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[KaraShannon]

Hi all

In the last 4 days I've felt slightly sick after eating.  It's very subtle, but there in the background and it's something I never have.  I'm not one to over eat and never feel sick after food. 

Anyway it's very mild, wouldn't stop me working or anything, so just wondering if it could be another menopause thing.  I have my period at the moment and I am more sensitive to smell, food tastes different etc, at this time.  But this symptom is new.

The only other thing is a pasta ready meal from the supermarket, I took a few mouthfuls and decided the mayo might have been off.  Again, could be my hormones, or maybe lingering food poisoning from that.  I didn't eat the rest but felt sick that evening.

Oh well, it's raining, got to go and pick up a friend who's stuck out in it.    Hopefully this will just be another menopause thing or something else that will go away in a day or two.

[jaypo]

Hi Kara,I'd say yes,it is a symptom of meno (there's a surprise) I get this frequently,with me it's silent reflux,something I never suffered from until the menopause,have you tried omeprazole? Over the counter ones didn't work for me but my dr prescribed stronger ones but maybe worth a shot trying some just to see if they work? Xx

[CLKD]

Not food poisoning.  U would definitely know if your gut had been poisoned.  Stop over thinking?

U may well feel nauseous because your gut is empty.  Get some banana or dried biscuits down you.  Slow release foods are good, NOT shop bought meals.  Full of nasty 'fillers' which don't do the body any good.

My taste buds have altered in the last 5 years, I can drink a cuppa, blk 2 sugars during the morning: after lunch it tastes FOUL.

I then dried Coke or fizzy fruit juices for years in the afternoon = reflux cough.  Probably due to hidden sugars 

Some medications or lack of Vits can cause a metallic taste.  Some toothpastes can alter taste buds. 

[Dotty]

I had horrendous nausea . It was constant and debilitating and I couldn’t eat 😓.

[KaraShannon]

Thanks Jaypo and CLKD

I've just looked at the ingredients on the digestive biscuits I've been buying for a week, and eating loads, they have iron in the ingredients.  Iron has always made me feel sick, so possibly it's that.  It did happen one night when I ate them before bed, I got into bed feeling sick and it's unusual for me with any food.

Yes I'm over thinking, but maybe the iron explains it.

[KaraShannon]

I had horrendous nausea . It was constant and debilitating and I couldn’t eat 😓.

That's horrible Dotty, hopefully it's a mixture of things with me, I've been lowering the oestrogen patch, it's my period, or the iron in the biscuits, etc. 

I'm horrendously stressed, though this isn't stressy nausea which I don't get.  There are way too many things wanting my attention right now and I cannot do all of them.

[CLKD]

Stop reading ingredients.    .  Some nights I have supper of bread with marmalade, occasionally the latter is too sweet late at night = nausea.  Other times it's OK.

If my body lacks energy = nausea
Hormone upheaval = nausea

[KaraShannon]

Stop reading ingredients.    .  Some nights I have supper of bread with marmalade, occasionally the latter is too sweet late at night = nausea.  Other times it's OK.

If my body lacks energy = nausea
Hormone upheaval = nausea

lol, I just feel better when there's an explanation but it's just health anxiety.  If there's an explanation then I can mark it down as mild and will be gone soon and no longer have to freak out as to what it might be 

[CLKD]

So my tastebuds are all over the place today 

Didn't sleep well.  Trying to get my jaw round some muesli/milk ........ it's almost tasting 'off'  . 

[Penguin]

Stop reading ingredients.    .  Some nights I have supper of bread with marmalade, occasionally the latter is too sweet late at night = nausea.  Other times it's OK.

If my body lacks energy = nausea
Hormone upheaval = nausea

lol, I just feel better when there's an explanation but it's just health anxiety.  If there's an explanation then I can mark it down as mild and will be gone soon and no longer have to freak out as to what it might be 

Know exactly what you mean! I am anxious about the uncertainty and not knowing what something is, and end up chasing my tail trying to find out.

