re: Calling all docs

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It’s headache, sleep, throw up, sleep, wake up sassy and ask for dinner.

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My daughter is 10 and has had significant migraines since she was about 5 and this sounds exactly like her pattern. Unfortunately, I think she gets it from me, I'll get a few real nasty migraines a year with aura.

Luckily she has a prescription of Rizatriptan and a nasal spray, Zavzpret. She's gotten very familiar with her triggers and if she gets ahead of it we can usually avert the throwing up. The Zavzpret has been great because it works almost instantly.

Wish her the best, migraines are brutal to have to deal with.

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Hey Belle…we definitely think that puberty is the primary trigger.

She’s also quite high strung, has some OCD tendencies and is a perfectionist/type A. We try to keep her stress level down and work on the other stuff. But sometimes just gets too overstimulated, as she says. We try to really jump into action then, but occasionally it’s just too much for her.

She just woke up from a 2 hour nap. She said her headache is gone and she feels much better. She just wants to take it easy and snuggle with her mommy today. That we can do.

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Glad she's feeling better. I've never had one but hemiplegic migraines have to be scary given the stroke-like qualities that come with them.

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I get the aura without the migraine. No headache but my vision is like looking through a pane of jagged broken glass. Lasts from a few minutes to several hours.

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While I know others exist, you are the first person I have "met" who has those without the associated headache. I describe it as psychedelic neon glass worms. I only have one to four in my visual field. You can set your watch by mine, from that weird sensation before it starts to the symptoms fading to zero, lasting between 25-30 minutes, every single time. The good thing is there is never any pain at all, although once in a while I will have a dull headache several hours later. I have tried to pin down a physiological or environmental condition, but have never been able to do it. Lack of sleep, dehydration, and high nitrate foods are at the top of my list, but aren't universal.

Frustrating at times, but nothing like Noho's kid is going through.

Strangely enough, I had cataract surgery a little over a year ago and I don't think I've had one since.