r/emetophobia

I just ate one tiny bite on a michellinas plate and it tasted really acid/trashy. It had tomato in it and i wasnt aware so the taste took me by surprise. I tasted another bite and i found it so digsting i spit it. I am scared. I swalloed only one pasta i think.There was no date on it and i lept it frozen until i date it! It is hard to tell if i found it disgusting beause i just drank something sweet and it was weird with it. Idk. Im scared

I went to the hospital with my mother in law because she’s been having a cough for weeks. I went in with a KN95 and regular mask doubled up. When we got there we sat 4 seats away from this elderly woman. It almost sounded like she was coughing but then I saw the bag with v* and immediately realized what happened. I got up and went outside of the waiting room. Ever since I have been replaying the moment in my head paranoid that I caught something sitting there. Now I’m going to be paranoid for the next 48 hours until I’m in the clear. I wish I didn’t have this, but I’m also proud that I stuck through it and supported her even though it was uncomortable.

i feel like absolute garbage. i just wanted to reach out for support.

i contracted a head cold from my dad last friday. it was a normal cold, an honestly seemed to be getting better as the weekend progressed. last night, though, i got extremely n*. the leftover sushi and the edible i ate probably contributed, but i don’t think i have proper food poisoning since i have not v* or had d*, or anything similar. like literally no symptoms other than the n*.

it’s a weird kind of n* that i can tell is not due to a sv*. i don’t know if any of you know what i’m talking about when i say that, but i can tell. it’s almost like a dizzy feeling. regardless of what’s causing it, it’s bugging me a lot. i can’t sleep. it’s mostly in my throat and is making me panic everytime i close my eyes and try to sleep.

i have work at 8 am. i slept maybe 4 hours tops last night because of this and it’s making me feel horrible, i am so tired and unwell. i have been crying because i just feel tired. i’m extremely paranoid not sleeping will weaken my immune system and make me worse, which makes me panic more, and prevents sleep more.

i don’t know what to do. or how to cope. i’m just tired. any words of wisdom or advice on how to calm down?

So my boyfriend and his younger brother on Friday night ate salmon fillets their mum cooked, I didn’t eat it because years ago she cooked me one gave me fp I held in the v but I haven’t eaten it since. His brother woke up sat morning and had to run to the toilet drenched in sweat and was nonstop v for a couple hours and stopped in the arvo. My boyfriend was absolutely fine but he had one fillet his brother had two and they were all separate fillets. His mate he saw Wednesday night apparently had a bug before or after he saw him we aren’t sure but it had been 65hours when he started v so I was like it’s fp. I went home as soon as I heard his brother was v cause I just didn’t want to be in the house and stayed at home sat night and Sunday night and my bf stayed at mine with me.

We went to the Easter show yesterday his brother was feeling better so he came and we all drank alcohol my bf drank a bit not a lot for him but he had 2 vodka cosmopolitans, 2 gin passionfruit capricosa which were drenched in passionfruit pulp and almost double shot strength, then he had 4 beers and then half of my gin lime soda. He also ate an Italian sausage pizza, cinnamon balls and a beef burger at the show.

Overnight he wouldn’t stop farting so loud and just back to back farts then thismorning he was awake before me and he said I don’t think I’m going to go into work today I think I’ve got what my brother had and I’m like what immediately start panicking and he’s like oh I feel a bit nauseous and I just had d ( which d isn’t uncommon for him after beer ) and I’m like have you v he said he hadn’t but he just felt off in the stomach no sweats or chills or anything though. Anyways I then left within like 10mins and I msgd him when I got home he was back on the toilet more d and he said he felt more nauseous then after the d half forced himself to v and then he said oh I feel so much better. He usually drinks a lot so is familiar with a bad hangover but he said oh it’s a different type of nauseous it’s not hangover nausea. It’s also been 68hrs since his brother was first sick.

I’m now of course absolutely shitting bricks thinking oh if he has it I have it cause yesterday I was kissing him I did not kiss him thismorning at all and I know it’s mainly spread through infected v and d particles but I’m just so paranoid. But I also still feel like it’s not a bug cause it’s different to his brothers and what his brother had seemed like textbook fp and his brother bounced back within 48hours stomach still feels sensitive but he was ok. Idk I’m just having an absolute panic attack I have caught a sb in 17years haven’t v in 17years so I’m just freaking out.

