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Glad the MRI turned out normal but how frustrating to have unexplained pain.
Diet might be a good place to look. A visit to a chiropractor may be another thing to try. I do get headaches when my neck is out of whack and an adjustment helps.
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DD leaves for college next Wednesday. It's going to be hard to have anyone do any checking on new ideas for causes. I may have her go to student health and start working with someone there. What do you think?
I'm loving that you are all coming up with other things to try checking on.
The neurologist had told us that her case seemed strange. Her symptoms don't really fit with it being a migraine. And all the things we've tried that should work for migraines haven't really done much. There was a pain med he gave her that worked for a couple hours but she can't take it very often.
I'll call her dentist today and talk to her. She was just there for an appointment this summer and had a filling a couple weeks ago. They didn't see anything off at the time, I'm guessing. But we didn't ask her about headaches either.
I think you're on the right track. I think talking to student health is also a good idea. It'll sort of put them on notice about her problem. See if they can help her start up with a nutritionist. I'd start there. Hard to do as a new freshman for sure. But I think maybe starting by cutting out gluten for a couple of months would be a good idea. You can see if you get any relief there. Also limiting artificially sweetened drinks is a good idea too. Good luck. I know this is hard along with the stress of going off to college. (remind her that beer has gluten in it. )
Glad the MRI was clean but bummer about not having answers, especially for such a young "kid". I would do what's been suggested - dentist, food allergies, vitamin levels, etc. I wish you both luck
Trying to isolate any foodstuffs that may be the cause would be a real beast to do with all the adjustments of starting a college year even if it's a return to another year of college.
Cutting artificial sweeteners like aspartame out of her diet would be easiest, I know from experience of going gluten-free. G-F is particularly difficult to do since so many seasonings and processed foods contain gluten, not to mention that a person must learn to read labels and cook from scratch for the most part. A college student hardly has time to do all that!
I hope student health at her school is far better than it was when I was an undergrad! Not to mention that M.D.'s other than allergists really don't know much at all about how much food allergies and intolerances can affect people.
But, I agree that gluten could easily be the culprit as could aspartame. I hope your DD ultimately finds relief.
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Did the MRI look at her sinus cavities at all? Just curious if they looked at everything that could be causing the headaches. Before my sinus surgery, I had a ct scan of my sinuses.
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Does she eat a lot of sodium based food, or items with nitrates in them? A coworker of mine has issues with those items -- she gets migraines. Also, there are several different kinds of migraines -- that have other and\or different symptoms than just a severe headache.
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Did the MRI look at her sinus cavities at all? Just curious if they looked at everything that could be causing the headaches. Before my sinus surgery, I had a ct scan of my sinuses.
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I was wondering the same thing. When they did my scan for headaches the neurologist said that she thought she maybe saw something funny with my sinuses, but they weren't specifically scanning for that so I had to go to an ENT to have another scan done. Not saying it is sinus related, but better to test as much as possible since you're really at a loss.
Looks like I am joining late but here's hoping the mystery is solved.
I hope you figure out the problem. Sometimes when I can't figure out if I have a sinus headache or a migraine-rather than taking meds for both or either, I put vick's vapor rub on the back of my neck and that helps. Although you said her headaches were in the front of her forehead-don't put the vick's vapor rub there-I learned the hard way that when I wipe the hair out of my eyes I end up getting it into my eyes and that is yucky. Continued good luck and good luck with college.
I do remember one time I had to take off an entire college semester because I was still so sick from my migraines-here's hopin that doesn't happen, but I think I did turn out ok ;-)
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No, we don't have a solution. She is still having headaches. She is now at school and trying to keep up with the meds, that she at first thought might be doing some good (less often and less pain), but now she's not so sure. She tried to see a doctor at school and that was a bust. He told her to see her own gp and the neurologist and had very bad 'bedside' manner. She basically was told to see him so that she could get a referal to a nutritionist on campus. Hopefully she'll start working with her soon. We're at the point where we're thinking food allergies or something along that lines, since they can't find anything physically wrong with her.
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So, did you know that it cost about $2000 for an MRI of the full brain. And that it costs nearly $500 to read it? Luckily we have pretty good insurance for the kids and our out of pocket was about $300.
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So, she had a good week a couple weeks ago, with few headaches. Not sure how it's been since then.
Got a call today from the Neurologist. Her next appt is for Friday Oct 25. Turns out they wanted to cancel it because he no longer works on Fridays. Friday also happens to be the only day that she can go to appointments due to her class schedule. ACK. We made an appointment with his nurse practitioner, but she's not available until Nov 22. I'm thinking of seeing if another office can see her. Would she be able to get all her records and MRIs sent to a new place do you think?
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