Vomiting during period- normal?

[OwlMother]

I've always been cursed with hideous periods- heavy flow, lasts ages and very painful. Dd (16) appears to have inherited this, she's having a miserable time of things.

As well as all the issues above she also sometimes throws up on the first day or so of her period. This has only happened a couple of times.

Today (period day 1) we had to pick her up from school at 1130 because she's thrown up several times at school. She continued to throw up in the car on the way home and this has gone on all day.

The cramps are so bad she's only been comfortable in the bath. She's stayed there for over five hours. Still throwing up.

She's slightly better now. Googling I can see that vomiting during periods uncommon.

My question is- is this worse than usual? She's still throwing up stomach acid 9 hours after the vomiting started.

Your poor daughter, that sounds horrible.

I had painful periods as a teenager though not as bad as some I’ve read about here. I went on the pill to manage it which really helped. But came off it a few years later as it effected my blood pressure. Thankfully they never went back to being as painful as they used to be afterwards.

I was found to have very minor endometriosis a couple of years ago. The gynaecologist explained to me that some women can have it severely and feel nothing, and others can have hardly any and be in excruciating pain.

In any case it definitely sounds like it needs further investigation.

Thanks everyone. Dd stopped throwing up about midnight last night and seems to have had a settled nights sleep. I'll take her to the GP next week. Vomiting constantly for over 12 hours is just not something anyone should have to put up with, not to mention losing a couple of days out of every month.

Glad she has stopped vomiting. I used to vomit and faint on day one of my period but never vomited nite than once or twice at a time

Hope you/she can get something sorted with the GP. Ponstan Forte (mefenamic acid) worked for me.

If nothing else her poor teeth are going to be fucked. I worked with a girl who had it. It was awful. She’d chuck up, come back to her desk and carry on.

I hope the doctors are helpful.

Might it possibly abdominal migraine? I get a migraine at the beginning of my period always. I believe children and teens are more prone to abdominal migraine. Hopefully the gp will be able to help.