Thread: i can't eat

I know this feeling all to well.

When I was young I got the stomach flu. I refused to eat for a year after that - I thought I would always get sick. I was medicated for it, and still struggled with it. I do still struggle with it to a degree. If I feel at all nauseous during the day, I have trouble with food even if I feel better later that day.

It likely is in your head, for lack of a better term. There are a few things you can do. Force yourself through it, basically to prove to yourself you won't get sick. The more you do that, the more your brain learns to deal with the anxiety in a way that is manageable.

You could take something before you go out to eat. Take a dose of peptobismol and you may find you've got yourself convinced you won't get sick because you took medicine (this is what worked for me when I was younger - though not pepto, sugar pills)

What works for me now is if I've felt/feel nauseous and have to go out or be around people - I take a small portion or order an appetizer if we're out, take a few bites and the occupy myself. If I can keep myself occupied for 20 or so minutes and try to keep my mind off of it, it eventually slips my mind - and then I realize, hey I just ate, and it stayed down and I can continue to eat just fine after that.

If you find it eventually starts to encompass the rest of your life - like you stop wanting to go out period, whether food is involved or not, incase you get sick. Or you stop wanting to eat even at home and when you've cooked for yourself - you might want to seek counselling and/or anxiety medication.

Can you pinpoint what your fear may be? Is it actually getting sick it's self - or getting sick in public that causes the anxiety?

how far are you traveling? maybe you have motion sickness

There's also the possibility that you simply enjoy the food more when someone else cooks it, eat too much and feel nauseous cuz of that. Could it be the case?

I too have this same problem, even I won't travel frequently, Whenever my sleeping time get change I am getting gas trouble. Is sleeping time give take part in gas trouble? I am having foods in correct time. Advance thanks for your tips to get relief from gas trouble.