about since november i have been feeling very sick at night and the only thing that seems to make it feel better is if i burp alot, it is really upsetting me and i want it sorted. I have been to the doctors twice and their prescriptions have twice failed. At the moment i am stuck taking gaviscon tablets everynight - which are rather expensive after a while. I wonder if anyone has any suggestions to what it could be...my doctor said that some sort of flap thing wasnt keeping the acid in my stomach when i lay down, but i think they were wrong since it now happens when i am sitting up. please help me any ideas. i am currently doing exams and my family think its due to stress, i however feel different. any ideas at all...thanks
The member who responded first said that nausea associated with excessive burping could be a sign of stomach cancer, which is a false statement. One cannot be diagnosed with such serious condition based on one symptom, which is most likely an indicator of a more benign condition. The same person tried to correct the previous statement by saying that the more likely cause was a bad diet and sensitivity to lactose. He/she suggested the discussion starter to try going off milk and dairy for a week and see if this helps.
In his response, discussion starter said that he doesn't drink milk or like dairy products. He was worried at the possibility that it could be stomach cancer as the first responder suggested since he's only 16 years old. The discussion starter then mentioned an important thing that could be connected to the nausea feeling:
It all started a few weeks after I drank an obscene amount of vodka and went paralytic.
Clearly, drinking huge amounts of alcohol triggered this, but there was still a mystery why the symptoms last that long?
Another member joined the discussion suggesting the member who started it to get an ultrasound of the stomach, stating that it could be something to do with his gallbladder, such as gallstones.
Others joined providing their opinion on what could be wrong with the discussion starter. One member said that the same thing happened to him, adding that it could be a malfunction of lower esophageal or upper esophageal sphincter, a bundle of muscles that act like doors to the esophagus, preventing the food going in the lungs and acid and stomach contents from climbing back up. It is common in conditions such as acid reflux or GERD. This member suggested looking this problem up on the internet to find some helpful tips on how to deal with it. He also suggested that if the discussion starter wants a diagnosis, he should ask his doctor for a barium swallow test.
Another member mentioned achalasia, a condition opposite of GERD, in which the esophageal sphincter instead of being too open and letting acid up, is too tight and won't let the food down.
I had a Heller myotomy from a gastroenterologist trained in the procedure, and now I am fine.
One participant in the discussion said that her daughter had all the symptoms listed in previous posts, i.e. night time nausea, and after she got diagnosed with celiac disease.
We took her off all wheat products (you would be amazed at what it is in) and she feels 100% better.
Other participant had the same condition diagnosed.
The thing that helped me most was getting gluten out of my diet.
Another condition mentioned in the discussion as a possible cause for nighttime nausea was a hiatial hernia, in which the stomach starts to swell or protrude into the esophagus, to the point where food, liquid cannot actually make it down to where it should be and therefore has no other option but to come back up. It happens more often at night because when you lay down, anything that has no made it down, start to come back up. The member who reported this cause said that doctors told him/her to sleep either sitting up with pillows supporting him/her or elevate the bed with blocks to a 45-degree angle.
But, could nighttime nausea alone be a symptom of stomach cancer as mentioned in the first reply? Not likely.
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I don't want to scare you but the fact that you have nausea associated with excessive burping could be a sign of stomach cancer.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stomach-cancer/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932002/ -
Stomach cancer wise up
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stomach-cancer/diagnosis/
https://www.who.int/cancer/media/en/408.pdf
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cancer/symptoms/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13480
What do experts say?
The person who started discussion reported a problem of being very sick at night that started after the episode of heavy drinking. So, could it be a hangover? It's possible, but typically, a hangover begins within several hours after you stop drinking and will end within 24 hours. The feeling of sickness that the discussion starter reported lasted for weeks. Hangovers can indeed continue for a couple of days in more severe cases or in times when alcohol withdrawal occurs. However, in an average hangover, symptoms do not last for more than 72 hours.
So, could it be some underlying condition causing nausea at night? More likely. There are many conditions that can cause nausea that can exacerbate at night. Digestive problems are considered the most common cause of stomach pain, discomfort, and nausea at night. Some of these were mentioned in the discussion.
Acid reflux
Acid reflux occurs when the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), a ring of muscle that separates your esophagus and your stomach, is unable to close tightly after you’ve ingested food or fluids. This causes stomach acids to travel up into the food pipe, causing a burning sensation. Acid reflux often causes nausea, gas, bloating, sore throat, cough, and vomiting.
A number of factors can increase the risk of acid reflux, with excessive alcohol consumption being one of the most common. Other factors include:
- overeating, especially close to bedtime
- lying down too soon after eating
- eating spicy foods, etc.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
GERD is a common cause of nighttime nausea. The frequent burping and coughing associated with GERD can create nausea. These symptoms often intensify when lying down.
One of the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) that can cause nausea is acid reflux, mentioned above. Another is indigestion, or heartburn, that can contribute to nausea especially when lying down.
Alcohol consumption may increase symptoms of GERD and cause damage to the esophageal mucosa.
Gastritis
Gastritis occurs when the stomach walls become irritated and inflamed, leading to a painful or burning sensation, as well as nausea, gas, and vomiting. Untreated gastritis can lead to ulcers, bleeding, and cancer.
Alcoholic gastritis - In some people, gastritis has been linked to the consumption of alcohol, usually when the consumption is excessive. Although alcohol-related gastritis most often is asymptomatic, it also may present with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and even gastrointestinal bleeding.
Alcohol intolerance
In alcohol intolerance, your digestive system doesn’t process alcohol properly. You might also react to certain alcoholic beverages if you have a histamine or sulfites intolerance. However, alcohol intolerance is usually caused by a genetic metabolic disorder.
