You have been given a great deal of good anecdotal advice, all worthy of Merit. However rather than look for the name of a disease I would recommend something different. You being a nurse is going to help a lot.

Get a white board or index cards. Categorize them first into "Body System." - I can practically hear the frustrated sigh, and it's understandable, but take a breath and just try this; it forces you to compartmentalize as well as forcing you to move forward perpetually.

So, again, first body systems, for example; seizures would have at least two cards, Neurological as well as Muscular-Skeletal. Write and categorize EVERY SYMPTOM no matter how many occurrences or possible events that can be debunked ( so-to-speak .)

Once you have them categorized put them in order of most severe to least.

After that, take the most severe from each category and number them from most to least severe.

Now you are simply studying AND you are only looking at ONE problem. For example there are only so many things that cause seizure activity, remember the simplest explanation is often the correct one. So, the most common seizure in children is a Febrile Seizure. Here is where most mistakes are made.

Many people will say "we'll he doesn't have a fever so it can't be that!" Dig deeper, why does a fever cause a seizure? Well, why would the body have a fever? Infection?; possible. Inflammation, probably! So, is it pyretic or inflammatory... You immediately narrow the spectrum, once you have it narrowed down then re-score; is inflammation as severe as his other systems, you'll find that within just a few hours you will have broken down majors to minors; from there you start again;

For example, think clinically, take what you have left and run a scenario; "PT presents with migraines & joint pain most likely causes by inflammation. Furthermore; during a neurological event PT EXHIBITS partial memory loss - does that fit with seizure activity or convulsion?

This is incredibly useful. I was able to help a friend who had suffered for years find out he had two pheochromocytomas - just in time to as they were less than a week away from attaching a colonoscopy bags. Let use know the first deductive symptom you come up with so we can assist.

Hope this helped

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