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mygbhatesme2
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Posted 12/22/2010 11:33 AM (GMT -8)
After several years of progressively worsening symptoms, I finally had an ultrasound and was diagnosed with gallstones.  I am scheduled for surgery in two weeks.  My symptoms have been quite consistent with Keri's; however, I developed one symptom recently that my surgeon had not heard of.  I will have sudden onset severe nausea followed a few seconds later by a sneeze, then voila the nausea magically disapears.  This has happened several times since I found out about the gallstones.  I'm in my 40s and never had this before.  The whole nausea/sneeze episode lasts no more than 1 minute start to finish.  Funny thing is, when I get the nausea, I don't have any idea that I'm about to sneeze until I actually do it.  The nausea goes away the second I sneeze.  The doctor said he thought it was a vagal(?) symptom and suggested I take Prilosec for acid reflux.  I've never had reflux, although in the last couple weeks I have developed very uncomfortable fullness, pressure in my lower esophagus that feels like I've eaten too much even if I haven't eaten anything.  Prilosec does nothing.  Anyway, I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced the nauseaus sneeze with gallbladder symptoms, or am I nuts?  tongue
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Hiker
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Posted 11/3/2015 4:37 PM (GMT -8)
Hi there,
Ive been living with this odd condition for a few years now. It is exactly what you say.
First the nausua then immediately the sneeze, and with a moment the nausua is gone.

I don't get this everyday and in fact it may not happen for a week or perhaps a month.
But I tend to get it the day after Ive slammed more then a few beers. And after exerting myself hiking some
hills, (my exercise).
I have no other symptoms.. I still have all of my inerds, But I know I have some pockets in my large colon.
Which used to irritate, Its been years since that's bothered me.

so until I see a doctor ,I haven't the foggiest.
Hiker
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Hiker
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Posted 11/3/2015 4:40 PM (GMT -8)
Just a quick comment.. I really didn't mean to have the little smiley devil face -up there. Please Excuse.
Thanks
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semp
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Posted 3/8/2016 6:45 AM (GMT -8)
Hello all!
I too, have been a nausea/sneeze subject for the past few years.
I've taken a chemotherapy medication daily for the past 9 years, and I had thought that was my connection. But, in light of seeing other possibilities, gall bladder, maybe beers ( smiley face ), acid reflux, etc., I don't know where it stems from. I do know I have learned to love sneezing, and am so close to making myself sneeze on my own.
I am glad I saw this post and didn't pass it by. If anyone else has had successful outcomes to solving this, please post it. I am so tired of my doctor giving me that look. The one you know he thinks you are nuts!

Thanks,
Semp
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Johns Wife
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Posted 2/16/2017 10:14 PM (GMT -8)
I have been having these little attacks for a few months now. My gallbladder was removed several years ago so I don't think that's my problem. Just good to get on here and see I'm not going crazy!
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@lvsells
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Posted 9/4/2017 8:14 AM (GMT -8)
I have recently started experiencing this symptom. I have been diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF) and thought it was related to fluid retention; but that doesn't mesh with anyone else's experience or diagnosis. It is comforting to know others are having this symptom, but of course there is NO comfort in fact that no one has answers, further details or diagnosis. I'll keep watching thread and will post any additional information I obtain to help us with understanding & treatment.
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@lvsells
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Posted 9/4/2017 8:17 AM (GMT -8)

Hiker said...
Just a quick comment.. I really didn't mean to have the little smiley devil face -up there. Please Excuse.
Thanks


Please update us if you have ANY new data!!
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@lvsells
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Posted 9/4/2017 8:19 AM (GMT -8)

semp said...
Hello all!
I too, have been a nausea/sneeze subject for the past few years.
I've taken a chemotherapy medication daily for the past 9 years, and I had thought that was my connection. But, in light of seeing other possibilities, gall bladder, maybe beers ( smiley face ), acid reflux, etc., I don't know where it stems from. I do know I have learned to love sneezing, and am so close to making myself sneeze on my own.
I am glad I saw this post and didn't pass it by. If anyone else has had successful outcomes to solving this, please post it. I am so tired of my doctor giving me that look. The one you know he thinks you are nuts!