Symptoms
The most common and characteristic symptoms of alcohol intolerance include:
- Flushing of the skin on the face, neck, and chest
- Nausea
- Rapid heartbeat (tachycardia) or heart palpitations
- Hypotension (lowered blood pressure)
- Hangover-like symptoms, including severe, throbbing headache and fatigue, that may last longer
Most cases of nighttime nausea are not a reason for immediate concern. However, if symptoms occur more than once a week or become long-term, a doctor should be consulted.
Treatment
The treatment will depend on the underlying cause. Lifestyle changes are generally the first recommended line of treatment. You may be recommended to:
- avoid or limit alcohol consumption (especially binge drinking)
- avoid overeating or eating close to bedtime
- elevate the head of the bed while sleeping
- avoid spicy or fatty foods, as well as coffee, or sugars
Your doctor may also prescribe over-the-counter medications, such as antacids and gas medications. If these steps don't help, additional tests may be ordered.
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What symptoms have been reported?
- I get motion sickness in the car which I never used to and I feel like I'm going to be sick.
- I was nauseaous for 5 years at night thinking it was what I ate or acid reflux, several trips to the ER over the years and diagnosed each time with stomach flu finally went for a physical and told my dr and she began scans and blood tests.
- during 1st year in collegei had some chest pain which though to be acid reflux.
- he has always had stomach issues, but lately has picked up this night time nausea thing.
- Also, sometimes after dinner, it feels like my food NEVER goes down, like 4 hours later I still feel horribly full and I'm miserable, soooooo sick of this happening!
- I also have a lot of stress, and that may be causing some things.
- It's really annoying to live with and every night I'm almost sure I'm going to throw up.
- My mum has took me to go for heaps of blood tests, I went for a ultrasound, this drink test, breath test, and I have tried all these medications that never work, I try gaviscon every night and it still seems it dosent work, all these tests come out clear which is good but I need something to come up so they can cure it, seeing as alot of people have the same symptoms as me since 2008 probably even less, I think it's something thats doctors haven't found and whatever this is, it can't be found, I'm actually rely sick of it I can't talk properly to my friends I can't do sleepovers and my patents don't understand what it is like, I actually really wish that doctors find something, everynight since I was 12 I have cryed myself to sleep cos I think I'm gonna vomit, sorry to comment years later
- I feel sick all the time !
- Hi, I'm only 13 years old, I Have felt since I was 12 that I was going to throw up every night, I hate it so much!
- hi everyone i have been suffering from nausea and vomiting for over 8months, i had endless blood test scans, xrays of stomach, and i also had a camara up the bum and town the throat sorry cant member the names for them, but they found nothing apart from acid reflux but even on meds for that i was still sick all the time even lost 10kgs, i am the same as some of you girls i hated life soo much it is extremly hard to be that sick and have a 3 year old son at 20, the docters had no idea where to look nexts after i had my op and found nothing but reflux, i have been on ondansetron wafers for the over 8months that i was sick and it worked maybe first couple times then didnt work for me much and that is the strongest anti nausea you can get it is what cancer patients have, then i ended up in hospital once again with it i would have bad times where i would get the sickness and with that i would feel like i was going to faint but couldnt and i would get hot and cold flashes and would shake and feel very light headed so the last time i ended up in hospital with it i got admited for a week they gave me cyclizine and i fault having that and the 8mg ondansetron together would help, and then after a while i got to a very low point in life from it i then found out that the hole time a huge part of it was actually suvier anxiety i never new it could make you sooo sick and make you not even be able to get up from bed, so maybe also look into that cause i swor to my self it would never be that but after getting on the right meds i have found that i dont spew any more when i use to spew every other day now i dont spew but i do stil get alot of nausea but not like i did before so i think apart of it was anxiety but it cant be the ful reason cause i am still sick but i havnt end up in hospital with one of my very bad eposodes again so i do think that part was the anxiety but i do stil have nause and have had every test i can so i kind of just live with it now, but just be carefull cause when you take some meds for to long they stop working and that has what iv found with the ondansetron it eases it a lil but dosnt make me 100%, so maybe look into anxiety and depression cause you might not wont to no its that but it could be, but then there are so many diff reason for why you are sick but thats my story, i am trying to find more natural ways of helping with the nausea with out costing to much so am trying to work on what will work best for me, i really hope yours dose not last like it has for me and alot of the other people on here cause it really changes your life and just member if the sickness is getting you down and when you are exspceting it to come on at night and you get upset about it you could get anxiety and thats what could be making you sick from being scard of being sick is causen anxiety and then you are being sick because of that this is what i think mainly happend to me, all the best with finding out whats wrong to all the people with this is is truly horrible to go thorugh wouldnt wish it upon any one hope this give u a lil more to maybe look into to all the people on here, thanks for reading this novel haha :)
- I have the same thing happen to me, it's a pain, but you learn to live with it.
- It's called you lower esophageal or upper esophageal sphincter.
- I have even made myself throw up thinking that it would relieve the nausea, but it only makes it worse.
- The nausea is usually associated with anxiety and feels as if you are going to vomit but you don't actually vomit.
- In fact, I just left school due to the severity of my nausea and by the time I got home, the nausea almost magically disappeared.
- about since november i have been feeling very sick at night and the only thing that seems to make it feel better is if i burp alot, it is really upsetting me and i want it sorted.
- Had a biopsy and the tumor and part of my colon removed and resectioned, not cancer but two years later getting sick again at night.
- then 2nd year it had lead to stomach problem it hurt so much.
- i had diarhea, constipation, but it been better when i got out of school.
- but 2nd year i have thrown up a lot but summer been the worst time ever being nauseous.
- now my throat is burning from the throw up.
- but the nausea is still there.
- If so, I believe your som would be going through detox symptoms.
- I have a bad stomach myself, and I have been on a diet and went through nausea for months!
- If this is the case, tell your son to stick to the diet because the symptoms will eventually go.
