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Re: onset of menses?
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:45:38 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Lea wrote: >
>My daughter who will be 10 at the end of November has been experiencing
>cyclic headaches and vague abdominal pain accompanied by fatigue. I say
>cyclic because this seems to occur at fairly regular intervals (about
>25-30 days apart) and lasts for 24-48 hours. She becomes moody and
>irritable and a bit territorial for these couple days and will fall
>asleep in the middle of the day and sleep for up to 3 hours.
>
>Normally my daughter is very active and is rarely ill. She has had a
>physical within the past couple weeks and checked out fine. Our FP had
>no insight but thought that perhaps this could be a pre-cursor to the
>onset of menses and puberty.
>
>Is this the "normal" track for girls approaching puberty or is there
>something else I should be watching for?
>
>--
>Thanks in advance!
>
>A mom hoping to keep the puberty monster at bay for just a little while longer.
>

I am afraid that the puberty monster is at the gates. Good luck!

-- William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG Clarksville, TN
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