COCHLEAR IMPLANTS AND MIGRAINES!!

Does McKenzi’s migraines have anything to do with her cochlear implant? Answering some of your frequently asked questions about her
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[@patriciahausner59]

I, myself started having migraines since I was 15 and I can’t imagine having to deal with the pain at that age! I still have migraine and I will typically I see an aura and can’t see properly for about 20minutes. Poor kid is such a trooper and has such an awesome outlook! You guys , as her parents are such partners committed to your journey and are just a lovely family!

[@Christa10]

I love how you listened to your daughter. As s parent,24 girl migraines started at 12 but I believe the where earlier. She would throw up for days be sick for days I mean it was awful. I totally understand what you’re saying. She’s had every test know done. Taken every Homeopathic or medicines. Also as person that gets migraines that you listen.

[@daisydedication2890]

As some one who suffers with migraines I like that you explain her symptoms as migraines can be very different depending on you as person

[@joycekohlmeyer7469]

I suffer from migraines also and I found a little trick that helps me is to put ice on my neck and a heating pad on my forehead and it knocks me out so that I can sleep. We were watching this video and I thought I would like to share that with you. Praying for you guys.

[@luanngotdon6454]

I was diagnosed in 2005 with occular migraines. Didn't have problems really except with car lights and glare. Now since I had cataract surgery and got covid around the same time, I have almost constant migraines. Fortunately still mostly occular with eye pain. Praying for your sweet girl!

[@kelseyh42]

As someone who has a terrible gag reflex, I have found that if you put the pill in applesauce it makes it easier to swallow. ♥️

[@dianedeck]

Im deaf in one ear and it knocks my balance off big time. When I have headaches it does even more. Im sorry she has migraines I don't think mine are that bad. All I know from working in the hospital is that they always have a mortar and pestle and they grind the pills up into a powder and add it to a little bit of applesauce or pudding. I will be praying for Kenzie for God to rid her of her migraines.

[@allisonleighmorgan3224]

I'm sorry to hear suffering from migraines are awful can't imagine having them all the time like that. Hopefully you all find way that helps and as she's gets older they hopefully ease for her sending hugs xxxx❤️❤️🙏🙏

[@soryndravenz30]

I have the same issue with gag reflex and meds. I have to crush pills with a pill crusher and take what I call dust with a smoothie or milkshake or something like that. Hope this tip helps Makenzie. I am in solidarity With you girly!

[@brandygreen8185]

Both of my kids have migraines really bad so I completely understand how it is seeing your kids go through it mine are 9 &13

[@vanessaverner8480]

When I was diagnosed I never had a spinal tap. I live in a small town. When I was in the ER the doctor just looked at the symptoms and diagnosed them. I am in the mid fourties’ now. I only have had a few that lasted for days. I have had migraines that I would have been happy to die. Yes there are times you know they are coming. Have a OB/GYN do hormone testing. Stress, lack of sleep, poor diet, and hormones are a huge cause. I do understand she is young. Even when I was younger I did have bad headaches. My first full blown migraine was when I was twelve. My balance is messed up with a migraine. Noises do bother me during migraines too.

[@sherrylyokel1410]

I’m sorry she went though this migraines. I have cochlear implants Right 2002/ Left 2011 but device quit working four months later then replanted. A month later after replanted. I went to the hospital twice totaled 2 weeks. I was nausea, head pounding, unbalance and very dizzy, very weak and lightheaded. We thought it was implant but it was rule out. I cannot remember all of these since I passed out. I slept for 4 days. All tests I had were rule out but only found out I has vestibular migraine. I have medicine to control it. It took me awhile to heal. As today, I’m feeling great, love my cochlear that I can able to hear better than hearing aids. I worn hearing aids since a year old till adulthood it had no benefit to hear ( not enough volume to increase). Now I can hear whole lot better - oh boy it’s powerful processors/ implants! At first processors I worn called “sPrint” one for BTE / body but I trade in with Freedom from sPrint body. After right surgery, I had N5. Now I’m wearing Kanso processors. I love it which it off my ears. Pretty soon, I will get upgrade to Kanso 2. I can talk, read lips, hear, and use my first language ASL sign language. I graduated from a deaf school. I really enjoy your KZbin and TikTok. Good luck on your journey! 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

[@anastasiamcguire1617]

Wow, I'm very surprised! Yesterday, during the votings, there was an old woman with the migraine when she wears a cochlear implant. She couldn't keep it up, but the volume was a bit loud that made headache. I was adopted from Russia with no family health history, so my left eye started seeing as a positive slope and I realized that it had the pigment clumping within both eyes. It depended if this person with a cochlear implant had a missing genetic information or not, unfortunately it is saying that the headache may not correspond to the cochlear implant. Hope everything went well with your family!

[@Ailuro49]

I highly recommend Botox shots in the forehead and base of the skull. Stopped mine completely except a week or so before the 90 days is up. I lost my sight, have lost all reasoning to use numbers, lost different abilities like standing up, any functioning. I was a mess. Botox fixed me!

