This might be a little long (I'm a rambler) but please bear with me if you have a spare few mins as I'd really love to hear others' opinions on this. TL;DR: I ate slightly more for lunch today than usual and I have been feeling uncomfortable because of it for six hours.
I'm 25 weeks, FTM. I've lost a lot of weight so far due to nausea and strong food aversions. I also have anxiety and a vomiting phobia and coeliac disease as well so with all this I've really been struggling to eat enough. I've tried a couple of different pills for the nausea but I think it's mostly just a combo of like indigestion that I interpret as nausea along with the anxiety - so the meds don't really do much.
The last week or so my appetite has started to come back a little bit. Which is great. But today for lunch I was hungry enough that I decided I'd have two sandwiches, not just one. Gluten-free bread slices are tiny, so I had these two small sandwiches along with a handful of crisps. Almost instantly after I felt a bit sick/heartburn-y/indigestion-y (I find it difficult to differentiate) so I had a Gaviscon tablet and that helped with the heartburn and nausea but the uncomfortably full feeling stayed.
I sat up poker straight for about 20 mins to try and ease it and then I was able to sit more normally, but by this point I was getting Braxton Hicks because my general abdomen area felt so full and unhappy. It was another two hours or so before I even felt like I could get up and walk around without worrying about being sick, but my comfort level has yet to return to the level where I could eat something else and it's been 6 hours now. I couldn't eat anything for dinner and now I'm going to bed (it was a late lunch).
So I guess my question is: what on earth could be causing me to feel SO uncomfortable for so long after eating just a little too much?? Could it maybe be IBS, even though I also have a diagnosis of coeliac? I was already wondering about this due to a couple of other instances of discomfort this week. How am I supposed to gain back any of the weight I've lost when eating can cause this kind of reaction in me??