emetophobia - crying with fear, please help

[footprint]

dd is so ill today and can't even keep water down. Started sunday night but she was better yesterday, eating and everything but today is terrible. Have spent half the morning cleaning up....she is finally sleeping now

Freaking out terribly, I have bad emetophobia and I am SO SCARED - how can I not catch it after being vomited on and cuddling. I so don't want to pass this fear onto her, it is like a curse. I am cuddling her and telling her it's ok but I can't eat, I have hardly eaten for 3 days, I am terrified.

Please, anyone who's around I need someone to calm me down.

hi foot print
my heart goes out to you, I know exacty how you are feeling, I shake and am unable to eat if my kiddies are sick
I have actually been on the phone to NHScrying and begging for help WHILST my 4 yr old was throwing up on the hall floor

I was hysterical and couldn't go near her
I had to phone a friend to come round and she dealt with my dd and I tried desperatley not to have a panic attack and didn't eat a thing for a week, even though dd was fine the nest day

Hang in there hn, can you get a friend to come over??
do your friends understand your phobia?
mine didn't but itgot soooo bad that I had to tell everyone jst sooo i could start to get help

hope your dd is getting better and I hope your ok

xxx

thanks, that's a great tip. Better than running away, which is my natural reaction..!! Could keep a bucket in front of you as well I guess for easy disposal. Bleurgh.

I suppose just scooping up a towel without looking is easier, just shove it in the wash. I'm with you.

Footprint, how's everything now?

Hi everyone, things seem to be finally ok around here. After a horrible relapse on Thursday evening the doctor gave us some rehydration meds for dd, and they seemed to work miracles. Suddenly on Friday afternoon, she felt better. It was like the sun came out again! she wanted to eat everything in the house, we had to restrain her!

I seem to have escaped too, FINGERS CROSSED. Not sure when I will finally be able to relax, maybe tomorrow.

Have scrubbed whole house clean, and feel able to eat again. Feel like the past week has passed in a haze (or a nightmare).

CaliforniaFrau, I so understand what you mean with the word "bucket" - just the thought of it!! Must be a hangover from childhood!

Thanks so much for all the support here, it was amazing.

That's great Footprint - glad DD is so much better, and eating is a sure sign of recovery.. I'm sure you'd have gone down with it by now if you were going to get it.. Well done for coping so well!!

aw belgianbun, I am a dreadful emetophobe too. I don't know how to comfort you, but I am here to talk to for a bit if you want.

belgianbun - remind yourself that if he came in and was poorly with such a sudden onset, it is MUCH more likely to be something he ate (and you haven't) than something catching.

Immerse yourself in MN and talk talk talk, can you?

BB, I THINK stomach bugs are caught through contact with ...unwashed hands after going to the toilt, not kissing.

Also, i have had sudden onset symptoms like your DH when i have had mild sunstroke / heatstroke - esp if he has not had much all day and then had a beer.

BB I have responded more fully on your other thread, but I agree that a sudden onset is indicative of heatstroke or food poisoning, not a bug.

I honestly truly think that the sudden onset and the fact that the D & V came on practically simultaneously are not a catching bug.

If you need to call the samaritans, I think that is a good idea, and not something you should feel you shouldn't do, somehow iyswim. Well done for thinking of it, if you felt so desparate.

I can't be of any specific help at all as I don't know anythng about this phobia but it is obviously very distressing to experience, and i can see that it is a terible thing to sufferr if you have family. I do feel for you.

And you have also imposed impecable hygeine - that does work, you know - otherwise we would never have any NHS nurses on duty, would we? And I'm sure you have done a good job, hygeine-wise.

bb - you're not googling, are you? c'mon, stay here and talk with MN-ers.

I really have to go to bed...but bumping to make sure you have people to talk to.

x-posted - but i'm pleased your googling was re-assuring!

Look after yourself...keep posting...get onto some daft threads, can you?

And when he's feeling a bit better, talk to your damn dp about healthy lunches!

BB that is excellent news - and only what I suspected anyway!

There really isn't anything you can do now, one way or another, so you have to hold on to whatever you can. Right now, hold on to what you read when you googled your dh's symptoms. Keep positive, keep saying "I will be all right". It won't necessarily make you all right, but it will help to keep you calm. My mother used to say to me, "Try not to think about it. Think nice thoughts" It is virtually impossible to do, but it is all you can realistically do!

Incidentally, I used to be a primary school teacher too. What idiots we were to choose that profession, eh? Do you run from the classroom when a child is ill? I used to