I've changed names because this is quite outing, and apologies in advance for the long post.
About a year ago my Dd started having trouble swallowing food, this has now led to her not eating any solid food for over 6 months now. She just about tolerates milkshakes but struggles with ensure. She was very overweight/ obese when this all started but she’s lost so much weight she’s now in her normal BMI.
She’s had an endoscopy and barium swallow both came back clear so They’re now saying it’s functional dysphasia.
She called the GP yesterday (we were both there) as we’ve heard nothing for over a month and DD is feeling very unwell, dizzy, tingling hands/feet and chest pains. The GP said they’ve referred her to the psychologist but obviously there’s a backlog, there’s not a lot else they can do until DD is underweight, as at the moment she’s not considered at risk? She explained how unwell she was feeling to be told she just needs to eat - She can’t swallow, it’s not that easy! She asked for blood tests so we can see if she’s vitamin deficient and the GP said she’d do them but nothing would be done about them anyway. GP then said, Don’t worry, she sees this all the time in anorexic girls - She said to her she’s not got anorexia the GP said I know but it’s pretty much the same.
Dd has lost another 6 pounds this month she’s dropping weight rapidly, she doesn’t want to, the whole family is terrified as she’s wasting away before our eyes, but I don’t know where to go from here. Aibu to want help for her, to not want to wait until she’s underweight? I don’t know what to do or where we can go?