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[honorsmum]

Does anyone else get morning retching from changes to hormones?

The last 6 or 7 weeks, I've had the odd bout of getting up and then retching after I've gone downstairs. It first happened a couple of days before a period, and has happened again this morning (I suspect my period is due this weekend, if last month's cycle is anything to go by).

I never suffered morning sickness, but I suspect it's similar - once I've stopped retching, I feel better.
It seems to coincide with waking up early with my heart racing and adrenaline pumping, so maybe it's all connected - hormones = palpitations = adrenaline = retching?

Does anyone else get it?

[Kathleen]

Hello honorsmum.

Yes I used to get this, first thing every morning I'd need to go into the bathroom and retch, I wondered if I'd be sick but never was and I'd feel better after. A friend of mine experienced the same thing.  There was also a time when I felt as if I was suffering from morning sickness and I remember thinking how strange that was as I'd never had that with my pregnancies.

I think retching is another symptom of changing hormones and I hope this phase passes quickly for you.

Wishing you well and take care.

K. 

[Briony]

Yes, me too. Last time I was on the motorway driving home from work when it happened. It scared me so much as I thought I'd crash. It coincided with a bad migraine too. Metoclipromide (sp) has helped. Now I take it in advance if I get 'that feeling'. Good luck - hope yours goes soon. Mine seems to go as quickly and randomly as it starts x

[honorsmum]

Thank you, Kathleen.

It's only happened 4 or 5 times, thankfully, and seems to follow a disturbed night - last night, I woke up feeling very hot and nauseous, and then my heart racing woke me up at just after 6am with adrenaline as well.

I have a headachey feeling now (I rarely get headaches usually).

Thanks Briony. Fortunately, it only seems to happen just after I get up and go downstairs. I have to clear my throat, and then it starts. Lasts a few minutes, eyes streaming, and then it passes. My poor dogs were desperate for their breakfast, barking at me as I was bent double over the kitchen sink!

[Mrs January]

Hi Honorsmum

So sorry to hear you have this symptom...do you live alone?? I always find it worse when we are ill and live alone (  I do live with my two teenagers but they are rarely home)

Hugs

Mrs January xx

[honorsmum]

Hi Honorsmum

So sorry to hear you have this symptom...do you live alone?? I always find it worse when we are ill and live alone (  I do live with my two teenagers but they are rarely home)

Hugs

Mrs January xx

Thank you, Mrs January.
No, I have 2 children and a lovely husband. He usually gets up first and brings me tea in bed, sorts the children for school etc - but I get up at the weekends and let him sleep in.

[CLKD]

I had this on the 1st contraceptive pill I was prescribed …….

I also dry retch when my anxiety is controlling me 

[CLKD]

Any improvement?

[honorsmum]

I haven't had it happen again since I posted, CLKD.
It seems to happen when my anxiety is high first thing in the morning, and maybe that, in turn, is to do with hormone fluctuations?

[CLKD]

When I was deeply afraid and anxious I had dry heaving ……. 

[honorsmum]

I don't feel anxious, insofar as I'm not worrying about anything. It's in no way mental, purely physical - some mornings, I wake up early and immediately the adrenaline kicks in until I get up. That's why I think it's hormonal and purely chemical.
Funnily enough, I remember my twin sister being sick in the morning quite often for a period of time when we were in our early teens - maybe that was hormones, too? 

[honeybun]

Have you tried treating it like morning sickness.

Dry biscuit at the side of the bed and nibble before you lift your head from the pillow. Hubby to bring a cuppa.
Oh heck I remember those days....head down the loo first thing if you forgot the biscuit.

Sea bands can also help.....most chemists have them ...they work on acupuncture points.


Honeyb
X

[bev567901]

Nausea & gaggy feelings have been my worst symptoms so far. It's just like pregnancy for me with smells etc, even taking a paracetomal can be hard. All the things I had in pregnancy have come back minus the baby!   It's funny as the last 6 mths my husband has been the same he can't clean up after the dogs, he must be menopausal too. He was sick in a plant pot last week on the front door step as the cat had gutzed his breakfast & it returned. Thankfully since HRT I'm much hardier!!! Xx

[jedigirl]

Hi,
Yes severe retching was a symptom i had before HRT, not just in the morning ,though it was at it's worst then.
It was definitely affected by anxiety too as my worst days were the days i woke up fearful and panicky. Some days it would come on later out of the blue , very much like a chemical reaction, the same as the anxiety can suddenly come or go.
I do think it's a hormonal reaction as I haven't been as extreme as that since being on HRT even on anxious days.  I have days when i feel nauseous and I think those days would have been the retching days if my hormones weren't more in check with the HRT.
Not a pleasant symptom at all  xxx

[dazned]

Yes I 've had tag t too, in fact like you said it feels like extreme morning sickness but not pregnant,very weird,but I suppose the hormones are all over the place like in pregnancy guess that might explain it .