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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 187881" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am glad he got to go to a sleepover. You are quite right about the timing. Most kids need some time after a sleepover to recover. jess is particularly awful the day after a sleepover. It is her brattiest time. (eyeroll inserted!)</p><p> </p><p>He needs to get into the habit of treating the pain as SOON as he realizes it is there. Part of handling migraines and other headaches is to treat them as soon as they start so they DON'T get worse. If it gets worse it can be there for several days. You have to get ahead of the pain. Even if you learn non-medicine ways to handle it (dark room, exercises to relax you, biofeedback, hot or cold packs, etc) they should be done as SOON as the headache starts. I carry my imitrex in my purse so I can treat a migraine anywhere I am, for example. Jess also carries her midrin in her purse - and the purse NEVER goes to school. She also has midrin at school to treat a headache. Her health plan says she can leave a class anytime to go get ehr medications. (He will need a health plan to handle these also - this will need a doctors note also - but check wtih the school to see if they have a specific form. Some schools do and some don't.)</p><p> </p><p>Some people have migraines that respond more to cold. Some to heat. I NEVER use cold because it causes problems with other things. So for me it is heat. I know some people use heat on the head and cold on the neck or vice versa. This is usually quite helpful. It can make the medications work much better.</p><p> </p><p>Please be cautious with the BC powder or any medication with aspirin. I posted a link about Reye's syndrome on the headache medicine post. This is a REAL risk. I lost a classmate to this in Jr. High.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 187881, member: 1233"] I am glad he got to go to a sleepover. You are quite right about the timing. Most kids need some time after a sleepover to recover. jess is particularly awful the day after a sleepover. It is her brattiest time. (eyeroll inserted!) He needs to get into the habit of treating the pain as SOON as he realizes it is there. Part of handling migraines and other headaches is to treat them as soon as they start so they DON'T get worse. If it gets worse it can be there for several days. You have to get ahead of the pain. Even if you learn non-medicine ways to handle it (dark room, exercises to relax you, biofeedback, hot or cold packs, etc) they should be done as SOON as the headache starts. I carry my imitrex in my purse so I can treat a migraine anywhere I am, for example. Jess also carries her midrin in her purse - and the purse NEVER goes to school. She also has midrin at school to treat a headache. Her health plan says she can leave a class anytime to go get ehr medications. (He will need a health plan to handle these also - this will need a doctors note also - but check wtih the school to see if they have a specific form. Some schools do and some don't.) Some people have migraines that respond more to cold. Some to heat. I NEVER use cold because it causes problems with other things. So for me it is heat. I know some people use heat on the head and cold on the neck or vice versa. This is usually quite helpful. It can make the medications work much better. Please be cautious with the BC powder or any medication with aspirin. I posted a link about Reye's syndrome on the headache medicine post. This is a REAL risk. I lost a classmate to this in Jr. High. [/QUOTE]
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