Insomnia and Illness Connected?

[stclairt]

My daughter is 16 and has been going thru an illness where she vomits a lot, GI drs can't find anything wrong and labeled her with IBS. Above not feeling well she can't sleep. Says she lays awake until wee hours of the night or falls asleep but can't stay asleep. Whatever her illness is this non-sleeping is not helping. The insomnia came with the vomiting. This start in April ... she was 'ok' in July/Aug little to no vomiting but she still wasn't sleeping good ...

I am at my wits end. Please offer thoughts.

[anne816]

I can't say much helpful but there was a definite correlation between nausea and sleep problems in my case...... but I think (I have no idea, the doctors have no idea, when do they ever have any idea, I am fed up with doctors)  that is because my sleep problems came from neurological causes (head injury).  

I didn't have insomnia, but I had the functional equivalent of insomnia -- in that my brain was not going to the correct deep wave states.....  so no matter how much I 'slept' I was never actually resting, and my sleep cycles were very disturbed. So the equivalent was that I was sleep deprived.  As the sleep deprivation increased, so did the nausea and throwing up.  They were directly related.  

Even a mild head injury such as whiplash can cause sleep disorders, I understand it is one of the most common causes actually.. I would think about something neurological, if nothing else works out.. sorry you are dealing with this.

[stclairt]

I would have never thought that angle -- she had a concussion from soccer (going up tp head a ball but went head to head with another player) -- this was a while back tho, 2 years, so more than a year before the illness started.

So your injury caused your throwing up and sleep issues?

I don't know if these would be related but we are losing our minds trying to figure something out. All dr's will say is since the tests are all negative that leaves her with IBS and stress. Sigh. We are going to Wake Forest Childen's Hospital next month. Not soon enough.