Hi my name is laura and I have been suffering from migraines since I was 12, I am now 18 and still have found no cure. At the age of 12 I became so tired I could only get up to go to the toilet and the migraines I was suffering from were so intense I felt like hitting my head off a brick wall. I too was once sporty but this all had to stop.

Does your daughter suffer from seizures or seem like she daydreams or stares into space or does her fingers or eyes occasionally twitch? If so she could have epilepsy. I am now not as tired as I once was but still get the headaches, I would recommend asking your doctor to refer you to a neurologist, these people specialise with problems in the brain. This is the process I am currently going through and although it sounds scary when I mention the brain their is nothing to worry about. I am sure you will find something that helps.


Hope this was some use to you

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.

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

HI,

I have been suffering regularly from Migraines from the age of about 13 and the reason I get them can only be one thing, STRESS and ANTIDEPRESANTS!!!! During my teenage years I was overweight and found it difficult to make friends at school which made me depressed and my GP prescribed me with a course of antidepresents that lasted 3 months. When i came off the dosage i began to feel nausias alot for apparently no reason but never had a headache or threw up. One day on the school bus i was hapilly staring out the window when I began to see tiny "electric" dots in my field of vision that quickly multiplied until after about 5mins I had completely lost all vision in my left eye, then i threw up and boy was it embaressing. I am now 22 and get a migraine at least twice a month which can leave me bed ridden for up to 48 hours at a time and the cause for this as I have now lost my "puppy fat" is simply stress from work. If your job is stressful and you suffer from migraines with impaired vision then go see your GP immediately as off the shelf meds will not help you at all. Before i got my prescription i was taking 3 nurofen, 3 times a day and they simply didn't do a thing. Now at the first sign of a migraine attack i do the following and would ask anyone to give it a shot as it really works for me all the time and reduces the time that i'm immobalized.

Lay a nice big bath / beach towel (rough side up) on your bed to lay on top of when under the duvet or if your like me and you roll around when you sleep use a couple of towels side by side. Then take your meds and make sure you have a big bottle of water by your bed and you have turned off your phone and told anyone in your house that you do not want to be disturbed no matter what (unless the house is on fire.lol). Finally get a flannel and cover it with cold tap water , squeeze out the exsess, turn off all the lights in the room, shut the curtains and get that flannel on your forehead. I guarantee that you will get to sleep and sleep for ages. It's normally at least ten hours for me and when i wake up the migraine is gone and i just feel starving hungry. when you wake up drink plenty of water and if you do for what ever reason get another headache coming on do not hit your head from the pain (i used to do it out of sheer anger and frustration but it only makes it worse, kind of obvious really).

Remember, millions of people get headaches every day and think that a migraine is just a severe headache but it is not. Migraines immobilize people and make them throw up with little warning so if you are at work and you know you have one coming on. Get your self home as soon as possible and don't throw up on the bus like i did

Liam