I woke up in the middle of the night with such severe pain I wasn't sure what
to do.  I made my way to the bathroom and turned on the light.  The pain was
between my sterum and bellybutton and all the way around the back.  I couldn't
even stand up straight.  I didn't know  want to do, so  I woke up my husband,
in a panic.  I was crying.  I tryed to get dressed, but couldn't.  I threw up,
but still didn't feel better.  We drove to the emergency room, between dressing
and driving it took about 20 minutes.  By the time we got there I was starting
to feel better, but my husband made me stay at the hospital.  

I described my symptoms to the doctor and he said it was probably a gall or
kidney stone, and that the blood work probably wouldn't show anything.  It
didn't.  We went home with orders to take it easy and eat a bland diet.  I was
fine and then 6 days latter, I had extreme nausea for 1 hour and then threw up.
I layed down and slept for 2 hours.  I have had no appetite for weeks and
occasional slight nausea.

My rambling has a point, 8 years ago when I was the most ill, I threw up a lot.
I went from a size 10 to a size 1 in a short amount of time.  Now that is a
great diet and I could really use to lose some weight, but I'm afraid it is
starting again.  Last time no one ever found a cause or reason for the
vomiting, but I have seen occasional mentions of this in other lupus patient
information.  Has anyone here experienced this?

Thanks,

Terrice