| Activity |
Added By |
| Flushing the toilet with your feet. |
john |
| Opening public doors with your sleeve. |
john |
| Suddenly leaving the room for no obvious reason. |
john |
| Keeping a look out for v**** patches. I dont mean the Nicorette Kind either... :) |
john |
| Avoiding v**** patches by crossing the road or taking a different route. |
john |
| Observing people in public checking if they look ill. |
john |
| Interrogating people that say they are unwell. |
john |
| Never walking past a pub on a Sunday morning. |
john |
| Avoiding being pressured into going on fairground rides.
|
john |
| Sleeping in the garden when a relative is ill.
|
john |
| Constantly eat mints, chewing gum and toothpaste to ensure a fresh tasting mouth. |
john |
| Looking at all the foods and their 'BEST BEFORE' date. |
john |
| If there is an intestinal flu virus around don't go out for at least a month. |
john |
| Washing hands many times a day because of a fear that one could put ones finger in ones mouth without thinking. |
john |
| Avoiding school functions such as field trips with your kids for fear a child might v****. |
john |
| Being a great hand-washer and making sure you kids are too. |
john |
| Questioning your kids if anyone was ill at school and what they had, then worrying for days about your kids catching 'it'. |
john |
| Always finding the location of the nearest exit in public places before anything else. |
john |
| Having the remote control ready to zap if it's likely to be shown on TV. |
john |
| Always driving. |
john |
| Avoiding boats, planes and trains.
Travelling generally! |
john |
| Never *going* to the pub!
Never mind the drinking part of it! |
john |
| Wondering if the film you're watching is going to include v*, and if so avoiding it (The Hitcher) |
john |
| Checking that the chicken will be well cooked when friends ask you to dinner! |
john |
| Hold your breath when you are around people or when one of the family members are sick and over spray lysol even if you think someone may be sick all they have to say is they feel funny or maybe even have gas, you automatically think. |
john |
| Scratching or pinching yourself to take the focus away from the nausea. |
john |
| Constantly pressing below wrist on the median nerve which has control over
your stomach.
|
john |
| keeping myself awake for as long as possible for the fear that i will wake up feeling sick as i have only ever vo***** at night. |
john |
| keeping myself awake as long as possible for fear of waking up to be sick as i have only ever v****** at night. |
john |
| don't sit on couches/chairs or lay on beds/pillows if someone has a tummy bug and they were on them of at least a week |
john |
| panicking if someone around me coughs because they might cough until they vomit |
john |
| When i lived at home and family members were sick, I'd wear a surgical mask (when i actually left my room, which I blockaded with old towels underneath the door) or a scarf wrapped around my face. |
john |
| Carrying Pepto Bismol with me during school. |
john |
| Obsessively putting food suspected of being undercooked in the microwave
to finish the job; obsessively overcooking food. |
john |
| Fearing nausea in unfamiliar or uncomfortable places, or in public where people might observe your humiliating "system" of fighting it.
|
john |
| Making sure never to say when the last time I vomited once as I will surely jinx myself and vomit that very day. |
john |
| Running away from a person who is beginning to vomit, even someone about
whom you might care a great deal; accompanied by panic and the usual severe nausea.
|
john |
| Feeling "sick" when perfectly healthy, in reaction to hearing that "something is going around." |
john |
| Obsessively avoiding strange children.
