Whiplash
 

Hi - I'm only young and I got whiplash in November at a theme park at my brothers birthday celebration. After a got off this ride I had a headache so I had some Neurofen and kept going. For the next couple of days, as I was going back to school after the holidays, I had a mild headache so we saw a doctor and he referred me to a doctor at this hospital. He saw me and then referred me to a Neurologist. By this time I had severe neck and headache. Since then I've had two MRI scans and two blood tests and I know this is nothing compared to the trauma other people are going through but it was bad for me. So by now I had missed 4 weeks of school and the MRI scans and blood tests were completely normal, so what was wrong with me? My mum was great, she looked after me for the whole time I was ill and never complained or said I was faking. The Neurologist then said she was pretty sure I had whiplash. My mums friend told us about this great cranial osteopath and I saw him every day for three weeks, and then every other day and so on. By now I still had a headache and necklace both a score of 6 on a scale when 10 is painful. So then we were thinking of getting this injection that numbs your nerve or something like that (I can't quite remember) but we wanted that as a last option. I had now missed a whole term of school (8 weeks) and it was the Christmas holidays. I remember my mum asking for me to say my headache was a 3, but it wasn't. We continued with the osteopath during the holidays and by the end my pain level was a 3-4. So when school started again I went back and my headache just went up as soon as I had to concentrate. I missed LOTS f school!! The times I went home and my mum was always there - she was so understanding. So that was then and this is now: I am lying in bed off school today because I'm not sleeping at the minute - this is the second day of this week. It is 8 months since the theme park and I still have a headache and neck ache. My and my mum are kinda losing hope so we are thinking I might have to have that injection after all. Any tips? We are going back to my osteopath tomorrow and I might be having acupuncture! I always feel tired because I have to be like normal and fight this horrible headache all the time and I can't do anything about it. My school report last term said I had missed 84 says of school!
I'm not trying to make anyone feel sorry for me but I feel better already that I've shared my story.

Tilly,

If the osteopath is not helping you get better, you might need to find someone else. It is not uncommon for a specialist to work great with one patient but be unable to help someone else with a different problem. Maybe a physiotherapist/physical therapist can help ?