Talk to the anesthesiologist. They can combine antiemetics and antianxiety meds to ensure your best chance of not vomiting. They do this in hospitals in surgeries where post-op vomiting would be...

When those symptoms try to come back, stop them by reminding yourself that when you actually did vomit, it wasn't as bad as you had made it out to be in your head.

I think everyone with emetophobia has OCD. I think emetophobia is a form of OCD. We obsess about vomiting and compulsively do whatever we think will keep us from vomiting. What else would you...

Yes you're linking the nap to your food poisoning. Nip it in the bud before this becomes yet another emetophobia avoidance. The nap did not make you sick.

Glad you're all better now and see? ...

Well let's see...

When I was emetophobic 24/7 nothing I ate was safe, so for months I ate literally nothing... except water and a bit of plain white bread here and there. I lost so much weight,...

Phobias are all the same. It isn't the THING we fear that's the problem, it's the irrational fear we attach to the thing. Whatever it is.

I've bought those chickens often, at different times of the day, and never had a problem.

You're hungry, eat the chicken and enjoy it. You'll be fine. If you throw out what you know in your...

You're right Rebecca. Better to prevent a possible infection, for sure. I don't plan to take any pain medication unless I absolutely have to. I have a pretty high tolerance for physical pain, so...

Thanks Harmony. I'm not even sure all these meds are really necessary.

Thanks Rebecca.

They said I can take Gravol (an over the counter anti-emetic) with the meds if I need to, but that will make me more groggy than the Tylenol alone. That's not a big deal, I'll...

So my dental surgery is only days away now. After surgery I'll have to be on a course of anti inflammatory medication, antibiotics, and probably Tylenol 3 for about a week I've been told. To my...

This is interesting because my father has always had a glass of red wine with his meals and he's never had any kind of stomach issues -- ie food poisoning or stomach viruses. Ever. And he's not a...

Research shows that red wine can combat potentially-fatal food poisoning bugs.

E coli, Salmonella and Listeria are all susceptible to the effects of red wine, and Helicobacter pylori, a stomach...

I understand, but emetophobia doesn't keep you safe. That's the biggest lie emetophobia tells you. In addition to it robbing you of your peace of mind and quality of life, it makes you more...

Wargerbil is absolutely right.

I weaned myself off of washing my hands a gazillion times a day until they bled by wearing latex gloves for certain things. For example, to take out the garbage or...

You might want to do some research on Yaz. I half listened to a documentary claiming that so many women were experiencing all these weird, serious, psychological and physical symptoms on it. If I...

I think it's fantastic that you want to do something so good for yourself that will improve your health and your self-esteem. The fact that you're 20 and in WW is a plus, in my opinion. Would you...

Excellent questions.

For me it was always ME throwing up that was the worst case scenario. I never had a problem with others doing it, or seeing it, as long as I knew that they didn't have...

One huge mistake made early on in my recovery is that I believed in order to be recovered, I never had to fear vomiting at all. I thought that I had to be perfectly okay with it... similar to...

Every job I have ever had, right from the time I was a kid with a part-time job, there has always been someone vomiting for some reason. That's life, I guess. Before I developed emetophobia, this...

I'm fairly certain you'll be fine. Someone with the stomach virus you're worried about would have had to vomit or poo on that very piece of snow that went into your mouth.

Also, I live in a big...

Because emetophobia, like any phobia, is a learned behaviour, it needs to be managed even after one has recovered. Sort of like riding a bike - you can choose to never get on one again but once you...

Rebecca, just curious.. when you were litle, did you ever get in trouble for not vomiting "appropriately" ?

Lieke, while there may be other reasons people are terrified of vomiting, I think the control thing is the one thing we all have in common. Myself, even now that I consider myself recovered, I still...

This is HUGE. If you can do this, you're well on your way to a full recovery. Just keep it up, don't let the fear and old habits overwhelm you and take over again.