Jolanda, who are they?

The doctors is who they are. I would have thought that would have been quite easy to work out.

Could have been a Nutricionist. Just curious. as to why a doctor/Nutricionist would say that unless your child was not well or slightly overweight. obviously one or the other. you must have asked to have the weight looked at as when you are twelve doctors dont do it routinly.

Tootsie. Doctors, including a paediatrician looked at her height, weight and everything else because my daughter was suffering from symptoms that resembled, and they thought, was rhematoid arthritis to the point where there were days that she couldn't even turn in bed. They did a full special blood test and checked everything only to find that she had a condition that is known to be triggered by stress and that caused the symptoms that my daughter was experiencing. Lethargy, chronic migraines, depression, severe pain in joints and muscles and numerous other ailments. The stress was delivered Compliments of the Department of Education.

My daughter wore a size 8 loosely. She was not overweight by any means. She is of medium build but developed early. I dont know why they told her that she had to loose weight, at that point they didnt' know what she had. Maybe they were just clutching at straws.

Jolanda, so you think that the specialist did not know what they were talking about.

have these symptoms disappeared.

Tootsie at first they didn't know what they were talking about but I insisted that it must be something as what was happening to my daughter was not normal. It was obvious that stress was crippling her physically as well as mentally and psychologically. She is a very emotionally intense and introverted child. The pediatrician then decided to do some very expensive blood tests and the results came back that she had an Active Mycoplasma infection in her blood. I had never even heard of it. She was treated with courses of anti-biotics.

The pediatrician told me that Mycoplasma infection is a really common infection that is highly contagious that is activated by stress and that by the age of 5 the majority of people carry and that can cause all sorts of ailments and symptoms including those that my daughter had been suffering. When I tried to ask questions I was told not to worry about it and I have asked doctors since and nobody wants to talk about it.

Why they dont want to discuss it, is beyond me.

Her symtoms have decreased significantly but if she gets stressed it is an immediate migraine, if she gets really stressed her whole body is impacted and she becomes really lethargic and struggles to get out of bed. Her joints start aching and she becomes very unwell.