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Although headaches are natural, they are not necessary, argues David Buchholz, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In his Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Headaches, Buchholz counsels severe headache sufferers to avoid quick fix painkillers, which can cause rebound headaches. For a more holistic approach, minimize triggers like caffeine, perfumes, certain foods and stress and, for hardcore cases, use preventative medications such as tricyclic antidepressants, calcium channel blockers and others. Buchholz also discusses common misdiagnoses of migraine symptoms and challenges the myth of tension and sinus headaches (these are usually migraines, he argues).
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Based on the breakthrough understanding that virtually all headaches are forms of migraine--because migraine is not a specific type of headache, but the built-in mechanism that causes headaches of all kinds, along with neck stiffness, sinus congestion, dizziness, and other problems--Dr. Buchholz's Heal Your Headache puts headache sufferers back in control of their lives with a simple, transforming program: Step 1: Avoid the "Quick Fix." Too often painkillers only make matters worse because of the crippling complication known as rebound. Step 2: Reduce Your Triggers. The crux of the program: a migraine diet that eliminates the foods that push headache sufferers over the top. Step 3: Raise Your Threshold. When diet and other lifestyle changes aren't enough, preventive medication can help stay the course. That's it: in three steps turn your headache problems around.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
It worked for me, but only for a while,
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This review is from: Heal Your Headache (Paperback)
Add my name to the long list of reviewers for whom this book offered welcome relief. I have suffered migraines for over 50 years and am now virtually free [see note below]. The method was not easy. First, you have to stop taking all pain medications that cause rebound headaches. That includes just about everything that you would have ever found useful. Once free of those, you then start working on your personal dietary triggers. For me, it turned out to be a lot of stuff I love. Finally, you find a medicine that raises your headache threshold. For me, it was a moderate dose of nortripaline. The process took four months and included a lot of pain, particularly as I went thru headaches without pain relievers. But it was worth it.Added July 6, 2004 -- Unfortunately, the relief offered by the book did not last long. Within six months of starting the program I had a major relapse with a migraine that gripped for more than two weeks and left me with tinnitus. I have followed the book's prescription to the letter, but to no avail.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book saved me,
By Jeannette Gelber (FL , United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heal Your Headache (Paperback)
Before reading " Heal your headache" I had been suffering with migranes, on average two per day, for almost three years. General practitioners, neurologists, acupuncturists, bioenergetic doctors, and more gave me all sorts of wrong directions to explore. The suggestions that didn't make me worse simply didn't work. Then I came upon " Heal your headache". This book addressed every single simptom that I had been suffering with for the last three years. This book answered every question that I had been asking my doctors; and had never properly been explained. All my apparently mysterious medical problems were explained in this book. All the explanations are clearly written so that even I could understand them perfectly. This book not only explained clearly why I was having migranes, nausea, vertigo, and feeling overall tired, but it gave me all the information necessary to deal with these maladies. Furthermore it outlined all the stumbling blocks I would encounter on the way to healing myself and how to best prepare myself to overcome them. In other words it gave me all the answers to both questions I had been asking and questions I didnt even know I would soon be asking. After finishing this book I felt ready to follow the three-step program, and I promise you it works!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
three big errors,
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This review is from: Heal Your Headache (Paperback)
It would have been an excellent book if it was not for three truly major mistakes that will lead many people astray. 1. There is no scientific evidence but only anecdotal reports that triptans, such as imitrex cause rebound headaches and limiting patients to only two days of treatment with triptans per month is a crime! 2. Botox has completely relieved migraines in thousands of patients. There is not a single major headache center that does not offer this treatment. 3. Magnesium and feverfew have been proven to prevent migraines in multiple double-blind trials published in major medical journals, which cannot be said for many of the drug recommendations in the book.
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