Ideas: Something easy to eat when nauseous? (besides crackers) perhaps due to low blood sugar?

Question

For as long as I can remember I have had problems with nausea (particularly in the mornings). The nausea is bad enough I usually can't bring myself to eat but not bad enough that I throw up. It was mainly in the mornings, and then a couple years ago, for about a year, I would feel fine going to sleep, but then would wake up feeling nauseous around 2am and have to run to the bathroom to throw up and would be up the rest of the morning. Now lately I seem to get nauseated around the time I go to sleep and I cannot fall asleep while I an nauseous.

I am relatively sure I don't have a stomach acidity problem. I have tried tums sometimes and conversely sipping on vinegar other days (the vinegar seemed to have maybe helped a tiny bit a few times, but not entirely).

I THINK it is a blood sugar issue. My mom tells me I have had chroniclly low blood sugar all my life (based on observations of my childhood eating habits and physical symptoms a few hours after eating, nausea, headaches, irritability, anxiety, shakiness, needing to eat too frequently, & quick sugary foods have always made me feel faintly sick). (and I'm not sure what it means but I checked my blood sugar a few times right AFTER eating a small meal and it was around 90)

Anyway, if I can make myself eat something, most of the time that seems to solve the problem enough I can sleep. The problem is that I have a very hard time making myself eat most things because they are too flavorful or smell too strongly. I have no real problem eating crackers, but they aren't enough to make me feel better. Pudding doesn't settle right most of the time (I also have very mild lactose intollerance problems, since infancy). Jello tastes weird to me, but I can eat it, it doesn't make me feel better though.

So far only two things I have had that seems to settle right and make me feel better. The first is plain chicken. But I don't always have this option (either I don't have chicken, or I can't take the time and whatever to thaw some out and cook it). I was thinking maybe it is because unseasoned chicken is sort of bland and is a good source of protein. [also tried sipping on slimfast, which seemed to help my main problem but isn't a good option for me because of the milk base]

The other is a gala apple, but I currently don't have any, and when I do it doesn't make me feel better for too long (I think maybe it isn't substantial enough??) I have no idea why I can eat them.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what else might be easy to eat?

I know it seems ridiculous but I have always had this problem, it just used to be the worst in the day, and I could just suffer through it. Now it is worst at night, and I cannot sleep when I feel sick. When I look at flavorful or strongly smelling foods it makes me feel like throwing up.

:(

Any ideas would be appreciated. (I hope this made sense, I am really tired.. again, can't sleep due to nausea)

By the way, I DO plan to see a doctor, I just need suggestions in the mean time.

Answer 1

A banana, toasted muffin with jam, toast with a spread, 2 minute noodles, a sandwich with a spread, keep a bowl of leftovers after dinner in the fridge and microwave when you are hungry.  See that doctor ASAP.

Answer 2

Try potatoes-when I was pregnant, I couldnt keep anything down and the dr suggested potatoes because of their nutritional value. and wa able to keep that down. You can also buy them pre cut in the store. I would cut up a potatoe into small peices and bake it in the ovenfor about 15-20  minutes.. There is also something about the B vitamins in potatoes that are supposed to help with the settling of the stomach. Low blood sugar is not anything to play with and you need to seek help right away. I would be more concerned with your weight and electrolyte balances too.Normal blood sugar is 70-110-if it was 90 AFTER you ate, it must have been really low-this is so easy to manage-you just need to see a dr.

Answer 3

Have you tried bread? Wheat, Rye even plain. I get sick in the stomach a lot too but it's usually stress. I recently started eating Pepperidge Farms Whole Grain Cinnamon Swirl Raisin bread. I find it tastes good and is filling.

Good luck :)

Answer 4

I suggest eating rice porridge with a bits and pieces of meat in it.  It's easy to digest and doesn't taste too flavorful.  I eat it when I'm sick to allow my body to not work so hard digesting food.

Answer 5

May sound funny, but Bear Paw cookies by Dare work great. Especially the oatmeal kind. I am pregnant and nauseous and they really help and taste good.  

Answer 6

My sister and I both have nausia problems.

My sister gets some relief with sugar candy (like candy necklaces, smarties, etc). Any sugar candy that desolves easily. We have had a doctor say that the sugar tricks the body into thinking food is coming, so it empties and gets rid of the acid.  But it only helps for a little, usually enough time to help the nausia and get something more in her stomach.

White toast helps me, or any thing like bread.

I have acid reflux and use prevacid mainly.

I hope you get better.

Answer 7

Chewy Bars or Nature Bars?