Anxiety gagging/retching
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Hi!
My form of anxiety is a nausea feeling which develops in my throat (not stomach). I can feel it right at the top of my mouth and it prevents me from breathing normally, moving normally and obviously talking. When it comes on, it totally consumes me, I have to stand still and wait for it to pass.
I want to stress that I am never physically sick. But I do retch/gag if it overwhelms me (defining retching as literally the same noises, discomfort, pain etc as being sick, but nothing comes out).
It's usually when I'm quite 'on show' infront of others/go out (what I always loved to do before thus started)/during exams. I'm totally fine with going to a supermarket, sitting in a busy lecture or visiting the cinema when I'm confident no one is really bothered what I'm doing.
I feel totally lost unless I have my water which I can only sip, and sweets to suck on. Even then it only mildly helps, and will not prevent.
My anxiety is a huge barrier to my studies. I still have to go to college for least 1.5 years and don't want to stress about gagging every time before/during an exam. I am even more nervous about gagging than I am about my own exams.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there any particular medication that can help with this? I have already tried psychological help for some time, but this did not help for me.
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