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Need reassurance - 9 yo two weekends in a row feeling really unwell for unknown reasons

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Return2thebasic · 19/03/2022 12:23

This started to really have me worried. DS1 had to be absent from school for two days, because of some mysterious severe headache started from Saturday. He literally laid in sofa for two days in a row, and at one point looked really pale and barely eating. He had a bucket next to him all the way through day and night in case he'd throw up. Then it mysteriously disappeared after 3 days. He went back to school, started eating normally and did the usual physical activities at school for the rest of the week.

Then last night, he complained a bit at dinner time, saying he probably drank too much swimming pool water in the swimming class on Friday. This morning, he woke up really downbeat and barely had anything for breakfast before he had to lie down on the sofa again not moving. He obviously is not pretending. I have him paracetamol about an hour ago, it doesn't seem to have helped. He asked for a bucket as feeling might vomit. He's been like this for over 2 hours now, just lying in sofa not moving.

I want to thank it's nothing. But it's hard to ignore two weeks in a row a nine years old could feel so poorly for no obvious reason. But then the symptoms are different. It's that kind of situation if he sees a doctor, they would just think I'm overreacting.

Am I being unreasonable???

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Phoenix76 · 19/03/2022 23:30

I was going to say my sister started migraines about that age, she remembers the nausea and sickness with the painful headache. She often recounts the time she was on a school residential trip and her teachers clearly thinking she was faking it while giving her half a paracetamol, she says the pain was incredible. I agree to get checked out by gp because if nothing else he’ll be grateful of pain management if it is the start of migraines. Hope he feels better soon and you with all the stress and worry.

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