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My Name is Brandi. I am writting this because I have a very healthy (so I think) and active 13 year old son. Recently I took him to the dr. and expressed my concern of his increasing number of migraine headaches (they are the type where he loses vision in one eye, left and blurred vision in the other), and he has been running a low grade fever frequently (99.0-99.9 typically) off and on for months. They did do a blood test, and said aside from his anemia, his WBC was low and RBC was high. He was not dehydrated, nor did he show signs of any type of viral infection. He tells me often that he is tired, and sometimes feels like "crap" non-specific,
but rarely complains of anything else. Except when the migraines hit. He is up to 4-6 per month. The fever, we just happen to catch here and there, and have checked out thermometers, they are working fine. So positively I can say he has been with the fever off and on since Nov.
DR. says to repeat test in a month, and go from there. I'm frustrated, he should be free of fever and migraines, and be happy.
Just want to make sure I'm not missing the boat on important questions to ask for the sake of my son. We have had two kids mis-diagnosed already with other non-related health problems. So I'm sure you can see my concern.
My Name is Brandi. I am writting this because I have a very healthy (so I think) and active 13 year old son. Recently I took him to the dr. and expressed my concern of his increasing number of migraine headaches (they are the type where he loses vision in one eye, left and blurred vision in the other), and he has been running a low grade fever frequently (99.0-99.9 typically) off and on for months. They did do a blood test, and said aside from his anemia, his WBC was low and RBC was high. He was not dehydrated, nor did he show signs of any type of viral infection. He tells me often that he is tired, and sometimes feels like "crap" non-specific,
but rarely complains of anything else. Except when the migraines hit. He is up to 4-6 per month. The fever, we just happen to catch here and there, and have checked out thermometers, they are working fine. So positively I can say he has been with the fever off and on since Nov.DR. says to repeat test in a month, and go from there. I'm frustrated, he should be free of fever and migraines, and be happy.
Just want to make sure I'm not missing the boat on important questions to ask for the sake of my son. We have had two kids mis-diagnosed already with other non-related health problems. So I'm sure you can see my concern.
), I'm going to suggest he be tested for Celiac disease. It's a simple blood test.