Serious Question

NewAwakenings · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:50:43 Post Subject: Serious Question

For anyone here that suffers from Migrains or bad headaches I have a qestion for ya. My mother has been down for a week with the same migrain/headache. SHe was so bad off the transported her from Dr's office to the Hospital on Monday. They did a CAtscan and an MRI, from what they saw nothing showed up. No medicines are working for her though, they have given injection after injection. She is ok as long as she is laying down, but if she tries to get up, her head pounds, and the pain is so severe she actaully colapses. I made them check her sugar level, and her blood pressure is fine, but they take that laying down, I dont know if it would be different if she were standing or not. I take her to a neurologist today, but has anyone else ever gone through this? I am getting pretty scared for her, I am very close to my mom, and it kills me to see her in so much pain:(

trekrider · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:58:23 Post Subject:

Yes, your blood pressure can read differently when standing/sitting/laying.

I, on occasion, get migrains too. The only way for me to aleaviate the pain is to get a shot of demerol and sleep it off in a completely dark/silent room! (knock wood, I've not had one for some time now).

She may need to be trained to watch for the signs of an oncomming migrain, take preventive steps to ease the onslought.

I'm sorry for her/you! They are NO picnic!!

NewAwakenings · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:03:28 Post Subject:

knight0334 · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:14:08 Post Subject:

My wife and myself have a problem that causes low blood pressure when our sugar drops low or when we stand up too fast from a level position.

The doctor call it Positional Vertigo. It causes fainting, instant pass outs, headaches from hell, vomiting and other problems. Doc said the headaches are one of the first signs because of lack of oxygen.

dadx2mj · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:53:15 Post Subject:

I used to get severe headaches as well. Went to many different Doctor's none of whom helped me. Finally gave a chiropractor a try and he fixed me up. Turns out I had a vertebrae in my neck that had twisted and was pinching a nerve causing my problem.

NewAwakenings · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:38:21 Post Subject:

thanks Knight and DADX, I will ask the neurologist about those of those conditions, I want to make sure they check every avenue there is. Heck if he finds nothing today I am calling her dentist first thing in the morning, he something is wrong with one of her upper teeth, I know those nerves run way up there.. I want to rule out everything!!

NewAwakenings · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:27:09 Post Subject:

UPDATE.... Took mok to the specialist and he ran some more test adn figured out it wasnt migrains, which is why the medicines they were giving her werent working. What she is having are called cluster thunderstorms, they come and go, all day and can last up tp a month that way, if not treated properly, he gave her a new medicine in the office, we waited 2 hours, and mom was like her old self again, she just has to take 2 different meds everyday to keep them from reappearing. Smile

**~*77*~** · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:44:15 Post Subject:

That has to be a relief... Glad to hear you found a remedy, and it was relatively easy!! I had other thoughts I kept to myself initially... A friend of the family was having headaches recently, and it turned out to be cancer!! I didn't even want to go there, and I'm very glad that isn't the case here!

Red Squirrel · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:49:14 Post Subject:

Ouch, I heard migrains are almost the worse thing to have. I never had one (or a big head ache for that matter) *touch wood* so I would not know how it really is, just know it hurts like crazy. .

Glad she's ok. Wink

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:50:09 Post Subject:

Sweet! Glad it was found, and was fairly easy to cure!!