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From: ran@ho95e.UUCP (RANeinast)
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Subject: Re: Question -- Migraine Symptomology?
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 08:31:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 08:31:21 1986
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>	My 13 year-old daughter ordinarily enjoys excellent health. About
>	a month ago, she told me of an episode which she had involving a
>	brief clouding of her vision (her field of vision grew fuzzy and 
>	faded), after which she was unable to retrieve a number of words
>	in her vocabulary. Her example was telling her friend: "it's kind 
>	. . .
> 
> 						Dale Hall

This reminds me of a problem my brother had starting at about the age
of 10.  He would get what he would call "white-outs", which were kind of
like looking into a snowstorm.  Shortly after the start of the white-out,
he would get super-screaming migraines.  This first happened while we
were camping in the mountains outside Salt Lake City, and lasted for
over 2 years.  Among the things he had to endure:

    + A brain scan at UCLA (this was in 1966, so they used radioactive
      dye and X-rays) that found absolutely nothing.

    + Extremely potent pain-killers (Darvon was just the mildest).

    + A child psychologist (named Dr. Sugar, of all things), who managed
      to figure out that the migraines were caused because my brother
      hated our grandmother (who lived with us at the time).  However,
      he didn't get better.  In fact, after one session, my brother
      told my parents how he out-stubborned the doctor.  My brother
      didn't feel like talking, and the doctor decided to sit there
      at not talk if my brother wouldn't (at $50 per half hour).
      Well, that was the end of that.

My brother also had hay-fever.  One time he took an anti-histamine
pill just as he felt a migraine coming on, and poof! went the migraine.
Yup, you've get it.  It was as allergic migraine.  From then on,
no problem.



I don't want you to think that I'm claiming that this is your daughter's
problem, but at least make sure the doctors consider it as a possibility.
-- 

". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch."
Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95c!ran)
AT&T-Bell Labs