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Nausea and eating

Getting fluids in when even water is unappealing

Started 3 January 2026 · 16 replies · 111 hearts · read 1.6k times

Bell ANorwich, UK · 3 January 2026
7 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Getting fluids in when even water is unappealing Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

This started at the same time as two other things, which is why I cannot attribute it to anything with any confidence.

I have had a fortnight of this and then three good days and then another fortnight, and the pattern is the bit I would most like to understand.

Sorry to be graphic. If anybody has had this, I would rather hear it plainly than politely.

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#1

Plain crackers in the bedside drawer sounds ridiculous and it is the single most useful thing anybody in this circle ever told me.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described in this thread is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#3

The thing I would flag is that not being able to keep fluids down is a different category from not fancying food. If you are in the first one, please ring somebody today.

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IlseMaastricht, NL
#4

Smell was the trigger for me more than taste. I could eat things I could not be in the room while they cooked, which took me weeks to work out.

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RenataKraków, PL
#5

Bryn said something I want to sit with for a second.

What got me through was very small amounts, very often, and not caring at all what they were. Nutrition can wait a fortnight; not eating anything cannot.

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VivLuton, UK
#6

Ginger did nothing for me and mint did a surprising amount, and I have watched other people here report exactly the opposite. It seems genuinely individual.

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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#7

The pattern for mine was days two and three, every time, reliably. Once I knew that, I planned around it and it stopped being an ambush.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#8

Building on what Viv wrote rather than answering the original question.

I had to stop treating a day of not managing much as a failure. My body was doing something and I was busy grading it.

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CasperOdense, DK
#9

Sitting with you on this one.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#10

Mine improved noticeably when I stopped drinking with meals and had my fluids in between. Somebody here suggested it and I was sceptical and it worked.

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TemSouthend, UK
#11

I want to say gently that if the difficulty eating has started to feel like relief rather than a symptom, that is worth mentioning to somebody. It crept up on me and a member here noticed before I did.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#12

The thing that changed it for me was a slower schedule agreed with my prescriber. Within a fortnight the eating side was manageable again.

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GwynethAberdare, UK
#13

Something practical: I kept a bag of what I could actually manage in my work locker, so a bad afternoon did not turn into a bad evening.

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BramleyBath, UK
#14

Read, understood, and glad you are here.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#15

Noting for anybody reading later: where the person who asked has come back with what happened, that post is usually worth more than everything offered before it, and it is never the one at the top.

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MimiHong Kong
#16

Bramley said something I want to sit with for a second.

Mine was much better on the days I ate breakfast within an hour of waking, and much worse on the days I skipped it. That was the clearest pattern in my notes.

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