How quick did your emet come on?

[Maddie-_-]

Im just wondering for you was it a gradual thing or was it fast? For me, I started to have panic attacks for no reason and I didnt know what they were then they started to happen everyday at school, I would feel ill with them then panic, and then bam. Fear of v* HELLO! Or atleast thats the theory we have come up with, haha.
So really it took a few months but from being okay to being un able to go to school was about a week.
How about you?

[psalm139]

Your story sounds like mine. It came on gradual. It didn't happen until after I had kids. Than in 2006 I started having panic attacks after my youngest and husband got a SV really bad. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the ER. They treated me like a heart attack out patient and ran tests. The Dr finally said it was a panic attack. I started counseling and he diagnosed me with emetophobia and gave me this website.

[gumdropper1]

I got emet as a result of puking in my sleep at age 8. Most of us developed emet as a result of a traumatic episode of vomiting at age 6-10. If that moment was the first time I was emet, I was one within days. Doug

[mhartse]

I got emet when I was 20 when my mom got sick, and its gradually gotten worse and worse

[KimberlyP]

I developed a fear of vomiting when I was 11 but I wouldn't call it a phobia because I only thought about it when it was happening or near me. I wasn't careful where I ate, washing my hands other than after using the restroom, and even caught a couple bugs and I wasn't even scared, although I never vomited.

In 2010 I experienced a traumatic event and it gradually started worrying me that I would vomit and then in October 2011 a horrible bug spread like wildfire through my family. Thankfully I escaped with only diarrhea and mild nausea but the waiting and anticipation was enough for me to develop a full blown phobia. I'm doing better but I know it's a matter of time until the phobia rears in ugly head and I slide back.

[butterfly91]

When I was 9 I had a sv and after that I started fearing v* but after a little while it went away so I don't know if i did develop the phobia when I was 9 or I developed it properly when I was 21 when I had a sv. Since then I have struggled on and off with emet. I'm almost 23 now so it's been nearly 2 years. Right now my emet isn't too bad, it goes like that. When it's summer I deal with it much better but when it's winter that's when my phobia gets bad again

[Dairyfreelife]

No idea actually. I've had this phobia as long as my memories go back and I don't know when my emet actually began. I cannot think of an episode specifically that caused my emet. I was just too young when it started to remember. My very earliest memories actually involve me concerned about puke. I do wish I knew sometimes what the trigger was, but I have resigned myself to the reality that I will never know why or what created the phobia. I have had ups and downs, times that were better with the phobia and times I never wanted to leave my basement corner away from everyone. Right now I actually think I'm doing a little better than I have ever been. Working on my exposure therapy a lot this summer so come next winter I will be able to handle cold and flu season better. I am determined to end this phobia. It's taken too many years of my life away from me already. It took my past, but it can't have my future.

[anna81]

I find it really interesting that some of you have had emet develop later in life. I have had it for as long as I can remember so I don't know what life is like without it! Good for you Dairyfreelife, I am trying to expose myself to see if I can desensitise a bit, let me know how you get on!

[Healed]

I was 21. I didn't know it at the time but I was having my first ever panic attack and I was so nauseous and gagging like crazy. I thought I had a stomach bug and WANTED to vomit because I knew I'd feel better if I did and that horrible nausea and retching would finally stop! But even though I had a full stomach my body just would not vomit; I just kept gagging. Weird. I believe it was in that moment when my brain connected feeling sick to my stomach to panic because it was after that incident that I developed both emetophobia and panic disorder which led to agoraphobia. IT WAS AWFUL!!! However, I was healed of it all very quickly too ― thanks to God. So it can leave almost as quickly as it came.

[KimberlyP]

I was 21. I didn't know it at the time but I was having my first ever panic attack and I was so nauseous and gagging like crazy. I thought I had a stomach bug and WANTED to vomit because I knew I'd feel better if I did and that horrible nausea and retching would finally stop! But even though I had a full stomach my body just would not vomit; I just kept gagging. Weird. I believe it was in that moment when my brain connected feeling sick to my stomach to panic because it was after that incident that I developed both emetophobia and panic disorder which led to agoraphobia. IT WAS AWFUL!!! However, I was healed of it all very quickly too ― thanks to God. So it can leave almost as quickly as it came.

Are you a cured emetophobe? Interestingly, I had the same experience recently as you and it helped my emetophobia. I was panicking and gagging over and over with food in my stomach but no vomit. Then a few weeks later I caught a mild bug and handled it quite well. I realized it isn't the gagging or vomit that scared me but the nausea and helplessness.

[Healed]

Yes Kimberly, I've been emetophobia-free for a little over 2 years now.

[MrsEmetophob]

22. My daughter had her 1st SV, she refused to V anywhere but on me...then my husband got it and i got it (- the V, i gagged but refused to V) i was also 8 months pregnant with my son.

[MrsEmetophob]

Oh & the fear/anxiety came on the minute i realized she had a SV. Hasnt left since 😢

[chlo-bo19]

Read my new blog, you're not alone! This explains how mine started. Hope it helps you http://myemetophobiajourney.wordpress.com/ Chlo x