Hang in there Hydro. I know all about this sort of thing. I had horrid migraines in my teen years. When I asked my mother to take me to the doc about them she said, "They're just what my mother called sick headaches. You'll be fine."

So I suffered with them. Then Imitrex came out and I begged her to take me to the doc to see if this drug would help. After this she let me take Excedrine Migraine, which did nothing because I couldn't hold spit in my stomach let alone pills.

It took having one while in the p-ER and begging the staff to give me something for it. They injected me with 2 rounds of Imitrex and it killed the migraine in 2 hours and I felt fine when I woke up the next morning, when untreated it would have been 12 hours of misery and 2 days with lingering head pain.

I made sure the staff informed my mother of what they informed me: I have full blown neurological migraines, that if left untreated, are potentially life threatening and I should have gone to the emergency room for each and every one.

I hope your father realizes the error in his thinking before something terrible happens. My mother was upset with herself when I told her that this was the only fault she had in my whole mental health issues, but just think of how devasted she would have been if I had a stroke and died during one of my "sick headaches".

Best wishes and good luck. You aren't alone out there Hydro