can relate to a lot of what you just said... i too refuse to let mself vomit. at all. in return i instead feel groggy for days and days afterwards, but i don't care as long as i dont vomit.


also now tht my parnts kno about myfear whenever i feel truly ill (cos i doknow the difference now between axniety illness and real illness)they wil say "its probably just anxiety, just stop thinking about it". i will be jumping up and down.. (or not as the case may be)... shouting !"Its NOT anxiety, this is DIFFERENT". bt they still dont believe me =P


welcome to the site anyway!


Jen xxx

[crazy_me_84]

Aww, that sounds like such an awful thing to go through. Its good you found ways of distracting yourself and it probably helped at the time(?). You coped well. I had a simialar event the other day when I was onmy way home from work and I'm sure I felt 'it' rise up my throat and had to swallow[img]smileys/smilies_11.gif[/img](just a little but whether it was just acid or whatever, I don't know) but I felt extremely anxious for the next 2 days. And I also cannot tell anymore whether its just anxiety or if its real... I hope to be able to distinguish between the two soon because its driving me crazy!


Its great you feel you could share your experience in such a detailed way. Everyone is here to share and hear each other's experiences, whether good or bad. I'm sure you will find a lot of support from all the lovely people in these forums. [img]smileys/smilies_01.gif[/img]

[mjewell]

I think that is the main source of my anxiety, that I can't distinguish between anxiety and actual sickness. Since i hav never vomited just from anxiety, I get so scared when i get the feeling because I don't know if I should ifnd a bathroom or what. So anytime I feel anxious OR sick i panic and lock myself in a bathroom (by the way for me, i either feel sick or anxious ALL the time). Not very convenient to spend your life in a bathroom.


I can't believe you were able to chug water when you were that sick. Does it really help? I can't put anyhting in my mouth except gum/mints. Sometimes I will suck ice chips if I feel gaggy.