help with drugs

[julier]

it has reached the point where i cant take anymore. my nerves are shot to pieces, im permanently shaking, feeling sick, dizzy. i cant concentrate on anything, i cant stay in one place, i cant be near people, im struggling at work, i dont go anywhere, i avoid all my friends i dont have the will power to go on anymore. i have beenhaving high level anxiety for weeks and its too much. my doc has given olanzapine for anxiety and prochlorperazine for use if i feel like im going to v. but i need a drug thats i can take every day to make sure i dont v. the doc wont give me that she says its a defence mechanism which is true but if she knew how bad i felt and just how hard my life is then she should give me a drug. is there anywhere i can get a drug to stop nausea and v'ing on the web over the counter thru the post anywhere. i really cant take anymore. its been reassuring to read thru and see other people with the same problem but it doesnt help me when im in a state of anxiety and need to get help. please help me, i can hardly type im shaking so much!!!

[s0ccer_princess]

I think that asking your doctor for a referral to a therapist is not a bad idea. Emetophobia, which is what we have, is commonly misunderstood by those in the medical profession. In fact, when my mother mentioned to my doctor I had a morbid fear of getting sick he just skimmed over it and proceeded to imply to her that I was bulimic (!), because I have trouble putting on weight. :S. I think the accusation alone suggests how little he understood!

Anyway, I doubt there are all that many drugs out there which stop it completely. And while it's hard to admit, she is right. You do get sick for a reason. It also is not that pleasant not to get sick too. A woman posted on here a few months back, her child I think has emetophobia, and she told us how she had a medical procedure done for something else, and it had this effect which meant she could never be ill again.

Sound like a godsend?

She went on to tell us how terible she felt, heaving and heaving, but never getting ill.

I'm sorry that you feel this way. but you must not give up. I bet you're a great person, and you shouldn't let this phobia get the better of you. Ask your doctor if they can refer you to a therapist, or maybe find medication with less side effects/withdrawal symptoms? I'm not really that well informed in that area, because I can't take medication myself.

Good luck!

[redapple]

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i don't know of any drugs that can stop it from happening. i do
know that much of what we fear about it is the panic we associate with
it, and you can learn to live with that anxiety and to control it by
seeing a therapist. please think about having your doc refer you
to one. i'm sure, like many of us, you've been through intense
periods of anxiety like this one before--you will</span> make it through.

[julier]

Thanks for your support guys. Im feeling stronger today. My doctor made me write a list of all things I avoid eg passenger in a car etc and asked me to start doing things one by one gradually. The first thing i have to do is kiss people and i find that really hard, I have done it a couple of times but it has just increased my anxiety too much. Sometime I feel like letting the phobia win because if I dont put myself in "risky" situations then I dont get anxious and I feel better for having low anxiety. It's a tough one. I read on here that someone said you shouldnt wish for a different phobia but I really do. If it was snakes or spiders then I would simply not go to the zoo or out in the woods. I just feel this phobia is enveloping me and suffocating me everywhere there is a hazard. xx