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Vomit phobia

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Lauren2105 · 09/05/2006 14:40

I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this thread but maybe someone will have some idea!

Basically, since I was 15 I have had a phobia of sick. Sounds really stupid as noone likes sick of course but I am soooo scared of it!

I have had homeopathy medicine and hypnotherapy treatment to try and overcome this horrid phobia but they didn't work.

My husband and I are starting ttc in the very near future and I went to my doctor for a checkup etc and inform him of ttc. I also mentioned my phobia and said that I am worried regarding morning sickness and when kids are ill. He said that he will send me for some counselling when I actually fall pregnant.

I am fine with baby sick as looks just like milk but am worried re morning sickness during pregnancy and when kids are older. I couldn't bear to think of me leaving my kids throwing up - what an awful mum I would be!!

Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do now and if anyone has a similar phobia I would be so grateful for some advice.

Similarly if anyone knows if there is a better place to post this thread please tell me!

Thanks for listening and hopefully understanding.

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Lauren2105 · 09/05/2006 14:59

Thanks for getting back to me and the advice.

One of my main issues, is seeing sick in the street and worrying whether I am going to see someone throw up - I work in London and normally a Friday is the worst day from the drunken nights on Thursday! I don't want to make my childen suffer if they see me being a nervous wreck etc.

This phobia has literally taken over my life - for instance when I travel on the train I have to be in the middle part so that I can depart at either set of doors if someone is ill, I have to sit by a window and next to my dh on an aeroplane to avoid a stranger sitting next to me that may get airsick, I am always looking out for sick on the floor so that I don't go near it, I don't drink alcohol so that I'm not sick, my dh stays away from home when he has alcohol so not to worry me, I study everything I eat to make sure it is cooked so that it wont' make me sick - sorry for rambling but I really don't know what to do to take this phobia away from me.

Thanks for reading. Smile

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Marne · 09/05/2006 14:47

Hi lauren, i also have a phobia of being sick, i did'nt have sickness with dd1 but felt sick with dd2, i went to the doctor and he gave me somthing for the sickness which helped straight away so was never sick.

DumbledoresGirl · 09/05/2006 14:42

Oh dear Lauren, welcome to the emetophobia club! I am a life long emetophobe and I have lost count of how many feelow sufferers there are here on Mumsnet.

I have had 4 pregnancies (and children!) and luckily didn't suffer monring sickness, but I suffer from fear of my children being ill every day - literally.

I don't know what advice I can offer you but you have all the support in the world from me and our fellow sufferers. Smile