hottot92

heya everyone. im going to try and write normally, but it will probberly turn into slang ...

i am 13 years old and suffer from stomache migranes, i was 12 when i started to get them. It was the week before school holidays in feb. 2005 and i was constantly feeling sick, dizzy, light headed, having severe headaches, and abdominal pain. I went back and forth to the doctorsand had the same reply each time ... virus, flu ... drink lukazade and sleep. Nothing happened and i steadily got worse. I became bed bound and just lay in bed. By this time it was the school holidays. For the whole two weeks i spend travelling back and forth to doctors, emergancy doctors. I would throw up and get 'panda eyes.' When i got the 'panda eyes' the skin around my eyes would go black, like huge bags under my eyes. This is when my dad thought i had kidney problems. So he took me to the doctors and again i got the same answer. It was frustrating as i knew it wasnt the flu, and yet i must have had the same reply from 15 different doctors.
I started to feel better for a week. But by the end of the week was back in bed. It went on like this, it seemed like i had peek and off peek times. Say i would feel nausious etc in the morning, but then they next week it would be before bed. I had had enoughof missing school and feeling lousy and ended up being taken to the hospital emergancy department.
They turned me away, said the same thing as the doctors. I was throwing up everytime i ate and went from 6.5 stone to 5 stone in a week. I got taken to the hospital again in a desperate attempt for them to notice something was wrong. This time they did and sent me through to the doctors. They put 'magic cream' on my hands as they thought i might need a drip. The doctors bilieved it was appendisitis and took me through for urine samples.
I then got moved to the charlie day care unit, where they did two more samples of urine and a blood sample. As i got up from the loo and fell to the floor. When i went outside i told my mum that i had fainted, she didnt bileve me. To get to the ward you had to go throw doors. I fainted on the door, apparantley i had consiecness though and walked down the corridoor before calapsing, yet i dont remember walking down the corridor. They took my pulse and i was taki-cardic.
This is when they put a canular in my hand, but the nurse missed and put it thorugh my muslce.... so the docotr took over and put adreniline throou the canular and bandaged it up. I then got moved to the child care ward. I was in hospital for 4 days, living on happy meals form macdonalds because i am vegitarian and refused the vile food they had there. I had more blood tests, sawb tests, i even had two ultrasound scans to see if i had ovarian cysts or a blocked period. I was getting paranoid i was going to die.
As i was feeling better they let me go and they had also not found anything, except for a slight defect in the urine. I was really annoyed, all i wanted to know was what was rong, yet no one could tell me.
I returned to school. Again i started to feel bad again, so i went to my GP, she advised me bed rest and lukazade, this was really going no where, so we arranged an appointment with another doctor, here he said immediantly i had stomache migranes. I was put on a medicane called Pizitofen and was feeling better within two days.
To the day i am feeling better. But during the last two weeks it has been creeping back. So today i went to the doctors and the one that diagnosed me said to up the dose from one spoonful at night to two spoonfulls. I hope it works as it was awful when i was ill. No-one bilieves that this exists! well im telling you now it does and don't question it, because i have been through it and it made me feel terrible. I really hope it doesn't come back, i went through 2 months of sheer agony and everyone thought it was just flu and lukazade would cure it! well newsflash doctors, look at symptoms and look at what it could be, not eveyrthing is the flu! there are illnesses out in the world that isnt just a bug! thank you hampshire hospital for looking after me in my shoirt stay and thank you mainly to doctor cochrine.
i hope this helps people. Look out for the tale tale signs ... panda eyes, nausia, vomiting, sevre headaches and severe abdominal pain.

xx bex xx