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(Message started by: Ree on Dec 13^th, 2003, 3:43pm)

Title: Help...
Post by Ree on Dec 13^th, 2003, 3:43pm

My little girl is having the most horrendous headache right now... I already gave her 2 junior strenght tylenol type things.......... any suggestions........ Here we go again for her... this sucks...........what a family... bunch a heacases... pray that this isnt CH... the pedi neuro is a quack.......... Ree

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Charlie on Dec 13^th, 2003, 3:50pm

Rats Ree.

Mom used to make me eat something. Carbs mostly. Seemed to help most of the time.

Charlie

Title: Re: Help...
Post by taraann on Dec 13^th, 2003, 3:51pm

aww ree I'm sorry to hear that! Are you against giving her a cup of regular tea? sometimes a little bit of caffeine will help? lotsa water too! has she stopped eating cause of the headache? that will contribute to a headache sometimes too!

Title: Re: Help...
Post by kim on Dec 13^th, 2003, 3:55pm

Oh Ree, wish I could do more. If she is able to lay down with you near her, try putting HOT water in a pot and drenching a washcloth and then ring out and put on her forehead and just let her know you are near her. The combination of the Heat and your company close by will comfort her and perhaps help her to drop off to sleep... Hopefully that tylonol will help a bit.

Ask her would she eat some toast and juice maybe...
Ree, if it is clusters, you'll know soon enough.

Sending well wishes to that youngin of yours. :)

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Little Deb on Dec 13^th, 2003, 3:59pm

ice paks, massage, a fast coca cola, sit in front of A/C,

where is her HA???

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Ree on Dec 13^th, 2003, 4:01pm

thanks you guys Im doin what charlie said first she is now attempting to eat pasta... her eyes are tearing........ she was lying down but thrashing and I had my cold hand on her head........... tea is a great idea too...I drew a blank and panicked (sp?) Thankyou for your suggestions I will be checking so any other suggestions are gladly welcome We went through this last year from Dec to March and then nothing... thats what is making me think she is having a cycle of some sort.........hopefully its a fluke or a bug she doesnt have a temp though...........KIDS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET HEADACHES!!!! LOVE YOU GUYS REE AND BREE

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Little Deb on Dec 13^th, 2003, 4:01pm

does she have them alot??? maybe she is coming down with the flu??? how about some theraful???

if you already gave her tylenol, how about some motrin, and some benadryl to help her to go to sleep.

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Little Deb on Dec 13^th, 2003, 4:02pm

i would also suggest taking her BP if you have the means, and maybe some fast sugar....like frosting, big spoonful

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Little Deb on Dec 13^th, 2003, 4:03pm

i am so sorry she is feeling this. we will all pray for it not to be CH

love ya

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Linda_Howell on Dec 13^th, 2003, 4:51pm

Good God Ree!! The thrashing and tearing don't sound good at all, does it? Children should NOT get this kind of pain damnit!!!!!!!!!!

I would have no hesitation at all of giving her coffee. It won't hurt her and also didn't Dave get the 02? Try that. Like Kim said, if it IS clusters, you'l know soon enough.

LindaH

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Ree on Dec 13^th, 2003, 5:30pm

an hour later no sign of pain.......... hmmmmmmm, I will keep you posted.... again thanks for the responses... Do any of the Cluster-sufferers have kids with cluster like headaches.......(this kid is already moody without the added pain involved) sheesh.............

Title: Re: Help...
Post by don on Dec 13^th, 2003, 5:51pm

Any identifiable trigger Ree?

She eat something?
Smell something?
Whack her noggin on something?

Title: Re: Help...
Post by BlueMeanie on Dec 13^th, 2003, 5:58pm

With all the colds going around maybe it could be a sinus infection ? I suggest laying down with her in a dark room. Maybe if she can sleep for awhile it will help. Vaporizer ?

Title: Re: Help...
Post by fubar on Dec 13^th, 2003, 7:19pm

Ree,

My 11 yr. old daughter gets bad headaches. I usually try excedrine on her first and that usually knocks it out, but sometimes I let her eat some sugar or caffeinne to give her a jolt too.

-Shawn

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Woobie on Dec 13^th, 2003, 7:26pm

Oh Ree.......... I'm sorry!

My kid tried to fake one once so she wouldn't have to take a math test - she said "im having a cluster headache.. i need some oxygen!" LOL. Poor thing.

I dont know what to give.. I stand by excederin migraine......... for "normal" headaches. and caffiene...... pop, chocolate........ coffee.. something. caffiene helps a lot usually.

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Kirk on Dec 13^th, 2003, 10:17pm

You probably know more than me, but have you checked into seasonal allergens.
Just a stab in the dark here.

