abdominal migraines

[Mary]

I have a 12 year old son that has been having upper right quartant pain with vomiting,nausea and he gets very hot and weak that we have to carry him.  He runs a low grade fever around 99 or 100.9.  We have had a hida scan, gallbladder ultrasound, scope to see if he had an ulcer, blood work and all came back normal except he is slight anemnic.  We seen a doctor a couple of weeks ago and need abdominal x-ray and he was constipation and we thought that was finally the end to the mystery cause he has this problem for 2 1/2 years.  He has missed alot of school and they call for me to pick him up this attacks wakes up doubled over at 2:00am and sometimes right before school and weekends.  He was seen my a Ped Gastro and he diagnois my Joseph with abdominal migraines which he doesn't have headaches and I have never heard of such and they prescribed Elavil 10mg before bed.  I am lost on what to do and you could give me more info on abdominal migraines I would appreciate it.  I have looked and found nothing.  Thanks
Mom worried

[kelley]

Thank you so much for the prayers, I will too prayer for your joseph. I hope all gets better and that doctors can help. I have done a lot of research on my experience and I have found a few things not related to the organs or functionality of my organs. I have found out about food allergies and low levels of hydrochloric acid. Below I have taken the time to look up some info and copy the addresses for you to go look at. Some of this may be of some help to you. The search engine I used was dogpile.com (which searchs every search engine). I hope you find as least one bit of information that may help you.

The last site is where you can put in your symptoms and it will come up with a possible conclusion for you. I did it myself and it came up with gall bladder and ulcer problems, which I have been tested for and either exist for me. But this may help you.

I wish you and your family the best of luck in finding a way to make your Joseph better. You will be in my prayers.

to find out about food allergies
http://www.foodallergy.org/patients.html
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/wh-alrg1.html
http://www.food-allergy.org/
to find out about the levels of hydrochloric acid in your stomach
http://www.rheumatic.org/hcl.htm
http://www.nat-med.com/archives/hydroacid.htm
http://oak.cc.conncoll.edu/~rjcha/wells/articles/hypoclor.htm
to find out about stomach migraines
http://www.msgmyth.com/
http://www.abdominalpain.com/

[Kelley to Mary]

Thank you so much for the prayers, I will too prayer for your joseph. I hope all gets better and that doctors can help. I have done a lot of research on my experience and I have found a few things not related to the organs or functionality of my organs. I have found out about food allergies and low levels of hydrochloric acid. Below I have taken the time to look up some info and copy the addresses for you to go look at. Some of this may be of some help to you. The search engine I used was dogpile.com (which searchs every search engine). I hope you find as least one bit of information that may help you.

The last site is where you can put in your symptoms and it will come up with a possible conclusion for you. I did it myself and it came up with gall bladder and ulcer problems, which I have been tested for and either exist for me. But this may help you.

I wish you and your family the best of luck in finding a way to make your Joseph better. You will be in my prayers.

to find out about food allergies
http://www.foodallergy.org/patients.html
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/wh-alrg1.html
http://www.food-allergy.org/
to find out about the levels of hydrochloric acid in your stomach
http://www.rheumatic.org/hcl.htm
http://www.nat-med.com/archives/hydroacid.htm
http://oak.cc.conncoll.edu/~rjcha/wells/articles/hypoclor.htm
to find out about stomach migraines
http://www.msgmyth.com/
http://www.abdominalpain.com/

[kelley]

Thank you so much for the prayers, I will too prayer for your joseph. I hope all gets better and that doctors can help. I have done a lot of research on my experience and I have found a few things not related to the organs or functionality of my organs. I have found out about food allergies and low levels of hydrochloric acid. Below I have taken the time to look up some info and copy the addresses for you to go look at. Some of this may be of some help to you. The search engine I used was dogpile.com (which searchs every search engine). I hope you find as least one bit of information that may help you.

The last site is where you can put in your symptoms and it will come up with a possible conclusion for you. I did it myself and it came up with gall bladder and ulcer problems, which I have been tested for and either exist for me. But this may help you.

