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Back in February i passed out in my friends room and hit my head on his bed then on his floor. After that i been havin migraines all day everyday i feel like pressure is building up inside my head and i get tired an hour after i wake up n by 7 o'clock im ready to fall asleep. i talked to my mom n told her what was wrong with me but she dont believe me and wont take me to a doctor. So what do u think is wrong with my head? And is there anything i can do to help it? almost forgot to mention im only 17 years old
Follow ggreg's advice and recommendation. ggreg gave more advice than anyone can give. I had an MTBI/Concussion 2 and half years ago and still suffering with symptoms dizziness, headaches, fatigue etc., Dizziness was the tough one. Most likely docs going to say Post Concussion Syndrome. I can understand the pressure build up and I have it all day/every day. For me it is not migraine but Concussion headache and since it is dull I can manage without meds.
If migraine is your main issue then there are number of effective things can be done to relieve your symptoms. But you have to follow ggreg advice. You are at an age where recovery can happen fast if only treated correctly so you can have a pain free life. If you wait for too long then it gets tricky and you already waited enough. Good luck.
If migraine is your main issue then there are number of effective things can be done to relieve your symptoms. But you have to follow ggreg advice. You are at an age where recovery can happen fast if only treated correctly so you can have a pain free life. If you wait for too long then it gets tricky and you already waited enough. Good luck.
Rob,
As i said in my last post, there is a COUNTY health department located in most towns, you can go down there all by yourself, tell them you want to see a physician, and they will take a little info from you, and you will usually be set up to see someone that very day. It costs little to nothing, it's for poor people and folks like you who have nowhere to turn, and that way you can get in to see the doctor on your own. Look in the phone book in the white pages under your county's name, like Orange County or Red River County, and look for "Health Department" under that county government heading. It will have the street address, and a phone number in case you don't know quite where it is. Then you just go on down there as a walk-in and you'll be seen by a doc there that day. It's really pretty simple.
If for some reason your town and county is so small that they don't have a free clinic, then you can find where your STATE's department of social services is, same way of looking it up in the phone book only under South Carolina or Nevada in the white pages, and under that government heading will be Social Services, with an address, so go down to see those people, it's free, and they will hook you up with a doctor who takes patients for little or no charge.
Rob, look at it this way, if you're old enough to write to us online and old enough to know what a migraine is, you're old enough to walk yourself right on down to a town health clinic and get yourself seen by a doctor. If you absolutely have to, go on down to the hospital's ER department. I consider this something of an emergency, you should NOT have migraines and feel sleepy this long after your accident, this suggests something is very wrong. So, if all else fails, go down to the hospital and go into the ER. You might have to wait around a while before they call you in and have a look at you. Just write down a little list before you leave your house of your symptoms, like migraines, feeling very sleepy, and of course what happened to cause those symptoms, so you won't forget what to say when you finally see a physician. Tell them some friends told you it might be a concussion.
A few other tips, you can ask a friend or another relative to take you by car, or go by yourself by taking the city bus to any of these places. You can ALSO go into your school's main offices or visit the guidance counselor or tell your favorite teacher what is going on with you, how you need to see a doctor but your mom won't take you, so ask them where should you go and how are you going to get there. Or if you don't want to talk to someone at your school, you can go down to your church and go into their offices and tell them the same thing, church people are very good at getting people the help they need for all sorts of things.
You have many resources to choose from, so be brave, choose some way to just go out and DO THIS, adults to do this stuff all the time with zero money, and get yourself in to see a doctor on your own, there are many places to go for no cost, and find out WHY you are having all these symptoms, and maybe then the doc will tell you what's wrong, he may give you some medicines to feel better. And then, I reckon once you've been seen and they find out something is very wrong, and maybe that they need to do further testing that will cost some money, THEN you can tell your mother what you found out, and once she gets over the idea that you went by yourself, she will realize you felt so sick that you went yourself, and that there IS a bonafide doc saying you need to be under a doctor's care for a while, and then she should come around to all this and help you out. And if not, at least you know the places to go to get help with all this, and you will learn some independence with this, and it sure can't HURT to just get yourself to the doctor!
Give this all a think and let us know what you decide to do. If it turns out you just plain do NOT think you can do this by yourself and you are desperate, you must keep after your mother to take you to a doctor, tell her that's all you ask, that you feel awful and not right and not yourself at all, that you may have a concussion that needs treatment. But I DO think you CAN do this on your own, you can get help from a variety of resources, so pick one and give it a shot. Let us know what happens.
GG
As i said in my last post, there is a COUNTY health department located in most towns, you can go down there all by yourself, tell them you want to see a physician, and they will take a little info from you, and you will usually be set up to see someone that very day. It costs little to nothing, it's for poor people and folks like you who have nowhere to turn, and that way you can get in to see the doctor on your own. Look in the phone book in the white pages under your county's name, like Orange County or Red River County, and look for "Health Department" under that county government heading. It will have the street address, and a phone number in case you don't know quite where it is. Then you just go on down there as a walk-in and you'll be seen by a doc there that day. It's really pretty simple.
