Thanks both of you.

I had three negative blood tests for celiac. I know the tests can have false reading. I did a gluten free diet for 8 months and had no improvements. I was also super vigilant about what I ate, sterilized kitchen and aware of cross contamination. Maybe it wasn't long enough, or maybe I wasn't vigilant enough. They didn't do a biopsy for celiac. Although I also have anemia and at times am deficient of vit k and others. I have other symptoms of celiac as well including dental enamel defects, stunted growth ect. I think my dr re did the blood test so many times because he was sure this was it. Why he didn't do a biopsy, I don't know ~ to save money maybe.

All the internist told me about the biopsies done was that they were free from cancer and looked like things were pointing towards chrones. I was put on a strict diet for chrones and zero improvement. Also chrones doesn't really seem to fit.

More troubling to me is my children are having the exact same problems. They are always having tummy trouble, are failing to thrive, they are all very small for their age. And the dr's just seem stumped.

I guess one thing to try is doing the gluten free again but include the kids this time and see how they respond. Maybe it just takes more time. And with kids, yikes. I didn't include them the first time because I wanted to see how I responded and work out the diet before attempting to restrict theirs.

One of the problems is that the dr's want to treat all the symptoms as separate things instead of looking at a possible bigger picture. Not to mention that my dr's are starting to treat me like it's all in my head, I guess my mental health issues do not help.

I was thinking allergies maybe because it seems like we've tried to rule out everything else.