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Nausea waking up

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dan48682
dan48682

Feel sick all the time but especially these last few weeks it's unbearable when I wake up. Gradually gets better sometimes but even if I doze off for a hour I wake up feeling absolutely dreadful

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  • 14geronimo
    14geronimo dan48682

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    This post matches all my symptoms. For 2-3 years, on an off, I've felt nausea about 1-2 hours after I go to bed. It wakes me up and won't go away unless I come out of bed and go into a sitting position for at least a couple of hours. Worse thing aside from discomfort in stomach area is sleep deprivation. No vomiting or diarrhoea, occasional constipation. Tried to sleep with raised pillows but this only helps marginally. I generally go to sleep with a flat tommy and wake up a few hours later with belching and a huge belly. The belching is painful from below my rib cage down to my stomach and even down the intestinal region. It can last until morning and sometimes for a good part of the day, but it often goes away by the afternoon. Drinking water or hot drinks after dinner makes it worse. If I eat only rice in the evening or fast completely it seems to help but there’s no guarantee. This may last for several days or weeks at a time, leaving me exhausted by sleepless nights, with no energy at work or at weekends. Sometimes it kind of goes away and I may have a few nights in a row of proper sleep. But then with little apparent cause, like a slightly heavier meal, it comes back.

    I'm a middle-aged man, not under- or over-weight, vegetarian. I do some sport and a little meditation daily, don’t smoke, only occasionally drink alcohol. I've seen 3 or 4 GPs on this and I've had every test in the world - I can only say good things about the NHS about that: specialist consultations, ultrasound scan, endoscopy with biopsies, blood and stool tests, nothing found. I've been given Buscopan, Spasfon, proton-pump inhibitors like omeprazole, Colpermin, all more ineffective as the next one. The final diagnostic was anxiety-related IBS, which I don't really understand, but most importantly I wasn't given any treatment to deal with it, whether of diet change, medicine or activities to do.

    Things I’ve tried more or less successfully since – no miracle yet I’m afraid:

    — I sometimes warm a wheat bag before going to bed but I know it’s more for reassurance than real effect.

    — When woken up in the middle of the night I might take a glass of cold milk with an ice-cube and a spoon of dissolved sugar, but this only relieves the immediate pain, it doesn’t help in the long run.

    — I have taken activated charcoal tablets like Charbon de Belloc. But it has side-effects and I feel it’s only helping with belching/trapped gas, not resolving the cause of it.

    — The only thing that seems to really help is… inhalations! I have one before going to bed with a drop of Balsofumine or similar. I remain over the bowl of very warm water for about 10 min. This seems to help when done regularly, but it’s no magic either.

    I’ll try the acidophilus/aloe vera juice/lemon juice recommendation next.

    • dan48682
      dan48682 14geronimo

      Posted

      Thanks

      Its definitely got wrose last 10 days

      Like you its affecting me as the most I've slept is 2 hours. Then awake feeling horrible again so I'm tired too and affecting me badly. My gp won't do endoscopy so having to make do with barium x ray. Can't work out why it's worse when I've been sleeping.

      I've been given every anti emetic going plus all the tablets you list but nothing. Got pain in my upper stomach. Bladder area and lost 4lbs since the colonscopy. Also stomach is tender lower stomach bladder area too when I press it

      I honestly thought the colonscopy would be the start of a new life. I've got an appointment with gp in a few days but can't see what he can do. Gaviscon eases for a while when I'm awake but it's coming to the point where I'm dreading going to sleep as I know what's coming

      Take now for instance fell asleep 10.20 woke up and it was only 11.30am and felt really sick. Even sleeping tablets only give me 2 hours max before I wake

    • dan48682
      dan48682 14geronimo

      Posted

      I noticed I've lost weight for simple reason I can see my feet. NeverUsed to be able to. Also as daft as it sounds my hands and knees are bonier. I know it's colonscopy dept but I really am struggling
    • 14geronimo
      14geronimo dan48682

      Posted

      Try inhalation in the evening, it can only help even if only to relax and take away the fear of going to sleep (I know what you mean). Fill a medium-size salad bowl with boiling water, put a drop of Olbas oil, Balsofumine or similar, leave to cool 1 min just enough to be able to put your face over the bowl under a towel. Breathe heavily by the mouth and the nose alternatively for 10-12 minutes. Until I find something better...