Thanks,
Semp



Please update us if you have ANY new data!!
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@lvsells
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Posted 9/4/2017 10:06 AM (GMT -8)

Johns Wife said...
I have been having these little attacks for a few months now. My gallbladder was removed several years ago so I don't think that's my problem. Just good to get on here and see I'm not going crazy!



Please update us if you have ANY new data!!
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straydog
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Posted 9/4/2017 11:23 AM (GMT -8)
The above members have not posted here at Healing Well since the above dates. You can click on a members name & it will show you their most recent posts.
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DonnaJC
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Posted 10/2/2017 10:12 AM (GMT -8)
Okay, I know some of these posts are old, but some are recent. I just started having a similar issue but not sure if it's the same. I eat and then feel like I'm about to sneeze and then get nauseous along with the need-to-sneeze feeling (awful, really). This goes on for several minutes while I'm not sure if I need to sneeze or throw up or what's going to happen. Then I burp (gross, sorry) and seem to be okay for the most part... still a little scared to finish my meal, but hungry (sometimes feeling almost famished). It seems to take a few more minutes for me to be able to eat and then I'm okay. I don't have any other symptoms, never had any gallbladder issues, but I do have IBS (and see this seems to be in the chain of how I got here). I typically eat a very healthy Paleo diet and have no flare ups. Now that I'm thinking of it, however, these two episodes I've had (both in the last week) have come after a day of eating things I shouldn't, including dairy and wheat. Hmmm...
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Sudot
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Posted 11/4/2017 10:14 AM (GMT -8)
Had my gall bladder removed Oct 2 2017. This nausea/sneeze symptom started a week or so after the successful laparoscopic surgery. Only in the morning, if I do not eat before hustling around with activities. First time it happened, I was actually hovering over the toilet bowl. Achoo! Nausea instantly gone. I am 68 years old, overweight but fairly active. My GP thinks it may be low sugar in the morning. I am not diabetic. I thought it might be the bile going into my digestive system without the help of my filtering gall bladder, especially after my morning bowel movement starts my intestines working. Maybe it related to liver issues instead.
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WillyWonker
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Posted 11/17/2017 9:01 AM (GMT -8)
I can only offer a "me too" to the OP.

Very swift onset of nausea and by the time I think "OMG, I am going to vomit ... where", a sudden, en-expected and completely involuntary sneeze and then boom, no nausea. Mine is about 10 seconds start to finish.

It's infrequent, so always catches me unaware.

I do suffer from reflux from time to time, so this seems a plausible correlation. For years I have had less severe feelings of nausea without the sneeze, and they feel similar/related now I come to think of it.
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Krysbarr
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Posted 11/26/2017 1:07 PM (GMT -8)
My nausea/sneezing episodes started about January 2011, when I was in my second trimester of my only pregnancy and I was 31 years old. It stopped completely after I have birth in mid July 2011. It never happened again until November 20th, 2017. I don't know if it's worse than before or if I forgot just how bad it was back in 2011. Other than the nausea/sneezing episodes, my whole pregnancy was the best time of my life, best I'd ever felt in my life to the point I wish I was just pregnant forever.

Now I get completely disabling nausea, I mean I can't do anything, can't move, can't get to a trashcan or anything. Nausea doesn't even seem like an appropriate word for how severe I feel I am going to vomit immediately. It is the worst sensation I've ever felt. I would rather just hurry up and vomit or sneeze to not have this extreme nausea feeling. I never know a sneeze is coming, but it always does and the nausea is immediately and completely gone. I do have many ailments and I track my health daily to try to find correlations between what things affect my health and how. But I have yet to find what ailment, environmental source, medication, food or whatever else may be causing this.
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JessieD
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Posted 11/29/2017 1:14 PM (GMT -8)
Hello everyone! I am writing to say "me too" and to give a list of other health issues/imbalances I have so we can all compare and try to find a pattern. I too get the overwhelming wave of nausea that is very quickly and instantly relieved by a sneeze. I looked up why and was brought here.. Ive read some theories as to why this happens and the change in blood sugar or pressure theory makes sense with me. I am an herbalist so I tend to describe my body's imbalances as "too hot, too cold, too dry, too damp, constricted, relaxed, etc." I am a physically tense person with stagnant lymphatics. I have never been able to pull up mucus, my glands in my throat swell frequently, and I need to do lymphatic massage to relieve the pain in my collar bone and neck area. I also have chronic acne? Have been wondering if there is a connection here with the liver? maybe lymphatics?
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Greg R.
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Posted 4/25/2018 10:13 AM (GMT -8)
Hello all,