|
john |
| Never using public transport due to fear of a druken person or child already
have thrown up in it. |
john |
| If I talk about feeling okay that day making sure I knock wood or I will surely jinx myself |
john |
| Letting other people walk infront of you and open dorrs so that you don't have to touch the Door handles. |
john |
| NEVER touching your face when your in public until you get home to wash your hands. Until your hands have been washed good not touching anything you may be touching later on after your hands are clean |
john |
| Avoiding situations that you have been in before when you got sick.. like I got sick when I spent the night at a friends house so I never spend the night anywhere but my own house now. |
john |
| Avoiding places in the street where you once saw a pool of you-know-what - even if it was over a year ago |
john |
| Never smiling before I go to sleep. |
john |
| Basing what I take in college on whether or not you deal with people who could be ill on a day to day basis. |
john |
| Obsessively asking people how they feel. |
john |
| Turning on the TV or Radio when trying to fall asleep to avoid hearing anyone becoming ill during the night, when everything is soooo quiet. |
john |
| Asking people about "the warning system" (whether or not they know in advance if they will become ill and can make it to a bathroom). |
john |
| Fear of babysitting!!!! |
john |
| Keeping windows open and fans on so nobody gets sick from the heat. |
john |
| Closing my eyes and covering my ears during movies with scences where someone is ill. |
john |
| Ensuring there is a clear run to the loo just in case, ie doors open, floors are clear and toilet seat is up. |
john |
| afraid to give my kids their antibiotics because they could react badly to them even though they've taken them before |
john |
| Getting so anxious you run to the bathroom gagging because you feel like you're going to v****. |
john |
| Never wearing the same garment of clothing that you wore the last time 'it' happened, and throwing away the last cup/towel/other object you used on that day. |
john |
| Not eating the food that made you V**** ever again or at least for a loooong time! |
john |
| Memorizing the exact date that I've vomited and then considering the number of that day to be bad luck. |
john |
| Disinfecting EVERYTHING in the area where someone v****** just to make sure |
john |
| I fear having kids because I'm afraid of them vomiting on me or I have to see them vomit. I fear that I won't be a good mom. Therefore I don't want kids |
john |
| counting how many hours it is since I've eaten so I can feel relatively 'safe' in the knowledge that I can't v**** because I have no food in my tummy |
john |
| wiping my face with an ice cold washer, no matter what the weather, just to keep my mind off my tummy
|
john |
| Afraid of someone who you know has or you think might have v****** pretty recently |
john |
| Always sipping water, because if V*** is on its way up, the water will keep it down there... |
john |
| If I hear that someone has been sick I must find out what they mean by "sick" I ponder them until I find out if they vomited and if they did I spend the next 4 days convinced I will be sick. |
john |
| When someone is doing the deed,I run off as far as I can, shove some earphones/earplugs down my ears and cover them as well, hide underneath something like a table, close my eyes, grind my teeth and start humming to myself. |
john |
| SERIOUS dislike of airports!!! |
john |
| Always swallowing because I think it will stop the VO** from coming up... |
john |
| Sleeping in my car for a week when someone in my house is sick. |
john |
| Asking as many people as I can, "do you think im going to V***"? |
john |
| FEAR OF DIAREAH, because it is associated with v*****. |
john |
| Getting my doctor to give me a perscription of suppositories to have on hand just in case. I carry them in my purse, too! |
john |
| need to have my car everywhere i go so i can leave whenever i need to.it's a sense of security |
john |
| knocking on wood whenever i tell someone i haven't v****** since i was eight. |
john |
| asking almost everyone i know or meet how they know when they are about to v**** and then suddenly feeling those sensations! |
john |
| thinking anything wrong with my body is a stomach flu, even a swollen ankle, then asking everyone i know if they ever v****** from it. |
john |
| examining every fork full to make sure it is well cooked and there is nothing wrong with it for at least one full minute before putting it in my mouth. |
john |
| chewing every mouthful at least 100 times(counting in my head) so that my stomach doesn't have to work as hard. |
john |
