recurrent stomach pains - stomach migraine?

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Does anyone have any experience of this? DD (6) has been complaining about stomach ache on and off for the last three weeks or so - she tells me that at school she sometimes has tummy ache but it has normally gone by the time she gets home.

Yesterday we got as far as the swimming pool when she said she felt really poorly with tummy ache and we had to go home - she was ashen faced and looked awful. I put her to bed for an hour and she seemed better - managed to eat a few mouthfulls of food.

Then she woke up in the middle of the night -stomach pain again, pale and clammy, felt sick but was not. I have her at home today and she is a bit brighter again, with a slight pain - is off her food though.

Am wondering what to do and whether to take her to the GPs.

is it more on the right hand side? if it is, and is affecting her appetite in a negative way, it is quite possible that she has appendicitis or a grumbling appendix. i would take her to the docs or hospital asap because it can be really nasty

What Cherrymonster said.

DS had the same thing when he was 9... quite a few weeks if I'm honest of complaining about tummy ache. Then one afternoon school called me because he wasn't feeling at all well... I had an important meeting to go to so my sister picked him up for me. Then she rang me because he was asking for me - now I knew he was really ill
I kept a close eye on him, obviously, for the rest of the day but he had a soaring temperature when he had to go to bed and just couldn't settle. His pyjamas were soaked so I changed them and sponged him down, but the second pair were also soaked.
He told me his elbow was hurting but he actually meant near his hips (ongoing confusion over joints!!) - when I pressed it (gently) and let go he nearly went through the ceiling. That's when I knew it was his appendix. Off to our emergency doctors at 2am then straight to hospital.
Any way, loads of annoying numpties doctors later, he was rushed down to theatre for an appendectomy... it had started leaking!!!

Take DD to get checked out and, if she'll let you, try and touch where she says it's hurting - if it hurts more when you let go, it'll undoubtedly be appendicitus.

Thanks Cherry - have made an appt for this pm.

Not disagreeing with what everybody else has said, it is best to get to the doctors. But my sister has had stomach migranes all her life. As a child she would feel sick but not throw up and be very pale when she had them.
She still has them now as an adult but much less frequently.

The pains seem to be around the belly button.

Is the appendix my right or her right?

Her right, very close to the right hip.

Sounds similar to my DD3, was diagnosed with stomach migraines last year aged 8. Have you a family history of migraines?

Agree that she should be checked by doc - we had to be refered to hospital before we got a definate diagnosis and some effective meds!