I have taken my 10 year old daughter to a pediatric gastroenterologist, a pediatrician and a naturopath, and they cannot figure out what my daughter has. She has tested negative for parasites, lactose-intolerance and celiac disease. I put her on the FODMAP diet during an episode and it didn't do anything. I have kept a food diary and there haven’t been any obvious food triggers. Acupuncture during an episode appears to lessen the duration.
My daughter starting having what I call ‘episodes’ when she was 7. The episodes have lasted 3, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 26 days. She had 7 episodes in 2019, 2 in 2018, 1 each in 2017 and 2016. Her symptoms:
*Abdominal pain wakes her up several times during the night. When she first wakes up, she is not hungry because her abdominal area hurts so much. Later in the morning and for the rest of the day her appetite is normal. The abdominal pain is reduced when reclined in the recliner chair. Describes abdominal pain as someone kicking her stomach. Some episodes the pain is above the navel, others a big circle around the navel, other times on either side of the navel.
*sore throat, achy body, no energy
*dizzy when standing and walking, cannot think/read/do homework, brain is foggy, pain across the forehead, above her eyebrows feels tingly, middle of her brain and side of head feels weird,
*lower back pain
*has a bowel movement every other day instead of daily.
She NEVER experiences these symptoms: nausea, vomiting, fever, sensitivity to light or sound, pale skin, dark shadows under eyes.
Thank you.