Lightning pain?

For more than 2 months, mum's headache has become more frequent. Then later she experienced "lightning pain" that traveled from the left side of her neck to her left eye and then to to top of her head when she clipped her nails on her left hand, and also while brushing her false teeth 😕

Since her appointment with the Neurology clinic at Penang GH's in a couple of months time, she chose to wait till then, rather than to go to the Emergency department to eventually get attended by a doctor from that clnic. Each time I was at Butterworth I checked on her about these. Fortunately, it didn't get worse and it didn't disrupt her daily activities except for her exercise, which she had to cut down significantly.

Later at the clinic, the doctor took time (20 minutes, which is pretty long for consultation at GH) to ask her relevant questions. Since mum doesn't have any other symptoms and doesn't have cancer, diagnostic test such as CT scan was unnecessary at that point. Conclusion: increase dosage of her migraine medicine Flunarizine and to see her again in 2 months (instead of the usual 6 months). Hope that helps.

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