I have been going through symptoms with my 15 year old daughter for over 6 months now.
Still no answers.
She has extreme stomach pains and extreme weight loss, was at 105 is now down to 85 pounds. At 4 foot 11.
Fatigue, and weakness.
Her hair is falling out drastically and extremely noticeable. Bald patches.
She however does not have Diarrhea in fact the exact opposite. She goes most times 10-13 days before a bowel movement.
When she does its like little rabbit poops.
She has had ultrasounds- came back fine
Blood work - all levels fine - thyroid is on high normal and iron is a little low but in the normal.
Urinalysis
It did show high then normal ketones not sure if in urine or blood.
We have her on a gluten free diet - no change noticed but it can't make matters worse.
She has had a colonoscopy which has shown fine now they will be doing another scope to check her stomach and small intestine.
Ruled out any issues in large intestine.
My first thoughts were anorexia or bulimia- so without her knowing we watched her very very closely, No issues there.
Lack of bowel movements she uses the washroom very little so she wasn't going after she ate and this kid eats more then most men or a pack of teen boys.
I have no idea where its going when she isn't exiting anything.
She has been on stool softeners and laxatives for months now. That as well doesn't help.
I am worried my baby's body is slowly starving away as I don't believe it is absorbing any nutrients.
I'm hoping to find out soon what the cause is but if anyone has any idea I would love some insight.
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If you ask me she has all the signs of an eating disorder. If she doesn't eat she could be anorexic. I was anorexic from 13 til now and I had similar symptoms. I would talk to her about it and see if that could be the case but even if she says it's not do not believe her. Talk to her doctors about it!
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