WE THINK IT's CVS - ANY HELP, IDEAS, ETC WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL!

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So we have been dealing with this for years - ever since I met her five years ago. She has been dealing with it since she was a teenager. She is 31 now.

She is fine 95% of the time. Her attacks are about once a month or once every two months but she can go as long as 6 months between but that is not common.

But occasionally she gets very sick. She has sweats (soaks through clothes), nausea, extreme abdominal pain (upper center chest), and vommitting. Even when she doesn't have anything to puke up the pain in soooo extreme she has to gag herself to puke up bile to make the pain subside for a little while. She takes disolvable zofran and supositories like crazy but they do no good. She gets a little relief from hot baths but only while she is in them.

It keeps her out of work around once a month. I fear she will lose her job soon.

We normally have to go to the ER. Now occasionally we get a nice doctor who gives her pain meds and nausea meds and relaxation meds and it goes away in about 5-8 hours. These meds don't really work unless done with IV.

MORE OFTEN we get hard nosed docs who believe pain meds are the devil and will only give nausea meds. They send her home eventually and it all starts again and we get to visit the ER again the next night or day.

They have done every lab, scope, scan, etc on her - the doctors say Cyclic Vommitting Syndrome but I almost feel like they say that when they can't put their finger on anything else. I mean could it be pancreatitis or something else?

We are not sure exactly what sets it off. What I have noticed would be:

-- She has anxiety which she uses marijuana to treat. Some doctors won't barely talk to her once she mentions she uses marijuana - they say that is the cause - guaranteed. She uses marijuana because actual anxiety meds seem to make her tired and out of it and she needs to work.

-- Has anyone had experience of marijuana causing this and stopping and it's cured? Right now she smoked daily but needs it for the anxiety.

-- Occasionally it will happen after a night of having drinks with friends. It could be the alcohol, dehydration, or the fact she smoked MJ to go to sleep after usually. Anyone ever had alcohol be the trigger?

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I don't know what to do. I am scared for her, feel horrible, am upset, worried, etc. I don't want her to go through this or be causing it herself without knowing. It could cost her her job - don't know many jobs okay with you missing a couple days every month without warning. It also costs us a fortune - $300 just to walk in the ER door, price of meds, labs, scans, tests, drugs, time off work, etc.

I feel like I am alone just listening and watching her go through this. Needed to reach out for advice.