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Nausea and eating

I was down to two small meals and my nurse was concerned

Started 14 November 2025 · 14 replies · 126 hearts · read 1.2k times

BrynAberystwyth, UK · 14 November 2025
8 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: I was down to two small meals and my nurse was concerned

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

Something is going on and I would like to know whether other people have had it, mostly so I know whether to raise it or wait it out.

My pharmacist has been helpful and my question has now outgrown what she can answer at a counter, so I am asking here while I wait for an appointment.

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.

Yes, two. I know how that reads written down, and it is the number, so it is going in the title where people can see it.

Not after remedies particularly. Mostly I want to know whether this is ordinary and how long it went on for.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#1

Mine came in waves of about twenty minutes and if I could sit still through the wave it passed. Trying to do anything during it always made it worse.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

Speaking as a facilitator: a symptom that is frightening you is a reason to ask, regardless of whether it turns out to be anything. Nobody qualified will think you have wasted their time.

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GwynethAberdare, UK
#3

Toast. Endless toast. Six weeks of toast and I was fine, and my bloods at the end of it were unremarkable.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#4

Gwyneth, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

I raised it at my review having tracked it for three weeks and we changed one thing. It was a much shorter conversation than I had rehearsed.

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WilfStoke, UK
#5

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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CasperOdense, DK
#6

Coming back to what Gwyneth wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

Protein was completely impossible for me during the worst of it and I stopped trying. It came back and it came back quickly once the nausea lifted.

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IlseMaastricht, NL
#7

I found sipping rather than drinking was the difference. A full glass at once was guaranteed to be a mistake for about a month.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#8

Recognition rather than advice, if that is any use at all.

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#9

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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MimiHong Kong
#10

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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TemSouthend, UK
#11

I found that eating something small before I felt hungry was the whole trick. Waiting until I wanted food meant it never arrived.

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#12

Room temperature turned out to matter more than anything else on the plate. Straight from the fridge and straight from the oven were both impossible for a month.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#13

Adding this thread to the circle's standing resources, because it is the clearest account of this we have and the question comes back every few months.

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BramleyBath, UK
#14

Agreed, and I have nothing to add to it.

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