Everyday-Random Dry-Heaving with no other symptoms!? What's going on?

I have the dry throat heaves in the morning only in wintertime...I found that if I pull up my shirt so I breathe warm body air, it holds it down..otherwise I dry heave for 5 minutes...then when I'm in a warm vehicle and the air isn't hitting me in the face, then I'm ok...this happens when temp. get below 42 degrees in the morning...I have been checked all over, can't find anything...so I maybe having allergies along with snoring at night, which may make my throat sensitive to cold air....I am baffled....heart and blood pressure fine also.....I find hot coffee slows it down also...but not every time....

Have you had any progress with this? I very similar effects, Ill randomly feel like dry heaving and rarely throw anything up but sometimes I do. I have been takeing ginger tea and seems to help some but, I'm like you, i am scared to go anywhere because it can happen whereever i am. I thought it was anxiety but i dont think thats the case....

One thing that caused dry heaves, and no-warning vomiting was after having tests using nuclear medicine. I would suddenly feel nauseus, and in less than minute I was throwing up. Dry heaves if I had empty stomach. What worried me was lack of time. Was outside store once (In mall) and fortunately next to garbage pail! Was not by pail because I felt like vomiting- just happened to be there! ALso currenlty on pain meds - got dry heaves once by taking one early in morning - but no food on stomach! No real warning- happened hour or so after taking the med (wanted it to work by the time I got up!) Fortunately dry heaves were pretty painless, not the gut-wrenching ones!

I used to dry heave randomly every single day with no other symptoms. It got so bad I had to work from home and going into public was unbearable.

I didn't think I would ever find a cure and had an EGD done and scope at the ENT. They found nothing, no GERD or anything. One other thing this all happened after over four weeks of a stomach flu like illness.

The ENT suggested my vocal chords and neck muscles might be tensed. So I started doing neck exercises that stretch out the muscles connected to your gag reflex. Also I was put on a tiny dose amitripyline for sleep and to see if anxiety was effecting my GI system. Also I say an osteopath who helped make me less tense. I haven't dry heaved in over a month.

I found the stretches on youtube searching globus hystericus. I don't know if this is what I had but the stretches helped. When I felt like I was going to dry heave I would do the stretches.

I haven't gagged in almost a month and used to do this randomly all day long.

I hope this helps.

My son has similar symptoms. How are your symptoms now and what worked for you ?

I've been getting this on and off for about 12 months, more on than off.

At first I thought it was a coffee allergy, as I had just started drinking coffee, but it wasn't.

My doctor says it's either related to the fact that I smoke a fair amount of weed, or stress, and life has been very very stressful over the last 12 months.

(PS. I'm 30 and male, mine has gotten worse since my girlfriend left me a couple months ago, I also have a really messed up neck from computing for 10 years)

Sounds almost as bad as unexplained ALLCAPS!!

I also have suffered from random dry-heaves for the last month or so. My job was very stressful several months ago, but has now mellowed off, so I don't think the two are related...but sometimes I wonder if it's all in my head. 

Holy c**p I thought I was the only person dealing with this. You're so right about mornings when you are off work or otherwise! I've found that on workdays when I don't need to be in any rush I can actually brush my teeth (especially tongue) without the gagging and coughing and such.

It can also root from a heart tumor - get an echocardiogram. I came with in a hairs breadth of dying because doctors love to blame stuff on simple easy things. Get an ECHO!!! I had the exact same symptom and my tumor was the size of an orange, almost completely blocking blood flow through my heart.

Oh yeah and stress aggravates it so my docs kept blaming on stress, anxiety etc.

Symptoms of Heart Valve Disease (or valve interference like a tumor...)
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Discomfort in your chest; you may feel a pressure or weight in your chest with activity OR WHEN GOING OUT IN COLD AIR.... (these cardiac episode symptoms are SOMETIMES FOR MEN, BUT OFTEN FOR WOMEN accompanied by dry heaving, nausea) you need an echo, chest CT or cardiac MRI... dry heaving in cold air is a heart attack symptom (especially in apparently young and healthy men and all women you can have it and the symptoms can come and go just like with stress and anxiety because your blood pressure and pulse rate have a huge impact on the pre-critical symptoms) If you are dry heaving in cold air - CALL 911 make them clear you with an ECHO - demand serious treatment do not let the hospital blow you off and trust me they will try... BUT BE WARNED ALL STANDARD HEART TESTS ARE DONE FOR TYPICAL ADVANCED AGE MALE PATTERN CVD -- THIS IS NOT YOU! -- AND THESE STANDARD TESTS WILL USUALLY BE CLEAR, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WOMAN, THIS IS NORMAL, YOU HAVE TO BE VERY AGGRESSIVE TO FORCE TREATMENT - THREATEN TO SUE - OPENLY TAKE EVERYONES NAMES IF THEY ATTEMPT TO DISCHARGE YOU, DEMAND TO SPEAK TO AN ADMINISTRATOR - IF YOU ARE RELEASED WITHOUT AN ECHO, IF YOU LEAVE WITHOUT AN ECHO, YOU WILL END UP THAT GUY OR GIRL FROM THE STORY - THEY SEEMED SO YOUNG & HEALTHY AND THEN BOOM THEY WERE DEAD... I barely survived medical stupidity don't let it happen to you!

My tumor and symptoms were growing for 20 YEARS!!!! It was hormonally active - and caused all kinds of weird symptoms including chronic sinusitis... eventually I started crapping myself to death and was exhausted all the time and weak from muscle wasting... if I lay on my left side I would have chest discomfort and have to move (because I had a tumor on my left side and it was intermittently plugging my valves. Doctors are taught we are horses and they shouldn't look for zebras, but the truth is we are all zebras and their educations are always at least 10 years out of date. If you have to borrow money and go to a private clinic for an ECHO - do it - even if you think it's crazy. I lost my entire life to this thing and now my immune system is so badly compromised my sternum won't heal from Open Heart. And it all started with the dry heaving and vomiting, sometimes at work, sometimes in the cold... this is not a simple symptom.

This is likely caused by anxiety if a lot of tests have been ran and nothing has been found. It's very common in those who fear vomiting. It's always important to rule out medical issues but if not it's likely emotional. I get this too when I'm stressed or exercising. Just tell yourself just gag already instead of fearing it happening and it will decrease over time!