DS always saying he feels weird

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He’s 5. At least once a week he says this. He gets upset then says it. When I ask him what he means by weird he says he doesn’t know. He has an appointment in may at the hospital for some blood tests as I’ve noticed he’s lost a bit of weight and seems to have Diarrhea quite a lot and tummy ache. With this I thought maybe some kind of food tolerance but he wouldn’t say ‘weird’ surely he’d just say stomach ache? I have temporal lobe epilepsy which started when I was around 13 and before I got diagnosed all I could tell people was I felt weird so maybe it could be this I don’t know, I’m just stressed with it all

food intolerance not tolerance

I'm sorry to read about your DS, it's good to hear you have a hospital appointment lined up.
Do you keep a diary of everything he eats and at what times, also when the diarrhea occurs etc. It would be good to have a record of everything when you visit the doctors.
Hope it gets sorted out for him soon

Can he articulate if it’s weird in his head or his body? Can you use some of your own experiences with the epilepsy to see if that’s what he means?

Has he been called weird at school and it’s upsetting him?

DS was only slightly younger when he landed up at A&E... he was ill, fever and kept complaining about a "sore neck". He meant sore throat.

Weird at that age could be anything but if he's got some stomach issues, I wonder if he means nauseous or, as my grandmother would have said, "bilious". Or reflux?

Can he highlight WHERE he feels weird? or point to those spots?