# Is it possible to vomit without nausea?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 27, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-vomit-without-nausea/487694 "2009-02-27T18:02:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-vomit-without-nausea/487694/21 "2009-03-01T15:54:44Z")

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> [@GoodOmens](#):
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> Also, some people can intentionally vomit. My high school biology teacher once told us about a college roommate of his with the nickname “Albatross.” He could induce vomiting through some jaw motions that nobody else every understood. He did it as a party trick.

Probably would have made a good sword swallower. Some people just have (or discover) how to relax the supposedly “involuntary” esophageal muscles in the right order! Amazing, really.

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**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-vomit-without-nausea/487694/22 "2009-03-01T17:47:14Z")

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Severe pain can cause vomiting without nausea. When I’ve had to go to the ER due to severe migraine, I always had vomiting with the migraine, but did not feel nauseated. Sometimes that’s just the body’s reaction to pain.

I frequently have nausea as a symptom of the migraine (that usually doesn’t result in vomiting, but occasionally does.), but it’s a completely different feeling than vomiting from the pain.

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