Migraines

Mark was pulled to homeschool because of health issues.  Some of those issues have abated.  He is no longer getting sick every week or so.  (He missed 25 days of school from August to January due to illnesses!)  In fact, since leaving school Mark has only been sick once, and that was an outer ear infection caused by swimming.  That's really good news!

But another issue was migraines.  The migraines had abated for the most part with only occasional flare ups that I was able to track to external stimuli.  Mainly, fluorescent lighting and echoing noisy environments.  But the last week or so has also proven that the hormone swings seem to "assist" in triggering more migraines.  The triggers are the same but during a hormone swing his tolerance of the triggers is drastically reduced.  This is both good and bad news.  Bad news because it means that while he's going through the hormone swings migraines will be easy to trigger in certain environments.  Good news because it hopefully means that when the hormone swings are gone the migraines will be drastically reduced.

Some of the other issues, like losing his balance, had disappeared as well but have reappeared with the hormone surges.  Actually, have reappeared with the migraines.  As if the migraines are actually why he's having balance problems, which is possible.

And this is the topic today because the stress of a new environment (co-op) and the fluorescent lights at the doctor's office triggered a migraine that had Mark curling up in my bed with all lights out and blankets over his head.  After about an hour of that he started playing in my bed, and now he's up and playing.  But no lights are allowed on in the house right now.  And he absolutely refuses to go outside, even to play in his pool.  And for most of the afternoon, he wouldn't eat.  Hopefully he'll be feeling better by tomorrow morning.