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Nausea or Stomach Pain when Eating seven months of this

My son,17 yo, has had problems with nausea for months. As soon as he begins to eat (within 2 bites or so) he becomes nauseated and often cannot continue to eat. Sometimes he can eat more but then has stabbing pain in his stomach afterwards. The nausea lasts about 10- 20 mins or so then he can eat a little more again. Many days he is mildly nauseated all day, not only when he eats. The stabbing pain lasts only 10 minutes or so. Nausea can follow the pains afterwards but not overwhelming nausea. He doesn't vomit.
The first couple months, he lost weight - about 5 pounds. . My son is extremely athletic, very active in highly competitive sports and has absolutely no spare weigh to lose.
His doctor prescribed two different medications for acid reflux but neither worked.
He had blood tests done. Nothing abnormal.
He has an ultrasound that showed nothing,
a gastroscopy that showed one lesion in his stomach that they biopsied. They also biopsied another part of his stomach to test for I-pilori. Both biopsies clear.
He did a barium swallow (to be timed intervals at 5 different stages) but was having a very difficult time getting the barium down in good time due to the nausea. The radiologist called it short after 3 swallows and images. The X-rays showed nothing abnormal.
His bowel movements and stools are relatively normal sometimes soft but infrequent diarrhea. Blood tests redone showed nothing.
We did Celiac test. Negative.
Some days better than others for his ability to eat but he either becomes nauseated OR is able to eat larger quantity but has stabbing pain in his stomach afterwards. He can drink liquids but limited to about 2-3 cups before feeling nauseated.
His doctor now prescribed Buscopan to see if that helps with the pain. We are unsure at this point if it helps, as my son often forgets to take it half hour before eating. The few times he has remembered, he did not have pain, but he doesn't always get the pain with eating.  Suggestions?
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Thank you Gemfly.  I will look into that.
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I don't know if this is helpful or not, but how are his Vitamin D3 and iron/ferritin levels?

D3 should be above 50ng/mL
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