To take DS to the GP again?

[Rosietru]

I don't want to be 'that' parent but...DS 14 has had a migraine since Sunday morning. Started with visual disturbances then headache across front of head. He slept on and off all day. Felt v sick.

Monday morning same, so took him to see advanced nurse practitioner, said to just continue with paracetamol and ibuprofen. She made me feel like an over anxious mother tbh.

Very quiet all day, not eating much and crying in the evening with the pain.

Today woke up feeling the same, very upset.

Temp slightly raised at 37.8 since yesterday.

He's had one migraine before last year, which lasted 36 hours.

Do I still carry on just waiting this out? He's not picked up his phone since Sunday morning, as an indicator.

It won’t do any harm to return

Always better to be safe x

And I'm sorry to be asking the internet but she made me feel really stupid yesterday and said I don't know why you brought him.

Can you ask to see a different GP? Hope you can get help soon.

I'd want him seeing again today I think. Headache, not himself, fever. And he's only had one previous migraine so this isn't a pattern which has been well established. Contact the GP and ask if they can help, if not call 111 and take their advice.

Yes go back & ask to see a GP. Hope he feels better soon

I hate when they make you feel like you’re being ott- generally any time this has happened it was the start of something they didn’t catch and fobbed off with well it wasn’t then but it is now! Hope it gets figured out op (phone would be an indication here too!)

Yes take.him again.. technically he hasn't seen a gp. Teenage boys rarely complain in my experience so it could be something..also there is medication for migraine so perhaps he wil need that ?

Thank you, I'm reassured that it's ok to take him back and not me over reacting. She said there was nothing they could give him but surely there is.

Awful seeing him like this, he's 6ft and was trying to sit on my knee last night. Normally very stoic and independent.

What are you expecting them to do for a migraine ?

Is he drinking enough water ?

Stress from school or work ?

Eating enough normal healthy food?

Are you expecting a dramatic brain scan incase he has a brain tumour ? Which he won't have because the signs aren't there. It's just a headache

See your GP today or if not possible go to A&E.

Speaking as mum of a boy who used to get migraine (and as someone who got it myself in my younger days): of course they can prescribe something for migraine other than paracetamol and ibuprofen! Ask to to see the GP and for migraine medication to be prescribed.

And please don't follow PP's suggestion of giving him aspirin. Aspirin is not advised for anyone under 16 years.

Calling a migraine 'just a headache' shows you have never had a migraine. They can be really disabling and debilitating, headache, dizziness, visual disturbance, nausea, can't bear the light, can hardly get out of bed, pale, clammy, don't want to eat, and they can go on for days.

I've suffered from migraines all my life actually

@KittenPause no I don't want a brain scan?! I just wondered if there was something other than paracetamol and ibuprofen he could have to help manage the pain better.

Thanks for your advice, I shall try those, the nurse didn't say those yesterday.

Shockingly awful bedridden debilitating migraines

In bed for days with curtains drawn

Just to reassure, my DS had a virus last month and had a bad headache that wasn't shifting (as well as fever and some vomiting).

We went to a walk in on the 3rd night as there were specks of blood in his vomit and the headache wasn't going with medicine.

Dr was happy to check him over and was very reassuring and said that headaches and fevers often go hand in hand and very rarely anything to worry about.

DS back to normal within 3 days or so.

Please do not give him aspirin!

Did you get all the symptoms or was it just a bit of a headache? Could you go to work as usual and carry on daily life?

@Redbushteaforme thanks I'll give that a miss then. I thought co codamol wasn't good for headaches either but I'll check at the pharmacy.

The only thing that really works for my migraines is paracetamol and ibuprofen (paracetamol every 4 hours and ibuprofen 3x a day, two hours apart from the paracetamol).

I would also be worried if my teen was that ill with one, though, and would go back in to the docs.

Ask to see a GP. There is medicine they can prescribe for migraine. Plus you need to exclude the possibility of other things.

@Rosietru

Keep a diary of the dates of his migraines

How long, symptoms rtc

What he ate before and during

Certain food and drink can trigger migraines

Ie msg in Chinese food, chocolate all sorts of weird things

It is unbearably painful so I feel for him having experienced it myself

Some people get it more regularly so they will give them a more specific medication which doesn't always work but it does exist

Ask to speak to the GP next time about options moving forward

At the moment it's only happened twice on a yearly basis but if it happens more regularly then push for the relevant meds

I learnt when I had my c-section that paracetamol builds up in the body. That’s why I take it every four hours when I’m in a lot of pain.