Is this actually a thing?

My daughter is 12 years old and has been on regular medication for chronic migraines for around 3 years. We changed from pizotifen to topirimate at the beginning of the summer holidays.

Over the last couple of weeks she keeps telling me that she can 'feel' a lump on her brain. When I try and question her about it shes astounded that I can't 'feel' my brain and she reckons that she always can but in the last couple of weeks a lump has appeared. She is very definite that its on her brain and not her head.

Shes happy and healthy in herself but I'm wondering if its actually a thing and whether I should take her to the doctors? I can't comprehend it so I'm not even sure if a doctor would take her seriously. 

So I guess what I'm asking is....can anyone else feel their brain? And have you ever felt a lump on it? 

  • Hi. I'm not sure if this will help, but perhaps....I taught in secondaries for some years and sometimes used to do an experiment with Yr7 classes, age 11 - 12. I would ask the class something that I knew they had learned and ask them where 'in' their heads they had retrieved it from. Then we would learn something new and an hour later, I'd ask them to remember what the word was and what it meant. Could they 'feel' the difference, ie old memories are stored at the back of our brains, new at the front. (I'm not being in the slightest bit scientific here! ) Every time, only a handful of children could 'feel' the difference. I can and always have. Apologies for the long post and I hope it makes sense...the upshot is that in my experience, not all of us 'experience' or 'feel' our brains in the same way. Please do take your daughter to be tested - just to be on the safe side.