- I remember the exact day a similar situation happened to me: June 27th, 2008 I woke up with my stomach hurting and I was pretty nauseous.
- EVERY single NIGHT for a YEAR I get nauseated!
- I hate throwing up more than I can express so I fight it really hard.
- I have tried every diet, switching all my foods, doesnt matter, i can eat the healthiest dinner and I still get sick.
- My whole family is asleep and I'm up pacing the floor rubbing my stomach on the verge of throwing up.
- i cry every time i do end up hurling (although rare) the nausea just kills me.
- i have to force myself to eat at night and i feel full for a long time as well :c i have promethazine too but i'm skeptical to use it because i HATE depending on drugs :c let me know what they say!
- After a few hours sleep, I wake up with the feeling like I'm going to vomit, but have not yet.
- After eating, it feels like food just sits in my throat.
- I am so upset and tired of this feeling.
- it started for me in Jan 10 and I was vomiting 2-3 times a week and now its just nausea at night only.
- i have lost over fifty four pounds with nausea everyday yet only vomitting a few times.
- i am deathly afraid of vomitting as well as nausea.
- i pray for all of u suffering it is a dehabilitating condition which is as mentally taxing as it is physically exhausting in the last six months i tried pot for the first time which helps some.
- Hi all, (and Alex) I'm soooo pleased my 11 year old daughter is not the only one: for over a year now she has been telling me she feels sick at bed time, in the car, going to friends.
- I have no doubt the nausea is real, but how do I break the cycle of fear of being sick and its link to nausea.
- Emetophobia is no joke, after countless tests and nausea treatments that don't work, I beleive there has to be a solution to whatever the root cause of the phobia is.
- especially faced with sleeping at friends;
- insisting she is going to be sick.
- And permanently goes to bed with a sick bowl EVERY night (just incase she is going to be sick).
- I just went vegan and I have been so nauseous!
- now I am down from about 5-7 days a week of 4+ hours of nausea per evening to about 3-4 per month.
- I feel exactly the same way--im not lactose intolerent or whatever it is to do with dairy products, but then again the nights i feel nausceous are when ive had a glass of milk which i thought was healthy, but this has only been recently.
- Im not scared of actually vomiting, i just dont want to have a moment when i dont realise im going to vomit and accidently puke while in bed because that would be embarassing and gross.
- I feel sorry for other people who are worse off, but it does kill my stomach and i have no clue why because its only been a recent thing.
- I havent told my parents yet becuase i didnt think it was anything important, but ive started to realise how irritating it is when im trying to sleep.
- It's very irritating and painful ecspecially in the throat area.
- I feel as though the vomit is just sitting there.
- I want to vomit too because I think it will make me feel better, but its painful and I just stopped living my life.
- I had the exact same problem/symptoms –Plus more such as indigestion and a weird crapping gurgling feeling in my stomach (my symptoms mimicked stomach ulcers).
- For the past two to three weeks he has been very nauseated at night a few times a week.
- It hits only at night.
- It hit him at 1am this morning.
- and whenever i eat something too i feel like throwing up to.
- but i dont well sometimes i do.
- There are times when I experience the phantom nausea that I know (afterwards) is related to my emetaphobia.
- However, the past couple of weeks I have been experiencing lower abdominal pain, nausea and other symptoms that I believe are related to coming off the Depo-Provera injection.
- However, the past few days while the pain has gone I have been experiencing evening nausea.
- I am finding it hard to tell if it is a continuation of the nausea I felt when I was unwell, or if it is phantom nausea.
- We should team up and find the cure cause I can't go another night with waking my mom up crying saying I have a stomach ache (yes I HATE throwing up and I will admit when it comes to nausea and puking, I am a baby)
- She has helped but for about two months I have had nausea every night and I hate barfing so I cry constantly.
- I never really had a gallbladder "pain" attack, just constant burping.
- Even with several medications and treatments I still am nauseated most of the time, have trouble maintaining my weight, have low blood pressure, now have some acid reflex because my esophagus was weakened from all the vomiting, and am tired and fatigued most days but I have remained out of the hospital for a little over half a year since I was finally diagnosed.
- For 3-4 months I became extremely nauseated all the time.
- I felt full even after eating only a few bites of food, had abdominal pain, and vomiting.
- It became so bad that I was unable to drink or eat enough to keep my body functioning so I was in the hospital getting treated for dehydration and malnutrition.
- i also he extreme fear of vomiting.
- Last year I started to feel exactly like you guys, feeling sick but not actually throwing up, then suddenly I became terribly ill and was throwing up in the evenings only.
- After months, it started happening in the mornings as well.
- Diagnosed with a hiatal hernia and STILL have night nausea almost constantly
- Right now I feel nauseous, but ate with my pill like I usually do, just ate more then yesterday because I thought maybe i didn't eat enough.
- And I do mean ill, I become very nauseous, I get intense pain my right side, and faint if I stand for too long.
- Hey all same as me every night I am sick and have to sleep tucked up in a ball I hate it I hardly get any sleep and am always tiard and I always need to go toilet for pees I'm so scard to go to the doctours as my family have bad medical problems
- I have the same problem iv been like this for 7 years only at nite and if I feel sick during day I take panic attack makes it so much worse currently havin a monent now and have wirk at 7 :( I find that freezing cold water over head and wrist and go out side an stand for a few mins tgen go back tk bed an try again if bit keep repeating its a horrible thing and if I stay anywhere its garenteed to happen me I also have an unreal fear of vomiting and I think this brings it on ur nit alone I alwYs have a stadh of really strong mints and take them also hope this helps x
- This started when I was 15/16 I have really bad bouts of anxiety and panic attacks and before I was diagnosed I created rituals for myself, I couldn't stay at school, couldn't eat or drink certain things because i'd deluded myself into thinking that I couldn't do it.
- Taking anti-nausea doesn't work coz taking tablets makes me nauseas on a normal day.
