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Panic - ingested gym spray?

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hannah59659
hannah59659

Hi,

I went to the gym this morning and accidentally sprayed a bit of the gym cleaning spray on the back of my left hand. I didn't really think anything of it until a little while later when I was doing some other weights and suddenly felt a funny taste in my mouth. I'm now in a massive panic that I've ingested the gym cleaning product and that I'm being poisoned.

Please can someone help alleviate my concerns? I'm feeling physically ok apart from very anxious. I feel like I can still taste the funny taste in my mouth despite brushing my teeth and having something to eat.

please help 😦

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  • what44837
    what44837 hannah59659

    Posted

    hello Hannah, I think for you to be poisoned you need to drink the whole bottle, you will just be fine, sometimes when i use sunscreen i feel the taste in my mouth it is not a pleasant taste but we don't get poisoned from such I assure you! hope you are feeling better ❤

    • hannah59659
      hannah59659 what44837

      Posted

      Thank you. I don't have any physical symptoms today other than my stomach is in knots. My anxious part of my brain is still saying "what if I have been poisoned and it's slowly affecting my digestive system?" but that's not true and it's instead my anxiety making my stomach feel like that right?? I was with a friend last night and noticed that while I was talking to him I felt mostly fine but then occasionally throughout the night my stomach would churn and I'd worry again. Then I woke up in the night with my stomach in knots and now am worrying again. I did some breathing exercises to ease it and get back to sleep but this morning my stomach is in knots again and the anxiety has resumed 😦

    • what44837
      what44837 hannah59659

      Posted

      i understand that I am experiencing anxiety in different ways but more it less i understand your feeling, our focus creates our reality if you focus on poisoning your subcobcious will create similar effects as if you are poisoned, and it is so normal to feel knots in your stomach because digestive system stomach and bowels are the main organs that directly gets effected by anxiety and stress ☺ dw you are 100% fine people who have analgam teeth fillers are getting them slowly poisoned due to mercury, there is no such thing as slow poisoning when it comes to eat/lick /swallow someethibg poisonous plus those substances are not prepared to be able to poison people, or so many ppl would accidentoy die! you are completeley fine ☺

  • jan34534
    jan34534 hannah59659

    Posted

    you are fine. You didn’t spray it into your mouth. I can’t tell you how many times I got that spray on my hand and I am perfectly healthy. I’ve been working out for over 20 years. There are all kinds of products that we accidentally get on our skin and we simply wash it off. There’s no way to avoid it during the course of our life time. I’ve had sprays of all kinds, get on my skin, like furniture, spray, cleaning spray, bug spray, etc. If I worried about all of those and others, I would be going crazy. Sometimes we smell a product and think we are tasting it.

    as long as you’re not drinking it you’re fine. There are things that we actually do eat that are way worse than the cleaning spray you got on your skin. One of them is sugar, which is very bad for our health. So relax everything is OK!

    • hannah59659
      hannah59659 jan34534

      Posted

      Thank you. Do you think on those occasions you ever accidentally wiped your hand on your mouth?

      I don't have any physical symptoms today other than my stomach is in knots. My anxious part of my brain is still saying "what if I have been poisoned and it's slowly affecting my digestive system?" but that's not true and it's instead my anxiety making my stomach feel like that right?? I was with a friend last night and noticed that while I was talking to him I felt mostly fine but then occasionally throughout the night my stomach would churn and I'd worry again. Then I woke up in the night with my stomach in knots and now am worrying again. I did some breathing exercises to ease it and get back to sleep but this morning my stomach is in knots again and the anxiety has resumed 😦

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