| when i feel full i chew gum. i feel it makes my stomach digest faster because gum tricks your brain and stomach into thinking food is coming down. |
john |
| Carrying Mylanta in my purse just in case I feel sick. |
john |
| Washing door knobs, the mouse for the computer, or phones just in case the last person that used it was ill. |
john |
| Soaking myself in ice cold water whenever I feel nauseous. I find that if I'm freezing cold it takes my mind off feeling sick!! |
john |
| Avoid going to the doctors- all those sick people in the waiting room- if I really have to go- I stand as close to the door as possible- for easy access. |
john |
| Cross the road if anyone looks dodgy on my side of the street. |
john |
| Never using air blowers to dry hands in restroom for fear of germs flying out of it! |
john |
| Leaping out of a hospital bed in the middle of the night, dragging an IV pole with you and flashing your bare butt to the nurse's station, because your roommate said she felt ill and was going to v**** |
john |
| Avoid going to public toilets - any toilets in fact- I've gone on 10 hour flights before without using the toilet. |
john |
| If anyone ever v****s- I hide- behind doors, in cupboards- you name it! |
john |
| Fear of using a public bathroom,unless it's the kind with only one toilet with a lock on the door, in case someone comes in suddenly and v***** in the stall next to you. |
john |
| always carrying a little plastic bag in case I feel sick. |
john |
| Never finish a meal completely, even if I'm still hungry, not to think of the idea of been eating all that stuff. |
john |
| Cowering in terror when some strange kid comes up to your baby and touches his hands or face and you have to run to the nearest bathroom to disinfect-I always carry lysol towelettes now for rails and carts! |
john |
| spraying everything the kids touch with lysol to dissinfect |
john |
| questioning my family about how they feel every time they touch their stomaches |
john |
| Fear of going in public bathrooms and being trapped in a stall when someone walks in the door and is throwing up. WHich would mean I'd have to PASS them on the way out. eek! |
john |
| If there's a certain song playing when someone vomits, I won't be able to listen to that song at a later date, even if the incident was years ago. EVEN if it was like, one of my fave songs! |
john |
| This might sound wierd- but if i'm EVER the slightest bit nauseated, i *HAVE* to be outside in the fresh air. Being inside only makes it way worse. |
john |
| Would go out of your way to avoid a "how much milk can you drink" contest! Are those people crazy? |
john |
| I know its mean, but- i will NOT give a drunk person a ride home. EVER! What if they v***? |
john |
| This is another mean one (sorry!) but, getting mad at gluttons who overeat, (and have eating contests) then feel sick afterwards. Yikes! |
john |
| I don't know if this one was on here already- but: fear of v** paraphalia. I HATE buckets! I also hate the anti-nausea medicine down the medicine aisle. I can't stand the smell of disinfectant. OR parmesean cheese! (you can guess :) |
john |
| Begging your parents to come pick you up at school because of a "headache" if someone at school says they feel sick. |
john |
| having my bedroom on a different floor in the house so i won't be on the same floor as the rest of the family incase someone gets sick at night. |
john |
| keeping my toothbrush, soap and all bathroom things with me when someone is feeling ill. |
john |
| never going on long car journeys with my family anymore. |
john |
| I teach Jr. High. One of the first rules we cover is no one is to v***** in the class room! Don't raise your hand, don't ask for permission, just bolt for the door. We disinfect the desks and chairs often, and I encourage the use of anti bacterial hand |
john |
| "filtering" the air at school by holding my coat to my face and breathing into it. |
john |
| Uneasy when people have BELCHING contests |
john |
| Wearing a path in the space @ the foot of my bead where I pace almost every night before bed |
john |
| Have to keep still if i get dizzy in case it makes me v***t |
john |
| This is a truly strange one- analyzing when you want to go on a rollercoaster which spot would be the best to be in if someone V*** I always take the frontmost car, cuz I imagine if someone puked it would fly BACK. I don't know **sigh** |
john |
| Sometimes I "pretend" v**. (putting something in your mouth and spitting it back out) when I try to convince myself it isn't the end of the world. Somehow I always end up shuddering and thanking God I didn't puke in the first place though :) |
john |
| Inability to handle watching someone spit out food. You know, like when they don't like it and spit it back on their plate. I wince and jump about ten feet when i see this. |
john |
