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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone else has a teen that suffers from very bad migraines? My almost 15 year old son was dx 3 years ago. All tests negative and we have never been able to pinpoint a trigger. It breaks my heart to see him suffer and has caused him some depression. He just wants to be normal! He’s got a great therapist and we decided to try daily preventative meds this week to see if we can get them under control . Anyone been in a similar situation?[/quote]

We all have different triggers. Mine, not wearing my prescribed glasses. My aunt, sugar. My friend, chocolate. My other friends swears by water, staying super hydrated helps her alleviate them.

For all of us above, "tests" were always negative, we all just had to find our personal triggers.

Daily meds will help him but at some point as he gets older and starts listening to his body he will learn of his personal triggers. [/quote]

For me, a big one is reading or working looking straight down at my desk. I need a book stand to keep my work in front of my eyes, otherwise it puts pressure on something on the back of my neck and I get a migraine. Unfortunately, I didn’t discover this until I was an adult, after muddling through high school, college, and grad school doing exactly that every day.

For about 20 years, I was told I had sinus headaches (or “stress,” depending on how misogynistic the doctor was. Well, yes, I was stressed. Because I pretty much ALWAYS had a freaking headache.). At that point, not much was known about chronic migraines, and because I managed to function through one or two headaches a week, often lasting 2 or 3 days, nobody ever considered they might be migraines. They just weren’t “bad” enough, because I wasn’t vomiting or missing school. But if I missed school every time I had a headache, I’d never have made it out of middle school.

But a combo of low-dose gabapentin and some OTC supplements, and Ubrelvy for the breakthrough headaches (triptans made me feel terrible, almost worse than the headaches), and I’m totally fine most of the time now. There are probably even better preventative meds out now, but gabapentin works for me with no side effects, and my neurologist likes it because there are very few interactions with any other meds I might need to take in the future. [/quote]

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