Anxiety and nausea?

[MyCatIsAFiend]

Does anyone else get anxiety-related nausea? It's taken me a long time to make the connection - I get these bouts of nausea that go on for weeks, sometimes months, which I am convinced are anxiety-related (on the grounds that I never had them during the 18 months I was on Sertraline). Is this a common thing?

Yes alongside losing my appetite. It came in waves and was awful. You have my sympathy. Mindfulness -headspace app helped me.

I'm sorry you have this too, though it's kind of reassuring I'm not the only one. I have tried mindfulness but probably not consistently enough.

Please do try it.
I honestly found it life changing.
I used the Headspace App.
As for the nausea/appetite loss I was advised to eat even when I did not feel like it as hunger can make it worse. Very hard to do though!

I can feel for you when I’m anxious I wake up feeling nauseous with stomach in knots and force myself to eat something for breakfast (yogurt) and lunch (beans) but not much and then thankfully by evening I generally feel better to eat but it’s easy to lose weight which doesn’t necessarily need loosing and also if you don’t eat properly you’re not getting the vitamins you need to stay healthy particularly B vits. Try to eat if you can

Ha ha, I wish not eating was the problem! Ironically, I could stand to lose a couple of stone but my usually reaction is to limit what I eat to what I can face eating, which is normally white carbs, fruit and sugar. My current reaction is to eat my way through it as I know from experience that not eating makes it worse. Just so irritating to go from feeling sick to really hungry, then back to sick within about ten minutes.

Thank you for posting, it's selfishly very reassuring to know I'm not the only person with this.

Anxiety is one of the most common mental health issues, affecting between 10 and 20% of the population, depending on who you ask.

Nausea (and other gastric symptoms) is a classic anxiety symptom - the result of the fight - or - flight response diverting the body's resources away from the digestive system.

You are 100% right that not eating makes it worse.

Could be worth a visit to your GP - talking therapies, medication or both can all help with it.

Yes apparently it’s cortisol and adrenaline being produced from the fight or flight that makes you feel that way when I’m really anxious my whole body trembles as though it’s cold it really freaked me out at first
My anxiety has definitely got worse with age and I’m now trying hrt as convinced it hormone related - I’m feeling slightly better