{"id":74993,"date":"2026-04-11T12:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-teen-athletes-painful-headache-wouldnt-go-away-it-took-over-a-year-to-find-a-cure\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:21:47","slug":"a-teen-athletes-painful-headache-wouldnt-go-away-it-took-over-a-year-to-find-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-teen-athletes-painful-headache-wouldnt-go-away-it-took-over-a-year-to-find-a-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"A teen athlete&#8217;s painful headache wouldn&#8217;t go away. It took over a year to find a cure."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Jack Alston had been playing football for most of his life \u2014 but he had never shaken the bad habit of leading with his head. During a practice in August 2024, he was hit hard, but never exhibited <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/concussions-symptoms-what-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">typical concussion symptoms<\/a><\/span> like vomiting or losing consciousness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident left him with a mild headache. He had a history of migraines, so at first, the pain didn&#8217;t bother him much. But then it &#8220;didn&#8217;t really go away,&#8221; Jack, then in eighth grade, said. Still, football was &#8220;his life.&#8221; He avoided mentioning the pain to his parents so he wouldn&#8217;t miss practices or games. Caroline Alston said that if she&#8217;d known what was wrong, she would have never let her son back on the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just assumed he was OK. We didn&#8217;t follow up,&#8221; Alston said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s where we made a mistake.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, Jack took another hit. Again, he didn&#8217;t lose consciousness or show typical <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/football-concussion-arteriovenous-malformation-nyu-langone\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">concussion symptoms<\/a><\/span>. He finished the game. Then the pain sharply escalated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jack said his daily pain felt like an &#8220;eight or nine&#8221; out of 10. His parents pulled him from the team. Doctors said he had a concussion, but no one could make the pain stop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It never, ever left. It was awful,&#8221; Alston said. &#8220;Imagine having pain like that as a 14-year-old.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/05\/71b3a429-a132-44db-b0c4-dd2774438898\/thumbnail\/620x1213\/fd026ec93ad5e610028bc41b850192f3\/jack.jpg#\" alt=\"jack.jpg \" height=\"1213\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/05\/71b3a429-a132-44db-b0c4-dd2774438898\/thumbnail\/620x1213\/fd026ec93ad5e610028bc41b850192f3\/jack.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/05\/71b3a429-a132-44db-b0c4-dd2774438898\/thumbnail\/1240x2426\/bb273723611612b85cfe11088ce603b7\/jack.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">An undated photo of Jack Alston in his football uniform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Caroline Alston<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>&#8220;Throwing things at the wall&#8221;\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The Alstons visited pediatricians, a neurologist, and chiropractors. They tried changing Jack&#8217;s diet. They tried a hyperbolic chamber. They traveled from their home state of Kentucky to Georgia to see sports physicians who treat the Atlanta Falcons. Nothing worked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were kind of throwing things at the wall,&#8221; Alston said. &#8220;We went everywhere we possibly could. We had tried everything we could possibly do to try and find a solution. Nothing, nothing was bringing him down from a nine out of 10.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jack couldn&#8217;t focus on school and often needed to rest in the nurse&#8217;s office. He couldn&#8217;t spend time with friends or take part in extracurricular activities. Reading was particularly difficult. Frequent appointments also impacted his academic performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Alstons were referred to the Cleveland Clinic. They met Dr. Konstantinos Tourlas, a pediatric neurologist and headache specialist, on Jan. 31, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to do this anymore&#8221;\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Tourlas diagnosed Jack with a persistent post-traumatic headache. Dr. Todd Schwedt, president of the American Headache Society and a professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic, said that a diagnosis of persistent post-traumatic headache refers to any headache that lasts more than three months. It&#8217;s most commonly found after head injuries, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People who have migraines, as Jack did, are more susceptible to the condition, Schwedt said. People with previous concussions or head injuries are also more likely to develop persistent post-traumatic headache. Treatment for the condition varies from patient to patient, Schwedt said. There is no FDA-approved medication specifically meant to treat headaches after a concussion, so doctors often use treatments approved for migraines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tourlas started with a nerve block to temporarily reduce Jack&#8217;s pain, then prescribed an oral medication that had little effect. In March 2025, Tourlas gave Jack another nerve block and admitted him to the Cleveland Clinic&#8217;s pediatric infusion center to try IV medications. Intravenous treatment can be more effective because the medicine more easily enters the bloodstream, Tourlas said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tourlas tested multiple medication combinations over five days. The treatments brought Jack&#8217;s &#8220;baseline headache pain from a nine all the way down to a five out of 10,&#8221; Tourlas said, which was a marked improvement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then Tourlas tried another round of oral medications to see if they could help even more. When that failed again, Jack was re-admitted to the infusion center for another five days in September 2025. It was a &#8220;hard&#8221; time, Alston said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At one point he said, &#8216;I just want to go home. I don&#8217;t want to do this anymore,'&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the last day of treatment, Jack&#8217;s pain was down to a three out of 10, Tourlas said. A third round of oral medication followed \u2014 and worked. On Sept. 22, over a year after the headaches began, Jack sent Tourlas a message saying he was in no pain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was like a waterfall sensation,&#8221; Jack said. &#8220;Like everything was falling off, like the pain was falling away.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/05\/1e12744a-3b12-471b-a0df-122b139bbe70\/thumbnail\/620x766\/6aba50745f0b96ccb5933045c6af7335\/screenshot-2026-03-05-at-6-59-46-pm.png#\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-03-05-at-6-59-46-pm.png \" height=\"766\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/05\/1e12744a-3b12-471b-a0df-122b139bbe70\/thumbnail\/620x766\/6aba50745f0b96ccb5933045c6af7335\/screenshot-2026-03-05-at-6-59-46-pm.png 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">An undated photo of Jack Alston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Caroline Alston<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>&#8220;Just grateful he&#8217;s back&#8221;\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Jack, now 14, said he has been feeling &#8220;really good&#8221; in the months since his headaches ended. He recently took up lacrosse, and he is debating rejoining the football team for his sophomore year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to lead with my head anymore. That&#8217;s a lesson I&#8217;ve learned,&#8221; Jack joked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alston said she&#8217;s not sure about letting him return to the gridiron. Tourlas warned that another concussion could put Jack back in the same situation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m concerned about that happening again, because we could wind ourselves right back up at Cleveland Clinic trying to solve this problem again,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But we&#8217;d love for him to be the kicker. We&#8217;d love for him to do something other than be on the line. But that&#8217;s his choice. Let&#8217;s hope he really likes lacrosse, and maybe he&#8217;ll give up football.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jack has been filling his time with other hobbies. He recently got a parakeet and is learning how to play the guitar. He&#8217;s been weightlifting. He is studying to apply to the United States Merchant Marine Academy, where he wants to get a master&#8217;s degree in naval architecture and engineering so he can design cruise ships. 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