help! I ate too much. Don't want to throw up

Your stomach empties to the right. Lay on your right side and bring your knees to your chest. It helps, trust me...went through that too many times before. As far as anxiety being brought on by big meals - you bet. Excess anything is foriegn to the body. Too much sugar can spike your endorphins. Too many carbs can spike your blood sugar which can cause anxiety. Coffee and liquor can do it too. Lay down on your right and breathe deeply while imagining that separate parts of your body are floating away. Start with toes, then feet, then calves, thighs, fingers, hands, arms, then torso and finally head...you should feel light and ready to nod off.

iddreams had really good advice. Listening to music or getting lost in a good book can help calm anxiety, too.

Idd is a very smart and kind lady, I'd take her advice. Yes you are not alone, I am scared of throwing up too bc it hurts so bad. There is something wrong with my diaphragm (a sliding hernia) so when I eat too much it is a big deal to me too and getting sick is very painful. I also know that the only 3 things that help me is laying on my right side (just like Idd said), sucking on a peppermint, and most of all ginger ale. Ginger is an old world remedy for nausea. So if you like Canada Dry, that is the best in my opinion. If not, you can get ginger capsules at your local supplement place and I think walmart carries it too, I get mine at GNC and carry it with me so I have something to take. My fear started when I was little too because I have chronic anxiety and when I am under too much stress I throw up, have insomnia, and diarrhea. When I was in elementary school, I had a first grade reading teacher that picked on me until I threw up and she would lie and say I made myself throw up which my parent knew was a lie because I would get sick every morning before school because I was so stressed out about her class. What it was is that I was ahead of my class, my mom taught me how to read when I was in kindergarten and I would get done with my assignments too fast and instead of admitting it and putting me in a higher reading level class (like my second grade teacher did) she just yelled at me and made me do the assignments over. She retired that year. She was an awful lady. But to this day I am afraid of throwing up because the kids in my class were so cruel. I have had digestive problems since I was a baby, I had colic and chronic flatulence that could peel paint and believe me I got made fun of for that too (my second grade teacher didn't help that bc if I tooted she made a scene in class and the kids were mean about that too which only aggravated my disorder). Come to find out I have diverticulitis/ibs and I didn't know until I was an adult. So you are not the only one that has this type of problems.

Start anew with the next meal, get back on track, and don't give up.

The best advice I ever got about trying not to throw up was to imagine yourself sipping cool water. It seriously helps me so much.

I can relate. I also have the same. It doesn't rule my life, perse, as I am not in contact with vomit a lot, but it really affects. E when it happens.