TTFN

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Ree on Dec 14^th, 2003, 1:54am

Great ideas guys!!! I am hoping that it is caused by our heating system here it seems to happen only during the winter months last year January-April when I shut off the heat.......... hmmmmmmmmm something to ponder. The cafene is a good thing for us to try...

Her headache tonight was real... she was visibly in pain and thrashing around on the floor. When she sat up to take the meds her eyes (both) were tearing but one was effected more and though she said the stabs were on her forehead she said most of the pain was over the left eye.......she complains when she is ill... big time... every thing is amplified for her.((Pain in my Hiney girl)) Cold helped and eating and the meds i gave her so... so far so good. It didn't return... I promise I won't panic next time... thanks for everything.........ree

Title: Re: Help...
Post by taraann on Dec 14^th, 2003, 2:07am

Quote:

I promise I won't panic next time... thanks for everything.........ree

Oh that's just a sign of a good mommy! ;) Glad she's feeling better!~ (btw how old is she?)

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Jayne on Dec 14^th, 2003, 2:13am

Oh God Ree...I am going to bed and PRAYING it is not you know what. I would definatley get your heating / fire place checked out though. My friends daughter started getting TERRIBLE migraine headaches daily and came rushing to me straight away, though it did not sound like clusters it still sounded god bloody awful, it was simply just location that was different. So she went to neurologists/MRI's you name it MEDS all sorts of things...well this went of for quite a while and she was worried sick about her daughter.
something happened with her heating/fire and they had to have it fixed...like a light switch, her daughters headaches STOPPED.She is off all meds and totally back to normal.
I will call Dawna tomorrow and find out the EXACT details but I know that it was somthing to do with that that was causing her daughters headaches all along and she has another child in the house and he was not affected.

Title: Re: Help...
Post by aquarius28 on Dec 14^th, 2003, 10:30am

First of all I would like to say that I'm very sorry about your daughter Ree.I hope everything is ok now.
To Jayne:how can heating affect on headaches?I am asking beacuse during fall and winter I have the longest and the most terrible episodes of pain.And I wonder if heating can have something to do with them.We turn on heating in our house during fall but for sure I don't have anything wrong with sinuses.
Good luck and PFDAN 2 all

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Jayne on Dec 14^th, 2003, 12:14pm

Ok I have just got off the phone with Dawna.
She moved into a new rental house in November of last year when her daughter started getting these terrible headaches.
She had someone come in and take a look at her heating unit and they told her that she had a crack in her heating unit that was leaking carbon manoxide, her lanlord replaced the unit and her daughers headaches STOPPED!
remember what I told you, she had gone through MRIs she was on meds, when all the time, it was a slow leak of carbon manoxide that was causing her headaches (migraines). But Dawna's teeneage son was not beeing affected by them, but dawna's daughter who is also a teenager, was being affected by this slow leak.
I hope this ino might help you.
I hope this could be a simple answer and that is all it is.
To be on the safe side Ree get some one to come and look at your heating unit, they should bring some sort of carbon manoxide reader, to see what sort of leak if any you have in your home.
Jayne

Title: Re: Help...
Post by cootie on Dec 14^th, 2003, 5:49pm

I always have problems when I get to diggin around in the closets cleanin em out or lookin for stuff.......this is an old old house.......old old dust I stir up..... maybe it's sum sort of allergic reaction.......I hear that flu hits ya fast as hell and knocks people on there asses befor ethey can figure out what hit em. Hope it's not ch...hope she's ok! Pam that's apparenlty allergic to 'old' dust mites

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Callico_Kid on Dec 14^th, 2003, 7:56pm

Pam,
At least you know it is not CH. Females don't get CH! [smiley=laugh.gif] I would go along with checking the heat system. I work in a lot of old houses and sometimes have trouble while working in them. A lot of times the heating system will have an accumulation of dust and dust mites that are a particular problem when the heat is first turned on. Also a lot of older houses have chimneys that are not lined. The mortor will develope small cracks that will allow CO to filter through. CO will effect people in different ways, and one of the worst is headache.

We will be praying for you to find the answer.

jc

Title: Re: Help...
Post by Ree on Dec 14^th, 2003, 10:25pm

We have a new heating system... A few years back yes we did have problems with Carbon monoxide... almost killed my family... actually the thing was going off and Dave kept resetting it.......... I think he was trying to kill us........... I think the heat is effecting her by drying her sinus'. I hate the heat in our house... no happy medium either too hot or too cold........... very dry air........ today she seemed to be coming down with a cold. That HA was probably the pre condition to this cold that she is getting.......... thanks for all of your concern....... ree