AIBU to wonder what on earth is wrong with my child?

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My 13yr old daughter is having an issue with sickness. It started at school before the Easter hols, on a Monday. I had to collect her as she had been sick. 2 weeks of Easter hols & she was fine. Then school rang cos she felt very sick a week later on a Monday . 2 weeks later she had to come home again because she was sick, on a Monday. Then it was half term, she was at her dad's & was sick on the Tuesday. I spoke to the gp after that, who said it sounded hormonal or/& anxiety. She suggested changes to diet & changes to how she takes her meds.

She went on the pill in Feb because of very heavy periods & pains.
Monday of last week she was sick 2x at school.

I took her to the nurse who examined her & found nothing amiss. She did ask for urine sample & bloods checked just to make sure.

Now it's Monday again, & I've had to collect her from school for being sick again.
She says it's like motion sickness as it's much worse when she has to move.

I know it sounds like a school anxiety problem being every Monday (apart from the Tues in the hols) but she says she's happy at school, & does appear to be.

If it was a side effect of the pill would it only happen on Mondays? GP did not suggest stopping it.

I'm wondering if she's now anxious about being sick in school on a Monday & that is making her sick. She really wanted to be there for this afternoons lesson though.

I will be seeing the gp again - when I can get an appointment.
But wondered if anyone has experienced similar?

Have you kept a food diary?

Ds had this in year 8 and it was a combination of food intolerances and reflux. His diet on school nights is very basic in order to make sure he doesn't miss more school,

Cyclical vomiting

As a teenager my periods were so awful I was regularly sent home from school. Painkillers didn’t touch it. I was later found to have endometriosis.

Is there any chance she could be making herself sick?

Could she try a different pill? Just to rule that part out?

Is there anything you eat on a Sunday night / Monday morning that you don’t eat on other days?

Is there a lesson that uses a screen that is triggering a migraine? eg if she had ICT on Mondays I would wonder about the photosensitive migraine.

Migraine, don’t have to have have headache and it’s linked to motion sickness. Same way DCs get headache rather than Vinnie in the car.

i used to get migraines day off my piano lesson every week as I used to get stressed and the tension triggered headache/migraine

is she using perfume products/body sprays too? Often be a trigger, DS pukes if kids vape on the bus and all my lovely perfumes are guaranteed to trigger migraines in me

Could it be something inner ear related? I had labyrinthitis which used to give awful sickness/vertigo and it lasted for ages. Maybe something she’s doing at school on a Monday is triggering it? Ict/screens maybe? mine used to get worse if I sat under certain lights!

Depends how painful. Mine are so bad I’ve hospitalised and given entonox and morphine as an inpatient for them. It started at 13. I’m not one for unnecessary drugs (by mn standards I’d be classed as a bit woo with my herbal teas and supplements) but for some women the pill is very necessary.

I used to get in a weird anxious cycle like this going back to school, after the weekend or illness or a break. I still don't understand it to this day. There was no bullying or anything like that going on.

Sadly I don't have an answer for you. For the cycle of not going got longer (without my Mum knowing) and I missed a large part of my last year.

I wondered about migraine as well. Is she sleeping longer at the weekends and then getting an abdominal migraine (which might not have any headache component) on Mondays as a reaction to getting up early again? Anxiety about a particular lesson? Cyclic vomiting is another possibility.

Thank you very much for all of the replies.

Her BP & ears have been checked. She started wearing glasses again for reading at the end of April. The first sickness was before that.

She is definitely not pregnant. She doesn't really go anywhere. Plus, when I had morning sickness (I have 4 kids & have had 6 pregnancies) it wasn't just on a Monday.

We usually have a Sunday dinner, which we don't have on weekdays, but all the food eaten at that would be eaten over the week in other meals, even Yorkshires occasionally.

She is an extremely fussy eater. She often doesn't eat breakfast, but on the GPS advice has been have a probiotoc drink each morning for the last 10 days. (Amazed she actually touches it.)

I think we will try changing her pill first. And see what happens, it's gona be a case of changing one thing at a time.

I really appreciate all of your advice, thank you.

I have looked at Cyclicle Vomiting Syndrome, & will ask the doctor about that again too.

I also thought of vertigo or labyrinthitis when she said it felt like motion sickness.

Could it possibly Ménière's disease?www.nhs.uk/conditions/menieres-disease/

Or Labyrinthitis?www.nhs.uk/conditions/labyrinthitis/

I used to get sickness if I took it on an empty stomach. If she’s taking it in the morning and not eating breakfast, can she swap to taking it with dinner?

Sorry, cross post there.

I used to have a migraine every Tuesday. Suv-consciously linked to a dread of PE/Games and made the link much later.

DD had some episodes of unexplained sickness as a teen. They coincided with going vegetarian. The link was tofu which contains an enzyme a tiny percentage tage of people are allergic to. Just a thought but you aren't giving her tofu on Sundays, are you?

You have obviously never suffered with painful periods!

Acupuncture cured my dd of very painful periods, migraines and PMT.

Is she very mobile at the weekends?

I get really bad motion sickness due to an issue with my ears - if I am mainly sendentary it’s not so bad. Just thinking maybe if she’s not so active at the weekends being up and about for school on Monday may be a period of adjustment if she has a similar issue.

I would be thinking more anxiety given that it happens every Monday during school time. The first thing I would be looking at is her timetable. What classes/teachers does she have. Is she being bullied? I know you say that she says she is happy in school but she may not want to tell you.

Might be worth taking a look at her phone/social media to see if you can get any hints of the problem.

Have they looked into why she might be having heavy periods? So many female symptoms get put down to periods and the mentality that we must ignore/endure them is drummed into us from a young age.

She could have endometriosis or fibroids. GP's often need persuading to actually refer to gynaecology.

I vomit on the pill. Maybe it's the early start contributing to vomiting on a Monday. It could be anxiety, but she should still be checked out by an appropriate consultant.

Did you get the results of the bloods? My dd was similar (though it actually seemed to be a thursday!) and it turned out to be celiac disease. As a result she was essentially maulnurished and bloods revealed low iron and low b12, along with the elevated IgA gluten antibodies from the celiac disease. The nausea seemed to be linked as much to the fatigue as to what she has recently eaten so always seemed to be worse when she was tired or had to get up early.