- I have two jobs and wen this happens I want to just curl up and go sleep.battle to fall asleep and sometimes wake up from the nausea.
- So at nyt I do sometimes actually pass out from the dizzyness and nausea.way worse once the sun sets.cant handle wen this happens.
- I do suffer from anxiety but hv been fine for just over 2years.i get nausea after everything I eat.
- Yes I also hate throwing up.
- I do get stressed very easily and I have been super worked up because of some bad news the family have received this Tuesday and since this news, my nausea has never been worse.
- I even had loose stools tonight (sorry for being graphic).
- I have always complained of feeling sick when going to school/college even when I was little but this has been really bad and I've never had it so bad.
- I have got a really bad phobia of throwing up and I'm paranoid that I may get a vomiting bug.
- This nausea started from Christmas 2012 when my brother and dad got the vomiting bug and I thought I was going to get it so I didn't eat.
- Now my eating has been so bad for the past year and a half and I've lost so much weight.
- I had a racing heart, severe nausea, shaking, dry mouth, dizziness and weakness and a burning sensation in my throat and chest.
- My nausea tends to worsen at night though and I end up shaking and everything but I am not lay down.
- I do get the burning even when I'm sat up but that is not all the time.
- The nausea also worsens when I am thirsty.
- im currently 19 years old and when I was 8 I got diagnosed with IBS, I suffer really bad with stomach cramps and sometimes constipation or diarrhea.
- The 2 years ago I started getting panic attacks, only got diagnosed with a panic disorder a few months ago, but due to my panic attacks I started not sleeping then got fearful of going to bed so would plan it out during the day until I got so stressed at night I wouldn't make myself feel physically sick, my only remedy at the moment to calm down my stomach at night now is to take my panic tablet, propanolol.
- I have been getting the nausea ever night myself.
- The nausea first starts with me when I'm ( sitting up ) watching TV.
- At about 10:00 pm I go to bed and usually fall asleep just fine, then about 3 hours later wake up with 'butterflies' in my stomach.
- I ended up fine after 10 minutes, but since then I have been getting motion sickness and nausea about 4 out of 7 nights a week.
- I've had emetophobia since I was about 9 or so, but recently I (as a one time experience) smoked marijuana (a LOT at one time) and about 2 hours in, I started projectile vomiting.
- I have bouts of nausea lasting days to weeks.
- I do have reflux.
- YesMild headaches with it in occasion
- About a year ago I woke up in the middle of the might vomiting.
- I felt so nauseous all day every day for a month.
- It has helped control it but I still have my nights I wake up nauseated and scared.
- I feel uncomfortable and nauseous.
- i have the exact problem, i have had all of these symptoms for the past year and a half, ive seen doctors but they dont help, i never throw up but i hate throwing up, my parent think its because im paranoid about throwing up and i make myself ill because of the power of suggestion but im learning to live with it, i hate night times but i find proping myself up more using pillows helps when trying to fall asleep better, i tried renee tablets but they dont work, if anyone gets any news on how to stop this i would LOVE to know.
- Constant feeling sick, gets worse in the night.
- N have a phobia of throwing up.
- And the phobia is my life's top phobia that controls over my body giving me no steering wheel to It.
- I just wan to throw up n feel better but i cant.
- which makes it worse as i can feel the "water" coming up slowly and my body would try n keep it down.
- which almost dun always go back down but stays at the level for a freaking long time.
- its depriving me of my sleeps.
- I also was waking up nightly to either vomit or dry heave.
- Constipation, bleeding, nausea, weakness, sleeplessness and more.
- It's so annoying and Incase of indigestion or acid I eat a rennie.
- Still doesn't help but It starts around 8 until I go to bed.
- Ive been having bad nausea when i try to sleep and it keeps me up all night, and my parents refuse to take me to a doctor because they say im too young for gallstones or cancer, and that my symptoms arent severe enough.
- I sleep for a bit and always wake up at about 12;00 feeling nauseous and sweaty and gross.
- I feel ok and so i eat breakfast, 15 mins after eating i feel really nauseous again?
- i used to feel nauseated all the time or any tie in a day.but now a days,i am nauseated mostly at night times.
- i m an emetophobic and even i hate throwing up.i had stones in kidney(thaks to my sis).now they got cleared recently.i thought my nausea was due to kidney stones but now i know i was wrong.i m 16 yrs old.i stay with my grandmom and grandfather.they never get my point of nausea and force me for everything.even when my ausea worsens,they bash me n make me go to the college.it worsens there n i cant even express there.i tried telling my problem to them most of the times but of no use.everytime i express my problem n try to make them understand,they make me listen and finally say that i am always sick and unwell and i should be admitted in hospital for life.
- This is exactly my symptoms - I feel like my food doesn't digest at night.
- This makes the most sense to me because i am afraid to vomit as well, every time i am able to pull myself together and calm down I am finally ok, but the stress of it has been eating me up.
- I am also having breathing problems when I lay down.
- Not every night, but a lot.
- It makes total sense because if your stomach has migrated up through that hole at bottom of rib cage then you would feel that sensation.
- Most of the time I wake up with it.
- I feel full LOOONGGG after I have eaten also.
- I am nauseated many nights.
- Now I'm sick every night again.
- Right I have been trying to sleep at night and then my belly starts to ache and then I feel sick I am feeling it right now what do I do to stop this I am so tried and I have got a busy day tomorrow please someone help me it is doing my head in
- nauseous every single day.
- It did get better a few weeks ago but now I feel really sick every night and the only thing I can suggest is anti sickness tablets like buccastem .
- Hello every one I am so scared I am 15 and I have had nausea for a week and a bit now and I am so scared to actually be sick it seriously feels as if I am gonna chuck soon I hate being sick but I suffer from anxiety as well I am also in a lot of stress as I am just into year 10 so the homework just keeps piling up I have not yet been able to go to the doctors but judging what your all saying there not gonna help i am so very scared what do I do
- I've had this nausea for just a few months now without being able to put my finger on what was causing it, much like all of you.
