If I give you the symptoms will you diagnose?

[BeeEm]

So perhaps i'm clutching at straws or being a mad paranoid overprotective mother - BUT -
here's the symptoms
9.5 yr old DD.
constant nausea
depressed
clingy
tummy pains
behaviour 'issues' temper tantrums school refusal
poor diet - v picky eater
constipation
strange pale poo sometimes
behaviour always better after being persuaded to eat something
not anaemic, thyroid and liver function normal
v skinny
GP has referred to Paediatrician and CAMHS (school nurse thinks is all depression)
Now i know you lot can't tell me definitively that A B or C is the matter but would anyone think i am barking up the right tree or just barkin?

"Do you really think i haven't already been in to school, investigated the possibility of bullying, considered unhappiness/depression as a cause on its own and tried to get her to eat properly?"

I don't know you, I don't know what you are like so I wouldn't know whether you had or hadn't which is why I was asking!

How was she over the holidays?

When is your paediatrician referral coming through? If it is coming quite soon, it might be worth waiting to speak to him/her if you feel the GP isn't taking you seriously.

Has she been tested for Coeliac disease? You can get home testing kits from boots for £19.99.

If it is positive then she will need an endoscopy to confirm.

Simple change of diet will cure it if it is that.

Good luck x

Sorry, flaming, posted mine before I saw yours!

Sorrry - as before its been a rough day and i was a little techy earlier when i psote dthat.

sorry - spelling come all over cod-like

Yes Bee the glucose test DOES rule out diabetes. That's good news at least.
I hope you get to the bottom of this.

Hurrah - got appt through for Paediatritian - just a couple of weeks time - hope they don't dismiss things and we get somewhere. In the meantime thanks for your suggestons.

That's good . Good luck-let us know how it goes won't you?

Fantastic news Bee. Good luck - let us know how you get on.

Great. Well done.