Telling doctor stomach hurts: Answering the doctor's questions about your symptoms

💬 吐き気 (hakike) combines 吐く "to throw up" with 気 "feeling", literally a feeling of wanting to throw up.

💬 This is the doctor's standard question pattern: symptom + はありますか. Swap in 熱 for 熱はありますか "Do you have a fever?"

💬 The ていません ending means "haven't (so far)", which suggests it hasn't happened yet. Compare 吐きませんでした "I didn't throw up", which only describes a finished past event.

💬 何 is read (nani) here because を follows it. Before sounds like です, it becomes (nan): 何ですか (nan desu ka).

💬 Time words like きのう take no に. Adding は here just sets yesterday as the subject of the conversation, as in "As for yesterday..."

💬 お昼 (ohiru) means both "noon" and "lunch". The お in front is a softening touch you'll almost always hear.

💬 を marks the thing being eaten and is said (o). Swap the food to reuse it: ラーメンを食べました "I ate ramen."

🇯🇵 Raw fish is one of the first things a Japanese doctor will suspect with stomach trouble, so mentioning sushi or sashimi is genuinely useful information.

🇯🇵 Clinics usually give you a prescription to take to a pharmacy, often right next door. There, staff may ask whether you have an おくすり手帳 "medicine record booklet".

🇯🇵 In Japan the doctor usually writes a prescription and you pick up the medicine at a pharmacy near the clinic. Some clinics hand it to you directly.

🇯🇵 This is what doctors, pharmacists, and receptionists say as you leave when you're sick. You don't say it back. Just reply ありがとうございました.

💬 The past-tense ending ました thanks someone for something that has just finished, like a completed appointment. While the help is still ongoing, use ございます instead.