- Coincidentally enough, I have a fear of vomiting and was trying to help myself overcome it through willpower and determination.
- I got home and just got into bed and was on my phone and distracted and just generally find, and the minute I wasn't distracted, I began to feel sick, and I was worried I was going to vomit, and last time I was sick I was really sick.
- Oh my God, I don't know why but this makes me cry cause, I currently have night time nausea, and earlier I was out and I just felt really bad, and I felt like I was going to be sick, and I was just really panicked, but I kind of chilled out and I was fine.
- It all started in my six week school holidays here in Australia, just as I was about to go into year 10 I fell asleep one night at 6:00pm (four hours earlier than normal) I woke up two hours later feeling very nauseous and started to freak out as I believe I have emetophobia.
- It lasted about 10 minutes before I calmed down. It helped me calm down knowing that if I'd been nauseous this long I should've vomited already.
- I can't seem to sleep when I should be because if i'm not that tired then it gives my mind time to think, with time to think in bed I think about being nauseous as it's obviously been a common occurrence.
- Gradually she started feeling nauseous at mealtime.
- I am currently sick right now but I'm recovering.
- Currently up at 2.30am feeling nauseous as always and I came across this post whilst Google searching my symptoms.
- I was only 15 and suffered with the pain for over a year.
- I went to bed because I felt so nauseous but I woke up at around 12:45 bc I was going to be sick.
- Tonight was the first time I actually threw up and I threw up 6 different times in half an hour.
- It's only at night and it's only after I eat dinner.
- I'm 18 and for over a week now, every night I've been incredibly nauseous.
- Ever since I have not been able to drink alcohol without getting nauseous especially at night when I lay down.
- I'm very scared right now because I feel really nausea and I don't throw up but my stomach growls and I eat dinner but it's night 4 and it occurs at night and not when i'm at school.
- I don't eat lunch bc the stomach bug is going around and i forget to wash my hands but too late.
- Same here but I am only 13 and i don't know what to do I asked my mum she said it could be stomache bug but I don't think so because it has been happening for 6 nights now and if I try to eat somthing or think of food it makes me feel more nautious and my stomache just really hurts like I'm going to be sick but I'm not any suggestions enyone?
- When I was going through puberty this was a massive issue for me - I spent so many nights with a bucket by my bed, and running to the loo a few times, but I was never actually sick.
- I have no vomited in over 4 years!
- But I always have the feeling of being sick and have break downs because I hate that feeling.
- I can't leave the house without a plastic bag in my hand bag or pocket incase I'm sick & I sleep with a bowl under my bed, I haven't actually vomited for over 6 years & 3 years prior to that but feel very sick every night (I sleep sitting up in bed), on car journeys, in crowded places, etc.
- I don't go to the cinema or out for dinner incase I'm sick & cant make it to the toilets in time or if I where to choke on food & it made me sick.
- Are any of you guys getting the chills at night as well I'm on a third night now of nausea and every night I'm getting intense abdominal pain and also the chills.
- I feel completely fine during the day and even dance for hours but at night I get so sick.
- I try to get in somebody sleep but then I wake up and I take a bunch of tiny burps and farts to try and make it better but it never does.
- i'm a male but pretty much have had "morning sickness" for the past 10 years, I would go to bed feeling ok then a few hours later I would wake up feeling nauseous and this would persist till about lunch time the next day.
- Ok my girlfriend feels like she nauseas when she gose outside and she is hungry when she wakes up and she took a pregnancy test and it came out negative so what dose that mean
- I never throw up though.
- I just feel horribly nauseated at night around 9-10.
- Around 10 - 2 in the morning I am up burping up a storm.
- I have GERD, IBS & Gastroparesis with constant nausea & stomach pain 24/7.
- I feel sick at night but I never am sick, and it makes me really sad.
- I can never sleep and when I do sleep I either wake up fine or I wake up feeling sick still.
- I eat my norm fruit and vegetables and the norm healthy diet every day but I still go to sleep feeling sick, accept, I never am sick.
- Hi I have somewhat the same thing I have GERD and also crohn's disease ( I'm 19 and I had GERD since I was 10 or 11 and it was thus year that I found out I also have crohans ), I wake up every night at like 2 or 3 am it's so bad that I get like paryzlied with fear and it makes it worse.
- The nausea or whatever is so bad that I have started to wait til after 2 or 3 to pass by to sleep.
- same this has been going on for three nights now and i'm gonna see if it's just a stomach virus or not because every night i feel like i'm gonna puke for 30 mins straight and then i fall asleep and wake up fine and then it happens again the next night
- He blew it off as indigestion but when he started to have severe pain as well, it was too late for them to treat it.
- My uncle just died with pancreatic cancer and the only symptom he had before the pain started was some upset stomach and excessive burping.
- I have been suffering with this night nausea for 5 years.
- Then your heart starts to race, then your head gets fixated.
- When you do this your body thinks its going into a minor stage of shock and starts conserving blood and only pumping it to your vital oragans, and SUPRISE, your stomach is not considered vital.
- So you lose blood supply, which relaxes this organ a little too much and that door thats supposed to stay closed at the top of your stomach starts flapping all around!
- Acid and whatever else is in your stomach either starts to come up your throat or gets pushed through without being broken down enough.
- I am a male age 60, On Dec 3rd I kept getting woke up like I was going to puke, sit up very fast on the edge of the bed.
- If I lay down the best I can do is about 1.5hrs before I wake up with the same feeling again.
- Never puked.
- As soon as I feel like I am going to doze off I wake up with the feeling to puke every time.