My emetophobia has been a lot better recently, but im still getting constant nightmares about other people throwing up. weirdly I don’t really get them about me being sick, just others.

I wonder if other people who get nightmares get them about themselves being sick or other people? I just wonder how it presents in nightmares for others.

Mine are usually about young children throwing up in crowded areas, hospitals, airplanes, trains or boats, children throwing up in my childhood schools hallways (always elementary and middle), and my brother throwing up in my dad’s house or in his car.

The very few times I have had nightmares about me throwing up it sort of just comes out like drool, or i can pull it out with my hands, which is very strange I think my body has just forgotten what it’s like to throw up.

I’m very curious what other people’s emetophobia nightmares are like, the similarities or differences, sort of how our phobias presents itself in our subconscious.

Sorry if this is written poorly I have just woken up lol

got back from a funeral where noro was going around and my dad caught it. i did my best to wash my hands and quarantine myself but i ate from fast food bags after my younger brother, who came down sick last night. after finding this out, i had an anxiety attack so bad i passed out. i've been shitting constantly since, with stools growing looser and looser. pretty sure my fate is sealed, but so far no n*. can i get away with having noro without tu* or am i just in the starting phase?

Im a recently graduated nurse and I started a new job about a month ago now. Im working on an inpatient rehab unit which was not my first choice. My dream has always been to be a NICU nurse and it still is. I took the rehab job thinking I probably wouldn’t have to deal with much vomiting and of course my past 2 shifts Ive had patients getting sick and had to help clean it. Obviously I knew coming into nursing and being in school id experience it, but it actually happening has given me extreme anxiety. It makes it a lot worse too when my preceptor responds with “you’re a nurse you need to deal with it”. Nobody understands it and I know I need to “deal” with it, but I dont know how im scared its gonna put my job at risk. Im wondering if anyone in here is a nurse and how they manage it while working. Im not sure i can make it the full year (im in a year long new graduate program) and I dont know what to do.

For example, when I was younger my fear was so bad, I feared v* in ALL aspects. I didn’t even drink alcohol because I was scared of v* and I resent my younger self for it in a way. Nowadays, I’m actually scaling back on alcohol due to drinking daily for the past two years. I also developed head splitting migraines some years back. I’ve come to peace with needing to do it most of the time. My issue now is I 100% still fear doing it in public. I held it in so many times JUST to get to the nearest bathroom stall. In spite of this, my biggest fear is catching a virus or bacteria and having to v* suddenly, and unexpectedly. I think about this weekly. it literally consumes my thoughts.

Today, I’ve been in a constant state of fear because my mom whom I live with got sick with what I’m assuming was classic norovirus on Friday night. She was in the bathroom all night. She’s not very health conscious either so I’m assuming it’s everywhere in the house now especially since we hosted an Easter lunch (which I’ve tried to talk her out of) yesterday while still not feeling too well. As well as the fact that she went in my room to look for a towel and some pills…. I ate only one bite of food yesterday because I’m just so scared. It doesn’t help that my job is very far like an hour away and I’m dreading going to work because I’m just so scared I’ll get sick there. I don’t want to eat it’s just all I’m thinking about now and any off feeling that I get makes me paranoid that I caught it

Me and my family are going on vacation in 2 weeks. I am mostly very excited about that, but it does mean I have to be on a plane for 10 hours. And that makes me very nervous. Does anyone have any advice?

I’m literally about to be ill help for the past few days I’ve been feeling kind of weird from my stomach and I’m so scared right now like I started feeling ill all of a sudden and it’s getting worse I’m scare I might have N* V* I still have somewhat of an appetite but it’s very low like very low the thought of food makes me want to v* at the same time I just have a very queasy stomach!! I just need support if that’s okay

Don’t understand why or how. I’m still hungry and my stomach only started hurting after I started worrying ab it. It can’t be food poisoning bc I’m not nausea .

I'm scared this is a sign I'm going to bleh.. i keep feeling wobbly and werid.. I was trying to get up to go to the bathroom and I felt really wobbly and when I stood up and started walking I kept wobbly and almost wobbled into a wall.. and my mind is having a werid feeling..

But I also took a kolonopoin or how ever it's spelt and when I'm looking around everything feels werid..

and now when I'm looking at stuff it's like zooming in..

