Hi All,
I'm on here because the vet doesnt seem to know what's going on.
My baby is 12 yrs old and he started vomiting puddles of bile/foam/clearish liquid back in November '19, several times a week. We took him to the vet and they did bloodwork and an ultrasound and couldnt find anything. They said maybe he had an irritable bowel and put him on prescription food (hills sensitive tummies). Otherwise, he was acting normal.
We realized that he'd smack his lips every time before vomiting, and he was vomiting around the same time every night (2am-ish), so we figured maybe his stomach acids were acting up around that time and he needed food. So from January - April/May, we were able to prevent him from throwing up those puddles by giving him some food in the middle of the night as soon as he'd start smacking his lips. He would smack his lips every night and we'd feed him a snack and he wouldnt vomit.
This tactic seemed to be working, and then he started vomiting again, and it couldnt be controlled with nightime snacks. So we took him to the vet and they said to only give him his prescription food, that maybe it was a food allergy. So we did a food trial with only the prescription food strictly for a couple months. He kept vomiting frequently, but the puddles of liquid got smaller and smaller, till it was just tiny spots of vomit daily.
Then he starting vomiting multiple times a day, but nothing comes up now, at all. That's been going on for like 3 weeks now. He received a steroid shot a couple weeks ago and a couple anti-nausea shots, but he's retching/vomiting 2-4 times a day. He was a bit constipated recently too, and we gave him a laxative type medication which hopefully has resolved that aspect of things, as his bowel movements appear okay now.
He's nauseous and smacking his lips, turning his head and licking his lips, almost all day. He doesnt vomit up anything, even if he drinks or eats. I have no idea what to do, and neither do the vets. I'm going broke with diagnostics and guesses.
Has anyone every experienced anything like this?
Thanks so much for any and all help/advice. I have a constant migraine from nonstop crying over this.
I'm on here because the vet doesnt seem to know what's going on.
My baby is 12 yrs old and he started vomiting puddles of bile/foam/clearish liquid back in November '19, several times a week. We took him to the vet and they did bloodwork and an ultrasound and couldnt find anything. They said maybe he had an irritable bowel and put him on prescription food (hills sensitive tummies). Otherwise, he was acting normal.
We realized that he'd smack his lips every time before vomiting, and he was vomiting around the same time every night (2am-ish), so we figured maybe his stomach acids were acting up around that time and he needed food. So from January - April/May, we were able to prevent him from throwing up those puddles by giving him some food in the middle of the night as soon as he'd start smacking his lips. He would smack his lips every night and we'd feed him a snack and he wouldnt vomit.
This tactic seemed to be working, and then he started vomiting again, and it couldnt be controlled with nightime snacks. So we took him to the vet and they said to only give him his prescription food, that maybe it was a food allergy. So we did a food trial with only the prescription food strictly for a couple months. He kept vomiting frequently, but the puddles of liquid got smaller and smaller, till it was just tiny spots of vomit daily.
Then he starting vomiting multiple times a day, but nothing comes up now, at all. That's been going on for like 3 weeks now. He received a steroid shot a couple weeks ago and a couple anti-nausea shots, but he's retching/vomiting 2-4 times a day. He was a bit constipated recently too, and we gave him a laxative type medication which hopefully has resolved that aspect of things, as his bowel movements appear okay now.
He's nauseous and smacking his lips, turning his head and licking his lips, almost all day. He doesnt vomit up anything, even if he drinks or eats. I have no idea what to do, and neither do the vets. I'm going broke with diagnostics and guesses.
Has anyone every experienced anything like this?
Thanks so much for any and all help/advice. I have a constant migraine from nonstop crying over this.