| I have "test" questions. I don't want people I meet to know I suffer from this. SO when they say they're full, instead of yelling "ARE YOU GONNA PUKE?" (my first tendency) I'll ask HOW full, and ask them about food to "guage" their reaction to it. Like if |
john |
| Becoming FREAKED over medicines that say possible side effects: nausea/stomach discomfort. I don't take em- not even if i was DYING. THat's the first thing I always ask about medicines. |
john |
| That reminds me- even medicines that say either 1). Take on a full stomach or 2). take on an empty stomach. Cuz that suggests if ya do the opposite, you'll probably get a stomachache. Won't take those, either |
john |
| If you happen to see someone v***, its absolutely traumatizing. You can't get that horribile image out of your head for literally days/weeks. You keep thinking about it and almost want to cry. People tell you to just "move on" but you CAN'T! I dwell on it |
john |
| If somebody else told you a story about some food making them puke, the next time I eat that food I'll reason with myself and say "it won't happen to ME" but then start worrying afterward anyway. |
john |
| Becoming obsessed, if you happen to v** or even become naseated, on what EXACTLY caused it. If I can't pin-point the food, then I'll just eliminate ALL the foods i ate that whole DAY from my future diet. |
john |
| Whenever walking down school halls in the middle of class I have to say to myself "it's not going to happen" |
john |
| being utterly terified of the school office ESPECIALLY the health office |
john |
| Avoiding public restrooms as much as possible and if i can't hold it I go in the very last stall and run in and out of it, never stoping |
john |
| Avoid "how much ____ can you eat?" contests like the plague |
john |
| If someone looks sad/sick constintly asking them whats wrong |
john |
| Hardly ever going to parties since most parties have lots of alcohol there. |
john |
| OH- *EVERYTIME* I belch, i analyze the taste. if i taste acid/vomit, i get extremely nervous and start worrying that I'm gonna throw up- its horrible. |
john |
| Watching everything my boyfriend eats...especially if he eats chicken when we are out, I watch every mouthful to ensure it is cooked! |
john |
| Certain shirts are "safe shirts" that can be worn, new shirts or ones that aren't worn often are "unsafe shirts" and can only be worn if I'm feeling ok. |
john |
| Whenever contractors send notes to our house saying they are going to be digging up our roads, I worry about them cutting the water pipes and contaminating our water |
john |
| Whenever the cats drink from our bathroom tap, I have to go and wash the tap after them just in case I wash my toothbrush under the water after they havge been near it! |
john |
| Taking my temperature sometimes 2 or 3 times a day and always washing my hands after I even touch it, even though the new one has only been used by me. |
john |
| home we bought needed more than one bathroom, and the ones available for the rest of the family had to be located away from my bedroom. Don't want to hear sick people |
john |
| avoid hospitals. will not visit family members unless they are in a private room, or they can gaurantee room mate will not v- Run through halls at a fast clip. |
john |
| carry compazine. Worth its weight in gold. |
john |
| locate all of the safe bathrooms, the single locking ones. This goes for hotels, malls, and college etc. |
john |
| lock bedroom door at night so kids will not wander in a v- by my bed. when they are sick, stay secluded in bedroom. Locked in, tv and white noise machine blarring. Used to vacate the home until illness resided. |
john |
| avoid all family vacations that involve more than 1 family, and only 1 house to stay in. Avoid going anywhere, without more than 1 bathroom. |
john |
| When I brave a public restroom, I check the stalls to see if they are empty. I also check to see which direction the feet are pointed in. Towards the toilet, see you later, I am out of there. |
john |
| At 18 years of age, looking into sterilization to avoid having children, who do get sick. They turned me down, saying I might change my mind, I did. 2 kids later. They have parts of my phobia. Not fair, but it is life. |
john |
| when someone is sick with a stomach flu, counting the days from exposure, usually about 4 or 5, and hoping the thing didn't take hold. Not letting my children play at houses where a family member was sick for several days past the inident, just in case it |
john |
| Not watching people brush their teeth, and tougue, (one sister of mine usually gags in this process), and not watching people take their pills orally. |
john |