I wish you and your family the best of luck in finding a way to make your Joseph better. You will be in my prayers.

to find out about food allergies
http://www.foodallergy.org/patients.html
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/wh-alrg1.html
http://www.food-allergy.org/
to find out about the levels of hydrochloric acid in your stomach
http://www.rheumatic.org/hcl.htm
http://www.nat-med.com/archives/hydroacid.htm
http://oak.cc.conncoll.edu/~rjcha/wells/articles/hypoclor.htm
to find out about stomach migraines
http://www.msgmyth.com/
http://www.abdominalpain.com/

[Mary to Dee]

Thank you so much for your input and we are again going to a PEDS GI doctor and hopefully will get some answer.  Joseph's scope didn't show anything or the Hida scan and it a mystery to me what it could be.  But knowing that your daughter has gotten help is a ray of hope.  Thanks again and hope everything keeps going well and hopefully I will know what my Joseph has.

Mary

[Dee to Mary]

I have a 12 yr. old daughter who developed the same symptoms, but only vomited a couple of times over the course of 4 years.  Her symptoms where intense abdominal pain, doubling over, not wanting to eat because it made her feel worse, headache, nausea and with every "attack" her temperature would run 100+.  Then it would go back to normal when she felt better.  Well, she had an abdominal ultrasound, bloodwork which was questionable, but non-specific, and an upper GI.  Everything showed up as being normal.  We too were told that she was constipated.  She missed so many days of school because of the policy that she had to come home if her temp was 100 or above.  Finally after four years of this and trial antibiotics and acid reducers and stool softeners she saw a pediatric gastroenterologist.  He talked about abdominal migraines and thought that was most likely what she had, but wanted to do an EGD on her.  He also said the temp. she ran was not indicative of a fever, per se, but was the way her body reacted to the pain since she her temp would always return to normal shortly afterwards.  Well, she had the EGD and after the procedure he told me that everything looked good to him, that he didn't see any ulcers or any cause for her symptoms, but that she did have a small hernia (she was 10 yrs. old at the time!) and this was just an incidental finding and not to worry about it.  But, we still had to wait for the results of the biopsies.  His office called me a week later and said the biopsies showed that she had "severe, chronic inflammation of the stomach and duodenum" and she needed to go on a proton pump inhibitor such as Prevacid to give her stomach time to heal.  She took it for 30 days before she saw the doctor again and by that time she was SO MUCH BETTER.  The doctor explained that he's seen this before and what usually happens is that as some point in her life she probably had a virus that "settled in the stomach" and just kept it inflammed so that the normal stomach acid on top of the inflammation was creating the pain and nausea and she would have had no time to heal.  So by taking the Prevacid it stopped nearly all the acid production and gave her stomach time to heal.  She took it for about three months and has been a new child since.  So, the point of the story is that in her case it shot a hole in his abdominal migraine theory and it all came down to the biopsies' results.

Hope this helps.

Dee

[kelley]

I am 21 years old and have the same symptoms as the children mentioned. I have had all the tests, like, hida scan, stomach scope, ultrasound of all my organs, countless blood tests, and mine too, have come back all normal. I have pain in the upper stomach, right at the bottom of my rib cage. It also hurts to the touch. I get sicker when I eat foods that have fat in them, so I can only eat up to 2-3 grams of fat per meal. Now I am on a no solid food diet, which seems to help. I can only eat applesauce (natural-unsweetened), apple juice, jell-o(sugar free), fat-free yogurt, and steamed distilled water. I don't have harldy any pain with eating these foods. However, I have NO other symptoms (like dierreaha(sp?), constipation, etc). I have often wondered if this may be a food allergy? I don't know anymore. I have been to 5 different doctors and very good hospitals, where no one can seem to help. I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (which I do not have ANY of the symptoms of that).

I feel for you kids, as I have had this since november of 1999 and it is now April of 2000. I just want to eat pizza or macaroni and cheese.

Take care:)