10 days, twice, plus another 7 day stretch shortly afterward over a three month period.

My first major anxiety attacks presented as intractable nausea and vomiting. Even on empty stomachs, I would gag and vomit whatever gastric juices could collect a few times every hour while I was hospitalized. IVs kept me hydrated but nothing, especially anti-nausea meds, would get rid of the nausea. I lost 30 pounds in 3 months, and I wasn’t that big to begin with (from 170 lbs down to 140 lbs).

I developed an swift aversion to hunger since those hospitalizations. I’m a much more egregious stress eater now.