[Evening]

This might be a little gross, just warning you now!

A few years ago I was going through a really bad time emotionally, I was having a lot of flip outs and a breakdown. I tried to get a job, but the night before I was meant to start I panicked and flipped, I just couldn't do it. I cried so much that I ended up being sick.
The problem now is- ever since then, I throw up every time I cry. If someone yelled at me, if I'm feeling miserable, whatever reason, I throw up, and it's just a little embarrassing. I can just feel my stomach churn and I have to run for the bathroom. I don't usually throw up so much a wretch, but it still isn't nice.

WHY does this keep happening, is it anything to do with my PTSD, is crying a trigger for me or is it something that just happens to me?

I honestly don't know. Is it possible that you have acid reflux?, or ulcers-I had peptic ulcers at age 9 they were diagnosed...not the bacterial kind-the kind for life--can you see a gastroenterologist? That must feel awful.

My ulcers bleed, whenever i get upset--i puke blood. and then it's back on the prilosec and bland diet for me for 2-4 weeks.

It sounds definitaly somatic-most G.I. stuff is- I loved my G.I. Doctor--he was better that my shrink. "Head to stomach" he'd say.

Since it's wretching--maybe it's acid reflux--they have stuff over the counter for it...
but i'd get it checked out first....sorrry this happens to you -theo

[Evening]

I've considered that, but then it only ever happens when I'm emotionally worked up, and it started after I flipped out over something, so I figured it must be something else.

[Yoshi]

I'm so sorry to hear that this is happening.
Also, I really have no clue why this would be happening to you.
I never heard of anything like it before =S

[WePow]

My T said it can happen with PTSD. I have PTSD and will get sick sometimes when I am under too much emotional stress. T said it is a part of the flight or fight response. I also heard it had something to do with man's evolution. If a predator saw the prey vomiting, the predator would be more likely to not kill that particular one as it may be sick and eating it would not be wise.

I also found this link for you:

http://www.wellsphere.com:83/brain-h...nd-ptsd/775880

[googley]

When I was a kid I would get sick when I cried. Or my stomach would get upset if there was too much stress. Don't know if this is what is happening to you, but thought I would add my experience.

[Evening]

When I stress out I get really bad stomach aches, it usually comes after the situation is over and I don't actually realise stressed out I've been. Like the first time I was working in the vet clinic while I was studying, I really didn't want to do it because we had to answer phones and be monitored (basically the phone had 2 things to talk on and the supervisor would stand next to you and listen to the conversation *shudder*, lucky I organised not to have to do it). I was so glad to get out of there the first day, and it was only after I walked out of the clinic to go home that I realised how much I'd been stressing, I had the most painful stomach ache. And it happened again when the cops dropped my cousin at my house in the middle of the night drunk and flipping out, after she left the pain was almost unbearable.

We PTSD'ers make our bodies sick--we do it with the increase of hormonal levels of adrenaline and fight or flight hormones either coming and going at times-or constantly going on in our bodies. When we do this it causes many physical reactions that may, over the years become chronic-that is why I said it sounds "somatic"--The Sympathetic part of the Nervous System senses stress from the brain and immediately sends out messages to the body to prepare to "Fight" or Flight", sugars are released into the blood stream that may be used to fight--these are all normal reactions of the nervous system to stress--everytime we"Trigger" our Physical body does this--the wear and tear on our bodies is amazing.

Just studying the Human Nervous System is amazing. I loved that part of Anatomy and Physiology the best.

Hormones interplay with reflexes, synaptic junctions, neuropeptides, the immune system comes into play, our whole physical being is run homeostatically by the Nervous System---So a Somatic reaction to stress is very common for us, also, it can become a very dangerous part of our illness.

I truly believe we can harm our bodies very seriously, even unto death with just the power of our minds. JMO Theo

[grizmom]

theodora...that's interesting; and talking about getting sick from stress, when I have a really stressful few days I tend to run a low-grade fever and feel nauseated...I always wondered why that happened. It usually passes within a day or two if I can stay home and sleep and de-stress. I never mentioned it to a doctor; I just thought maybe I am more susceptible to germs or something.

Evening...that happens to me sometimes; I don't realize how much something has stressed me out until a few hours after it's over...almost like I go into shock or something while it's happening and it hits me later. I didn't know that happened to anyone else.