Quote Originally Posted by sxr View Post
I'm new here, but I've been lurking for ages and have never really found an answer to this question: how should one go about asking for an antiemetic? When my former therapist insisted I see a psychologist, I asked him about it, but he just kept trying to push antidepressants on me. I haven't seen my primary care physician in ages because I've been too busy with school to get in (he's always packed), but the semester is just about over, so I won't be able to try the health center on campus (again, always packed, never any time for me) and it's embarrassing how often I go to urgent care (it just happens to fit my schedule when I need it), so I'm going to attempt to ask my doctor about them. I don't think he knows anything about my phobia, but he does know that ever since I had my gallbladder removed, I've had my share of digestive disorders. How should I go about asking him? Just be up-front and pray he understands better than anyone else has? Claim my actual symptoms are worse than they are and subject myself to multiple exams and tests that I don't want? I'm lost.
I totally agree with the other memers who advised trying antidepressants initially, the root cause is anxiety and if you can tackle that you will hopefully find that the anxiety is under control and v* becomes much less of an issue. I also agree that anti emetics are not the answer as they are only treating the symptom and not the cause, to put it another way anxiety is the problem not v*I can also speak from personal experience since taking antidepressants last September v* no longer dominates my life and my anxiety about it has signifcantly decreased and this is after having the fear for around 30 years