Julie,

I'm no doctor, but from the statistics, I have to wonder if you have Migraines rather than sinus headaches. Sinus headaches are extremely rare unless you have a sinus infection. Here's some information for you, Sinuses Giving You a Headache? It's Probably a Migraine. With Migraine on both sides of the family, your daughter has a 75% chance of inheriting the disease.

How frequent are these headaches or Migraines? What has her doctor said?

Something else to know is that taking pain medications more than two or three days a week can make matters worse by causing medication overuse headaches, aka rebound. You can find info on that in Medication Overuse Headache: When the Remedy Backfires.

If her doctor isn't able to help, it may well be time to consult a Migraine and headache specialist. It's important to note that neurologists aren't necessarily Migraine and headache specialists. Take a look at the article Migraine and Headache Specialists - What's So Special? If you need help finding a Migraine specialist, check our listing of Patient Recommended Migraine and Headache Specialists.

I hope this helps. Don't hesitate to ask more questions or tell me what other information I can help you with. If you'd like to talk with other Migraineurs and parents to get some additional information and support, come join our discussion forum. You'll need to register again once there because it's a separate membership database, but you can use the same member name, email address, and password that you used here. You can find our forum at http://forums.healthcentral.com/discussion/migraine/forums.

Teri