Just recently, the past few times I’ve had a particularly bad flare, I’ve been getting awful sickness that comes on very quickly and I can’t keep anything down, not even water. It’ll last 1-2 days where I’ll literally spend all day being sick.
I’m still undergoing tests and having to fight doctors for treatment and diagnosis but I’ll be sure to mention it at my next appointment.
I was just wondering if anyone else has this as part of their symptoms or if it could be related to something else?
I’ve had 3 such incidents. One just 2 wks ago. Stuck me in the very early morning he’s 3-4, almost while I was asleep! Its been blamed on virus, diet and stress. But you notice not the same reason once! That’s why I think its related. You find out why let me know. Lol
I get the same thing but with fever. I spent four days in the hospital because of it but all they said was that I had gastritis. Just like you it comes on suddenly and the hurling is horrible, constant nausea. I’m sorry to hear you are going thru this and believe that it is related to the lupus. Although I also think there must be something we can take at the first sign in order to cut the nausea and shorten the time of the sick feeling, cause when it’s happening time seems to go by veeerrry slooooowly.
I was getting this about once a month but thank goodness I hasn’t happened as frequently since I’ve been taking the plaquenil on a regular basis. At first I though it was the plaquenil causing it and stopped taking it altogether but was sick so often without it that now I take it regularly and find the side effects get better with time.
The support and information on this site is priceless. Hope that as suddenly as this comes on, it goes away for you.
I am so sorry to hear that you folks are going through this. As always, it is helpful to share such symtoms so that this group can better understand all the nasty ways in which Lupus can show itself.
My daughter (now 25 and suffering for over 7 years) has nausea and vomiting as one of her most frequent symptoms. She also gets migraines on a fairly regular basis so we put that nausea in a different "bucket" (so to speak!) :-)
Otherwise, she experiences nausea and vomiting pretty much every week. It often hits her with no warning whatsoever...even waking her up. In 2009 she vomited so severely that it created a small tear in her esophagus. That was VERY painful and life threatening because of the risk of infection. On another occasion in early 2013 it went on for hours. Often, after her stomach has emptied she vomits bile. She has had an MRI of her gall bladder and upper endoscopy performed...they found one small problem but nothing remarkable.
She manages to get around and do what she needs to do through all the other pains, but nausea and fatigue are the two things that have the greatest impact on her quality of life.
Best wishes to you all and a belated Happy Easter!
I’ve been starting diet changes as well. My brother is insists that I watch for GMO’s in my food. We are compromised. Genetically altered foods and processed foods may not be good for us.
I hope you get a diagnosis soon. I know it's really tough. i usually get the fever/infection first and then the flare. Infection can be anything from cellulitis to pneumonia or a bladder infection. Some of it's related to lupus/SICCA/autoimmune hepatitis and some is indirectly related because I'm so immuno-suppressed.