- I am drained of energy every day that it keeps happening and have no motivation to do anything because I have the pukey feeling all of the time but its worst at night or when I want to take a nap to get more than 3 hrs sleep a night.
- Every night around bed time my heart rate increases slightly and I’m nauseated.
- usually lasts for an hour.
- I would always drink quite a bit of water while I was laying down and every time I became incredibly nauseous.
- Then when we ran out of waters, I began to notice that every time I was not nauseous.
What diagnosis has been made?
- The only thing that helps 90% of the time is alprazolam (xanax) I have been diagnosed with GERD and IBS.
- I just found out that my blood sugars are high with the bouts of nausea.
- Turned out it was never stomach flu it was a large tumor in my right upper quadrant and when I laid down at night it pressed against everything and made me sick.
- I've seen doctor after doctor and they all told me its acid reflux
- I was diagnosed with acid reflux in my senior year.
- When I became well enough to tolerate a little solid food I was given a Gastric Emptying Test and I was diagnosed with Gastroparesis or delayed stomach emptying.
- Hi, My daughter had all the symptoms listed in previous posts (night time nausea) we FINALLY got her diagnosed, CELIACS DISEASE, we took her off all wheat products (you would be amazed at what it is in) and she feels 100% better.
- Many doctors told me I was fine, I had an ultrasound done but nothing came up.
- When I was 9 it was caused by Appendicitis, in which I had to endure surgery.
- Now I have emetephobia and it is VERY uncomfortable.
- hi everyone i have been suffering from nausea and vomiting for over 8months, i had endless blood test scans, xrays of stomach, and i also had a camara up the bum and town the throat sorry cant member the names for them, but they found nothing apart from acid reflux but even on meds for that i was still sick all the time even lost 10kgs, i am the same as some of you girls i hated life soo much it is extremly hard to be that sick and have a 3 year old son at 20, the docters had no idea where to look nexts after i had my op and found nothing but reflux, i have been on ondansetron wafers for the over 8months that i was sick and it worked maybe first couple times then didnt work for me much and that is the strongest anti nausea you can get it is what cancer patients have, then i ended up in hospital once again with it i would have bad times where i would get the sickness and with that i would feel like i was going to faint but couldnt and i would get hot and cold flashes and would shake and feel very light headed so the last time i ended up in hospital with it i got admited for a week they gave me cyclizine and i fault having that and the 8mg ondansetron together would help, and then after a while i got to a very low point in life from it i then found out that the hole time a huge part of it was actually suvier anxiety i never new it could make you sooo sick and make you not even be able to get up from bed, so maybe also look into that cause i swor to my self it would never be that but after getting on the right meds i have found that i dont spew any more when i use to spew every other day now i dont spew but i do stil get alot of nausea but not like i did before so i think apart of it was anxiety but it cant be the ful reason cause i am still sick but i havnt end up in hospital with one of my very bad eposodes again so i do think that part was the anxiety but i do stil have nause and have had every test i can so i kind of just live with it now, but just be carefull cause when you take some meds for to long they stop working and that has what iv found with the ondansetron it eases it a lil but dosnt make me 100%, so maybe look into anxiety and depression cause you might not wont to no its that but it could be, but then there are so many diff reason for why you are sick but thats my story, i am trying to find more natural ways of helping with the nausea with out costing to much so am trying to work on what will work best for me, i really hope yours dose not last like it has for me and alot of the other people on here cause it really changes your life and just member if the sickness is getting you down and when you are exspceting it to come on at night and you get upset about it you could get anxiety and thats what could be making you sick from being scard of being sick is causen anxiety and then you are being sick because of that this is what i think mainly happend to me, all the best with finding out whats wrong to all the people with this is is truly horrible to go thorugh wouldnt wish it upon any one hope this give u a lil more to maybe look into to all the people on here, thanks for reading this novel haha :)
- He said that they put cancer patients on this for nausea due to chemo and I find it does help most of the time.
- I have been to the doctors twice and their prescriptions have twice failed.
- my doctor said that some sort of flap thing wasnt keeping the acid in my stomach when i lay down, but i think they were wrong since it now happens when i am sitting up.
- Thought it was an ulcer but finally told my dr and she did an ultrsound and found a huge tumor in the pancreatic junction and it had squashed the dueodeum and when I would lie down thats why the nausea got worse.
- It was removed and found to be attached to my colon and colon had to be resected so I recommend telling your dr all symptoms in case you have cancer or a tumor
- and the doctor thought it was related to stress.
- The doctors said nothing was wrong, but I knew something was up.
- I have had an upper GI and sonogram of all my organs and they have found nothing.
- I was put on Xanax (yeah, they thought it was panic attacks.
- Yeah.), Prilosec, Tagamet, Zantac, various antidepressants, etc.
- I went back to the naturopath and he said that my levels are so low that it was problem to strong he then put me on apple cider vinegar for 4 weeks the first 2 weeks I took 5ml every time I ate (this includes snaking) the 2nd 2 weeks I took 10mls every time I ate.
- They ended up giving up and putting it down as irritable bowel syndrome (which I’m sure was just a I don’t know what it is so I’ll give it a name so you’ll stop coming back) After seeing a naturopath he said it sounds like my body is not producing the right acid level he put me on Hydrochloric acid tablets.
- I have emetaphobia also and have done for over 7 years.
- However every test (ultrasounds of the gallbladder, CT scan of my abdomen and brain, tons of blood/urine work, endoscopy, HIDA scans) all came back relatively normal with nothing conclusive.
- i am currently on acid reflex medicine but it has not work.
- I had to go to the hospital at LEAST once a week to get pills and injections and be hooked up to be fed on IV.
- (Xrays, ultrasounds, etc all showed up clear) finally I was properly diagnosed with a hiatial (hiatus) hernia.
- Diagnosed with a hiatal hernia and STILL have night nausea almost constantly
- It took 17 years, but I was finally tested and diagnosed for it.
