Can any doctor type person tell me what this is?!


Question: The following has happened to me around 3 times, about every 2-3 weeks during the past 3 months:

First off, I start with a very mild headache at the front-right side of the head, slowly after 3-4 hours it gets worse, after that, I start to get a bit nausea, gets worse. Then I vomit 3 or more times, until I feel empty... I fall asleep, wake up and feel a bit better. Then I get a mild stomach ache, I eat a spicy chicken burger with a bit of soda and feel better. All that happens for 1-2 days and I lose about 2 pounds


Answers: The following has happened to me around 3 times, about every 2-3 weeks during the past 3 months:

First off, I start with a very mild headache at the front-right side of the head, slowly after 3-4 hours it gets worse, after that, I start to get a bit nausea, gets worse. Then I vomit 3 or more times, until I feel empty... I fall asleep, wake up and feel a bit better. Then I get a mild stomach ache, I eat a spicy chicken burger with a bit of soda and feel better. All that happens for 1-2 days and I lose about 2 pounds

Everytime you have a bad headache of any sort and vomiting is involved you are supposed to go the E.R or to a good doctor ASAP
With the pain around the eye it sounds like a migraine and with the throwing up part it sounds liek food poisoing or stomach flu thing...do u have diareah and all that other stuff to? This dangerous especially since you keep throwing up!
Maybe you should wash your hands before you eat and eat lighter foods and definetly Jello and some clear liquids like water and clear gatorade in slow sips. But definetly speak with a doctor in person! A. S.. A.. P
Good luck

What bothers me are the frontal headaches with nausea and vomiting. It's possible you are suffering from migraine headaches, which are now easily controlled with medication. Or, you could have something more serious like a brain tumor, so please see your family doc to get checked, and consider a consult with a neurologist for MRI brain scan and other tests.

IF you have those symptoms with light sensitivity I would say you are having migraines.

I am no doctor, but I took nursing. The headache and nausea sound like migrane symptoms. I myself suffer from migranes about once a month. The stomach ache afterwards is probably due to your stomach being empty from the vomiting. Stomach bile and gastric juices are very hard on an empty stomach. Try to eat a plain piece of toast instead of a burger. If this continues month after month you should be checked out by a doctor. I hope this helps and wish you luck.

Most likely it is a parasite. Many people get this. In fact it is estimated that about 60% of all Americans have some parasite living in them. This is misdiagnosed by many doctors as other things quite often. If you go bare foot, swimming in a lake, eat food from a fast food restaurant often, or eat sushi at an "all you can eat sushi for a low price place," you will have a parasite.

Giardia is a very common one and from your description sounds like you have this. You can also get liver flukes that will drain your energy, like giardia.

Once you get rid of this critter, you will feel much better.

You need to take the herbs for about 60 to 90 days and you will clear your body of them.

Go to: www.healthline.cc (not .com) and order these:

Parastat
Paracidin

The Parastat will kill the giardia or other parasites living in your intestines and the Paracidin will get rid of the liver flukes.

Follow the maximum dosage instructions on the bottles. You should feel better in a couple days if this is the problem. If it is not the problem, I would look at your digestion.

If you are over 20 years old, I would start taking Betaine HCL and an activator along with quantum digest.

1 - 2 Betaine HCL
1 Activator
1 Quantum digestive enzyme

This will kill the bacteria entering your stomach and greatly improve your digestion.

Stop drinking ANY sodas and stop eating the "Fat Food" from Fat Food Restaurants.

good luck

SPAM

Migraine is a neurological disease that can cause a wide range of symptoms during an attack. The most commonly thought of symptom is headache.
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Overview
Usually migraine causes episodes of severe or moderate headache (which is often one-sided and pulsating) lasting from several hours to three days, accompanied by gastrointestinal upsets, such as nausea and vomiting, and a heightened sensitivity to bright lights (photophobia) and noise (phonophobia). Approximately one third of people who experience migraine get a preceding aura.[5] The word migraine is French in origin and comes from the Greek hemicrania, as does the Old English term megrim. Literally, hemicrania means "half (the) head".

Migraines' secondary characteristics are inconsistent. Triggers precipitating a particular episode of migraine vary widely. The efficacy of the simplest treatment, applying warmth or coolness to the affected area of the head, varies between persons, sometimes worsening the migraine.[6] A particular migraine rescue drug may sometimes work and sometimes not work in the same patient. Some migraine types don't have pain or may manifest symptoms in parts of the body other than the hears


Signs and symptoms
The signs and symptoms of migraine vary among patients. Therefore, what a patient experiences before, during and after an attack cannot be defined exactly. The four phases of a migraine attack listed below are common but not necessarily experienced by all migraine sufferers. Additionally, the phases experienced and the symptoms experienced during them can vary from one migraine attack to another in the same migraineur:

The prodrome, which occurs hours or days before the headache.
The aura, which immediately precedes the headache.
The pain phase, also known as headache phase.
The postdrome.

Prodrome phase
Prodromal symptoms occur in 40 to 60% of migraineurs. This phase may consist of altered mood, irritability, depression or euphoria, fatigue, yawning, excessive sleepiness, craving for certain food (e.g., chocolate), stiff muscles (especially in the neck), constipation or diarrhea, increased urination, and other vegetative symptoms. These symptoms usually precede the headache phase of the migraine attack by several hours or days, and experience teaches the patient or observant family how to detect that a migraine attack is near.

