Hi Mums,
Recently my DD (20 months) has started having these...'turns'...where she rubs at the back of her head (sometimes ears & face a bit too) and gets upset, then she starts arching her back and crying. She says "ow back ow!" and thrashes around. It's sort of intermittent and the bursts are anywhere from a few seconds to about 20 seconds long. I think. Seeing her suffer feels like forever. Usually she doesn't want to be touched except by me and after or inbetween the crying/writhing she asks to be breastfed and this comforts her until it's over. Then suddenly she's back to normal again.
We have tried to find a link to what she's doing/eating/wearing/temperature/sleep patterns etc etc and we cant figure out any pattern.
We've taken her to see a few doctors and they all say she seems healthy and well. And it's true, until it happens again...
We've been told it's probably her skin - invisible irritation, prescribed hydrocortisone cream and aqueous. Or that it's behavioural. But she is even tempered before and after and i absolutely believe her complaints of pain are genuine. Might not be her back per se, but something hurts. Most recently she was checked for a possible bladder infection but tests came back ok.
Please can somebody help us to help her??
Does this sound familiar to anyone??