My 11 year old daughter feels nauseas most of the time and has developed a fear of throwing up and of food. she is very thin and all her blood work has come back normal. we will be seeing an anxiety expert in the near future but I would love any ideas about how to help her feel better. does anyone know if high cortisol levels cause nausea?
Thanks for your comments, today she has a doc appt and I will mention this to him.
ALso did you ever have protein etc in your urine?
The symptoms your daughter has sound very familiar to me. I had gastrointestinal truoble for years and all the doctors I visited couldn't find anything.Many tests were run and there were no clue about the causes of my problems.
After years of pain and trouble I startet educating myself and finally suggested to be tested for gluten sensitivity or Celiac Disease - and this was the right diagnosis. I recommend that you do some research about this and ask your doctor that your daughter should be tested for this condition.
Celiac disease or gluten intolrerance or sensitivity is an allergy against the protein in most grains: wheat, barley, rye and oats and can result in variety of abdominal symptons including diarrhea and severe bloting.
The testing for this condition so far was done by a small bowel boipsy, which is not a very pleasant procedure, but now there is a very reliable test available in form of stool testing.
You can contact www.enterolab.com, they do the testing and send you a test kid to your home with all you need for testing and you can do the test in the conveniance of your home and send the sample back to the lab from where you get the results.This is what I did. Now I am on a special diet avoiding all these grains and my life has completely changed and I am pain and symptom free.
Good luck for your daughter, may be this suggestion could be helpful.
If your doctor is sceptic, don't rely on him, but do the testing. Many doctors are not well educated about Celiac disease, sorry to say that, but this was my experience.If they had been, and I had seen many many..., I wouldn't have suffered for so many years.