My daughter is 16. She has always been
active in sports and school. In july she
began getting headaches. They were so
bad, she could not get up. At the
beginning of august, the pain was so
severe and the symptoms were growing.
She had chest pain and severe joint pain.
She was hospitalized for three days.
They ran every blood test imaginable.
They could not tell me what the problem
was. She now is still having tremendous
headaches and is taking imitrex daily.
The maximum dose is 8 tablets a day she is
taking 6 to 8 each day. She has no
energy and just wants to lie around all
day. She wakes up with a headache goes
to bed with one as well. She has had an
mri of her head and nothing. I am at
the end of my rope. If anyone can give
me advice as what to do I would be ever
grateful.
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 02-05-04 11:33am
My daughter started getting some similar
symptoms at age 13 & we found it was
due to a severe allergy to abything
remotely petroleum based - petrol, oil,
vaseline, many perfumes, cleansers etc etc
etc - we discovered the cause after we
bought her an entire bedroom suite of
solid wood (they'd used a petroleum based
"thing" in finishing it!! It was 6 months
before we decontaminated the furniture
& she was able to go back into her
room).
Recently we weent into a shopping centre
& separated to do 2 different things
& 10 mins tops later when I got back
to the car she was standing banging her
head against the window because that was
less painful than the ehadache the
chemicals I hadn't really even smelt had
caused her, not to mention, nausea,
rashes, cramps, & itches that make her
bite at her skin.
I do think you need to rule out
neurological possibilities & also
hormonal (at her age any hormonal
imbalance no matter how slight may be
enough to make things worse even if they
don't actually cause them). But don't
rule out allergies either.
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Shulamit Lando
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Israel
Nose Operation Posted: 03-13-04 19:21pm
Hello to all,
i have migraines already for years too.
At first I related them to hormonal stuff.
Now I am not so sure anymore. I have all
kinds of triggers, all the fun things
(cofee, chocolate... Even movies
-light-.) now I was asured
that a nose operation might stop them. I
am about to go through it. It might serve
to have a checkup of the bone that
separates the nosetrills?
good luck
shulamit
now I was asured
that a nose operation might stop them. I
am about to go through it. It might serve
to have a checkup of the bone that
separates the nosetrills? 