[@morginpeloquin6991]

You can always try putting the pill in apple sauce. My cousin used to have trouble taking meds and was able to take his meds better with apple sauce.

[@ChristinaSheets]

When my daughter was younger she couldnt take pills. I would crush them and add them to applesauce, pudding, her juice, milk, or whatever i could mix it with. That helped a lot.

[@erinwoolfrey7650]

Here is a hospital tip- don't try put it at the back of your mouth... just put it in your mouth with a mouthful of water- tilt your head FORWARD, so your chin is towards your chest, and swallow. This often works better with kids then the old ' put it at thr back of your tongue and swallow' method

[@Theoutdoorpersona]

I was re watching this video because i wanted to share my migraine story. I was born with carnial stenosis and had surgery to fix it. But i get migraines because of what happened. I remember getting my first migraine and it was bad. It was May 26, 2004 and i was turning 13 the next day. I remember getting home from school and was doing homework. I thought my foot and leg had fallen asleep. Instead it was a stroke and was taken to the er. I remeber getting the migraine on the way there and being sick all night and missed celebrating my birthday with my classmates the next day becaue i couldnt go to school. Then i had migranes occasionally and still do

[@sailorbrite]

I think she might be having a visual aura. Ask her if she sees flashing lights in the shape of a triangle or rectangle. You can look up migraine simulator on KZbin. That happens to me and I can’t see properly. If her doctor says it’s suitable, there’s a newer medication called Nurtec that has helped me a lot and it dissolves under your tongue. It’s not preventive, it’s when you get a migraine. The good news is I had my first migraine at 19 and I’m 41 now and they’ve gotten less painful over the years and I haven’t thrown up from one in years. I know the idea of shots is terrible to a 10-year-old but I think there are once a month preventive shots instead of daily pills.

[@shannonbrice8012]

I know she has had migraines for years...as she is getting older could some of them be related to hormonal imbalances, especially once a month? Our family has hormonal inducing migraines along with sugar inducing migraines. Sugar inducing took years to pin point. Sugar is in almost everything and we tracked foods, medicine, sleep patterns etc and would take about 3 to 5 days after she had sugar to have a migraine. And a different migraine medicine needs to be used for each for hormonal and sugar.

[@Munichismybaby]

Maybe you can find a compounding pharmacy that can make the medication in a liquid form. Talk to the MD. ❤

[@GLTM945]

I having the same problem with Migraines with my Cochlear implant in December 2021. They tell me There is nothing wrong with my implant. I going back next week July 8 for a CT scan to see if the implant has sled down

[@mhuff18]

Hi. I have a few questions. Lol. Im 55 and lived in Florida my whole life. Migraines started at 16mos. Lost hearing completely in my right ear at 3. Back then they knew nothing about nothing. Assuming I lost my hearing because of the mumps. I have ok (for me) hearing in my left ear. My migraines however are a different story. They are the absolute worst always. But I never put a connection to them. So your daughter how do they say she lost her hearing? And what ideas do they think can be with the migraines? Is her bp ok? Which eye is affected? My mother and I have it with our left. Gosh... its horrible. I know this is long I'm sorry. This is the first time I've heard a story close to mine. Thanks for sharing.

[@brandygreen8185]

We crushed our sons migraine medicine into apple sauce because he is 9 and can’t do pills either

[@shaunamiller9011]

I just got diagnosed with migraines. & I’ve come to believe the unsteady feeling is because of the migraine. The same thing happens to me except throwing up.

[@rolandrose2920]

I couldn't swallow pills forever. My mom would crush them and put them in cool whip. Then I learned to take them with milk or soda. Now I can take them with water but it has to be when I drink with a straw.

[@Ashlie_Boothe]

Give it to her with ice cream, that’s what I had to do when I was learning how to take pills.

[@deal_family]

We’ll try that thank you

[@Ashlie_Boothe]

@@deal_family You’re welcome 😊 keep us updated!

[@cathyburke5286]

Love you. Thank you for sharing

[@thedisabledmermaid]

The balance is migrain related. I have to use my wheelchair during mine

[@soryndravenz30]

Also you have to really advocate (as exhausting as it is) for the medication formulation in the US health care system you really have to be persistent and very demanding and pushy and not give a inch in between. It exhausting but it's the only way unfortunately.

