ADHD, clumsiness, headache and migraines

[WhatNoPeas]

My son, 11, has had concussion about 8 times. He just seems to fling himself around and bash his head all the time. No amount of telling him to take more care seems to make a difference.

Separately, or maybe not, he frequently has headaches and, less frequently, migraines.

I'm thinking all this could well be linked to his ADHD and was looking for others' experiences.

I'm taking him to the GP but I can't see what they will say or what I'm even asking. I just know that I barely had a headaches as a child but he seems to have at least a few a week.

Is DS on ADHD medication? Some people experience headaches as a side effect.

Other than banging his head, what is DS’s spatial awareness like? What about his motor skills? Has DS ever had an OT assessment?

He's not medicated. His motor skills seem fine. Handwriting took a while but ok now. No issues when he was younger with getting dressed/laces etc. He's agile and plays tennis fairly well for his age.

He says he feels like his head is being squeezed even when he doesn't have a headache. Not sure what he means by that. This has been going on for years so I'm not too concerned it's something acute but I don't think it's usual either.

Has DS had his eyes tested recently?

He hasn't, so that's a good suggestion, but he has been like this for years and his vision has been tested a few times in the past and was fine.

Ask the optician to assess depth perception. My DD has no depth perception (stereo vision) and struggles to work out steps, edges of furniture, doorways etc. She appears clumsy. Her motor skills are fine though, so she was dismissed as fine meaning unlikely to be DCD /dyspraxia. She is also autistic and has poor proprioception - meaning she has no idea about body position, where her limbs are unless she is looking at them!

She also has migraines - which physio thinks is partly related to not knowing how tight her muscles are!