Update to dd giving me a scare
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| Fri, 05-19-2006 - 9:12am |
First of all thank you to all that replied to my previous post, they made me much more at ease to the situation. If only I could calm dd now. Yesterday, she was still extremely exhausted from the "seizure" and ended up not going to school. She said she woke up and tried to get up and got dizzy so she laid back down. Needless to say she fell back asleep and didn't wake up until I made her get up at 11, she complained of a headache all day. Last night, she still went to bed fairly early for her and was able to get up this morning for school.
An hour into the school day today, I get the phone call from the nurse. Dd is in her office and she's just not feeling right. Dd told her what happened at the dentist and then when I spoke to the nurse I told her what I knew. I spoke to dd, who I can tell from the sound of her voice is terrified. This is so not dd. She absolutely loves school and is an extremely happy-go-lucky kid. It sounds to me that she is giving herself anxiety over the whole thing - almost like PTSD. I asked the nurse if their was a school psychologist that she could talk to and apparently that has to be done through the school counselor. I have a call into her doctor. I'm just at a loss as I don't want to baby her and feed into her fears, but I also don't want to blow it off unless something is wrong. She is still complaining of a headache and feeling "off". She doesn't see the neurologist until the end of June.
Any suggestions on how to get my happy kid back???


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welll - of course you have to check out the medical side, very thoroughly, to get some real answers.
other than that ---- your dd had a 'real' scare - whatever 'induced' the attack, it DID happen. i think that if you acknowledge her fears, and maybe give her some advil or something to have in her pocket 'just in case' - what i mean is, let her have some 'security rope' and it will probably blow over.
IMHO, you should call the doctor again (pediatrician AND neurologist). If she's still tired and/or having a headache, I would definitely pursue it. I don't mean to scare you, but it could be serious and I wouldn't want to wait until the end of June.
If what she's experiencing now is "only" anxiety, the best way to relieve that may be to reassure her that it's nothing serious (by going to the doctor). For my DD, it would make her crazy to not know. (My kid's group of friends is having a mono scare right now - 2-3 kids diagnosed - and everyon else is making themselves nuts with worry. The not knowing is worst)
(((HUGS)))) to you and your DD!!
Sue
Wow, she does sound worked up. Call her ped and see if you can't get her in quicker. I'm NOT saying there is something wrong with her, just if now its spilling into her real life, you need to nip it in the bud whatever it is (nothing or something). Might I ask, has she started her menses yet? If so how long and
I did call her ped and they want me to take her straight to the er if there are any more issues - I haven't heard anymore from the school so I am hoping for the best. She should be home in the next hour.
She started her menses almost 2 years ago and started this cycle the day before her dentist appt.
Maybe I misunderstood something - they pricked her finger, ran some fast test and the results came back as 11 and, from what I remember 13 was low end of normal???? Then the nurse said she was slightly anemic. Am I messing something up here?
DD survived the rest of the day at school with no more issues. She was back to acting like her normal goofy self this evening, so I am guessing it was the anxiety over the whole ordeal.
When oldest DD was 13 she experienced some health problems that lasted for approx. 8 weeks. I was a basket case b/c no one could tell us what was wrong. In total desperation, I took her to my cardiologist - he was the one that figured out my thyroid problem. He checked her over very well and we found out that she had a minor heart problem. Those 8 weeks nearly drove me insane. DD was too "off" to really worry about it. Please don't put yourself and DD through that kind of wait. Go to her regular doctor and get her checked out by them. They can call the neurologist and probably get you in quicker. When my DD was first sick, her pediatrician thought she had menningitis so we were sent to the neuro within an hour. Each episode resulted in a sudden trip to the neurologist - the first few were set up by the pediatrician but after that I called him myself or he called me (he was wonderful). The cardiologist became involved b/c during all this my dad had to have one of his many catherizations and while i was in the hospital with dad, the cardiologist noticed the circles under my eyes and asked what was wrong. I told him and he suggested that I bring DD into his office and let him have a look. Since both dad and I have heart problems, he thought there might a good chance this could be cardiac. It was. He also found out DD needed B12 shots (a type of anemia) and that helped as well.
You are right this is probably nothing serious but don't put yourself and DD through the waiting game. If you absolutely cannot get into neuro any quicker, then just keep really, really busy.
Good Luck and please keep us posted.
What kind of heart problems do you have? I ask because I also have a heart problem, though not serious - I have an arrhythmia caused by atrial fibrillation with no known origin. So organically my heart is fine but once in a while for no known reason, the atrial chamber starts fibrillating. I take aspirin (the worst case scenario is a stroke) and atenelol for it. Other than that, I just have to watch for my own "triggers" as every one has them. I actually recently participated in a study at Stanford Hospital.
I had to laugh as I read this thread b/c all of us as moms are the same - we become so expert at knowing our kids that we can sometimes even "diagnose" them. My dh likes to call me "Dr. Mom".
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