| Having husband always pick up kids from school when sick, or take them to doctors etc. He is the designated parent to answer all calls in the night too. It is always "DaaaD", and I kick him out of bed to quickly answer who ever is awake. Usually it is a f |
john |
| I'm on one of those protein diets, but I always keep bread or crackers in the house to nibble on when I feel at all nauseous. Also, NEVER take vitamins (especially B-vitamins) on an empty stomach! |
john |
| Never order any meat-based food when dining out...I should become a vegan. |
john |
| Drinking Tea, Excessivley |
john |
| Instead of flushing public toilets with feet, using tissue or paper towel as a glove to hold the handle instead, and also the door leading out. |
john |
| Keeping the motion sickness bags on a plane out of sight, and shouting at people who take them out of the seat holder even as a joke! |
john |
| Staying away from every ill person at school. |
john |
| I hate Chirstmas time because it's peak flu season |
john |
| choosing a dentist based on the lay out of his/her dental chairs. I need a private room, not an open space arrangement. I do not want to see or hear someone gag or worse. Hate dentist visits! Have husband take kids, and they are not allowed to have the f |
john |
| spending days never going into a bathroom when some one V****** in it |
john |
| I can't bear to think of having kids for two reasons: morning sickness and children getting sick. I want to be a mom but can't be around when vomiting is going on. Afraid I would be a horrible parent. Also deathly afraid of morning sickness!!! |
john |
| Never eating in airplanes, just in case there's turbulence or I feel sick! |
john |
| Carrying something mint-flavoured around with me all the time, in case of nausea. |
john |
| Fear of vomiting ESPECIALLY in toilets. If i'm gonna do it, it has to be outside. |
john |
| timing 5 or so hours after i eat something so i feel fairly safe that it wont have given me food poisoning, then relaxing a bit |
john |
| Running out of a public bathroom with soapy hands because someone else comes in like they're in a hurry to get to the toilet or is coughing. |
john |
| Always looking for nearest trash can or exit in the classroom. I'm also always finding excusses (getting tissue, throwing away torn corner ofpaper, sharpening pencils when they dont need to be) to get closer to the trash cans when I feel like I'm gonna b |
john |
| Feeling sick the whole day after someone mentions getting sick. |
john |
| oh mi god..so many! holding my breath so i don't breath the air of a sick person..watching the person in the next seat in the plane to make sure they don't grab the air sick bag |
john |
| driving to the doctor in the middle of the night for some anti nausea medication..to stop me ... you know. NOT BEING ABLE TO MENTION THE WORD OUT LOUD! shunning people with contagious illnesses (drunks don't worry me - i can't catch it) |
john |
| Always having an oil burner by
my bed at night with Olbas Oil
in it. During the day I carry some around on a tissue
I have convinced myself that if I
smell this when I feel ill or if
someone else does I won't feel so bad. |
john |
| 1. Eating foods that are mostly one color, so that it won't be so scary to see if it comes up again.
2. Resist v*** to the point of shaking and exhaustion, even when I know that it would make me feel so much better if I'd just let myself go and do it al |
john |
| I don't know if you do it, but I contract the muscles of my belly often. Don't why, I think I do it to digest my food quicker. |
john |
| I don't know if anyone finds the same comfort as i do, but i'm an abuser of Pepto-bismol. i've found it to help almost *too* well with my nausea, so i take it anytime i feel like i've eaten too much. |
john |
| NEVER eating until you're full. For me, being full is awful, its one step closer to v**. I always have to feel a little bit hungry. |
john |
| Hospital waiting rooms are the worst for me. I get extremely nervous/freaked out when i have to go for a check-up. I can't stand waiting rooms. |
john |
| keeping a towel with me at night, just in case i don't make it to the bathroom. |
john |
| scratching & picking at my skin, to get my mind off my nausea |
john |
| Still crawling into my Mom's bed in the middle of the night if I feel sick at the age of 17. |
john |
| I've always got to be on the "outside" and closest to the door where i sit- anywhere. I will *not* sit in the middle of a pew in church- that's awful for me. Its either back row or nothin' |
john |
| Clicking the "Joy of Vomit" section of this page and not being able to read more than one sentence of it before pressing the "back" button. :) I got to the part about foods that make you v** and almost got sick myself. |
john |
| Calling my mother with every ailment I have, and asking her whether I will get sick from it.
