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Ellie, has your daughter had gastro problems in the past? Is she small for her age? Has she ever had a sweat test?

 

She has had persistent "stomach" problems since she was a little girl. She cannot tolerate dairy--it hurts her stomach--and there may be other things which also hurt, but they are so random she has never been able to figure it out, so she has to prepare her own food most of the time, from scratch, which is healthier in general, but still... She also has severe--as in on-the-floor-in-a-fetal-position-every-month--menstrual cramps and nausea; she's been on b.c pills since she was 17, because that was the only way she can function, and she has been diagnosed with endometriosis (she'll probably never have children, and hysterectomy has been discussed). She has been through batteries of tests and procedures to find the source of her problems, with no resolution. This is the first extreme thing that has happened.

 

She's 5'9", so, no, she isn't small for her age. :-)

 

I don't know if she's had a sweat test. I think not, since I don't know what it is, and we would have talked about it. :-)

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She has had persistent "stomach" problems since she was a little girl. She cannot tolerate dairy--it hurts her stomach--and there may be other things which also hurt, but they are so random she has never been able to figure it out, so she has to prepare her own food most of the time, from scratch, which is healthier in general, but still... She also has severe--as in on-the-floor-in-a-fetal-position-every-month--menstrual cramps and nausea; she's been on b.c pills since she was 17, because that was the only way she can function, and she has been diagnosed with endometriosis (she'll probably never have children, and hysterectomy has been discussed). She has been through batteries of tests and procedures to find the source of her problems, with no resolution. This is the first extreme thing that has happened.

 

She's 5'9", so, no, she isn't small for her age. :-)

 

I don't know if she's had a sweat test. I think not, since I don't know what it is, and we would have talked about it. :-)

Sounds like Celiac which can also cause chronic pancretitis. It can be missed on biopsy and blood tests can be wrong. In these cases a gf trial is the only option. I hope she feels better quickly!

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