My daughter vomits in the morning...is it stress?

[worriedmom315]

My daughter has been throwing up in the mornings since she was 5 and she is now 11.  We go for weeks or sometimes, if we're lucky, for months without any problems.  She will usually wake up in the morning and throw up for several hours and is usually back to her normal self by lunchtime.  We've noticed this does not usually occur during the summer or on the weekends.  She's been through numerous tests, including ultrasounds, upper GI, two endoscopies, blood work, you name it.  The gastro doctor rules it as Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (CVS).  Usually her vomiting is only for a day and then we go for weeks or months until the next episode.  However, this past time, she has been having episodes at least 4 days out of every week for the past month.  I know she has two teachers that are causing her stress and she's trying to avoid them.  I've talked to the principal and am trying to set up conferences with these teachers.  What scares me is that she will encounter stressful people and situations for her entire life and it's now that she needs to learn the tools to handle this.  I have scheduled her an appointment with a psychiatrist in a couple of weeks and hopes that talking it out and possibly medication could help.  She repeatedly tells me that she's not stressed.  But when the physical tests come back with nothing and stress is a contributing factor to CVS, then I can't help but to think she's just a very stressed-out child.  My oldest daughter shows no signs of this and other than normal stress, my daughter with the vomiting problem has not undergone anything traumatic.

[RubyWitch]

I'm sorry to hear your daughter is going through this, and has for 6 years. The good news is that CVS is very treatable once the source has been identified.
You've had just about every medical test available and all have come back negative, so I think the only logical step is the one you've already taken.........a child psychiatrist. He/she will be able to get to the root cause of your daughters stress and help her learn to deal successfully with stressful situations and people.
She may be an intensely sensitive little girl and the two teachers she tries to avoid could probably use some extra sensitivity training or a course in child psychology. Meeting with these teachers may give you some idea of what's going on, and I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that you can't follow your daughter around and run interference for her. I'm sure that's not what you meant or what............so it's great that you have no qualms about getting her psychological help.
I hope you will let us know what the outcome is.
I wish the best for your daughter and hope she can soon put this behind her.
Peace
Greenlydia