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[nonethefewer]

Dear self:

You have a touchy tummy.  A sensitive stomach.  A bad-tempered belly.

If you eat dairy, or too much fried food, or anything too non-bland, you'll feel ill.

If you get in a car and don't focus on the road, or you don't sleep well, or you get really anxious, you'll feel ill.

I am not even getting into the whole "low blood sugar"/"not eating enough" crap.  Just, no.  That's too large for now.

Stop writing it all off as just this one thing.  Stop reading while someone is driving, thinking it's just in your head this time, when it's every time.  Take your damn Lactaid pills with you always.  Eat a goddamn fruit or vegetable sometimes.  Sleep better.  Notice trends, damn your eyes.

Sinsrsly,
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Comments

[rosefox]

I dunno what-all your stomach symptoms are, but have you talked with a doctor about them?

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

It's nothing special, just intense quease.  Dairy focuses on southbound traffic, too much fried food makes me feel kind of sticky and stomach-focused and fleh, anxiety gives me this silverish pinging in my stomach which turns into no food allowed, and the car thing feels like I focus on a foundation and said foundation has turned to water.

The car thing frustrates me most.  I am fine on airplanes with turbulence*, on the bus, in the subway, on a trolley (front section, back section, standing on the join), on a roller coaster, and in a gotdamn kayak.  If I am in a car and am both not driving and not focusing on the road, though, I get queasy.  ARGH WHY

* My stomach drops if we go down too fast, see also elevator, but that's not an issue-thing so much as a biology-thing.

[rosefox]

If intense quease happens to you weekly, or even more often, that is definitely outside the typical human experience, and perhaps worth looking into.