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30-10-2022, 04:03 PM
SINGAPORE — Eighteen-year-old NurAaliyah Syakirah was around 10 years old when chronic pain took over the remaining days of her childhood.
The teenager has spent about half of her young life battling intense, nausea-inducing chronic headaches.
Describing the unrelenting pain, Aaliyah said that it would feel like her head “was being pounded by heavy weights”.
Despite repeated visits to doctors, there were no good answers for her symptoms. More often than not, her headaches were dismissed as “stress” or an excuse to skip school.
She pushed herself to go to school despite having very severe headaches. Her reason was because she did not want to miss school and let her parents down.
Yet, for some of the times she did that, she ended up passing out in school and had to be taken to the emergency department of a hospital.
Help finally came when in 2017, she was referred to the Children’s Pain Management Clinic of KK Women’s and Children's Hospital (KKH), where she was assessed to have chronic pain.
More at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/ch...PbXsvwBK1w
The teenager has spent about half of her young life battling intense, nausea-inducing chronic headaches.
Describing the unrelenting pain, Aaliyah said that it would feel like her head “was being pounded by heavy weights”.
Despite repeated visits to doctors, there were no good answers for her symptoms. More often than not, her headaches were dismissed as “stress” or an excuse to skip school.
She pushed herself to go to school despite having very severe headaches. Her reason was because she did not want to miss school and let her parents down.
Yet, for some of the times she did that, she ended up passing out in school and had to be taken to the emergency department of a hospital.
Help finally came when in 2017, she was referred to the Children’s Pain Management Clinic of KK Women’s and Children's Hospital (KKH), where she was assessed to have chronic pain.
More at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/ch...PbXsvwBK1w