      PS: I've ordered the aloe vera juice and acidophilus probiotic tablets. I'll post here in a few weeks if I notice an improvement.

    • 14geronimo
      14geronimo

      Posted

      Warning: Take extra care the first time you breathe in over the bowl, vapours can be very hot so **breathe very slowly at first** to ensure it's not burning.
    • 14geronimo
      14geronimo susan15198

      Posted

      Just want to say a massive thank you to susan15198! I've been taking your cocktail of lemon juice + aloe vera + probiotics for a couple of weeks and my night-time nauseas have completely gone after a few days. I know I'm better because deep down I feel like I've not felt for the past three years, I hardly can believe it. I sleep like a baby and I don't have this constant cramps in my stomach which, even on my best days, would never completely go away. Now I feel, like, well, I don't know, like having a normal tummy again! Honestly that's a strange feeling after years of incomfort and sleepless nights.

      I mix the juice of a fresh lemon, 25 ml (a cap) of organic aloe vera juice and a teaspoon of clear honey, which I drink with one tablet of loctobacillus acidophilus, generally at the start of my diner in the evening. I'm ever so grateful for sharing this simple remedy. I eat normally again: I still avoid too much fibre at diner-time, but probably out of irrational fear. In any case this is a neat improvement from a bowl of white rice on the best days, or complete diet on the others.

      My nights (and my life) are a bliss thanks to you!

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    • juswading
      juswading 14geronimo

      Posted

      i just finished reading this thread.  Are you still feeling better?  I am going to try the aloe vera solution and the Balsofumine inhalation.  I am so tired of feeling nauseous.  I also have an emptying test coming up.  But, the costs of all these tests is bad.  You gave me some hope.
    • ann55375
      ann55375 dan48682

      Posted

      I am having either waking nauseous or waking dreaming of vomiting.  Its very distressing. I am on warfarin so cant use alo vera which seems to help some
  • ronnie818
    ronnie818 dan48682

    Posted

    Recently I was given methylprednisolone ( a steroid) and I couldn't finish it because of severe side effects only took two days of a six-day course and since then I've been getting up in the middle of the night every night with nausea for no reason I stopped any and all medication thinking that was what was causing the nausea I stopped eating but once a day earlier in the afternoons I am at the end of my rope I'm scared to sleep too so I feel yasad did you take any steroids as well ? The doctors were to me that the steroid is out of my system and this isn't what's causing my nausea . But I spoke to many many many people who have taken the steroid regimen and they all swear it is the cause of many side effects that linger for weeks sometimes months they call it the medication from hell !

  • claudia270501
    claudia270501 dan48682

    Posted

    My little brother has a similar thing (I think, he doesn't talk about it much but I ave gleaned from him mostly what you have said). Have you tried the acidophilus/aloe/lemon concoction? And if so did it work? A lot of people have said that it does and so I would just like to know if this is something I could suggest.

    Thank you

  • Nisca
    Nisca dan48682

    Posted

    Have you had your Vitamin D levels checked? I had similar experience and found out that I had a sever Vit D deficiency. It's taking months to recover, but I feel a LOT better since getting that diagnosis and treatment plan.

  • khae32024
    khae32024 dan48682

    Posted

    Hello Dan... I am 25yo n I have been having the same problem for about 3-4months now.. I've read thru all the suggestions and I am grateful for you sharing and the help th community offered. However, how are you now?? 2yrs after ....not sure if u still use this

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