Lots of times we're dehydrated but think we're hungry. I'm doing that nausea or hunger dance right now myself!

I'd try drinking more water and eating more fruits and veggies.

I have this particular problem all the time. Sometimes I'll wake up at night and the feeling will be there. I eat a fat free Fig Newton. One. If I still feel the same way in ten minutes, I take some Pepto Bismol. No joke.

Usually the Pepto helps, telling me it's nausea, which I have had often since being diagnosed with CFIDS. But nausea doesn't usually "hurt". This feeling you speak of maybe hurts, and that's why you are questioning it.

I totally get it. It's a quirky CFDIS thing I think....and it's more nausea for me.

Blessings to you today, hope this helps. We have so many stupid symptoms with this illness. Just remember, it's not in your head. You have tummy troubles!! I get it!

Probiotics helped me with this.

You are definitely not alone... nice to know I'm not either!
This happens to me a lot. My general guideline is that if I feel that way but haven't eaten in 5-6 hours, then I am probably hungry and even if I am nauseous, I should consume calories for my own good. I just make an effort to eat easily digestible things- cooked cereals, cooked veggies, yogurt, etc. and then liberally dose with Tums.

Don't rule out food allergies. That was one of the first questions my allergist asked me, is whether I felt discomfort and/or nausea in the stomach and relieved it (temporarily) with food.

That happens to me, off and on. The ONLY thing I feel "like eating," at those times, is soup!! Try that and see IF it helps. Sometimes, I feel nauseated because my "blood sugar is low" and I am struggling with that, right now, to eat the complex carbohydrates! I do NOT like to eat and I'm sick of "having " to eat every 1/2 hour or so!!! Plus, I am trying to drink more, usually Vitamin water or something along those lines! I get SO sick of having to go to the bathroom ALL the time. I am at "rock bottom" right now, but am doing EVERYTHING in MY power to build myself back up, so I can get on with life. That would take care of ONE of my MANY problems!!
God Bless you ALL for this website:)
Nancy
Anyone have any other tips they can share about how they "solve the problem" of Hypoglycemia???

Thanks very much for all the feedback. I am now making a real effort to drink enough and eat more regularly - not feeling better yet but hope I soon will!

Food allergies is an interesting thought. I have a few other symptoms that I thought might be allergies but hadnt thought that the nausea might be part of that.

Thanks all.

I get nauseated all the time, and I do alot when I am hungry too. I get sick for no reason. For me I think it is the ME and fibro causing it. I am nauseated at some point every single day.

No, thankfully when I am hungry I am hungry.
Thankfull I am not nausea's very often.
When I am dehydrate it is more common for me to be nausea's but thats probably a reaction to some past creations that have become almost perminant residants in my fridge and as the sight of them makes my wife sick too I think I am normal in this sence.
Sorry nicky I cant help you more.
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Al

I get nausea sometimes when I overeat (due to the hypoglycemia). Peppermint or ginger tea helps or even chocolate! I think that it can be caused when you overload your liver or stomach with too many different types of food or greasy stuff (which I did just now, yuck!) Nausea may, I think, be caused by dysbiosis (i.e. eating food that's gone bad, not having enough 'good' bacteria in one's gut). Or drinking tons of water with ones food - not a great idea!

Hypoglycemia can be helped with magnesium glycinate, eating protein for breakfast (not cereal or porridge or even fruit) and dealing with any possible parasites. Parasites can make it worse, so can grapefruit seed extract or goldenseal (for me anyway!)

In science, the principle of Occam's Razor states that when you have several possible explanations for something, and you have to choose, pick the most likely explanation first and investigate that.

ME has nausea as one of its very typical symptoms, so I would go with that rather than messing with hydration and food allergies and the like. Backtrack to see if you over-exerted or got into something stressful before you got nauseous. See if rest and relaxation alleviates the nausea.

I get different degrees of nausea whenever I get stressed, depending on how severe the stress was. It also seems to make me teeter on the edge of indigestion so I have to be really careful about what I eat. Things like breadsticks, plain white crackers, and oatmeal can be friends indeed. Ginger is another good friend.

I tell you nausea is my best friend lol...I cant get through one day without having 2-3 spells and sometimes I am hungry and at others I am not. I try to ignore it and block it out hoping it will go away yet sometimes I take Petobismol and it helps. I also am trying to eat activia everyday. I am trying Prohibotics too. I was wondering if I had food allergies but after reading this I think it is a good indication that CFS causes this. With CFS we get dehydrated and have frequent urination - I have started eating two teaspoons of sea salt daily and it helps me retain fluids and feel better. I have heard that if you buy peppermint hard candy it can ease an upset stomach.