Same thing here, two different doctors told me I was faking it until the ENT found out it's most likely hereditary seeing as my father has something similar. Of course now my doctor is annoyed at the accusation of being wrong so is taking me off of my near life-saving antidepressants and painkillers just to find out if that's the problem, which I suppose it could be, although I'm now too stressed and fatigued to tell.

Terrible joke aside, it's probably worth pointing out that I said hearing loss, not "completely deaf".

Abdominal migraine? My daughter is seven and she had it. It's more common in children than adults but can happen in adults. I have classic migraine. I was diagnosed at 13 after flat out refusing to go to school until something was done. I'd suffered for three years, my mother swore I was faking and I was paranoid I had a brain tumor or something. The day of diagnosis, from a pediatric neurologist, my mom is telling my grandma what they said and my grandma pops off with "ohh, yeah, my dad used to get them. He'd lay in a dark, quite room for hours and hours..." thanks, grandma. Could have mentioned that two years ago... have you tried taking and Aleve with a Coke or coffee? I'm allergic to triptans and no other meds have worked, but my mom read that in Reader's Digest once, some 80 year old woman swore by it, and it's worked well for me. It works for my daughter, too. Doesn't completely rid you of symptoms, but it makes it bearable.

And if you get a migraine diagnosis, do an elimination diet! Lots of foods are triggers, MSG, cheddar cheese, chocolate, red wine, nitrates, as are certain perfumes and lotions and soaps, cigarette smoke, bright light can be a trigger, sounds set some people off, changes in barometric pressure, thunderstorms... the list goes on and on and on. But it's worth doing, then you can learn to avoid triggers when possible and work around them when not. Snow is one of my triggers. Snow. (air conditioningheat all year round and staying in the house during extreme weather changes helps with barometric triggers)

Oh, youuu. I see what you did there >:D

I used to get those full-on migraines. I had the pure vomiting from 3 yrs to 10, and when I hit puberty the vertigo, disorientation, numbness, and nausea began. I used to get hearing issues; basically auditory vertigo and I would hear things but be unable to process what they were. Thankfully I haven't had a migraine in about 2-3 years, though I am prone to dizzy spells and fainting and my stomach is sensitive. Have you talked to your neurologist about Zomig? It's expensive but it is amazing. Take it at the onset of the first symptoms and within 1-2 hours you can carry on with a normal day. Another thing is called cranio-sacral, which is kind of a massage therapy to very gently adjust misalignments in the cranium to relieve pressure. I had it done for years; either it's a coincidence that I "grew out" of my migraines or it worked. I feel for your daughter :( I used to eat water-based popsicles so I'd stay hydrated and cool and consume a bit of sugar. It didn't help fix it but it put something in my stomach to vomit other than bile. Best of luck!

I've been dealing with chronic migraines since I can remember. I didn't even get diagnosed until high school because I'd gotten so used to them. My neurologist has me taking butterburr, a natural herbal supplement, and I swear, I could not live without it now. It certainly doesn't eliminate the migraines, but it definitely lessens the pain and severity of them. And I love that it's natural, I've even been able to go off a migraine med I'd been on for years thanks to it. I still get migraines, and I'm working on eliminating them completely and probably will be for a while, and I'm certainly not a "natural is the best and only way" sort of person, but natural remedies CAN help. I feel for your daughter, and I pray that she grows out of it.