If for some reason your town and county is so small that they don't have a free clinic, then you can find where your STATE's department of social services is, same way of looking it up in the phone book only under South Carolina or Nevada in the white pages, and under that government heading will be Social Services, with an address, so go down to see those people, it's free, and they will hook you up with a doctor who takes patients for little or no charge.
Rob, look at it this way, if you're old enough to write to us online and old enough to know what a migraine is, you're old enough to walk yourself right on down to a town health clinic and get yourself seen by a doctor. If you absolutely have to, go on down to the hospital's ER department. I consider this something of an emergency, you should NOT have migraines and feel sleepy this long after your accident, this suggests something is very wrong. So, if all else fails, go down to the hospital and go into the ER. You might have to wait around a while before they call you in and have a look at you. Just write down a little list before you leave your house of your symptoms, like migraines, feeling very sleepy, and of course what happened to cause those symptoms, so you won't forget what to say when you finally see a physician. Tell them some friends told you it might be a concussion.
A few other tips, you can ask a friend or another relative to take you by car, or go by yourself by taking the city bus to any of these places. You can ALSO go into your school's main offices or visit the guidance counselor or tell your favorite teacher what is going on with you, how you need to see a doctor but your mom won't take you, so ask them where should you go and how are you going to get there. Or if you don't want to talk to someone at your school, you can go down to your church and go into their offices and tell them the same thing, church people are very good at getting people the help they need for all sorts of things.
You have many resources to choose from, so be brave, choose some way to just go out and DO THIS, adults to do this stuff all the time with zero money, and get yourself in to see a doctor on your own, there are many places to go for no cost, and find out WHY you are having all these symptoms, and maybe then the doc will tell you what's wrong, he may give you some medicines to feel better. And then, I reckon once you've been seen and they find out something is very wrong, and maybe that they need to do further testing that will cost some money, THEN you can tell your mother what you found out, and once she gets over the idea that you went by yourself, she will realize you felt so sick that you went yourself, and that there IS a bonafide doc saying you need to be under a doctor's care for a while, and then she should come around to all this and help you out. And if not, at least you know the places to go to get help with all this, and you will learn some independence with this, and it sure can't HURT to just get yourself to the doctor!
Give this all a think and let us know what you decide to do. If it turns out you just plain do NOT think you can do this by yourself and you are desperate, you must keep after your mother to take you to a doctor, tell her that's all you ask, that you feel awful and not right and not yourself at all, that you may have a concussion that needs treatment. But I DO think you CAN do this on your own, you can get help from a variety of resources, so pick one and give it a shot. Let us know what happens.
GG
i planed on doing all that but my insurence has been cut off which is mostly the reason my mom wont take me we have been tryin to get it turnd back on since june
I think having migraines every day since your injury back in FEBRUARY and also the sleepy aspect of your symptoms, these both suggest you had a mild concussion, which can cause a number of brain injuries problematic enough that you really do need a scan done of your head. So, since your mom won't take you, you can either drive yourself or have a friend drive you to either the family doctor you always go to, or the county's free health department clinic as a walk-in or the ER, and let somebody take down some information from you and order a scan, and decide if you have developed any significant problems in your brain that need treatment.
If your mom is the only one who carries a card for your insurance, then you may tell this to whomever asks you for your card, and they will decide if you need payment arrangements or if they should bill you at your home or call your mom or whatever. But if you go to your regular "family doctor," then they'll have your insurance info on record, and you can definitely be seen automatically by him and it will be paid for, at least as much as insurance will pay, as well as any tests he orders, since his office can pass along insurance info to any hospital or whomever wants to do the test.
If your symptoms have recently worsened a lot, sometimes this can happen if a person who has a concussion already, then they somehow bang their head again and then symptoms can worsen. I hope your symptoms are not related to hitting your head, rather perhaps you've got something else less serious wrong, but it just seems to me if you've had headaches ever since your fall, and plus you feel sleepy a lot, a doc has got to check you out!
If your mom is the only one who carries a card for your insurance, then you may tell this to whomever asks you for your card, and they will decide if you need payment arrangements or if they should bill you at your home or call your mom or whatever. But if you go to your regular "family doctor," then they'll have your insurance info on record, and you can definitely be seen automatically by him and it will be paid for, at least as much as insurance will pay, as well as any tests he orders, since his office can pass along insurance info to any hospital or whomever wants to do the test.
If your symptoms have recently worsened a lot, sometimes this can happen if a person who has a concussion already, then they somehow bang their head again and then symptoms can worsen. I hope your symptoms are not related to hitting your head, rather perhaps you've got something else less serious wrong, but it just seems to me if you've had headaches ever since your fall, and plus you feel sleepy a lot, a doc has got to check you out!
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