Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association, Hope Starts Here
On July 26th, the CVSA home office located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin experienced extreme flood damage. As clean up and replacement of electronics occur, including the need to move the office itself, please be patient. We are doing our best to respond to your needs.
The office will be officially closed until August 9th, 2010.
- Please keep in mind:
- 90% of CVS information is available on this web site. Please research it carefully. There are many downloads.
- The home office does not have medical personnel on staff. If you have a medical question, ask one of our principal medical advisors. List is on research page of our web site.
- Physician referral lists, nationwide, will be available soon on our web site.
- If you have a crisis, consider your options: call 911. Need support? Join our CVSA message board. Have a medical question? Ask a CVSA principal medical advisor.
- Would you like to support CVSA by volunteering/donating, or are you a vendor/administrative contact? cvsa@cvsaonline.org
If you are still in need of assistance or have concerns, please contact us at: cvsa@cvsaonline.org
Thank you for your patience during this difficult time.
A Message From the President
Welcome to the official website for the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association (CVSA). As you probably agree, CVSA is a very unpleasant name for a non-profit organization, but CVS is an extremely unpleasant illness, and we need to make it easy for people to find us. I hope that at the minimum you will find our web site informative about CVS and hopefully go beyond that to find out more about our work of outreach to those still suffering in isolation with this mysterious and disruptive illness.
Kathleen Adams, RN, BSN, President and Co-Founder
of CVSA
CVSA was founded by myself and a handful of parents and patients in 1993 after the majority of the founders, had been dealing with CVS without a diagnosis or hope of treatment. My daughter was plagued with CVS episodes for eleven years before she was diagnosed. We continue to work past the unpleasant name, against the odds of a small non-profit, and beyond the frequent medical skeptics. CVS causes far too much suffering for us to stop.
Don’t hesitate to share your thoughts and/or needs with us as you discover much-needed information about this difficult illness.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Adams, B.S.N., R.N.
President and Co-Founder
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association
The Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association (CVSA) serves the needs of cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) sufferers, their families and professional care givers by raising awareness and providing education and support to those affected by cyclic vomiting, abdominal migraine and related disorders while advocating for and funding research.
Established in 1993, CVSA has grown from a handful of interested parents and professionals, into a network that includes over 40 medical advisors and volunteers serving in the U.S. and Canada, as well as over 30 other countries worldwide.
The association’s primary focus is working toward a cure, through the support of several promising research initiatives, and supporting its members by strengthening communications and offering a wide range of resources for education and support.
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