Aura phase
For the 20-30%[10][11] of migraineurs who suffer migraine with aura, this aura comprises focal neurological phenomena that precede or accompany the attack. They appear gradually over 5 to 20 minutes and generally last fewer than 60 minutes. The headache phase of the migraine attack usually begins within 60 minutes of the end of the aura phase, but it is sometimes delayed up to several hours, and it can be missing entirely. Symptoms of migraine aura can be visual, sensory, or motor in nature.[12]

Visual aura is the most common of the neurological events. There is a disturbance of vision consisting usually of unformed flashes of white and/or black or rarely of multicolored lights (photopsia) or forma-tions of dazzling zigzag lines (scintillating scotoma; often arranged like the battlements of a castle, hence the alternative terms "fortification spectra" or "teichopsia"). Some patients complain of blurred or shimmering or cloudy vision, as though they were look-ing through thick or smoked glass, or, in some cases, tunnel vision and hemianopsia. The somatosensory aura of migraine consists of digitolingual or cheiro-oral paresthesias, a feeling of pins-and-needles experienced in the hand and arm as well as in the ipsilateral nose-mouth area. Paresthesia migrate up the arm and then extend to involve the face, lips and tongue.

Other symptoms of the aura phase can include auditory or olfactory hallucinations, temporary dysphasia, vertigo, tingling or numbness of the face and extremities, and hypersensitivity to touch.

Pain phase
The typical migraine headache is unilateral, throbbing, moderate to severe and can be aggravated by physical activity. Not all of these features are necessary. The pain may be bilateral at the onset or start on one side and become generalized, and usually alternates sides from one attack to the next. The onset is usually gradual. The pain peaks and then subsides, and usually lasts between 4 and 72 hours in adults and 1 and 48 hours in children. The frequency of attacks is extremely variable, from a few in a lifetime to several times a week, and the average migraineur experiences from one to three headaches a month. The head pain varies greatly in intensity. The pain of migraine is invariably accompanied by other features. Nausea occurs in almost 90 percent of patients, while vomiting occurs in about one third of patients. Many patients experience sensory hyperexcitability manifested by photophobia, phonophobia, osmophobia and seek a dark and quiet room. Blurred vision, nasal stuffiness, diarrhea, polyuria, pallor or sweating may be noted during the headache phase. There may be localized edema of the scalp or face, scalp tenderness, prominence of a vein or artery in the temple, or stiffness and tenderness of the neck. Impairment of concentration and mood are common. Lightheadedness, rather than true vertigo and a feeling of faintness may occur. The extremities tend to be cold and moist.

Postdrome phase
The patient may feel tired, "washed out", irritable, or listless and may have impaired concentration, scalp tenderness or mood changes. Some people feel unusually refreshed or euphoric after an attack, whereas others note depression and malaise. Often, some of the minor headache phase symptoms may continue, such as loss of appetite, photophobia, and lightheadedness.Diagnosis
Migraines are underdiagnosed[13] and misdiagnosed.[14] The diagnosis of migraine without aura, according to the International Headache Society, can be made according to the following criteria, the "5, 4, 3, 2, 1 criteria":

5 or more attacks
4 hours to 3 days in duration
2 or more of - unilateral location, pulsating quality, moderate to severe pain, aggravation by or avoidance of routine physical activity
1 or more accompanying symptoms - nausea and/or vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia
For migraine with aura, only two attacks are required to justify the diagnosis.

The mnemonic POUNDing (Pulsating, duration of 4-72 hOurs, Unilateral, Nausea, Disabling) can help diagnose migraine. If 4 of the 5 criteria are met, then the positive likelihood ratio for diagnosing migraine is 24.[15]

The presence of either disability, nausea or sensitivity, can diagnose migraine with[16]:

sensitivity of 81%
specificity of 75%

[edit] Pathophysiology
Migraine was once thought to be initiated by problems with blood vessels. This theory is now largely discredited.[17] Current thinking is that a phenomenon known as cortical spreading depression is responsible for the disorder.[18] In cortical spreading depression, neurological activity is depressed over an area of the cortex of the brain. This situation results in the release of inflammatory mediators leading to irritation of cranial nerve roots, most particularly the trigeminal nerve, which conveys the sensory information for the face and much of the head.

This view is supported by neuroimaging techniques, which appear to show that migraine is primarily a disorder of the brain (neurological), not of the blood vessels (vascular). A spreading depolarization (electrical change) may begin 24 hours before the attack, with onset of the headache occurring around the time when the largest area of the brain is depolarized. The effects of migraine may persist for some days after the main headache has ended. Many sufferers report a sore feeling in the area where the migraine was, and some report impaired thinking for a few days after the headache has passed.

In 2005, research[19] was published indicating that in some people with a patent foramen ovale (PFO), a hole between the upper chambers of the heart, suffer from migraines which may have been caused by the PFO. The migraines reduce in frequency if the hole is patched. Several clinical trials are currently under way in an effort to determine if a causal link between PFO and migraine can be found. Early speculation as to this relationship has centered on the idea that the lungs detoxify blood as it passes through. The PFO allows uncleaned blood to go directly from the right side of the heart to the left without passing through the lungs.

Migraine headaches can be a symptom of Hypothyroidism.


[edit] Epidemiology
Migraine is an extremely common condition which will affect 12-28% of people at some point in their lives.[20] However this figure



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