Hi everyone,

I have dealt with this phobia since maybe 6 or 7 years old, I am now 22. My thing is that I do not fear if I get sick even though I have not gotten sick for more than decade now, if it was to happen then I know I would give in because I remember I would always feel much better afterwards. I think of it as a poison that needs to get out and it is the better alternative than suffering in pain. It also does not bother me as much if I see it on a movie or show or read the words v* or tu*, it is just gross but I never have to look away. However, my true fear is others getting sick! I truly hate it with all of my being.

During my teen years, I thought I was getting over my fear but boy was I wrong. Is it weird to say I feel like I’m being haunted and hunted by it? I won’t share what made me realize I did not overcome my fear unless someone asks but just know, it keeps me up some nights.

I am going through a major crisis now because, I started nursing school. Yes, I started nursing school as a huge emetephobe… is it wrong to want more for myself and pursue a great career? In my fear mongering mind, yes. I have contemplated my career choice many, many, many times but God really put nursing in my heart and I fear it’s not leaving. I hate my phobia but I hate being broke even more. I am truly afraid for what’s to come. I can deal with pretty much any other bodily fluids but I fall weak to tu*. I want to be desensitized and completely unfazed to it but how can I if I have never in my life seen it that way? I know nothing but fear. I feel like a slave to it and I see no end. Does it ever subside with time? I want to be successful and professional as a nurse. I need tips and guidance please. Should I seek professional help?

*don’t know if this is important to mention but I want to be a NICU nurse. Peds has never been an option for obvious reasons. Baby spit up does not bother me and if my sweet baby golden retriever gets sick I do not mind it either. My husband on the other hand… yeah he wasn’t near me for days! No more drinking nights for him. I wish I was afraid of spiders or something.

This was about 26 hours ago. I cooked meat and I picked up the raw meat with my fork and forgot to clean it afterwards. Then I proceeded to eat the cooked meat with the same fork that touched it when it was raw. What makes this worse is that the meat in question was chicken and hamburger meat. I hate my life right now.

So like it says above. I used to drink, but pretty much turned away from the booze. When I have hit a rough patch, drinking tends to come back into view. The problem is, throwing up. I have a very high tolerance for alcohol, so I rarely throw up. I seem to have held onto the needing to drink a whole lot to get properly smashed, but my stomach doest want to hold it down. Anyone else in the same boat?

I have my glucose tolerance test scheduled for May and I’m struggling to cope with the anxiety about getting sick. I ordered the Fresh Test and my provider gave me zofran to take that morning. It’s the 50g 1 hr test. I could do at home blood sugar tests for a week to avoid it but I faint at the sight of blood. Pls send success stories.

Since it's Easter Monday today, I'm going out with a few friends and spending the day in the countryside. Since we'll be going to a pretty popular spot, we have to get there early so it won't be too crowded and we will be able to actually find a sitting spot for ourselves (hopefully), but to do so we have to leave at 8:15 in the morning.

I am by no means a morning person. Definitely not. I have some issues with falling asleep early, and literally slept three hours tonight. I woke up at 6:50, and like EVERY TIME I wake up early, I am feeling throat n. Is this normal? Am I broken or smth? My friend is picking me up in 40 minutes and I'm terrified. I am finishing my breakfast (just some tea and two biscuits) but, as said, I'm scared. It's a 30 min ride.

my coworker who i work closely with came to work nauseous and with some diarrhea. I tried telling her to do home when she told me but she wouldn't listen and wouldnt leave immediately after management told her to leave. she finally puked outside and that made her leave. im stressing the fuck out about it catching whatever she has. ive already distanced myself from her the second she told me and washed my hands multiple times. ive also immediately disinfected out whole space and anything she could've possibly touched with bleach water and disinfecting spray.

i was felling fine until she told me she was nauseous and now I just feel like shit physically. I know its just anxiety but its worse cause I just wanna just run away from work but with her gone I cant. im frustrated and if she just would've stayed home or at least left immediately it would be fine. none of us, especially me, would've been exposed. she a good person but this was so selfish of her. how do I go about dealing with this?

Does anyone also feel really anxious because of everything they ate during Easter? Cause I sure am anxious and I feel like im counting down again until I'm "safe". I really hate this phobia.