For me, the worst puking experience was on the damn school bus. Let one kid puke, and the whole bus would join in.

There is a social stigma against puking that is ancient. Throughout history, the sick have been shunned as “unclean” and even treated very badly just for having the bad luck of becoming ill. I wonder if psychologically that plays into the puking phobia at a very subliminal level.

Personally I do not enjoy the experience and haven’t done so for several years but i don’t have a irrational fear about doing it. I just don’t want to

The OPs condition sounds awful. Also hard to train past mentally since it’s not every day he gets sick and can practice.

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Originally posted by dsiets:
I've seen the reactionaries. One kid pukes and then another witnesses it and hurles too.
The darnds't thing.

We have a very good friend like this. Turns out her dog affected her same way. Lab got into some random dead animal, comes in and throws up. She follows immediately where she stood. Trying to clean up and he lets loose again times two, her too. Finally just gave up, put dog out and laid down until husband arrived to what he described as a crime scene.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
It does not bother me to see people throw up, my kids puke on me whatever, no issue there.
But when I start to get nauseous, my skin gets clammy, throat and mouth goes dry, start getting warm and cold waves.
I almost have a panic attack. My breathing gets super heavy, I start trembling, shaking, can’t sit still have to get up and pace, my mind goes a mile a minute, start praying like crazy.
Then here it comes. It does not help that I am a violent puker, I wake the neighborhood and every bone, joint, and muscle hurts for days afterward.
Have always been like this.

Me exactly. Busted capillaries in my face and sore through the chest, back, and abdomen for days after. If I feel nauseous, I will fight like hell to the bitter end to avoid throwing up.

See a GI specialist who has years of experience. If you are cleared, there is a good chance an experienced psychologist could help. Hope this helps.

I'm not phobic of it, but I REALLY hate doing it. I'll go to pretty extreme lengths to avoid throwing up.

I had stomach ulcers and a lot of stomach issues in grade/middle school due to stress/anxiety and lactose intolerance, and that set the stage. It doesn't help that I tend to be a sympathetic puker, and that I now have a beard (if you've never had the pleasure, let me explain: if you're not careful it'll get in your beard and you'll smell it, which may or may not send you into another puking fit - there's nothing quite like having to shampoo your beard in the sink because it smells like curdled milk).

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Originally posted by dsiets:
I've seen the reactionaries. One kid pukes and then another witnesses it and hurles too.
The darnds't thing.

Back in high school my buddy's girlfriend, her sister and her friend went to pick up "the cutest little puppy." Well on the ride home the dog had explosive diarrhea in the car. The girlfriend pukes in the back seat while the sister and her friend in the front have yet to catch on. Then the smell hits them and the friend pukes all over the dash and finally the driver succumbs and lets loose while trying to maintain control of the car. Rumor has it the dog puked last but that's unsubstantiated.

I remember them pulling up to my friend's house, all of them with their heads out the windows trying to breathe fresh air. The interior of that car was as bad as you could imagine it. In true female style, they expected my buddy to clean it up (and for me to help). I told my buddy that I had something to do (and congratulated him on the reward sex that was to follow). Took him 2 hours with a power washer and a wet vac to get it clean. The water did something to the electronics and from that day on the car would have random issues.


The dog was cute though.

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Originally posted by Imabmwnut:
Chemo and radiation. I still throw up. That stuff is horrible.

I went through both in 2003. I understand exactly what you mean. I lived on pedialyte and Jello.

They would bring food to me in the hospital room even after I told them I didn't want it or could eat it. Would put the food tray in the bathroom and shut the door, because even just the smell would trigger nausea.

I'll have an answer to my question.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
I got over it on 1/20/21. Had no choice.

Explain this remark

Growing up, I would fight off hours of nausea and feeling horrible instead of throwing up. I had a Lapband done about 10 years ago. I'd take too big of a bite and feel horrible. I physically couldn't eat anything else, but was starving. After doing that several times, I got used to throwing up. If I felt that coming on, I would get to the point of making myself throw up. I got comfortable just sticking my finger down my throat to get instant relief. No big deal to me anymore.

