Scary day with DD16

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Registered: 12-14-2006
Scary day with DD16
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Tue, 11-13-2007 - 9:06pm

My DD was complaining yesterday of "not feeling well" - dizzy, hard to focus her eyes, shaky, and weird feeling heart rate. Today she seemed a bit better, so she took off to school. She and DH travel together on the subway, and halfway to school she started feeling worse, couldn't catch her breath, etc. Good thing she was with DH - he took her to the emergency room - and they spent all day there - 6 hours. They ran every test imaginable, and everything came out "unremarkable" and "within normal limits" - no heart, lung, blood, or organ abnormalities. WHEW!!

Obviously, "unremarkable" is good news. But there remains the question of how a healthy child has sudden symptoms. She's never sick, has never missed a day of school in at least 4 years, and rarely complains. DH is convinced it's the birth control pills she started last week (prescribed by her GYN to see if it got her period started again), so she quit that today. I wonder if it's stress related. And you all probably remember that I'm a little worried about her eating - some of these can be symptoms of an extremely low calorie diet. Doctor said it could be a virus, too. He gave her a pain/anti-inflammatory drug - I guess to see if it's just pain, like muscle pain. We're following up with her Pediatrician on Friday.

She seems better tonight, but says her chest still hurts. Guess we'll take it a day at a time.

Sue, mom to Leah and Seth


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Thu, 11-15-2007 - 7:04pm
It could be stress related....anxiety attacks can cause these symptoms.

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