Gallbladder and the Nauseous Sneeze

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? 

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

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

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

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!

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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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...

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Post Edited (SCOTT FISCHER) : 5/12/2018 2:24:22 AM (GMT-6)

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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