[@raykayers9399]

We had the same problem with my sister swallowing pills and what worked for her was taking a drink of water, put the pill in, take another big drink and lay flat on the couch and the pill would just slide down

[@deal_family]

That’s a good idea

[@bravo795mp]

@@deal_family Can you try Botox injections or an ocipitial nerve block both are much less invasive treatments and very sucessful treatments for migraines. Please give them a try. Especially with the eye pain it may help her. When I got Botox mine went away for 6 months and occipital nerve blocks helped for 6 months each. My migraines had me admitted in hospital for two weeks at a time. They have a newer migraine preventative too I forgot the name. I started getting migraines when I was 13. The best preventative I have taken and am still on is topamax. 400 mgs the only issue is it will cause memory loss and hair loss. You will get used to some cognitive side effects (takes time). But the hair loss is so upsetting (I’m 32) and it hasn’t improved. I am migraine free on the medicine. As far as taking the pills; try taking it in pudding or worst case see if you can get the medication compounded (turned into liquid) also your dr can rx you a spray to numb her throat and make her gag a lot less sensitive. Also consider taking her to ER if she has a bad break through migraine. Instead of her suffering for a week in pain; these treatments work within sometimes 1-2 hrs or sometimes 5/6 depending if she needs a few& fluids. Plus once you find a breakthrough ER remedy that works her Neuro can write his reccomendation; and you just bring to ER each time so they know how to treat her quickly and what meds to use; and try. You can start with, 1. iV fluids 2. iV Tylenol 3. Iv reglan : also nausea medicine; great for migraine relief 90% of time the migraine will be gone with this combo. If not then these meds can be used: 4. IV magnesium (like the supplement) it’s very effective 5. If that doesn’t work you can ask for IV decadron it’s a very effective steroid; that’s great for migraines. I hope this helps; and I hope you see this; feel free to ask me anything. I know about almost all the treatments and meds for migraines.

[@carynjohnson525]

Has she started her periods? Could her migraines being monthly connected to that? Or anxiety related?

[@annagrace21]

Idk if you've tried this or it will help but I have a bad gag reflex and can not swallow pills either whatsoever so what I do is get a drink first and then put the pill in with my head tilted and swallow so I don't feel or taste the pill

[@kristyalden8067]

Can u crush it up in like applesauce? That’s what I’ve seen them do with older people. I have migraines and it affects my Equilibrium also.

[@kimovando1737]

My daughter have cochlear implant’s she still headaches a lot i don’t know why she still have it I keep prayer for her

[@deal_family]

Hate to hear that

[@kaylafick0310]

Crush it up and put it in food . Have her try to put ice pack or heating pad on the head. Keep a bucket next to her bed along with ice water...... It could be from stress. I have migraines since I was 1 and I'm 32 now

[@SophiaTheSophist]

question for you guys about rhe cochlear implant.... how come she only has one?

[@haleysims210]

Are y'all from Pensacola? Just curious I'm about 45 minutes from there

[@deal_family]

We did start out going there with migraines. We live about 2 hours away from there.

[@lucybenoit9828]

2004 I got my first meningitis and 2012 I got my second one. And they did all those test too and I still have migraines too

[@deal_family]

Migraines are no fun

[@michellegarneau1790]

I would put the pill in a spoonful of pudding or yogurt.

[@ketocatmom7770]

I have a horrible gag reflex and learned to hide my medicine in apple sauce or yogurt!!!

[@kjm4939]

Migraines are awful. I was maybe 4. My daughter too. Mine stopped after I had my daughter.

[@carashea4207]

im gonna stop complaining about my migraines as much cuz im lucky mine dont last a week, God Bless Ya'll!

[@chrisp2916]

I take a migraine pill that dissolves under my tongue. It’s great!

[@jaybak50]

Just watched your video there is a KZbin video that shows how to crush a pill in a syringe it might help her

[@carriedadamo]

Can’t you grind the pill up and put it in pudding?

[@Ailuro49]

Can you please quiet the background noise of kids chatter, it’s very annoying.

[@BlazinBritBrat]

You mentioned on tiktok she had a mild case of CP. CP is technically brain damage. Her CP may be causing her migraines. I have CP as well.

[@alyssasoto5489]

Have you ever tried hiding her meds in her food and not telling her it's there?

[@cscraftedmemories5293]

I can't take pills either I'm 35 so I put the pill in a syringe and then pull some water up KZbin it liquid pills

[@joro241]

Spinal meningitis can only be detected through your spinal fluid. So momma was correct!

[@lucybenoit9828]

❤❤❤

[@deal_family]

😊

[@kjm4939]

I’m so sorry.

[@Sammi_May]

Hey y'all ❤

[@deal_family]

Hey!!

[@vansie06]

The caption need to be fixed as it keep say death instead deaf

[@rebeccalosh1023]

There is a migraine medicine for abortive and prevention, Nurtec it desovles

[@Munichismybaby]

Migraines are so erratic. I hope she quits getting them.

[@NeNe-im4yf]

Try pill in a bite of banana

[@dannamorgan8698]

Try putting it in peice of banana?

[@Ailuro49]

I highly recommend Botox shots in the forehead and base of the skull. Stopped mine completely except a week or so before the 90 days is up. I lost my sight, have lost all reasoning to use numbers, lost different abilities like standing up, any functioning. I was a mess. Botox fixed me!

[@Ailuro49]

There is a drug called Fiorinal (has aspirin) and Fioricett which has Tylenol, some other med that’s the best for pain I have ever used. Except Botox. I’ve had crippling migraines since before I started Kindergarten! Story of my life, lol. God Bless all y’all and the family critters too.