Emetophobia- Can somebody hold my hand? Anxiety

[Marne]

I hope someone is up.

I feel like i am totally loosing it . Dd1 was sick in the night, Dh was great and offered to clean her up. Dh cleaned most if it up and i helped clean dd1 up. Im waiting for her to wake up so i can bath her and wash her hair but i'm sat here shaking and crying at the thought of it. I'm so worried that the rest of us will catch it . I have taken anti-sickness tablets but my breathing is all over the place and i still feel sick.

I feel like such a crap mother, my little girl is upstairs (asleep), pale and floppy and i just want to run away .

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I have managed to bath her, dh is still in bed and i feel rough.

Thank you, hopefully its just something she has eaten, she was a bit off colour yesterday (didn't eat much and tired).

The thought of dh and i getting it makes me very anxious. When Dh gets up i will pop to the shops and get her some ice lollies and clear my head.

Thank you Herbie , i'm feeling a little bit better, Dh is in bed moaning that he feels sick so i gave him one of my ant-sickness tablets (now i'm worried i will run out).

She ate some sweets yesterday (she doesn't normally eat chewey sweets), she never eats the same as us because she's a fussy eater.

We have been washing our hands and using ani-bac hand gel .

Dd2 seems fine and happy but had a funny tummy a couple days ago (just D, no V) but i didn't take much notice as she gets this a lot. So far dd1 has only had V.

Hi Marne

Hows dh now? how old is dd1?

Has dd1 been sick once?

My dh can feel rough if he has been up in the night and had disturbed sleep, maybe he is just tired?

how are you feeling now????

Dh is feeling a little bit better, fingers crossed its just the lack of sleep.

Dd is 5.

She was sick again this morning and then it started from the other end , Dd1 was led in a heap on the bathroom floor, i phoned the GP and they advised me to bring her in to be checked out. They think its just a bug and she is over the worst of it. She still looks floppy and pale but has just drunk some Ribina and is asking for food (we have been told not to feed her until tomorrow).

Feeling proud of myself because i held her bowl this morning whilst she was sick without loosing it too much.

The GP has given her some medicine to stop her feeling sick but she won't take it.

Well done for dealing with Marne. You may not think you are dealing with it but you sound like you are doing just fine. I wouldn't be able to hold a bowl for a v'ing child.

If it is any consolation, she sounds like she is over the worst of it. I have been told by doctors that as the virus/infection moves out of the body it will pass out of the stomach where it causes the v'ing and then into the bowels where it causes the diarhhea(sp). Hopefully that is true for you.

She'll be fine and so will your husband.

Just keep washing your hands.

Well done you are doing really well, fingers crossed she is over the worst of it.

Keep us updated x

Dd is feeling better and has eaten a bit of toast. I'm feeling anxious, so worried that i will get ill, i feel like curling up in a ball , i have taken the maximum amount of anti-sickness tablets and i still feel ill, i havn't eaten all day as i am worried i will be sick . I just want this all to end .

Assume you've seen this website?

And these?

Thank you LoveBuckets- i have never seen books on this subject before. Have you read the book?

Nope, I just thought the CD might be good. I bought an anti morning sickness one when I was pg and it worked a bit (just didn't have time to play it enough.)

Hows things now? are you still feeling rough? x

Feeling ok (still a bit rough but i think thats because i'm not eating).

So far no one else has been sick, dd1 is eating and almost back to herself (will be going back to school tomorrow).

Fingers crossed the rest of us won't get it.

Most phobias are treatable (usually with talk therapy and the dreaded aversion therapy), it's just as soon as the crisis is over we tend to want to never think about it again, rather than go off an look for help. Then the next crisis happens...

I am getting councelling but through exposure therapy which isn't going well. I might ask if i can have another kind of therapy (if thats possible).

hope everybody is ok,

i've got to face my fear now as FIL in hospital and my husband wants us to see him, the hospital has already got restricted visiting due to bugs. I've said to him i don't want to take our DD, but it does say no children allowed to visit at mo so may have escaped that one, and of course someone will need to look after her so that will be me, so may only be husband going.

i also have fear of hospitals at the best of times let alone when there are bugs about, i have appointment at hospital next week but keep thinking of putting it off, i have cancelled 3 times already.

are you at risk it just visiting and keep using hand gel and don't put hands in mouth, or should he be ok.

also my BF is in hospital having pregnancy probs, she may have baby early, which will mean SCBU for the baby, i want to visit and support her but don't think i can face it, sometimes i think i am selfish to think like this.

do you think we will be at risk of visiting FIL and SCBU.