need something for anxiety-induced nausea. please

Need Help

so, a little bit of background/context:

- i’ve been diagnosed with anxiety for a while, i take lexapro daily and hydroxyzine as needed. the hydroxyzine works decently well, but it basically rots on my shelf because it makes me drowsy and 99% of the time i need to take it i cant afford to be drowsy

- the physical nausea i get from my anxiety is unbelievable and as an emetophobe, the mental toll it takes on me is becoming exhausting. i suspect i have something IBS-like happening as well that’s tied to the anxiety

- i just recently started a new job (relatively anxiety-inducing in nature) and the anxiety-induced nausea has ramped up significantly. i’m already sleepy enough at work getting used to my new schedule that the thought of taking anything that might make me drowsy freaks me out

- i also have migraines which don’t help

if anyone has any suggestions for something i can take/ask my doctor about to quell the nausea in situations where i can’t afford to be drowsy, it’d be life-saving lol. i can’t take it anymore

Posted Sep 2, 2026, 12:41 PM UTC

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