Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Help, Daughter's Losing Weight!

We found out this past Feb. that our 13 yo daughter has IBS. Since then we've been through much pain; tried Bentyl and Levisin and limiting her diet. About a month ago we went to a counselor and a physciatrist and they told us she has OCD (Obsessive Complusive Disorder) and Anxiety Disorder. She began taking the generic brand of Prozac. (The physciatrist said it would also help with the IBS.) When something hurts her stomach just a little, she totally removes it (the entire meal) from her diet.

She now eats 3 slices of sourdough and 2 slices of Iron Kids bread - this is her breakfast and lunch (IF YOU CAN CALL IT THAT). She drinks less than 30 oz. of water all day. Then at night for supper, she eats an HUGE portion of whatever we cook for dinner (meat, veggies, etc.). She helps me cook every night, I believe so she can make sure I cook things in the same pot as always and to make sure that I don't cook anything differently. She's 59 inches tall and she now weighs 72 pounds. In Feb. she weighed 82 pounds.

I've offered to cook a "supper-like" meal for lunch, but she says she doesn't want me to, because then she will get tired of it and she enjoys supper so much, she doesn't want that to happen. I bought the IBS cook book and she is even afraid to let me try anything out of that. She even thinks now that Levisin and Bentyl cause her stomach to hurt so she won't take that. The good news is she hasn't had a bad attack since May- some small attacks, but we were able to divert those by getting her mind busy on something difficult. It seems if we can keep her mind on something else when ever the small attacks occur, they go away.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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