- I had a Heller Myotemy from a gastroenterologist trained in the procedure, and now I am fine.
- I've always been really phobic of being sick and the doctors diagnosed me with IBS, the tablets helped the cramps but not the sickness.
- Also been told I hv ibs.i have low blood pressure.
- I went to the doctors and they said that it was acid reflux so I've been taking gaviscon whenever I've felt sick and I've also gone through 2 packets of tic tacs as I've found that mints can sometimes help my stomach settle while I'm out.
- im currently 19 years old and when I was 8 I got diagnosed with IBS, I suffer really bad with stomach cramps and sometimes constipation or diarrhea.
- The 2 years ago I started getting panic attacks, only got diagnosed with a panic disorder a few months ago, but due to my panic attacks I started not sleeping then got fearful of going to bed so would plan it out during the day until I got so stressed at night I wouldn't make myself feel physically sick, my only remedy at the moment to calm down my stomach at night now is to take my panic tablet, propanolol.
- I've had emetophobia since I was about 9 or so, but recently I (as a one time experience) smoked marijuana (a LOT at one time) and about 2 hours in, I started projectile vomiting.
- They always took X-rays then said it was constipation.
- After ruling out everything including pregnancy a simple stool sample test the doctor ordered from me revealed I indeed had H Pylori.
- After a harsh round of antibiotics I retested for the bacteria and was negative.
- However it left me with acid reflux issues.
- The doctor finally put me on Protonix which has been a blessing and helped tremendously.
- The doctor diagnosed me with an ulcer and when im on meds i cope.
- turns out I was pregnant.
- Everything came back normal.
- I was told they didn't know what was causing it and maybe it was stress related or psychosomatic.
- I was told that my stomach flora was off probably due to over prescription of antibiotics.
- It ended up being very severe symptoms to pre diabetes.
- i m an emetophobic and even i hate throwing up.i had stones in kidney(thaks to my sis).now they got cleared recently.i thought my nausea was due to kidney stones but now i know i was wrong.i m 16 yrs old.i stay with my grandmom and grandfather.they never get my point of nausea and force me for everything.even when my ausea worsens,they bash me n make me go to the college.it worsens there n i cant even express there.i tried telling my problem to them most of the times but of no use.everytime i express my problem n try to make them understand,they make me listen and finally say that i am always sick and unwell and i should be admitted in hospital for life.
- Might be aid reflux, I had the same thing and ended up in the hospital and turns out I just had too much acid.
- Turns or after the correct blood test I have a severe allergy to gluten and Just a intolerance to dairy, corn, rice and oats.
- I've appeared to be healthy among all of these.
- We took her to our chiropractor and he made adjustments that affected her stomach.
- Hello I have acid reflux and ibs Iv never been able to burp for 20 year now I'm 21 and been getting theses burps but every one says I'm burping in side instead of out I can't do out and I have a lot of growls in my throatBut never heart burn Do you have this
- I had the same issue when I was thirteen, I would take water with me everywhere I went and I would start shaking in class, I had bloodtests and they found I had Celiacs disease.
- I hope that this is the case, however, I have had several blood tests and they've proved that nothing is wrong with me.
- Turns out I had a stomach ulcer and gastritis.
- I have ibs and I'm 17 and trust me it took a long time to find the issue but now I got it.
- Also if he does have ibs, ask for food intolerances to be tested, because ibs and food intolerances usually come in a package I was diagnosed with fructose intolerance, lactose intolerance and fructant intolerance.
- I do the same thing, i have GERD and anxiety.
- I feel like that to and its only at night when I lay down and I feel like I'm going to throw up but I don't I went to the doctor but they said nothing is wrong with me I feel like I need to burp too my family think its stress
- I have emetophobia really badly!
- I was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome but that is just a general term for something is irritating you but they don't know what, I had blood tests, endoscopies, nothing was found, i tried eliminating certain foods like wheat and dairy with no real difference.
- All my blood test and everything comes back clear, doctors say it's just in my head.
- I have GERD, IBS & Gastroparesis with constant nausea & stomach pain 24/7.
- Hi I have somewhat the same thing I have GERD and also crohn's disease ( I'm 19 and I had GERD since I was 10 or 11 and it was thus year that I found out I also have crohans ), I wake up every night at like 2 or 3 am it's so bad that I get like paryzlied with fear and it makes it worse.
- When I was first dignosed my doctor and me take b12 vitamin shots.
- My uncle just died with pancreatic cancer and the only symptom he had before the pain started was some upset stomach and excessive burping.
- I had a few tests and I got told I have Pyrrole Disorder, Gastrointestinal Parasites and Reflux.
- So this was my life for almost 5 years until I got a diagnosis that changed everything.
- My doctor said that even though my glucose is normal I mostly get a spike in my blood sugar by early evening and then feel ill as it comes down.
- All blood work is normal.
What helped relieve the symptoms?
- The only thing that helps 90% of the time is alprazolam (xanax) I have been diagnosed with GERD and IBS.
- A doctor many years ago put me on xanax.
- :) You need to take probiotics and digestive enzymes three times daily to help your GI system as you recover from the damage gluten has done.
- At the moment i am stuck taking gaviscon tablets everynight - which are rather expensive after a while.
- Eventually, about two months of near-constant nausea I tried Phazyme.
- I drink baking soda almost every night and I also take promethazine or a Zofran for the nausea.
- for promethazine and zofran, mine had no problem giving me prescriptions of it and I have no idea what I would do without it.
- pot, zofran, phenner gin, ginger ale, pept, ginger tablet, cold ice to the back of the neck, unisom, darkness, quiet are all in the arsenal.
- I end up giving him some medicine for nausea and he feels fine by morning.
