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2008-12-17 10:58 AM
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Maybe all the flourescent lights?

2008-12-17 11:20 AM
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When I worked as an EMT doing ambulance transportation, the smell of the cleaning chemicals in the hospital and on the rig (for 13 hours) occasionally made me feel nauseated or light-headed. I don't remember getting headaches though, but it's definitely possible that could be the cause.
2008-12-24 12:15 AM
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Try running this past the Employee Health nurse/department (I assume that the hospital you are at has one). They may have some idea of what chemicals may be present in the area you are working in, and should have some education in regards to work-related or chemically-induced allergies. Or headaches, or ailments, or whatever. Hope that helps at least a little.  
2009-01-04 12:11 AM
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Hi Megan,

The discription of your pain sounds like a migrain. I'm certainly not a doctor, but my 23 year old daughter has had them since she was about 10 years old. The one she has now has lasted almost 2 years. Some of the triggers are stress, food alergies, hormones (BC pills can help or hurt) and of course cleaning products. It's a long list of possible causes!

Like others have said, since the headaches started when you started at the hospital, that sounds like the problem. The best thing to do is to take note of the chemicals being used around you and other conditions you run accross in your day and you may see a pattern. Quite a task when you're busy running around, but could help.

You might also want to try something stronger than Advil to get thru the semester. I have heard that Excedern makes a version for migrains that works for some people. Hope this helps.

Doug
2009-01-04 12:39 AM
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Definitely sounds like a migrane. Like the above poster said, there are many triggers and most likely it is something there. Lights and smells/chemicals would be my guess (but can be a number of things). I would go down to the Health office/Infection Control/liason get it documented and see a Dr. If  you can find the trigger (Dr. will most likely have you start keeping notes of your interactions and surroundings, your advocacy officer/liason can either remove the stimulus if possible, or move you to a different area.

Hospitals take these things seriously. Go see the right people.

2009-01-04 6:56 PM
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runner - 2009-01-04 5:52 PM

Thanks for all of the info.....I'm going to try to find out who at the hospital I can take this to so I can get some relief.


Good luck Megan.

Doug

2009-01-04 6:57 PM
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Just curious- which bc were you on and how long have you been off it?

I started to experience headaches very similiar to yours after being on Yaz birth control.  I would get them almost everyday in the afternoons and they would get to the point that the only way I could rid of them was to go to bed.  I would usually get them at work in the afternoons and I thought they were triggered by the lights at work or my vision.  But then I'd also get them at home on the weekends when I wasn't at work, and I'd wake up with them the next morning.  They would last days for me and nothing I took would get rid of them or prevent them.  I couldn't figure out what was causing them because I seemed to get them like clockwork.  I finally got off my old bc (Yaz) and started taking Ortho Tri Cyclin Lo.  I still get headaches on the OTC Lo, but it's usually just right before my cycle starts.  But now I can take Excendrin migrane and that seems to stop them- whereas before nothing would help alleviate them.  I think it took awhile for the old bc to flush our my system.  I'm going on month #2 on the new stuff and am hoping the headaches subside with time.

I'm not sure if bc is causing your headaches or if it's something else.  But it probably wouldn't hurt to keep tracking your headaches and see your doc to find out what is causing them and maybe get a RX to treat them.  I'm still working on resolving my headacbe issues, but I swear that for me it's hormonal.

2009-01-06 10:56 PM
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No one has brought this up yet, but you need to consider it. How do you feel when you are at the hospital? A child life program is fun and rewarding, but many children are going through horrible terminal illnesses and having scary procedures done. Their parents are young and scared.

Are you doing child life activities with children scheduled for procedures like LPs, endoscopies, biospies or MRIs?

Sometimes the emotional stress of working with children in a hospital is overwhelming and that could be certainly a trigger for migraine type headaches.
2009-01-11 9:32 PM
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So much is up in the air, and I don't know where I'm going in life, but I know that I don't  have much time to decide. 


You have all the time in the world to decide. I took my first exam for medical school when I was 30. Take your time and take care of yourself first...you are the only one who will. no decision is final.
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