Taking my temperature constantly.
Eating English muffins with a fork. |
john |
| Washing my hands til they bleed to make sure I don't ingest a virus, and also preaching at everyone to wash their hands
|
john |
| NEVER drying my hands or wiping wet utensils etc on a TEA TOWEL, but using kitchen towel instead. TTs are full of germs. |
john |
| Making sure all knives/forks/spoons are sparkling clean before I use them, and wiping them before use even if they appear clean. |
john |
| Jumping out of airline seat right after take off,flight attendants yelling, and climbing on hands and knees up the aisle to find an empty seat because the person next to me took out the bag and held it as if they were to be sick |
john |
| End a good relationship because the other person throws up. Can never kiss them again. |
john |
| Avoid New Year's Eve parties especially at midnight when kissing starts....major germ potention. |
john |
| Avoiding my fiance for days after he had a stomach bug, he V* more in one day then I have in my whole life. I told him if this happens again once we live together im staying with my parents!!!! |
john |
| Dragging my husband away from a party when I think he's had enough to drink in case he v... on the way home. Hes done it before! |
john |
| No longer being able to stay in hotel rooms with an ensuite but needing an appartment with a couple of toilets |
john |
| Avoiding lifts in case I get stuck and someone (me or another person) feels sick |
john |
| Carrying a carrier bag in pocket just in case I feel the urge to V**** |
john |
| Removing necklaces if I feels nauseaous in case they get covered in v**** |
john |
| carrying a bottle of water whereever I go and needing to sip on it to quell nausea feelings. |
john |
| When eating I avoid using my fingers and touching my mouth |
john |
| wearing ear pluggs or head phones when I go to bed because my bedroom is right next to the bathroom, and my dad only seems to V* at night...YUCK |
john |
| sometimes thinking of food. I can actually smell it and taste it and imagine myself eating it even though it is not actually there. |
john |
| making sure my stomach is empty when leaving the house. I'm not happy until i here it growl. |
john |
| i always need the aisle seat on a plane, so i can run if the person next to me v*s. |
john |
| i evaluate the potential v*t factor before i go anywhere. it's very hard to get me to go to a bar or a concert that a lot of people will be drinking at. |
john |
| Can't stand to say, hear , be around the food I last v****ed, & even avoid the grocery aisle it's on. |
john |
| Checking the smell whenever I get into a car - if the driver has an open window I always ask why. |
john |
| Can't handle someone touching me or speaking to me when I'm fealing ill. I start to sweat and shiver, and have to lay straight down on my back and look into the ceiling while I'm focusing on keeping it away. When it's over, I sleep for hours. |
john |
| obsessing about how someone, somewhere is v*ing every second of the day. thinking the the world would be a better place if no one ever had to v*. |
john |
| Can't stand to see an empty garbage can or paper bag, or anything that one would ever use to v**** in. Just seeing it makes me think I will have to use it!! |
john |
| always keep my nails extremely shortcut, god know how many bacterias that get stuck under there. I use to love long nails, now I see them as a potential hazard. |
john |
| Don't like to eat if I know I am going to be leaving the house right afterwards makes me feel sick. Also going out to eat. |
john |
| Whenever someone in my family is sick, I lysol every thing. Even if its not related to the stomach. |
john |
| I wont even sit on the same furniture or use the same bathroom if someone is sick and v*****. |
john |
| some of you people should seek help |
john |
| Taking a gravol pill at the first sign of dizziness, nausea, or any stomach discomfort at all. |
john |
| I avoid going out to people's houses, or movie theatres. and If I have to, I take my car so its possible for me to leave at anytime. |
john |
| fear of taking birth control pills because of the side effect nausea. |
john |
| being deathly afraid of going on vacation. if I do have to go away, I try to eat only salads, fruit, and chicken. |
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