The neurologist has given Chloe many different tools use a to figure what these headaches are and possible ways to treat them. So far there are 3 types auditory, visual and overheated head with ice cold hands.
Tool that has given us more details is icing the head for 15 minutes every morning seems to lessen the intensity of these headaches so Chloe can more accurately describe details of each type of headache.
- In this picture you see her with a vision headache hard to open her eyes. When she is asked what hurts she will point to the left side of her fore head just above the eyebrow most of the time but occasionally it is right side forehead . She uses topical analgesic on her forehead which helps this one.
- Her auditory headache is usually helped by playing instrumental CD's as a warm up in the morning and wearing earplugs to help not trigger a headache when she goes out and does errands or outings.
- Vascular headache is when her forehead gets very warm but her hands feel ice cold or lukewarm. This one maybe from exercising or carrying groceries from the front door into the kitchen are a couple of examples. Tens unit on her back 20-30 min. once or twice a day, pain patch on her back and forehead and over the counter migraine medication are some of the tools for this type
We are beginning to hear Chloe's opinions and fears. Her favorite line is, "I can't handle this or that!"on some outing. If she brings up something we address it one issue at a time.
We will see the Neurologist at the end of this month. I have typed up a log of symptoms and Chloe's activities daily for the past month. The Neurologist wanted more information and it appears I will give her that.
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