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My daughter's Constant headaches and nausea
Mon, 01/03/2011 - 18:36Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
Our 11 daughter was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy 2 years ago. As well as the episodes she gets long bouts of nausea and headaches that can last months. These are completely dibilitating and she has not been in school for 6 weeks now. Our neurologist has said he has not seen this before and has suggested it is stress related but we have found evidence that there is a connection. Can anyone give me feed back on this ? Can one trigger the other and any suggestions that might bring relief ?
Re: My daughter's Constant headaches and nausea
Submitted by GodivaGirl on Tue, 2011-01-11 - 21:20
I'm lots older (36), but for me stress and seizures are connected. A gym membership helps me, even just going for a walk with my iPod. Also, depending on the meds, eliminating caffeine. Also, just curious, is your daughter's neuro male or female? I've had lots of neurologists in my life (am in the middle of neurosurgery tests - my choice - seizures average 2-4 a month, but I'm on 3 meds - topomax, keppra & clobazam). Anyways, reason I ask the question. In life, female neurologists will ask about hormonal triggers, for the most part male doctors I'm the one that has to mention that. Your daughter at age 11 is borderline to that "girly-girl" stage in life where she's onset puberty. For me, seizures are mostly under control & there are all different definitions of "stress" when you see a stress counselor - environmental, household, personal, physical and hormonal. At times male doctors overlook hormonal & if your daughter is really shy, it's something she may not be telling you yet either. Try going down that avenue with doctors. Keep some sort of journal. What is different on each day when headaches, etc. happen. That's kinda how I put it all together. I'm still going through with surgery because it is necessary, but I do also know I have to be careful during certain times of that "monthly cycle" as I'm more prone to hormonal seizures right now. It took me putting it together & eventually asking male doctors the right questions when I was about 23 to get the right medications and solutions for that. Just a suggestion you may want to explore. Hope this helps. ~GG