Anxiety and getting sick?

MAmom111
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:07:25 +0000

My youngest is finishing up his junior year of high school. For the past 2 years, he is nauseous almost all the time. He has a GI doctor who did an endoscopy and colonoscopy and an MRI as well as blood work and can’t find anything physically wrong with him. He prescibed him an anti-nausea medication at bedtime but he seems to throw up every morning after taking it so he stopped.

He’s had a neuropsych and was confirmed to have ADHD and some general anxiety. He takes Ritalin twice a day on school days or to do his homework or work on weekends and he feels it really helps him focus. He also takes an anti-anxiety med at bedtime (forget the name). He sees a psychiatrist for meds twice a month. He is a super quiet kid and not at all hyper. Plays a couple sports but other than that is not really a joiner.

My concern is that he has stomach issues nearly every morning, esp when he gets up for school. He throws up most mornings and also has issues the other way. This often makes him late for school. He just got a job to be a camp counselor and was excited for it but now says he doesn’t think he can do it as he thinks his anxiety will be bad in the mornings and he’ll end up being sick and then late.

I’m just not sure where to go from here. I feel like the GI doctor points to the psychiatrist and vice versa and I have no idea how to help him. And obviously worried about how this will go for college.