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Long term illness with no diagnosis

I am a 62 year old female. For the past 8 years I have been getting bouts of extreme fatigue, headaches, nausea, diarrhea, sinus congestion and feeling ill as if I had a flu type virus. I have had all sorts of tests and they have all been normal. My last colonoscopy and and stomach scope were also normal. I'm due to schedule another colonoscopy soon. I am now diabetic, but not at the time this all started. The symptoms don't appear at any certain time of month. I don't take hormones although I did eight years ago. I am at my wits end. It's difficult to make plans because I never know when this is going to start. One year, I went three months with no symptoms. It was great. Please help!!
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Unreal in todays medical age that some conditions cannot be diagnosed.  Have you found anything that you ate or did prior to these bouts coming on? Have you had a spinal tap at all?  immune system tested?  Any previous trauma in life that could now be doing something?  I can't imagine seeing all these test results come back normal but you know something is really off in your body.  Hormone levels are another obvious round of tests that can cause what you described.  It is in cases like this that you actually hope of a test to show something off, because then you can treat it.
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Thank you for your help. I take all of the supplements you've mentioned. I am not allergic to any food. I've been tested. I'm getting a liver and spleen MRI this week. Will see what that turns up.

thanks again for your comment.
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Yes. I've been tested for all food and gluten allergies. Thank you so much for responding.
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It does sound like an absorptive problem like Celiac or some sort of cause of deficiencies.  

I would start magnesium in the morning at 500 mg and calcium at night about 400 mg.  Also vitamin D 2000 IU.  Get out in the sun a little.  

Get checked for iron deficiency and thyroid issues, things like that.  
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Have you been checked for food intolerances and celiac disease?
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