Stomach migraines

Yes, I had them as a child. They are the usual way for children to have migraine. By the time I was 11 they had turned into 'normal ' migraine. First sick headaches, then later classic migraine. At various times migraine has presented in possibly every different form it comes in. I still get it in my mid 70s, but not often.

That's very interesting because as a youngster I used to get what my mum called 'billious attacks'. Then in later years I got migraines with aura (and still do) but just the eye disturbance and just a slight headache. Now I realise what I had as a child was probably 'stomach migraine' and it's taken 70 years to find out...........Good Old Gransnet!!!!!!!!

My husband had them as a chid and was admitted to Great Ormond Street at one point. Sadly he has suffered with migraine all his life some of which have been very severe. I hope your granddaughter is feeling much better and doesn't suffer any more of these horrible things.

Me too- “ bilious attacks” as a child, followed by migraines later. The migraines lessened after the menopause, then stopped almost completely when I retired, although now I occasionally get a migraine that manifests itself as flashing lights in one eye, and clears within an hour. Wierd.

I used to get terrible stomach (abdomen) pains when I was a child and in fact got taken to hospital with suspected appendicitis, although it proved not to be that.
Years later I was told about a child who had the same symptoms as me, and a specialist told her mother that the intestines grow at a different rate to the child's growth and are alternately squashed and stretched - causing terrible abdominal pain.
I'm still not sure about that though.

Yes same here, I suffered regular stomach problems as a child for no apparent reason. As an adult I had full blown migraines with visual disturbances and vomiting. Happily after 50 I had them less frequently and now don't have attacks at all. There are some compensations to getting older.

Fingers and toes crossed, although I have had awful headaches that lasted for a few days sometimes, they were not what could be termed migraines.

Sometimes glands in the abdomen can swell if a child is fighting off an infection, eg sometimes it is a precursor to tonsillitis I have noticed.

My son suffered from these as a young boy. He would curl up in a ball in pain at school. I became suspicious, and wondered if the stomach migraine had anything to do with what he was eating for his lunch. It turned out that he had the stomach pain after eating cheese whirls. They used Lockerbie Cheddar, and he'd had reactions to it at home, so I stopped buying it. Once he stopped eating the cheese he stopped having the stomach pain.
It might be worth investigating to see if your DGD is allergic to anything.

I had classic migraines from age 4; the aura, numbness down one side of my face and terrible nausea.
Cheese was one of my triggers, and chocolate.
Also, any time I was looking forward to something.. a migraine would always spoil it.
I'd be in bed for a couple of days.

Could she be coeliac?

I was also diagnosed with stomach migraines as a child but luckily I didn’t have them in to adulthood, and have never suffered from head migraines. My eldest daughter does get awful migraines though.

Thank you to everyone who has replied to my post. My granddaughter is asthmatic and has eczema and has some allergies. My daughter is going to try and keep a food diary to see if there is a common denominator. My granddaughter has had her tonsils out so it's not that.
I did read that it's more common when a family member suffers with migraines and my ex-husband use to have them very occasionally.
By lunchtime she was fine and went back to school this afternoon. My poor daughter was on her own with my 3 granddaughters last night, my SIL is in Germany, and she was so worried that she might need to call for an ambulance in the middle of the night.
Luckily that didn't happen.

It was my son who suffered stomach aches and sickness (aged about 10) and it was diagnosed as migraine.
He outgrew this and also his childhood asthma (although he still has a blue puffer, just in case!)

DD1 had what I knew to be stomach migraines because as a sufferer I had read a lot about migraines. I am a sufferer of head migraines and DD2 has them occasionally.

Advanced age has benefits at least to migraine sufferers

My granddaughter has stomach migraines too. Her aunt and great grandmother suffer badly with migraine though these lessen with age. I’m sure they’re hormone related. I get migraines sometimes, but just the aura, not the headache thank goodness. My triggers are stress and a bright light catching the side of my vision.

My granddaughter is asthmatic and has eczema and has some allergies.
Yes, it would be a good idea to keep a food diary.

My DS also had abdominal migraines as a young boy. His teacher at the time was scathing of his sudden falling to the floor in agony, clutching his stomach, and she didn't help the situation by telling the other children to ignore him. It was only when a young trainee doctor diagnosed him that he got any help. The episodes did eventually fizzle out by the time he finished junior school but they were incredibly painful for him at the time.

I have pmd you sar53

One of my sons had what I guess could be termed stomach migraines from the age of about one year old. He developed classic migraine when he was about eight years old which became a real problem in his teens.

Thankfully as an adult he only rarely gets them now.

I've had migraines from the age of 11. I'm in my 60's now and still waiting to grow out of them, as promised by the doctor!

I had migraines linked to my menstrual cycle. When my periods stopped, so did the migraines.??

No such luck here, Minimoon!

In the last few years I have had the visual disturbances come back, but thankfully not any of the other things.
Its still a horribly unsettling feeling though.

Same here MiniMoon. It was blessed relief on both fronts!

SueDonim I am in my mid 70s and they have virtually disappeared, just every few years, I get a stonker that presents in a manner I have either never suffered, or not for decades.

I had one that consisted mainly of being very very dizzy. I had to lie down for a day because my head span every time I sat up and about 2 years ago I had a Classic Migraine, sight going funny and almost disappearing over a few minutes then as it cleared, the headache.

I still have occasional very mild ones, but compared with the two day severe migraines I used to have........