As a young man growing up in Southern California, I occasionally visited an amusement park named Magic Mountain. It has some regional fame. In that park was/is a ride called The Spin Out. It was a drum shaped space with no top, though covered with an awning kind of deal. While stationary, the attendant opens part of the wall to serve as a door. A crown enters and the riders form a perimeter along the circumference of the drum wall. When all are arranged, the door is closed and the crowd shuffles to fill the void at the door. Now we have approximately 75-100 individuals standing around and facing the center with their backs against the wall. A bell sounds and the drum begins to spin slowly......at first.

Within a minute or two the drum is spinning fast enough that one feels centrifugal force press his body against the wall. Still more speed is gained and the pressing force is sufficient that one can lift his feet off of the floor and remain pressed against the wall. At this point the floor slowly falls away and everyone screams with excitement and laughter.

Meanwhile, someone in the spinning crowd is getting sick. For the record it wasn't I. IIRC it took some 15 times around for the floor to fully fall away. Some time there after, the sick person began projectile vomiting. Now the crowd is screaming in disgust and panic. The attendant, barely attending, notes the screaming has changed and hits the panic button. The floor begins a slow ascent as vomit continues to splash and atomize. I was among the riders and horrified at the spectacle.

The ride came to a halt and the sick dude slumped to the floor while the rest of us fled the vomitorium. As a I walked with my friends and fellow riders down the concrete path away from the scene, we began to assess the extent of our contamination. The smell was stomach turning. Turns out I escaped with no vomit on me. My three friends could not make that claim. We rushed down to this man made lake/pond and proceeded to clean up in the water.

True story. The 70's were an era to remember.

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Originally posted by cooger:
Kinda funny this came up. My 9yo daughter gets almost hysterical when someone around her throws up or when she thinks she may. A kid beside her at school today vomited on his desk and now she’s anxious about going to school tomorrow. We have no idea where her fear came from.

My 10 year old son is the exact same way. With even the mention of someone getting or having the stomach bug the kid goes into full on crises mode/mental break down. I've never been able to understand how or why he freaks like that.

One of our triplets when younger and even occasionally now gets stomach migraines. These typically result in him vomiting. Even the mention of him beginning to feel off send our oldest into a rapid tailspin. Typically these result in one of my least proud moments as a parent as we're already dealing with one kid vacating the contents of his stomach all the while the oldest is loosing his mind over something that will have absolutely no effect on him.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I'll have an answer to my question.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
I got over it on 1/20/21. Had no choice.

Explain this remark

I started throwing up in my mouth daily after the current administration was sworn in.

^^^^^
Hoo boy…this ain’t gonna be pretty.

@ Graniteguy, just a friendly heads-up. You might want to have a look here...

https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...50066464&s=674608412

I have not vomited in probably 25 years. I don't drink and I don't get sick. I wouldn't say I have a phobia, but I've got a hell of a streak going and no desire to ruin it.

When I was younger, I thought that I had something of an aversion to being around somebody that was throwing up. I don't know where it came from and it wasn't really ever put to the test, but for some reason I thought it was a thing for me. When I was a very new, 18 year old cop, I had a passenger in a car open the door and throw up everywhere, right at (but not quite on) my feet. That day I realized it did not bother me.

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Originally posted by vinnybass:
@ Graniteguy, just a friendly heads-up. You might want to have a look here...

https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...50066464&s=674608412

Yeah - my bad. Apologies to all.

Yeah, you're damn right, "my bad". You have no excuse. None. You should have known this, as I've only said it hundreds of times in this forum. No excuse.

You don't help yourself when I have to wait to get a response out of you, either.

Interesting how the body works, I can remember the last time I threw up as a kid. Some illness, it was non stop, then painful dry heaves. Then after that I didn't throw up for another 20+ years. Broke the streak after getting food poisoning from some bad scallops.
After that, I had a hair trigger for about a year. EVERYTHING nearly made me throw up. THAT was kind of scary, but not a phobia.


I don't get seasick. But I sorta get other people seasick, sick.

As a kid I was afraid. Would heave so hard I'd be sore for a couple of days. So, I went to great lengths not to throw up. As an adult I don't have nearly the same aversion. The benefits of feeling better quickly help out, but I rarely throw up. Last good one was on a highway heading south out of Calgary back in 2013.