Vomiting

Every couple of months I am awakened from a dead sleep with a cramp in my stomach and the need to run to the bathroom and throw up. The vomiting is especially violent as if my body just wants to be rid of everything in it all at once. the days after I can feel either relatively okay or like crap. But now my most recent bout was last Thursday and I seem to be going into UC flare up: pain in my gut and stomach, extreme nausea whenever I eat and urgency with skinny bm every time I eat. The only time I feel good is when I'm hungry. Is this common? I know everybody's different and has different symptoms with this horrible disease but I haven't been able to get any answers about the vomiting from my GI doc.
I have kept a food journal and have never been able to find any Rhyme or Reason with my diet and causing these vomiting episodes. The only thing that I can kind of point to is stress. I had a bad cold for the last 2 weeks now this. I don't know if the stress on my body from the cold has caused it or what. All I know is I can't eat anything right now. Does anyone else experience this vomiting leading to flare up?

Were you diagnosed via a scope? I believe vomiting is usually a result of something higher up in the GI tract, not too common for UCers since our inflammation is in the colon, but I have felt nauseous when I was in a very severe pancolitis flare. Have you have stool tests or recheck for the SIBO?

I hate to say it, but the diet or the food, or the stress, are probably not directly related. It's likely just the inflammation causing the symptoms you're experiencing. When I was flaring, food was not my friend. I always felt better hungry vs. on the toilet. You should probably consider a higher dose of lialda, the max, and stronger rectal meds. Canasa is very low dose and really only treats 1-2 inches.

I have not had an endoscopy but I have had several colonscopies and a sigmoidoscopy as well as CT scan. My colitis is in the very lower part of my colon and in the upper part of my rectum. My GI doc says that nausea can be due to UC, but I am going to push for an endoscopy, much as I dread the procedure. She said I tested negative for Crohns. The breath test showed the first SIBObut I could not take the Ciprofloxin as it exacerbated the tendonitis that I have in my hands, elbows, shoulders, knees, etc. I took it for 5 days, and seemed ok but it came back. I was prescribed xifaxin ( @ $1400.00 for a 2 week course....thank God for samples!) and I have been fine. I can distinguish easily between the SIBO pain in the upper gut and this lower GI pain and unpleasant symptoms of UC/UP..

"The only time I feel good is when I'm hungry"

This statement caught my eye. It could be your gallbladder. When my gallbladder was bad, I had lots and lots of nausea and since food often made me feel gross, I also only felt good when I was hungry. (Not everyone has typical gallbladder attacks, especially if stones aren't the problem.)