nauseous, no appetite, losing weight

It all started beginning of march with heightened sense of smell. My husband and i were trying to conceive so I thought it might have been a symptom, but I found out I was not pregnant. After a week it escalated to nausea, dry heaving, and feeling like I had to burp or cough up fluid, so i went to a walk in clinic. I thought it was GERD because I have a hx of it, they dis bloodwork, urine, chest xray and found nothing so they put me on protonix for acid reflux.

Another wk goes by and I start feeling worse, all day, nausea, dry heaves sometimes gagging up a little bit of clear fluid or sometimes it was foamy, and rapid heart beat when I would have the heaving fits, so i went to the ER. More bloodwork done, stomach xrays, urine, ekg, found nothing wrong but they referred me to a GI doc. Before going to see him I went to an accupunvtirist and from that day forward the dry heave urges stopped. Went to GI and had an upper endoscopy done and he found nothing. Also had a CT scan of my abdomen with iv contrast and found nothing.

This has been over a month and I've lost 12lbs, still have trouble eating anything. GI doc put me on Zoloft 50mg but it made me feel so wired! I couldn't take it. I've also been on xanax .5mg for the last 3 wks bit the last 3 times I used it I had panic attacks, which is weird considering its supposed to help with that. Can't sleep either, at all. sometimes its 1 hour a night.

I'm going to see a counselor today hoping he can help, or put me on dif meds because I feel like I just can not deal. Anyone else having these symptoms? Sorry about the long rant, its been a tough month and I'm causing stress to everyone around me, which stresses me out even more. Needed to vent.

I really feel for you and do know what your going through, I'm suffering from terrible nausea and I'm barely eating, been going on for weeks now, I'm seeing a psychiatrist and my meds have been changed again!! he's convinced it's not the meds mostly causing the nausea but the severe anxiety and depression? I can honesty tell you I'm really struggling, I have 3 beautiful children one is only 2 years old and it's breaking my heart being like this, I just keep hoping things will improve, as I do for you too, feel free to chat to me as I know how lonely I feel with all this:( tc x

A lot of what you're experiencing is probably being caused from anxiety or stress. Have you tried going on long hikes, runs, or bike rides? Maybe try some yoga and meditation. Exercising also helps stimulate appetite and relieve stress.

Feel with you guys. For me meditation works.
Especially through the technique called Vipassana. Dhamma.org.
Very sincere. The webpage however, is not that interesting. try find personal videos on youtube about this, it might give u a more diverse idea of the concept.
I have been on this course three times over the last couple of years. And going there again for sure! :)
Relaxing my body and helping my brain to shut up :) has meant the world of a difference to me still today. My anxiety has gone down tremendously, and a stomachproblem I've always had, has gone away. Totally! It's really amazing.
Maybe it's work for you too?
Wish u all the best.

Thank you it's just hard to relax when you feel so anxious and sick isn't it? I wish there were courses round here for things like yoga and meditation, it's pretty useless here, is there a pacific link I need to find? it's horrible this, do you agree that it's most likely to be the anxiety making the nausea worse or meds as well? sorry I'm just so anxious:( x

If you go on the internet there is lots of free meditation exercises or yoga you can download. The meditations range considerably what you can get free but you might find something to help. If not, just practise sitting still and quiet for a few minutes and concentrate on your breath or one word. Then you can gradually build up how much time you do each day. It is really good for you to find yourself some peaceful time and space each day.

Thank you all for your input. It is just very difficult for me to accept that its all just anxiety. In the past ny anxiety was just rapid heart rate out of the blue, no digestive issues. Now its like my digestive system is out of control. Some days I tell myself they ran all the tests, they can't find anything. Then other days I'm convinced I belong in the hospital. My husband has been very good to me through this but he is starting to lose patience as this is stating to stress him out too. And that's not helping my stress. Just wish I could wake up and feel normal.

I did go for a walk the other day, my aunt picked me up and said she wasnt taking no for an answer. I did okay, but was anxious the whole time and felt nauseous. I try breathing techniques but find it too difficult to relax, doesnt really help me.

hi everyone :) i can so relate to this, im not so good with anxiety at the min i come home from college yesterday lasted an hour there :( im terrible when i go into shops feel worse. ive been left anxiety since i had postnatal depression 4 year ago, although im not depressed at the min sometimes i do feel low because of the anxiety. but i know its just the anxiety. the docs put me on 10mg citalopram 4 year ago when i started them my anxiety got worse so bad i was at the docs everyday telling them something wasnt right i felt like i was dying :( they then gave me 2mg diazepam/valium which took the edge off it a little not much then they put me on 20mg. i couldnt leave the house for around 3 month, and i ended up getting ocd for a short while constant hoovering i couldnt unplug my hoover madness i know. i searched n searched the internet for help, and came accross paitent uk which had a link to embarrasing bodies. they were doing a show on depression/anxiety so i applied they had to come to me as i couldnt leave the house. then they got me cbt and i found after b4 sessions it helped me to actually travel all the way to birmingham :) although i was still a little axious i was happy i was able to leave my home. i came off my tablets after 2 n half year of taking them and felt great still but a year n half on im soooooooo anxious again its unreal. i tried fluxetine 20mg about 2 week ago lasted 4 days the side effects i couldnt hack hightened axiety and couldnt eat at all lost 6lb in 4 days, they made all the anxiety symptoms ive got 10 times worse, so the doc told me to stop and that i wouldnt be able to take any meds as they will all make me feel worse with anxiety. ive been referred to talking changes cbt il give it a go. ive been given trazadone 50mg to start tonight see how i cope with these. are you on any meds and are you taking diazepam (anyone)?

Went to counseling on tuesday but didn't feel like it helped. He taught me relaxation breathing, which i've been trying anyway.. I have another appointment with him next week which I plan on going to, but I may stop seeing him after that. On wednesday I woke up with severe anxiety, then I made the mistake of stepping on the scale and I dropped a few more pounds which FREAKED me out! I'm down 15lbs now in 5 weeks. So i called my mother in law in tears, panicking, and she came to get me so I wouldnt be alone. I ate pretty well that day, called up my doctor and she prescribed me .5mg Klonopin. I took one that night and actually got 5 hours of sleep.

Then yesterday woke up really nauseous but said to myself ENOUGH! i refused to give into my anxiety that morning and forced myself to get out of bed and clean the house. For 3 hours I cleaned the whole house and felt GREAT! Nausea went away slowly, I was able to eat a lot without forcing myself, and my aunt picked me up and we ran some errands together. Yesterday was definitely a turning point for me. I still feel a little anxious but the nausea and overall feeling of sickness has disappeared. I was so happy I cried lol. All it took was facing my fears of getting out of bed, taking a shower, and forcing myself to keep moving even though I was afraid and kept telling myself "KEEP GOING".. I was afraid for weeks that if i moved around too much I might pass out so i said "SO WHAT! Keep going until you pass out! You have your phone on you and can call for help! You're nauseous, not dying!" and now I am doing great! So thankful! Still going to take the klonopin until I am totally out of the woods but I went from literally feeling like I was going to die, to feeling close to being on top of the world. there is hope! if i can do it, so can you! Force yourself to do things that you are afraid of and you will see that nothing bad is going to happen.