Misdiagnosed?

Newsweek, May, 2005 by Jennifer Barrett

Shannon Lenihan remembers waking up in the middle of the night as a child, screaming from a mysterious stabbing pain on the left side of her head and neck. Sometimes, she hurt so badly she would start sobbing or throw up. Her mother, Sharron Flores, was sure her daughter was suffering from the same ailment she had been diagnosed with herself: migraines. But the doctors kept telling Shannon that they were just headaches. "They said, `Children don't have migraines,' but I knew they did," says Flores, who had them when she was a child too.

Nearly a decade passed before a new doctor finally confirmed Flores's suspicions and prescribed migraine medication for her then teenage daughter. Though she went through half a dozen different medications before she found a treatment that...