Headache

The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health

You know that your migraine isn't just a headache. But you may not know that migraine actually is a neurological disease. Affecting one in five women, one in twenty men, and one in twenty children, it's a debilitating, complex, and chronic condition that manifests in a combination of symptoms that can include excruciating head pain as well as other distinctive physical and emotional effects. Yet it's also a disease that you can get control of, improve, and manage, as Dr. Carolyn Bernstein has discovered in her seventeen years as a Harvard Medical School faculty member and practicing neurologist.

Praised for her excellence and compassion, the founder of the Women's Headache Center near Boston, and a migraine sufferer herself, Dr. Bernstein has helped hundreds of her patients get better. Now, with The Migraine Brain, the most comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book on migraines ever written, you will be able to do the same -- reduce the frequency and intensity of your migraines, learn how to prevent and curtail them and how to recover from them more quickly, and mitigate migraine's effects on every aspect of your life: in the workplace and at home and during sex and travel. Every migraine is different because everyone who gets a migraine has a distinctive "Migraine Brain" with its own sensitivities and triggers. That's why it's so important for you to develop a personalized wellness plan to radically reduce the number and severity of your migraines.

Dr. Bernstein also explains why migraines happen, why they are so often misdiagnosed, and why so few people get the right treatment for them. She reveals the latest research that shows that Migraine Brains share a hypersensitivity to stimuli -- the Migraine Brain can actually look different from others on a brain scan -- and is more likely to experience a cascade of neurological reactions that give rise to the common clusters of migraine symptoms. This breakthrough medical knowledge makes treatment and recovery possible with new migraine-specific drugs as well as with complementary treatments such as yoga, biofeedback, and an exercise regimen.

With the extraordinarily thorough recommendations of The Migraine Brain in your hands, you will be fully equipped with all the latest information you need to understand migraines and to help your family and co-workers understand that migraine isn't just a headache: it's a serious, yet treatable disease.

Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain

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.

Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to Know (Living Well)

For millions of Americans, Migraine disease, tension headaches, and other headaches are a debilitating part of every day. Teri Robert has been there—in fact, she experienced her first Migraine at age six. Now, in this groundbreaking holistic guide to the diagnosis and treatment of headaches and Migraine disease, she brings a patient-empowering message to all headache sufferers: you don't have to live with daily pain. She provides you with all the information you need to know about getting the help you need, including:

• Understanding side effects
• Treatments for long-term relief
• Risks and symptoms
• Identification of the various types of headaches
• Traditional and alternative therapies
• Information on finding health care practitioners and support
• Numerous case studies and expert advice

The Headache Prevention Cookbook: Eating Right to Prevent Migraines and Other Headaches

Food can't cure headaches, but avoiding certain foods may prevent them, according to author David R. Marks, medical director of the New England Center for Headache. Some foods commonly trigger headaches in some people. If you're a headache sufferer, eliminating those foods from your diet is a sensible second step towards managing headaches. (The first step is to see your doctor to determine if there is some underlying condition that is causing the headaches.)

The key is to go on an elimination diet that avoids trigger foods such as most cheeses, chocolate, nuts, certain meats, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, MSG, caffeine, beans, out-of-the-oven yeast products (e.g., pizza, yeast breads, doughnuts), alcohol (especially red wine), ice cream, olive oil, and many, many more. If you were left to your own devices to figure out what's left after eliminating all these foods, you'd probably give up within a day. But Laura Marks has done the work for you, putting together 100 recipes that contain none (whew!) of the forbidden foods. The Headache Prevention Cookbook's recipes aren't bland or boring. They include Hearty Potato-Mushroom Frittata, Crepes with Spinach and Cheese Filling, Eggplant "Caviar," Corn and Carrot Chowder, Linguine with White Clam Sauce, Garlic Chicken, Cornish Hens and Wild Rice with Apricot Sauce, Asian Ginger Beef with Broccoli, Seafood Curry, and Angel Food-Strawberry Delight.

The authors suggest that you follow this diet, using their recipes and others you create yourself, for at least two months, and see if your headaches go away. Then gradually reintroduce the foods you avoided, one per week, so you can track which foods are your personal headache triggers. Once you've figured that out, avoiding those foods permanently can be your ticket to a headache-free future. --Joan Price

If you're one of the 50 million Americans who suffer from headaches, you can eliminate the pain entirely just by changing the way you eat. A headache sufferer himself, Dr. David Marks treats thousands of patients a year at his internationally known headache clinic. The recipes in this book can help you ward off headaches while ensuring that you eat well in the bargain.

Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for all Sufferers and Their Families

The up-to-the-minute guide to understanding and treating migraines for all migraine sufferers and their families

Across America, twenty-eight million people suffer from migraines, costing the nation millions of dollars in lost work and school days, medication, and countless visits to doctors and hospitals. At the world-renowned Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, Dr. Seymour Diamond has spent more than thirty years helping thousands of headache sufferers conquer their debilitating pain. At last, the resources of that institution are available in a book. Dr. Diamond's Conquering Your Migraine is a comprehensive guide to the identification and treatment of all types of migraine, including pediatric headache, hormonal migraine, and coexisting migraine and tension-type headache.

This book includes:

• The most up-to-date research on the cause of migraine, including if and how it will affect treatment
• How to identify the danger signs of migraine
• Identifying and treating migraine when it is linked to depression
• Why more than 70 percent of migraine sufferers are women and what their particular circumstances mean for treatment
• How the miracle drugs of the twenty-first century can stop your migraine attack
• The latest in non-drug and self-help treatments, including relaxation therapy, biofeedback, and preventative therapies

If you or someone close to you suffers from migraine, Dr. Diamond's Your Migraine is the lifeline you need to help free you from pain.

The Migraine Cure: How to Forever Banish the Curse of Migraines (Lynn Sonberg Books)

Are You Ready to Get Your Life Back--And Be Permanently Free From the Crippling Pain of Migraines?

How to Forever Banish the Curse of Migraines--Using a Totally Effective, Safe, Clinically-Proven Yet Drug-Free Medical Breakthrough

No more potentially destructive (and expensive) drugs! The Migraine Cure is all natural and releases you from the tyranny of powerful medications--forever.

No need to change your diet! The Migraine Cure requires no dietary changes or restrictions to be 100% effective.

No lifestyle changes! The Migraine Cure is not dependent on exercise, environment or climatic changes to guarantee success.

No more guesswork, futility and frustration! The Migraine Cure identifies and delivers exactly what YOU PERSONALLY need in order to be permanently migraine-free.

"Never did I imagine I would find a cure for migraine, a debilitating disease which, according to the National Headache Foundation, affects approximately 28 million Americans... But I did. Until now, migraine has appeared to be impossible to cure. But it's not impossible any more."--from the introduction by Sergey Dzugan, MD, PhD

While Dr. Dzugan and Dr. R. Arnold Smith were working with cancer patients at the North Central Mississippi Regional Cancer Center they made a startling discovery...

When cancer patients were treated with immunorestoration--a treatment that includes the use of hormones to help boost the immune system--patients who had once suffered with migraines reported that suddenly they were migraine-free.

Why were these patients suddenly free of migraine and its many related symptoms, including fatigue, insomnia, depression, and constipation? Could restoration of specific, foundational hormones be the basis of a migraine cure?

From this discovery, Dr. Dzugan developed the Migraine Cure treatment protocol out of a long-term clinical study in which all the patients--100 percent--got complete relief from migraine pain and related symptoms, including individuals who had difficult-to-treat migraine that had plagued them for more than thirty years.

Since that study, Dr. Dzugan has repeatedly gotten the same results with hundreds of men, women, and adolescents in the United States and from around the world, whether they have been suffering with episodes of migraine pain for a few months or for decades.

If they can find relief, you and your loved ones can find it as well. In The Migraine Cure, Dr. Dzugan shares with you some of his patients' success stories and how they achieved that success. More importantly, he explains how you can realize that success as well.

The Migraine Cure treatment program is soundly based in science, it is amazing, and it is effective. It is also natural, readily available, noninvasive, and fine-tuned for each individual to fit his or her unique needs.

In The Migraine Cure, you will learn about how the program works, why it works, and, most important, how you can take the steps necessary to make it work for you--all without the use of expensive therapies or traditional drugs and the side effects associated with them. Most people who carefully follow the recommendations of the Migraine Cure are migraine-free in as little as one week.

Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain

The 8th edition of Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain remains the definitive reference text in the field. Our knowledge and understanding of headache and its management have changed significantly in the twenty-first century. A new international headache classification has been adopted; headache pathophysiology and genetics have advanced; and epidemiologic studies have burgeoned. We have greater insights into the diagnosis and treatment of the secondary headaches. New treatments are available for primary headache disorders, including migraine, cluster, and chronic daily headache, and our understanding and knowledge are increasing by means of ongoing trials. The 8th edition encompasses all of this new material, with all chapters updated and many new authors added.

Breaking the Headache Cycle: A Proven Program for Treating and Preventing Recurring Headaches

Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Headaches (Alternative Medicine Guides)

Learn how proven alternative and natural therapies can help eliminate all types of headaches including migraine, tension, sinus, eyestrain, allergy/sensitivity and more. All you need to know is your symptoms. The authors skillfully help you identify the type and probable cause of your headache, then guide you through treatment options suited for your condition. This book presents the most effective treatment strategies from nutrition therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, biofeedback, aromatherapy, and many more modalities.

Migraine and Other Headaches (Aan Press Quality of Life Guide)