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Nausea and eating

Salt, crackers, and small amounts often

Started 15 October 2025 · 13 replies · 118 hearts · read 1.2k times

VivLuton, UK · 15 October 2025
9 months ago

Salt, crackers, and small amounts often Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

I have read the guide on this and it covered the ordinary version. Mine is not quite the ordinary version and that is why I am asking.

It is not severe. It is relentless, which turns out to be a different problem, and one I have found much harder to describe to anybody.

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

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TemSouthend, UK
#1

Please do not push through a whole day of nothing on principle. I did that twice and both times it made the following day considerably worse.

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#2

The texture thing surprised me. Anything with more than one texture in it was difficult and simple, uniform food was fine.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

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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RenataKraków, PL
#4

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

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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RayBarnsley, UK
#5

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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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#6

What Ray described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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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IlseMaastricht, NL
#7

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

I lived on the same four things for about six weeks and felt guilty about it, and my dietitian said, in effect, good, keep going, we will widen it later.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#8

Fizzy water helped me and flat water did not, which makes no sense and was consistently true for about two months.

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GwynethAberdare, UK
#9

Picking up Ilse’s point rather than starting a new one.

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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NoleneDurban, ZA
#10

Mine was worst in the evening, which meant dinner became the hard meal. Moving the substantial part of my day earlier fixed most of it.

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BramleyBath, UK
#11

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#12

Adding a note that the practical guides cover the ordinary version of this well, and what this thread is doing that they cannot is telling somebody they are not alone in it.

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MimiHong Kong
#13

Tomás — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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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