Hi!

I have an 18-year old daughter who has been having bad headaches since August - long story short, she's been to her doctor, who decided to have her start taking a beta blocker called Propanolol - normally used for people with hypertension, apparently this has been a very effective medication for other female patients of hers dealing with chronic headaches.

Anyway, my daughter has a lot of trouble remembering to take medication - (and she gets irritated if I remind her! :( ) The Propanolol needs to be taken every 24 hours whether she has a headache or not - the first couple of weeks she was good at taking it every evening, and when she followed up with her doctor, she suggested to keep taking it. Then, my daughter recently said they were getting chronic again, and it turns out, she wasn't taking them on days she didn't have headaches! (Because I have health anxiety, I am worried sick she might have a brain tumor!)

I went with her to another appt this past Monday, as she doesn't seem to remember everything the doc tells her when she goes by herself - the doctor said that if there were something serious going on, the Propanolo would have worked at all - I told her I was thinking we should get an MRI (I guess I want the certainty that she doesn't have a tumor), and the doc said she needs to be taking the meds consistently enough, every single day before going to the step of an MRI -

Just wondering what others think about this - the doc mentioned the expense (even though we have good insurance!) and the fact that an MRI isn't the ideal procedure to have, but when it comes to my kids, money isn't an object!

supermom3:(