[pastie supper]

Hi KaraShannon, nausea was one of my worst symptoms during my first couple of years of menopause, it's eased off since I've got oestrogel, before that the doctor tried prescribing omeprazole, but that made me nauseous even when I wasn't to start with!

Another doctor gave me a stock of cyclizine to keep in the house because when I am actually physically sick it does a lot of damage, two black eyes on one occasion. I went to the optician about that, I have a genetic illness which makes my blood vessels delicate, I bruise & damage easily with erosions in both my oesophagus and stomach that they can't or won't treat.

Cyclizine changed my life! I didn't take it often because it's addictive, but it worked really well when I needed to feel ok.

Since getting oestrogel, I've not needed cyclizine at all, but they refused me oestrogel for over a year.
I think that indicates it was caused by menopause if oestrogel cures it!

I'd lost a lot of weight, BMI at 17, due to 24/7 nausea putting me off my food.

Since getting HRT sorted I'm a healthy 56kg, that's about BMI 22 for my height.

[KaraShannon]

Stop reading ingredients.    .  Some nights I have supper of bread with marmalade, occasionally the latter is too sweet late at night = nausea.  Other times it's OK.

If my body lacks energy = nausea
Hormone upheaval = nausea

lol, I just feel better when there's an explanation but it's just health anxiety.  If there's an explanation then I can mark it down as mild and will be gone soon and no longer have to freak out as to what it might be 

Know exactly what you mean! I am anxious about the uncertainty and not knowing what something is, and end up chasing my tail trying to find out.

Thanks Penguin, it helps to know I'm not the only one 

It pretty much stopped that day anyway, it's back slightly today, but I've got a bit of labyrinthitis, which I think I had last week as well, so it might be that, and it's on the way out.  The only other thing is the vaginal estradiol, it gives me migraine, but never nausea, I have started using the tiniest crumb of it, just to get something up there, lol.  So I don't think it's that, but I've just reintroduced it, and had it yesterday, so maybe.

[KaraShannon]

Hi KaraShannon, nausea was one of my worst symptoms during my first couple of years of menopause, it's eased off since I've got oestrogel, before that the doctor tried prescribing omeprazole, but that made me nauseous even when I wasn't to start with!

Another doctor gave me a stock of cyclizine to keep in the house because when I am actually physically sick it does a lot of damage, two black eyes on one occasion. I went to the optician about that, I have a genetic illness which makes my blood vessels delicate, I bruise & damage easily with erosions in both my oesophagus and stomach that they can't or won't treat.

Cyclizine changed my life! I didn't take it often because it's addictive, but it worked really well when I needed to feel ok.

Since getting oestrogel, I've not needed cyclizine at all, but they refused me oestrogel for over a year.
I think that indicates it was caused by menopause if oestrogel cures it!

I'd lost a lot of weight, BMI at 17, due to 24/7 nausea putting me off my food.

Since getting HRT sorted I'm a healthy 56kg, that's about BMI 22 for my height.

Thanks pastie supper

What's oestrogel?  Is it part of a hrt package, including progesterone etc?  I'm on evorel sequi and been fine on it.

A neighbour a couple of doors away seems to be using a subwoofer or something, I feel swaying while sat at my desk sometimes, I don't know if that's part of the problem as it's also through my bed and I can wake up really dizzy. 

But, it's also possible I'm just noticing that because of my head atm.  I may have a bit of labyrinthitis, it feels like it.  The nausea pretty much stopped the day I posted this, has returned a bit today and there is swaying going on (here at home, not anywhere else, so there is a combination of things, bloody half term, lol, I imagine I'll have this all week and won't be able to tease out what's what until normal routines return).

The only other thing is that the vaginal oestrogen causes migraine, for me, even though it's not meant to.  And I started reintroducing  a small amount of that, and used some of it yesterday. 

And breathe.   

Your account is interesting though, I'll bear it in mind.  This isn't typical for me so hopefully it's something that's on the way out.