- hi everyone i have been suffering from nausea and vomiting for over 8months, i had endless blood test scans, xrays of stomach, and i also had a camara up the bum and town the throat sorry cant member the names for them, but they found nothing apart from acid reflux but even on meds for that i was still sick all the time even lost 10kgs, i am the same as some of you girls i hated life soo much it is extremly hard to be that sick and have a 3 year old son at 20, the docters had no idea where to look nexts after i had my op and found nothing but reflux, i have been on ondansetron wafers for the over 8months that i was sick and it worked maybe first couple times then didnt work for me much and that is the strongest anti nausea you can get it is what cancer patients have, then i ended up in hospital once again with it i would have bad times where i would get the sickness and with that i would feel like i was going to faint but couldnt and i would get hot and cold flashes and would shake and feel very light headed so the last time i ended up in hospital with it i got admited for a week they gave me cyclizine and i fault having that and the 8mg ondansetron together would help, and then after a while i got to a very low point in life from it i then found out that the hole time a huge part of it was actually suvier anxiety i never new it could make you sooo sick and make you not even be able to get up from bed, so maybe also look into that cause i swor to my self it would never be that but after getting on the right meds i have found that i dont spew any more when i use to spew every other day now i dont spew but i do stil get alot of nausea but not like i did before so i think apart of it was anxiety but it cant be the ful reason cause i am still sick but i havnt end up in hospital with one of my very bad eposodes again so i do think that part was the anxiety but i do stil have nause and have had every test i can so i kind of just live with it now, but just be carefull cause when you take some meds for to long they stop working and that has what iv found with the ondansetron it eases it a lil but dosnt make me 100%, so maybe look into anxiety and depression cause you might not wont to no its that but it could be, but then there are so many diff reason for why you are sick but thats my story, i am trying to find more natural ways of helping with the nausea with out costing to much so am trying to work on what will work best for me, i really hope yours dose not last like it has for me and alot of the other people on here cause it really changes your life and just member if the sickness is getting you down and when you are exspceting it to come on at night and you get upset about it you could get anxiety and thats what could be making you sick from being scard of being sick is causen anxiety and then you are being sick because of that this is what i think mainly happend to me, all the best with finding out whats wrong to all the people with this is is truly horrible to go thorugh wouldnt wish it upon any one hope this give u a lil more to maybe look into to all the people on here, thanks for reading this novel haha :)
- but then i got off my nexium cuz i thought it been making me very nauseous.
- i have to force myself to eat at night and i feel full for a long time as well :c i have promethazine too but i'm skeptical to use it because i HATE depending on drugs :c let me know what they say!
- Also i take prilosec OTC u cn get it at traget or vons.
- I was put on Xanax (yeah, they thought it was panic attacks.
- Yeah.), Prilosec, Tagamet, Zantac, various antidepressants, etc.
- After the 4 weeks I went back on the Hydrochloric acid tablets (this time no pain) I was on the Hydrochloric acid tablets for 3 months.
- Everything going on with you has happened to me and I use zofran (I think it helps me just by mentally knowing its supposed to help but I'm on my last pill today).
- I take zofran too but doesn't help the best
- i am currently on acid reflex medicine but it has not work.
- I had to go to the hospital at LEAST once a week to get pills and injections and be hooked up to be fed on IV.
- They ended up giving up and putting it down as irritable bowel syndrome (which I’m sure was just a I don’t know what it is so I’ll give it a name so you’ll stop coming back) After seeing a naturopath he said it sounds like my body is not producing the right acid level he put me on Hydrochloric acid tablets.
- I went to the doctors and they said that it was acid reflux so I've been taking gaviscon whenever I've felt sick and I've also gone through 2 packets of tic tacs as I've found that mints can sometimes help my stomach settle while I'm out.
- The 2 years ago I started getting panic attacks, only got diagnosed with a panic disorder a few months ago, but due to my panic attacks I started not sleeping then got fearful of going to bed so would plan it out during the day until I got so stressed at night I wouldn't make myself feel physically sick, my only remedy at the moment to calm down my stomach at night now is to take my panic tablet, propanolol.
- A IBS tablet, buscopan.
- if I get up and take a Rolaids or something similar it usually takes the problem away.
- After a harsh round of antibiotics I retested for the bacteria and was negative.
- I tried Prilosec and Nexium and still suffered.
- The doctor diagnosed me with an ulcer and when im on meds i cope.
- Im also on the gaviscon thing.
- I was barren due to antibiotics and diet.
- Prilosec worked great for me, until it attacked my liver.
- It did get better a few weeks ago but now I feel really sick every night and the only thing I can suggest is anti sickness tablets like buccastem .
- Altosec 20th prescribed by your doctor
- Doctors had me on 40mg of Prevacid, then bumped up to 80mg, then prilocect 40mg, then bumped up to 80mg, then what finally worked was Nexium,(which they now sell over the counter, and never use to while I had my issue going on)
- I have found that zantac in the morning and ginger at night helps me.
- Don't take reglan;
- stick to domperidone.
- I went on protein pump inhibitor drugs like losec that limited acid production but still no real change.
- i've had good success with getting rid of constant nausea by taking a product called iberogast morning and night,
- Normally I have to just take 4 gas-x or a Zantac but it sometimes won't work.
- I take 2 Zantac every night but doesn't seem to do much help.
- I'm on Omeprozole & Zofran & take GasX & Alka Seltzer Chews as needed.
- When I was first dignosed my doctor and me take b12 vitamin shots.
- Digestive Enzymes, Probiotics and Magnesium should be taken every day.
- Doctors can prescribe stronger gaviscon that may be covered by a medical plan.
In conclusion
Nausea experienced at night is an uncommon symptom that may be caused by drinking alcohol, especially excessively. Most cases of nighttime nausea are not a reason for immediate concern. However, if symptoms occur more than once a week or become long-term, it could be a sign of an underlying condition. In that case, your doctor should be consulted for the proper diagnosis.