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Skin color - patchy are used for low pressure headaches, such as with a persistent spinal fluid leak from a spinal tap - but if your son had the same headaches before the spinal tap this is unliekly to be the case.
An infusion is an intravenous administration of a stronger pain or headache medication. Types of infusions include Depakote, dihydroergotamine, or steroids - all of which can be effective i naborting an acute headache. When headaches are frequent (more than a few a month) then medication to prevent or reduce the frequency of headaches should be taken such as nadolol, depakote, amitryptaline etc. Your nearest headache neurologist should be aware and experienced with all these meds. Some headache are very sensitive to certain types of medications such as oxygen for cluster headache and indomethacin for hemicrania - again I cannot diagnose these conditions but your local neurologist should be able to
Good luck
It was important to exclude a serious cause to the headache liek you have done ie tumor etc.
Cause of headache related to many issue from
example Gastric, Constipations, Not enough sleep,
vision problem or after playing video games.
Lastly don't feel down if doctors can't find anything wrong with you. It maybe a just a symptoms that may change your life for a better one.
The only thing you can do is to:
1. Think positively
2. Eat a healthy diet food
3. Enough exercise
4. Enough sleep
5. Maintain healthy weight.
Doing regular vigorous exercise without eating healthy diet food is actually useless.
There's other alternative therapies for headache example accupunture and reflexology.
Take care and warmest regard..aidle
has your son had any dizzy spells, cranial muscle weakness, or confusion?
susan
Since he was just diagnosed with alzhiemers as well, I get the feeling that won't be much done for him, he takes aricept for the AD.
His headaches were treated with trigger injection and has some pain med but he truly is in agony..
I wonder how big one has to get to have the neurologist send him to a neurosurgeon the quality of his life is one word PAIN
Just curious does your son have a blocked nose? If you get desperate enough I would highly suggest going to a university hospital, these smaller suburban hospitals in my city are questionable at best when it comes to complex problems, IMHO . Good luck
I would take your son to a major teaching hospital so they can dig deeper into his headaches. Do not go away without an answer. Keep searching. My friend had unending migraines for 10 months and after two weeks in the hospital they finaly diagnosed her with melanoma that had spread throughout her body. She had been complaining for 10 months until her symptoms became so severe she was taken to the hospital(falling down, slurred speach, memory loss). Not saying this could be what your son has just saying to keep seeking answers until you have a diagnosis.Good luck.
This also relates to the fact that I can only wear a hearing aid in my right ear (processed by the left brain) because I have noise sensitivity (Hyperacusis, the hyperacusis network is at www.hyperacusis.net)
in my left ear.
Noise sensitivity is also related to taking Presciption Drugs, the mercury in flu shots, acoustic trauma, etc.....I wasn't told anything about this for the first four years, so I didn't have a clue about the Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber and white noise machines from Sears or Zellers that would have helped.
I sleep all day pretty much everyday, agonizing pain which I do partly blame on taking Paxil, because all SSRI's do cause side effects which include migraines (medical researchers do know this, found info. on a Christian Science Site).
I'am in Toronto, the Cdn. Hearing Society and doctors chuck off anyone with ususual problems with a mental illness, even though they are fully aware of the root problems or why this happens, because engineers, chemists, acoustic consultants and Physic Professors know way more about how sound affects the body more than doctors. They also do experiments with animals daily with loud intolerance levels, but they can't talk and machines show nothing.
The only thing doctor's know is that they don't know anything unless I have an MRI, which I refuse because my problem is from loud noises and people with hyperacusis go into grave horrifying noise problems after, and I won't take the chance, so they can't seem to offer me any PET or SPECT tests and I really think I probably got some Acoustic Tumor in the brain or something and then they'll say "Well, we just don't know anything".....well, I've been trying to tell someone for the last ten years but everybody keeps saying "I don't know anything".
I'am glad I found this site, because it's just absolutely mind-boggling how many people are disabled from flu shots, diets and drugs and doctors pass us around and don't know anything.
I have a relative with a similar condition. All tests were normal, Ctscan, MRI, etc, until one day somebody suggested an EEG. And the result was positive. He was given Topamax and Trileptal and his response to the drugs were dramatic. It seems like his headaches were "seizure" equivalent.
Before this, he has been having a series of on and off severe headaches with vomiting. The headaches were so severe, he was confined to his bed for days. Everytime he had attacks, he thought it would be his end, all of us were sad.