I just googled symptoms that have been baffling me and I was directed here. For 2 years and most mornings now I get a wave of nausea that last several minutes and then I begin a hacking cough then my throat closes off for just a few seconds, nonetheless scary, and all topped off by several quick sneezes and voila' all better! I have always been anxious but it now seems to be leading me more inward. I have been diagnosed with Sarcoidosis, an auto-immune disorder that effects my lung function from time to time. My diet has been strictly scratch Paleo for nearly a year now.
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SCOTT FISCHER
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Posted 5/12/2018 12:18 AM (GMT -8)
Appreciate this post. I have had this problem for about 20 years. Every morning, an incredible feeling of nausea followed with one or two hard sneezes, then gone. I'm 45, exercise, and eat like crap - sure I eat veggies and fruits, but lots of red meat, pizza, fast food and crap too. I still get it when I eat breakfast, which I thought was the problem, not eating breakfast. But it does reduce it a bit. I drink lots of iced amercianos, little non fat. Every single Doctor I explained this to just looks at me like *** are you talking bout. Lots of Doctors. They have no freaking clue or link. Could be acid reflux I think. Woke up lots of times at night, with crap coming up out of my nose, jumping out of bed, scary AF. In the morning, I can feel my dinner from the night before churning and turning through my intestines - which they say is impossible but no, I feel a huge turd literally moving - and that too creates nausea. I also smoke lots of weed, a lot. Drink lots of coffee too - so Im thinking there is a link. Has to be diet.

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Sneezy
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Posted 7/26/2018 4:47 AM (GMT -8)
This is a relatively new problem for me- I’m 48 and have only experienced this phenomenon for about two years. I’ve recently been diagnosed as type 2 diabetic, and have suspected for a long time that I have some sort of autoimmune disease. I also have acid reflux, but I’ve had that for years...so, I’m not inclined to believe that is the problem.

I wonder about gallbladder.

I know several have mentioned that their gallbladder had been removed, so they didn’t think that was the problem...but, what if it is the lack of a properly functioning gallbladder? If mine isn’t working right, wouldn’t that be the same as having had it removed?

I will have to say, though, I am relieved to know I’m not alone. When I asked my doctor about it, she basically rolled her eyes and looked at me as if I had asked her to stitch up a paper cut.

