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

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HelpIcantfindaname · 13/06/2022 13:30

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?

OP posts:
anothernamedoesntsmellsosweet · 13/06/2022 18:33

@HelpIcantfindaname is it a dizziness like a carousel or like she is falling forward or back? Carousel is usually ears, back and forward is blood pressure/heart related

midlifecrash · 13/06/2022 18:34

AnIckabog · 13/06/2022 18:20

Agree with pps, possibly taking the pill on an empty stomach in the morning plus getting up early on Monday after weekend lie ins is just tipping her body over the edge?
Worth looking at what lessons she has Mondays too and thinking about screen use, lighting, ventilation in rooms - any of these could trigger a migraine. I'm a teacher and I've had to ask not to be timetabled in a certain room in the school because the lighting in there gives me migraines and I was being sick after every lesson I taught in there.

Yes if she has a lie in until 12, takes her pill, then gets up at 6am and takes it the 2 doses are much closer together

anothernamedoesntsmellsosweet · 13/06/2022 18:34

@kingsleysbootlicker I was thinking POTs too

Mulhollandmagoo · 13/06/2022 18:34

That sounds really rough - the poor girl 😔 Whilst reading your OP, the first thing that came to my mind was anxiety, it can manifest itself in very strange ways - particularly to children/teens who don't quite know how to manages their feelings and emotions yet.

Have you had a little chat with her to see if there is anything in particular playing on her mind?

Iusyje · 13/06/2022 18:38

Herejustforthisone · 13/06/2022 14:03

Also that poster obviously has never suffered with appallingly heavy, painful and unpredictable periods.

I have and wouldn't support a child being put on the pill.

Girlwhowearsglasses · 13/06/2022 18:45

I haven’t read the whole thread but you might think about migraine - it can manifest as sickness and is hormone affected. I had to come off the combined pill as a young woman as it gave me migraines

ThirtyThreeTrees · 13/06/2022 18:48

Sounds like me at her age. I turned out to have to endometriosis which wasn't diagnosed until much later.

Get her to download a period tracker app. One of the good ones. It will allow her to log all symptoms from pain to moods etc. Even if it turns out not to be period related it will be happy to have a log to give to doctors to investigate. I tried 4 different Bill's from 13 to 14 to get one that helped.

Separately I worked with 2 people who were ansense with illness most Monday. I thought they were complete pisstakers. Turned out one had diabetes and the other coeliac disease, the reason things would be worst on a Monday as diet was a lot less healthy over the weekend.

frydae · 13/06/2022 18:51

@Iusyje

I have and wouldn't support a child being put on the pill.

Why?

cansu · 13/06/2022 18:53

How would it be if you were not available for her to come home on Mondays?
Try it and see.

KaccyH · 13/06/2022 18:57

I would seriously consider the pill as a cause. I spent 4 years from the age of 13 to 17 feeling sick if I took the pill on an empty stomach. Doc kept trying to tell me I had an eating disorder as I tried to explain I felt better when I ate. Finally switched from the pill to the implant and the sickness magically vanished! Maybe switch to a different variety of pill? Also, if it is the pill, it will produce a high level of acid in the stomach so if her vomit it acidic then that would be another indicator?

MercurialMonday · 13/06/2022 19:00

ForestFae · 13/06/2022 17:50

What do people think is going to happen if a teenager takes the pill? I took it from 14 onwards and nothing terrible happened. It helped me with the pain and pmdd!

That the underlying problem gets masked but slowly gets worse - plus anxiety/depression are now known side affects of the pill - thanks to that large scale study.

Clearly for many it is the correct treatment and I'm not saying Op should take her DD off it - but that changing type or if everything else is ruled out being aware it could possibly be this so may be worth looking at alternatives further down the line.

CaptSkippy · 13/06/2022 19:02

As she is having heavy periods could it be anemia?

Moonchair1 · 13/06/2022 19:43

I wouldn’t give my 13year old daughter the pill
it will be that making her unwell it did terrible things to my sister
it even made there lips and throat swell when she ate fruit :-/ but doesn’t now off the pill
strange things

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