location: Garrettsville, Ohio
Your Question: My 16 year old daughter has been suffering form daily headaches for 10 months now. It all started with a headache and throat inffection. Her throat cleared up, but the headache has not gone away. It is always in the center of her forehead, some days it’s a 2 or 3 but many days more like a 8 or 9. She also has frequent stomache aches. Has been having alot of problems with her ribs and back going out.
The chiropractor suggested seeing a neurologist, because after examing her, found out that she has a real hard time with doing things with her eyes closed, ex, walking heel to toe, finger to nose, etc. like being drunk. With eyes open is fine. She has been through massage therapy and physical therapy beacause she has alot of hurting in her neck and shoulders. Doctors say she has alot of tension in base of head and neck. This did not offer any relief.
The neurologist has her on Elavil and Topamax but this to has not offered any relief. When she has the bad headaches 8 or 9 all she wants to do is sleep. Sometimes all weekend. She is very active in sports. The doctors were saying tension headaches and to let her participate in sports, that it might help since she enjoys her sports so much. All I have seen is her performance in sports declining and same with her academics, was always straight A student now some B’s and close to C’s in there too.
She has had a ct-scan and 2 MRI’s which show nothing. Blood work as far as cbc and such are fine. Hormone levels are in range. Any suggestions, I’m very frustrated and don’t know what to do next and so is she. We had started keeping a food journal but didn’t see anything that would be a contributing factor. Please help!!!
Thank you
HR
Dear Cynthia,
We see many people with this type of problem. Your daughter seems to be highly adrenalized, most serious athletes are, you know. Having the throat infection and headache, might seem to have been the beginning of this circle of stress-pain-stress-pain, but it is even more likely that she was born with a hormone imbalance. Very often the imbalance doesn’t present itself until the child enters puberty, and it had not been recognized because she was always so active. Athletes usually ignore minor irritations such as pain, because the sport is more important to them, and they don’t want anything to interfere with the joy of the game. It would probably have shown up eventually, probably by the end of her twenties. What Dr. Roby has found over the years is that in cases like this one, it is most often a combination of allergies and hormone imbalance, which he treats simultaneously.
It is pretty amazing to discover how tightly interrelated. Anyone can become allergic to anything, at any time, without prior notice, including the hormones twhich are produced by the person’s own body as well as foods or airbornes. Hormones and allergy need to be looked at in this context. An allergic reaction to one’s own hormones is called “hormone mediated hypersensitivity”. It can be caused by any hormone, but we find that it is most common with progesterone, and adrenalin combo.
Before going much further with this, I would suggest that you go back to our website and read the first chapter of Dr. Roby’s new book, “Maybe It Is All In Your Head…And You Are NOT Crazy!”; or just order the whole book from www.Amazon.com. Then, read or reread, these three website sections, in this order: 1) Hormone Imbalance. It will tell you how we look at these problems, why it is going on, how we can help you and your daughter, get back in control of the situation…and stay there. It will give you an overview, of how we look at these problems, why it is happening, and how we can give you and your daughter the tools that you need to regain control of her life and keep it under control. It will also, make you more knowledgable about the body, the role of hormones in our lives than any doctor you have ever seen. 2) Food Allergy. Will teach you how foods can make everything better of worse. Why we do or don’t eat certain foods. How we make our food choices, without even thinking about them. 3) Airborne Allergy. There is not much that we can do to control the outside air pollution, but we can certainly control the air inside our homes. You will find suggestions on how to control your home with tools that are easy to find locally, that are both inexpensive and easy to use.
Dr. Roby’s protocol actually has a medical side, using the bioidentical hormones, if indicated, allergy treatments with antigens which are applied with sublingual drops that are noninvasive, safe and easy to use. There is also a nonmed part, as well, and if you can get your daughter to go ahead and start doing it, I will assure you that she will feel 50% better, within 30 days. She won’t like doing it, but it will dissipate the excessive adrenalin that is a really big part of her problem.
MOVEMENT: As follows: 1 hour of looong, slooow distance, on a treadmill, indoors in the morning and 1 hour of the same LSD in the evening, just before bedtime. How slow? At about 1 mph. I know…borrring! It isn’t for fun, it is for the headaches; they aren’t fun, either.
DIET: Very simple diet. Low in carbs, low in fat. We like the South Beach Diet because of the number of food choices given. Weight Watchers is also good.
SPIRITUALITY: Hers, not ours. Whatever makes her relax, and in touch with herself. Meditation, prayer, yoga, Pilates (my personal favorite). Time to be inside of herself, thinking only about her health. Do it every day.
We would like to hear from you about her progress, and so that we can give more suggestions if she needs them. Of course, the real alternative, would be to bring her here for testing and treating. Unfortunately, physicians in Texas are prohibited from diagnosing, treating or prescribing for any patient who has not been seen in person. If you think that you might want to bring her here, we can email a lab slip for the bloodwork to be done locally. The blood test takes about 10 days to get back to us. You can call us at that time, and someone will go over the results and explain them to you. We take almost all health care plans, including Medicare, Medcaid and Military. She would need to come here for the initial visit, and once a year for retesting. Almost everything else can be managed by phone and email. Since there is nothing in any of our antigens that can possibly harm anyone, we can give our patients much more liberty. Drops under the tongue and out the door, everyday! No sitting for an hour in an allergy office to make sure that no one has overdosed them. I like that.
There are patients from all over the world coming here for treatment, many of our patients are from foreign countries, as well as out of state. We are able to make it pretty easy for anyone who wants, to come and visit us. Give the schedulers a call for more information at: 800-842-6349, they’ll be happy to help.
Please email me if you find that you have more questions, or need clarification of anything that you have read, or I have said. Thanks for sharing your problems with us.
Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute
