My name is Hillary Rhoades, I have a 3 year old daughter named Kylie
who has been diagnosed with Cyclic Vomiting. She first started
showing symptoms when she was 6 months old. At first her
pediatrician didnt know what it was that was causing my little girl
to be so sick, she kept telling me that Kylie had the flu. Then
November of last year her pediatrician recommended that we go down
to Boston Childrens hospital to see a bunch of specialists. A bunch
of tests and hospital stays later we finally had a diagnosis, Cyclic
Vomiting Syndrome. The doctors down at BCH put Kylie on Zofran and
it worked for a while but then Kylie atarted to become violently ill
once again, so the doctors then put Kylie on Prevacid, and so far it
is working fine. Kylie has had to be hospitalized a few times since
starting the Prevacid, but once she comes home she is back to her
normal self, or whatever can be considered normal under the
circumstances. Before all this I had never heard of Cyclic Vomiting
Syndrome, I looked it up on the net to learn more about it, but
still I felt alone, til' I found this web site. I hope to be able to
talk to other parents like myself and maybe get some advice on how
to handle my daughters illness and still be a mother to my 1 year
old son. Iam a single mother so Iam havin a bit of a hard time of
managing. I look forward to hearing from others in my position.