Could this be a migraine??

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Hi All :-)

Madison had an odd episode today and I am wondering if it might have

been a migraine but don't know alot about them. Hoping maybe someone

here can give me some feedback.

She complained some Friday of car sickness and that her tummy was bothering

her, but nothing significant. Only thing she ate different than the

rest of us was fried cat fish that evening.

Woke Saturday morning at 7 fine, had breakfast (cereal), and then at

9 complained of a head ache....something she's never complained of before.

DH said he'd get her something for it in a sec, but she laid down and closed

her eyes and said she really needed something right then (just not like

her usually). He gave her some ibuprophen and they all got dressed

to go to an art party at Make A Wish.

Got there at 10 and on the way to the room where it was happening, she

whispered to him that she felt like she might throw up. He got the

other two situated and took her to the bathroom where she tried but was

unable to vomit. Went back to the party and just as they got there

she said she was getting sick again, so they headed back to the bathroom

where she was still unable to vomit, but had a very large (normal consistency)

bowel movement. DH thought this was the problem and they headed back

to the party. Less than a minute after getting there, she threw up

all over (this would have been about 10:15).

They stopped by the bathroom on the way out and she vomited again, and

then did so two more times on the way home. Once home he tried giving

her some phenergan (orally) and she promptly threw it back up. He

tried one more time to get the phenergan into her before heading out to

come and get me from work, but she threw that up immediatly too.

She vomited 2 more times on the way to get me, and 2 more times on the

way home, dozing in between each spell. Her color was awful.

Once we got home, I was able to get an ounce of gatorade in her through

her g-tube that stayed down. She slept and I woke her every hour

for the next 3 hours to do Gatorade through her tube, and did give her

a small dose of phenergan through her tube at 2:30, all of which stayed

down. We checked her temp several times and it was always normal.

She woke at 4:30.......and was fine!!

We took it easy but she was able to do chicken broth, crackers and water

at 5:30 and cheese brocolli soup, crackers and gatorade at 8....but she

really wanted Taco Bell for dinner if that tells you anything!! LOL

She and I talked about the head pain tonight and she said it was just

behind and a little higher than her right temple and that it was a "10"

pain-wise on a 1-10 scale. I told her a 10 was really bad pain where

even light and noise hurt and you just want to lay down and close your

eyes and she said this was exactly how she felt this morning (DH says that

she did lay down and close her eyes while waiting on the meds). When

asked if she had ever had head pain like this before, she said a few other

times apparently in the last 6 months or so, although she had never mentioned

it to me. She frequently doesn't tell me when she is having pain,

so this doesn't totally shock me.

So what do you guys think?? Was this food poisening or a migraine??

Or something else altogether that I have not thought of?? Thanks

a ton for any help you can offer!!

-- BIG hugs,

Kass, proud mom to Chance(11-Mito), Madison(8-Mito),

and Abby(7-Mito)

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments

that take our breath away" Unknown