I’m not talking about morning sickness, as I am a very nonpregnant male. I have no real health issues. My only issue is that I never really wake up hungry and at least to some degree I feel sick to my stomach every morning (from when I wake up till about noon). I find that it helps immensely if I eat a hearty breakfast, but as a college student who can barely cook I rarely get that, so my breakfasts are usually pretty light.
There are particular foods that cause more of an issue for me if I consume them first thing in the morning. For example, I had a pretty bad experience with some barbecue-chicken pizza. Also, drinking water in the mornings on an empty stomach makes me feel quite nauseous, and I can’t drink coffee unless I’ve eaten quite a bit, as it once caused me to vomit.
I tried a Google search for the answer to this question, and all I could find were remedies for the problem… That’s not totally what I’m after, I’m mainly just wondering why. My (computer) teacher in high school said it was because, over night, our stomachs produce excessive amounts of acids and thus become sensitive in the morning as to what we put in them. What do you guys think?
Your question, and anything other than the most generic response to it, comes perilously close to ‘medical advice’, something verboten around here.
So, in a generic sense, without specific reference to you or your ‘issue’, I will note that lying flat all night and without food to neutralize stomach acid, are together, a set-up for gastroesophageal reflux. See a doc, eh?
BBQ chicken pizza should be fine for breakfast, settle the old gut right down. How are your sinuses? I am not a doctor or a food critic, just throwing something out there.
We relaxed the rule against medical and legal advice some time ago. However, threads about specific cases are usually best handled in IMHO rather than GQ.
Although the OP is asking for general factual information about the cause of his problem, since it does involve a specific case I’m going to move it to IMHO.
I’m 52 and I’ve felt the exact same way since I was a little kid. I think that some of us just don’t recover very well from that horridly cruel jerk from dreamland into real life.
Yes, how are your sinuses? If you have allergies and experience post-nasal dripping, a belly full of snot doesn’t lend itself to feeling very well in the morning.
I agree, you’re pregnant. Perhaps you’re the subject of a secret experiment…so secret that you don’t even know about it. I am also not a doctor.
However, if you do better with a good breakfast, but you’re not much of a cook, then try some cold cereal. Eat the boring, healthy stuff, like shredded wheat or Cheerios. Frozen berries keep very well in a fridge, if you have access to a freezer compartment. I am particularly fond of blueberries. No need to defrost them, just put them on the cereal and pour on milk. This will give you a healthy, hearty, non-spicy breakfast that probably won’t aggravate your innards.
Total layman’s guess is that your blood sugar has dropped to an unsafe level. Eat a good breakfast, and get ye to a doctor to rule out things such as diabetes.
My first thought was that you were pregnant too. Quite obviously an ectopic pregnancy. And I’m not a doctor either (although I have seen one on TV.) Still, I’ve had these symptoms too and find that (as Lynn suggested) some healthy cereal helps almost immediately. This is true even when I’m not hungry as, like you, I usually don’t wake up that way.
But…
Let’s see: Strawberry cheesecake or tuna salad. Cheesecake or tuna. Cheesecake or tuna. Sweet, creamy dessert of the gods or some dead fish. This seems like a no-brainer to me!
A few years back, I had the same problem, only it eventually got so bad that most mornings I’d wake up dry heaving. Turned out, I had acid reflux. The doc suggested taking a Tagamet before I went to bed, and the problem cleared itself up over night.
Now, I’m not a doctor myself, and all that, but Tagamet is a pretty common OTC medication. Might be worth giving it a shot, see if it helps anything.