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Nausea and eating

Fizzy water helped and I cannot explain why

Started 3 March 2025 · 15 replies · 150 hearts · read 3.3k times

CasperOdense, DK · 3 March 2025
1.4 years ago

A question rather than an update: Fizzy water helped and I cannot explain why

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

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.

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

I will come back and say what my appointment produced, because I hate reading threads that stop before the answer.

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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#1

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

Holding a boundary: we do not swap remedies in this circle as though they were prescriptions. Describing what happened to you is welcome; telling somebody what to take is not.

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MimiHong Kong
#3

Replying to Casper rather than to anybody above, because I want to answer what was actually asked.

What helped enormously was somebody else doing the deciding. When my partner just put something in front of me I could usually eat it; when I had to choose, I could not.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#4

Mine lasted about five weeks and then more or less stopped. I still get a mild version for a day after a step up and I now expect it.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#5

Gently disagreeing with Tomás, 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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PerlaManila, PH
#6

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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TemSouthend, UK
#7

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
#8

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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NoleneDurban, ZA
#9

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

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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VivLuton, UK
#10

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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Bell ANorwich, UK
#11

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

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
#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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GabePhoenix, AZ
#13

Reading this properly rather than skimming, which is all I have to offer today.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#14

I want to acknowledge how hard it is to post about this at all. Several of the subjects this circle covers are ones people carry alone for months before asking.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#15

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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