Frustrating.
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22ncounting
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Posted 8/31/2018 9:23 AM (GMT -8)
I've had this very same problem for many many years. I used to think I was alone with this. My symptoms are this..I get extremely nauseated to the point that it will literally double me over and as I'm hanging myself over some railing trying to deal with it, I all of a sudden out of the blue start sneezing. For me it's 4 sneezes. As fast as they come out is as fast as the nausea goes away. Morning is probably my worst. I avoid drinking things, especially water first thing in the morning, because it really sets me off. Over the years I've come up with all kinds of reasons in my head as to what causes it and when I bring it up to the doctors I get the same reply...that's weird and nothings talked about. Usually I'm in for something else and then I bring it up but nobody hears me.
I'm also a lucid dreamer. I can control my dreams. There's been times in the morning when I wake my brain up but not my body. When I decide to wake my body I can feel my organs wake up and start to work. I can feel them coming out of a deep sleep. As soon as they start waking up I start getting nauseated. In my subconscious state I think to myself, oh boy, here it comes and I wake up and sneaze and then the nausea is gone. But it proves to me that it starts in my stomach.
I have a heart murmur and I used to think that maybe that had something to do with it. Like maybe when my heart flutters, which it will do occasionally, that maybe the sneezing is to kick it back into rhythm. When I get nauseated I feel like I'm literally being poisoned from the inside out. It's horrible. I'm to the point now, I'm 55, that this is just the way of life for me. I've had this for so many years it's just a part of me. I did have some test taken that determined that my stomach empty's slowly. Very slowly so that could be part of it. I have to be careful how I eat but even so I never have pinpointed what exactly causes this.
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TheRayf
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Posted 9/24/2018 11:23 AM (GMT -8)
I've been having the same problem for years, thought it was acid reflux issue. I get really nauseous then sneeze and i feel fine. Been happening for some time now. It happens mostly in the morning. I also have a very sensitive stomach to liquids. I always thought maybe it was the way my body released the stomach acids. It is puzzling tho.
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Mindstrange
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Posted 9/26/2018 1:20 AM (GMT -8)
I have been experiencing something very close to what most of the post/replies have described here except a few differences though. First I have never had gallstones or chemotherapy or anything like that, the only major thing I have ever had wrong with me was and appendectomy when I was about 10 or 11. I am currently 41. Now to explain what happens with me to this very day. Sometimes I may have just woken up, or it could be in the middle of the day or even in the evening, but whatever time it is, it is sudden onset of nausea. Doesn't have the vomit sensation with it though. I just feel a nauseous feeling in my abdomen area. Here is where there is the first difference than others that have replied/posted, I do not have the involuntary sneezing those have described, what I do is I feel this nausea and start slightly coughing which in turn causes me to sneeze. If I don't do this then I won't sneeze and the nausea will continue. Now as with what others have said, once I "make" myself sneeze by coughing little short coughs, the nausea goes away almost instantly, there are times when I must do this a couple of times, but most usually it does cause the nausea to subside. The thing is, I know that the coughing causes sneezing because it causes droplets to leave the throat and enter the nasal area that in turns causes sneezing because of how sensitive the nasal cavity is. I have talked to many people and my doctors about this and none have even heard of it happening to anyone. Let alone anyone having the nausea subside immediately after sneezing. I heard this so many times that I almost started crying when I seen this forum as this lets me know I am not just totally fabricating the situation in my head when in reality it is something else entirely. I can cause myself to sneeze at any time I want, but would really like to know what medical reasoning there is for sneezing to cause nausea to subside. Is the sneeze causing a balance of the equilibrium in my system again or something similar? Thanks in advance to anyone with information. If anyone wants to directly email me my email is dryan_99@yahoo.com. Make sure to include that this is about my post on Healingwell.com in the subject line or I might never see it, lol.

Sincerely,
Dave Ryan
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Sam1289
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Posted 10/17/2018 3:32 AM (GMT -8)
I have had this nauseous sneezing thing for a few years now and have only ever had odd looks when I've explained it to someone, so I am so glad to read that I'm not the only one!

Mine is definitely a sudden intense rush of nausea like I am going to be sick, but then I sneeze (what feels like out of nowhere) and the urge to be sick is instantly gone.

I noticed that this post is in the IBS section of the forums and am curious why that is? I do have IBS so would love to know if it's linked!
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Posted 11/9/2018 12:01 PM (GMT -8)
Ciao! I’ve also had these rare combo nausea/sneeze episodes for the past year. From reading the thread, the unbelievable nausea prior to the solution sneeze won’t scare me so much. I’ve never actually vomited and am sadly relieved that there are others out there. I’m 48 and have had many GI related surgeries to remove rare sarcoma from my GI system. I have my gallbladder, but other organs have been partly removed or resected. No reflux. Allergies yes. Recent significant weight loss through diet alone, over a year’s time under doctor care. I can say that I relate with others as far as being easily nauseated by other things, “easy queasy” often used to describe me. I have the ability to purposely sneeze if I scratch my nose near a specific spot. Other than that bizarre feature, this “episode” is sporadic and random throughout my day. My husband thought I was crazy until I told him that others exist! That vagas nerve seems to be greatly related with zero empirical evidence, in my opinion.
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Posted 11/16/2018 10:26 AM (GMT -8)
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Kate32
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Posted 12/16/2018 7:06 AM (GMT -8)
I too experience nausea before sneezing. It doesn't happen everytime I sneeze, but often enough to be very annoying. It started after I had emergency surgery to remove an ectopic pregenancy in 2010. I was also experiencing digestion issues then, but doctors couldn't figure it out then. Fast forward thru 8 years of funny looks when I explain this to a doctor...this year I ended up in the ER with flared up diverticulitis. I am a healthy 38 year old. Eat healthy, active, and not overweight. Since then I have had 11 CT scans of my abdominal area...no issues with my gallbladder, liver, kidneys, etc. I did have surgery to remove 12" of my colon and the surgery went horribly wrong, resulting in 3 more surgeries and almost death. Since then the nausea before sneezing has become worse and more frequent. I would love to understand how my various abdominal surgeries have played a part in this weird condition.
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