Cooking for a family while nauseated

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.

What I did not expect was how much better I felt after eating, when eating was the last thing I wanted to do. That gap between wanting and helping was the hard bit.

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.

Holding this with you rather than answering it.

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

The advice that helped least was to eat whatever appeals. Nothing appealed. What I needed was a list of things I could get down when nothing appealed.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Well said, and thank you for taking the time over it.

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.

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

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