On Tuesday around 4:00pm, I suddenly became very ill. I had very bad cramping in my lower stomach that led to awful d*. By the end of the evening I had taken my temperature and it was 101.8. I felt incredibly nauseous. Then at 1:00am, I started to dry heave for about 2 minutes straight. I had been panicking the whole entire night. I thought for sure something would have come up, but it did not. I was shaking and crying. I’m 27 years old and I had to call my mom. I felt bad for waking her up in the middle of the night. The last time I actually v* was when I was 10. Since then I had the dry heaves once when I was 16 from drinking, once when I was 22 from being sick with bronchitis having really strong antibiotics and then again when I was 24 from drinking. Since I was 10, I have basically kept myself from v*. I know there have been times when I needed to v* and it just doesn’t happen. Every time I had the dry heaves, I thought for sure it would happen. Does anyone else have this too, that they cant v*, only dry heave?


To make matters worse this last episode, I also was coming down with some sort of cold/sore throat the day I got the stomach flu. I hate this phobia. I work as an x-ray tech in a hospital and get exposed constantly. I try my hardest not to let the phobia get the best of me and I do a good job of dealing with it at work. However, being sick for the past couple of days has made me feel very scared and mad at myself. I still feel crappy and haven’t eaten much of anything. Im hoping this will pass soon!!!!


Michele~