What I eat when I can eat nothing else

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reading this at half past six with a cup of tea and nodding at every line.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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