But anyways, I’m a 31-year-old healthy female. I’m not on any medications and occasionally take xanax when I get anxious. Just a few times a year. I have no medical conditions, my labs are great and I feel good (except I currently have a head cold).

I think that this normally probably happens near lunch at work. I has happened at other places/times, but most commonly at work. Maybe because I’m there so often.

I will begin to feel extremely nauseous (I even dry heaved a few weeks ago) and within a minute I have a very violent sneeze that leaves me feeling so much better. The nausea is gone. My body has no left over effects.

I’m “feeling” this hunger/snausea theory. I’ll have to pay more attention to when it happens to get a better idea. Now, I never remember feeling hunger while this is happening, so maybe it is a blood sugar thing.

I thought I was alone in this strange phenomena, I’m glad I’m not! We should start a support group! I’m a snausie…now hear me sneeze! ;)

I’m 30\M, on no meds with no known health issues. About 2 times a week I get a nauseaus within a minute of getting out of the shower in the morning. Nausea lasts for only a few seconds, then I sneeze, and feel fine again. I do usually have an empty stomach. I’ve had this for as long as I can remember, at least since my mid teen years. I also have the sneeze when entering bright light thing. Most of my sneezes are normal with no nausea, just gets me in the morning.

I have always associated this with hunger… affectionately calling it “my hunger sneeze” and following it with “I need food!!”
The nausea before the sneeze is quite overpowering and then clears when I’ve sneezed (often sneezing a number of times in one go) … It will repeat happening getting worse and more frequent until I eat something. This morning I had a yoghurt and normality is returned…..

I had finally had it with not knowing where this was coming from and never having met anyone else who deals with it, so I did a web search and I’m happy to find this site!

Very oddly perhaps, like the last poster, Sharon, I had a spinal fusion years ago and was put on Morphine for recovery - don’t know if there is some connection there. I am a 30 year old woman and I can’t remember how long this has been happening to me, but I do think that maybe it has only been in adulthood, so maybe only since my spinal fusion although I have never thought to connect the phenomenon to that.

I have recently experienced an interesting development. I always thought that the phenomenon was strictly related to the sneezing, not the nausea. I thought that the nausea was my mind playing tricks on me since I experienced nausea before sneezing, which was alleviated by the sneezing, but when nausea came before vomiting, it was real nausea, (obviously!).

Anyway, the recent development is that I found out in the past few weeks that I am pregnant. I am now in the “morning sickness” stage, so I have been experiencing nausea every day. The weird thing is that it will build for a half hour or so, and then I’ll sneeze, and that will make the nausea go away! It then starts building again after I sneeze. This is really weird because it leads me to believe that there is a correlation in BOTH directions - both from nausea to sneezing AND from sneezing to nausea… similar to a crossed wire!

Any thoughts on this?

I’m interested to hear.

I have had “snausea,” as you call it, for the past 15 years. It used to strike without rhyme or reason (4 or 5 times per year); however, it seems to have increased to 4 to 5 times PER MONTH, since I began taking the SSI-class drug, Lexapro.

I am hypertensive, controlled by medication and take Lipitor for cholesterol. The Lexapro (for anxiety) is the only new factor since my snausea has increased.

Where does one go for help when medical providers do not see a cause for this “snausea?” Does one simply live with it, or is it somehow manageable? When I feel nauseous, I look at the sun to make myself sneeze. Once I sneeze, the nausea immediately dissipates.

Sometimes I will feel nauseous, but do not feel a sneeze coming on, and do not know why I am nauseous. Within a few minutes, I will sneeze and feel better. Strange.

Again, how do people with snausea manage it? Or do I have to induce sneezing for relief? Please reply.

George