Is It Possible...

[Eternity]

To be unwell/ building up to vomitting, and feel hungry at the same time? This is something Ive wondered about for a while, asa lot of times whenI feel yucky I'll feel really hungry also. Is it "safe" to eat? Would my body naturally repress hunger if it was genuinely sick? Im sure I read something to that effect once, but Im not sure of my sources. Anyone know stuff about this?


I generally settle for waiting 4 or 5 hours, n then taking anti emetics n eating if nothings happened by then... n so far that always works out ok, but Id be really interested to know. Years ago feeling hungry used to be my safe point- like.. once I started gettin hungry I felt certain I couldnt be sick.. but now I seem to be able to feel both at the same time!Edited by: Eternity

[hippychick]

Sometimes hunger can make us nausated, for example I can be starving, start makiing food and then while it's cooking I feel sick and lose my apptetite, I usually have to force myself to eat and I'm fine. Real nausea for me is very different to that, one time I was sick and my teacher forced me to try and eat something because she told me it was hunger (I knew the difference there is a HUGE difference in the 2) I took one bite before I was ill. Your body will reject food if you are sick, you will not feel hungry. Very often the thought of food is enough to turn your stomach when it is real nausea, but even when it is anxiety nausea sometimes the thought of food is too much.

[hollyjean]

i know what you mean, i cant tell the difference between the two either, infact i find it really hard to determine any feeling in my stomach.


*Might be graphic, but will try not to be*


Last time i V* i was watching tv with my mum then all of a sudden came over starving hungry so i went to the kitchen to get something to eat and v* on the way. Ever since then i cant tell the difference between feelings in my stomach. If i think i feel hungry, i work out how long it was since i last ate, what i ate etc. If i eat then still feel hungry i really start to panic. This whole event triggered my anorexia. I stopped eating so that i would know if i felt hungry, i was truely hungry because i hadnt eaten and not going to be sick.


I eat again now but i still cant tell the difference, i really hate this :'(

[Eternity]

But had you got as far as actually taking a bite of your food, chances are your body would have rejected it straight away, beforeyoud had the chance toput anything much in your stomach.I mean like hippychick said its unlikely your body would actually let you eat if you were sick. Id be fascinated to know about it if there were somewhere I could go read about this stuff, I mean, in my experience, n that of everyone else I know, sickness and hunger do not go hand in hand. Even kids dont eat when they feel nauseas, its a normal reaction... I cant help wondering though you know, because of the emet could I just get used to eating when I feel sick and end up not being able to tell the difference between real and anxiety nausea? In fact that sums up emet for me- I feel sick a lot of the time. n I can go from not feeling ill atall to feeling like Im about to throw up in seconds.. I cannot tell the difference between whats real n not.. or maybe I can but I just dont know it yet because its all fake.





On a completely unrelated but utterly gross note, I just sneezed and then inhaled a very intensely vomit like smell, does that ever happen to you? Like if you sneeze just after eating?Its revolting.
Note to self- must stop taking anti emetics as though they were candy whenever anything like that happens.

[willow2]

hi eternity,


that is exactly my problem!! distingusihing between real and anxious nausea. i have spent so many years thinking i feel ill but forcing myself to go out/eat/socialise etc that i no longer know when i feel ill or not!! it's completely madness!! i have spent so long like this that I am scared I wont recognise the feelings of genuine illness - carry on regardless and then end up v* in public! i wish there was a little signal, a light or buzzer maybe that alerted me when i felt ill - then i wouldn't have to try and analyse the feelings in my stomach constantly!!