It is so easy to label headache as psyhosomatic, or tension or migraine attacks but I consider these "waste basket diagnosis". We were lucky to have a very caring, attentive neurologists who is willing to answer even our text messages.
I hope and I'll pray that your son will get an expert, caring help soon!
Cecille
i.e. I eat and about 18 hrs later my headache goes away. This is about how long it takes my system takes to get rid if the food.
Remember that ingested allergens don't have the same effect and will not show up on a scratch test. The only way to determine if your allergic to food it to eliminate it from your diet. I test negative to corn but get a very obvious allergic reaction to it when I eat enough of it. p.s. corn is in nearly everything!!! Not prepared from scratch. i.e. soup has corn starch, almost all soda has corn syrup, as do most condiments, paper plates are coated in corn oil etc... So you have to be very very diligent to truly eliminate a food type.
I and family members also have other allergies that give me headaches. Please consider the following.
1) Chemicals: fabric in the clothing that your son wears, detergent that you use to wash his clothes, soaps that you use to bathe with. Carpets in your home are sprayed with chemicals to keep them nice and stain free. These types of things will give long term effects since it stays on the skin or ever present in your environment.
2) Several of my family members have a condition where they get headaches and their health is generally bad unless they get lots of sun. As a result they now live in Arizona and New Mexico
3) You might also consider seeing a chiropractor it could be a bone alignment problem, chiropractors are exceptional at reviewing xrays and may see a pinched nerve or other structural issue.
4) Internal chemical imbalance. Sometimes our systems get out of whack, see a psychiatrist they are masters of chemical imbalance problems, it could be a mild seizure or bi-polar style chemical style imbalance.
Most of these will make you feel like your putting your son through tests as a guinea pig but trust me this is way preferable to the headaches.
Thanks and good luck
Gary Carroll
At this alarming rate of her body breaking down I am very afraid for her. I feel for you, and hope my suggestions can help in some way. First of all see 3 or more doctors before having any more organs removed—ack! Yes her problems now I would guess are 90% due to the introduction of foreign chemicals/drugs. Drugs play a huge role in aging and destroying our chemical makeup. I suggest that you see a new or several psychiatrist, about the drugs she is taking and see if they can eliminate as many as possible. Also see about lowering the dosage, this should be done gradually, since going off drugs are as hard as going on them. ( why a psychiatrist because they are trained in drug interaction far more extensively than a standard doctor ) It is possible that there is a better drug than Ultram.
If I were her; I would do everything I could to:
1) get off everything (drug wise) that is not 110% necessary.
2) Get healthy. The body can do almost all of it’s own repairs if you treat is right. This means no more smoking, not more alcohol, no more junk food/candy. Get a trainer if you can afford it and work out 1 hr a day every day – nothing strenuous. Eat only home prepared food, chicken, veggies, some beef, rice. Drink fruit juice, avoid anything fried, avoid pasta, avoid bread. She only has one life fix it now before it is too late.
Hope this helps
Gary Carroll
months old. He is 12 years old now. His seizures are vomiting with
migraines. He has never had a shunt malfunction but I'm told vomiting
with headaches is the symptoms. Almost 2 weeks ago he woke up holding
the front of his head and began puking. So we went to the hospital
assuming it would be seizures, he was hooked up to EEG( 5days total)
no seizures. Had lots of blood work, MRI, CT, MRV, and migraine meds.
NO pain meds are helpful either. Neurosurgeon says scans look fine no
shunt failure. In the mean time he has still been vomiting with the
headaches. He has been on prednisone for 16 months at a very slow
tapering and down to 5 mgs. for the past 10 weeks. so the only answer
the Drs. gave us were it must be the tapering of prednisone. they
increased it and he seemed fine. That was Saturday( 12 days after the
onset) They sent him home Monday and Wed He had the headache and
vomiting again. My question is:
Can the prednisone be masking his seizures?
Can the Reglan they gave him for neusea have made things worse?
Can the weaning of the prednisone 10 week tapers at 2 1/2 mgs. at a
time be doing this?
Could it be the shunt working too good all of a sudden? The CT that
he just had in the hospital shows his ventricles are much smaller
than 2 years ago.
but the NS dont think is this is a problem. We are in a good hospital
(NYU) but I am very discouraged that my son is in so much pain and no
diagnosis in 2 weeks now.
ANY help would be grately appreciated!!!
Good Luck,
Crystina