I haven’t. The headaches aren’t enough to keep me from doing most things I’d ever actually want to do, usually, and my dad who is a doctor doesn’t seem to find them concerning. Going to the doctor is costly and inconvenient, and I have lots of unexplained annoying medical conditions to use up all the time and effort and energy involved in tracking such things down before I get to something as vague and non-threatening as “I have headaches. They appear in many different locations in my head on a near-daily basis. Sometimes they are pretty bad. Sometimes they are not so bad. Ibuprofen can generally kill them.” I’m pretty sure a doctor would say, “Sounds like you should keep stocked up on ibuprofen...?”
(Ibuprofen’s no longer killing them, is the worrying bit.)
I haven’t. The headaches aren’t enough to keep me from doing most things I’d ever actually want to do, usually, and my dad who is a doctor doesn’t seem to find them concerning.
Your father is a doctor and he’s let this go on for your entire life!? And also failed to notice the pica thing? If he’s never spent a solid work-week doing tests on you, then he is a bad parent. Unfortunately, it sounds like he’s also too incompetent as a doctor to actually diagnose you. But you should at least be able to get free blood tests out of him—and I think you need quite a lot of those.
When you have a kid you see them every day, you hear every complaint they make, and they make MANY. One or two specific complaints intermixed with the whinges of every day life are not generally actionable unless one notices performance degradation or other symptoms.
I (like Alicorn) have had headaches all my life ranging (in an almost power law graph) from very minor to severe. In the early years they usually manifested themselves as sinus related, and my mother (a health care professional) took what steps were available—in my case a humidifier as mostly the problems were during school (cold, dry weather). It’s very rare I get a severe one, and in only one case has this required a trip to the emergency room.
Although for me NSAIDs never did a damn thing. They don’t usually work (short term) on my aches and pains either—it’s not until they start to work on the swelling that I get relief.
I haven’t. The headaches aren’t enough to keep me from doing most things I’d ever actually want to do, usually, and my dad who is a doctor doesn’t seem to find them concerning. Going to the doctor is costly and inconvenient, and I have lots of unexplained annoying medical conditions to use up all the time and effort and energy involved in tracking such things down before I get to something as vague and non-threatening as “I have headaches. They appear in many different locations in my head on a near-daily basis. Sometimes they are pretty bad. Sometimes they are not so bad. Ibuprofen can generally kill them.” I’m pretty sure a doctor would say, “Sounds like you should keep stocked up on ibuprofen...?”
(Ibuprofen’s no longer killing them, is the worrying bit.)
Your father is a doctor and he’s let this go on for your entire life!? And also failed to notice the pica thing? If he’s never spent a solid work-week doing tests on you, then he is a bad parent. Unfortunately, it sounds like he’s also too incompetent as a doctor to actually diagnose you. But you should at least be able to get free blood tests out of him—and I think you need quite a lot of those.
He’s not a practicing clinician. He’s a medical informatics consultant. I just meant he has an M.D.
No, he’s not a bad parent, he’s just a parent.
When you have a kid you see them every day, you hear every complaint they make, and they make MANY. One or two specific complaints intermixed with the whinges of every day life are not generally actionable unless one notices performance degradation or other symptoms.
I (like Alicorn) have had headaches all my life ranging (in an almost power law graph) from very minor to severe. In the early years they usually manifested themselves as sinus related, and my mother (a health care professional) took what steps were available—in my case a humidifier as mostly the problems were during school (cold, dry weather). It’s very rare I get a severe one, and in only one case has this required a trip to the emergency room.
Although for me NSAIDs never did a damn thing. They don’t usually work (short term) on my aches and pains either—it’s not until they start to work on the swelling that I get relief.