Reply #49: man, I don't understand the Nasonex [View All]

[DeepBlueC]

I have allergies, use Nasonex, FOR A STUFFY NOSE! They do sound like migraine symptoms and those often start in women with hormonal changes that precede or accompany first menstruation. For me it was at age 13, same year, but the headache came well before the first period and I never thought of them as related at all until a neurologist told me that that time of onset was classic for women. And my first headache (that lasted for 3 days), I woke up with. And for some years these infrequent headaches all showed up as I awoke and lasted for a week or more. I did not start having other symptoms like nausea and visual disturbances for years after that. Girls are having hormonal changes earlier and earlier so at 9 hormones might be a factor.


I did not know they were migraines until I finally saw a neurologist 30+ years later. If you don't get any satisfactory answers I would ask for a referral. If there is such a thing as a pediatric neurologist, so much the better. Along the way I too had a CAT scan, ENT exams of sinuses, dental consults, endodontal consults, all fruitless. And after every one comes up empty, you start feeling your doctor looking at you like you are either a malingerer or just a pain in the ass.