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Nausea and eating

Smells are the trigger, not food

Started 27 October 2024 · 18 replies · 201 hearts · read 1.7k times

NoleneDurban, ZA · 27 October 2024
1.7 years ago

Smells are the trigger, not food Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#1

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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GwynethAberdare, UK
#3

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#4

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#5

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#6

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#7

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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BramleyBath, UK
#8

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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RenataKraków, PL
#9

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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WilfStoke, UK
#10

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#11

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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TemSouthend, UK
#12

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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MimiHong Kong
#13

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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VivLuton, UK
#14

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#15

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#16

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#17

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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CasperOdense, DK
#18

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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