Hi all.  Well, I am new here, but am really wanting to read more about migraines.  I was a migraine sufferer as a child myself, and now seem to have passed them on to my 6 yr old son.  I got them from age 5 on.  Now that I have had kids, they seem to not be as they once were.  Now most of mine are triggered by sinus pressure or jaw pain (TMJ) and I can get ahold of them before they get to the vomiting stage.  My mother and grandfather both have/had them also.  So back to my son.  

     He turned 6 in Oct.  I first noticed the headaches at about 4 1/2 yrs old.  I believe he had them before, but as he was too young to describe them to me, I never caught on that it was migraines.  His routine is....he all of a sudden will complain of his head being "hot." Then not long, he is vomiting, then asleep, then done!  Luckily they are short lived for the most part.  He has never suffered for more than a few hours, I think 4 at max.  He always describes them to me as above his right eye.  Never are there any signs, that I have noticed, of them coming.  I have found no link to any food triggers.  They just come on so fast and furious.  I know he has the pain tolerance of an ox, as he broke his collarbone at 4 and we didn't know until that evening.  I always tell him that he needs to tell mommy before it gets so bad.  The one time he did tell me early, it escalated anyway, even after Motrin.  Now I don't give him anything, as I know it will come up anyway.  I don't mean that I don't want to try to help him, but I know that it doesn't work for him, and it is best to let it run its course.  Mine were the same way.  I would get them, be sick, finally get to sleep, and then sleep for three or so hours and it was over.  It kills me to see him deal with them.  There is no pattern that we (my husband and I) can tell either.  He used to get them about every 3-5 months at first.  Then he went 7 whole months with none!  YEAH!  Now though, he has had three in one month.  Two of them in the past 10 days.  It is scaring me that he has all of the sudden gotten so many at once.  Today he got one in the car.  Just started crying, and said his head hurt.  He is now resting with daddy in bed, with his bucket.  Bless his heart!  I mentioned it to the doctors many times.  We see lots, as he has respitory issues.  Asthma being the biggest.  He takes Singulair at night, and Advair twice a day.  So none of the doctors have said anything about being concerned about them.  After 3 in a month, I am ready to dig deeper.  They always seem to go away quickly, and then he has no strange symptoms in between.  No clumsiness, speech problems, etc.  All the things I have read that would indicate something more than headaches are not there.  I think it is so hard when you watch your child have to endure them.  I just want to make him better.  Maybe I am paranoid, but none of our doctors seem concerned.  We see a ped. Pulminary Specialist, an allergist (testing this summer came back negative for all 45 allergins tested) and an infectious disease doctor.  He was tested for Cystic Fibrosis this summer (negative, thank God!) and also the allergy testing, as well as blood work for immune deficiency.  Everything came back good, except that the antibodies in his immune system are not where they should be.  They just said last week that they don't want to see him back until April and that the ID doc doesn't need to see him at all.  His responses to the vaccines he has gotten over the years are great.  So she thinks his immune system is just taking its own time to build up.  He is prone to pneumonia (4 times by age 5) and with the asthma, it just complicates things.  Other than the respitory issues and headaches, he is a VERY active, happy little guy.