The migraine brain ebook

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Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! Maybe it is worth it for the interesting punctuation, but how does it help me have fewer headaches? This is probably a book to dip through for the good advice. I'd advise skipping Part One, reading Part Two in detail, and skimming through Part Three to find the sections that apply to you. I do want to emphasize that the actual advice in here seems very good. She was right on about some of my personal "triggers" and had some other ideas I am trying now.

The problem is that she took pages to convey pages of information. Amazing book! I have suffered with migraines for more than 25 years and this is the first time I have felt like someone understood me and what I was going through.

This book discusses how seroius the migraine disease is and how you also must treat it as a serious disease. I learned so much about migraines, how to take care of myself to "hopefully" prevent migraines, and what to talk to my neurologist about to help better my care.

No longer do I feel like a big baby who can't deal with a headache. I am a migraineur whith a serious neurological disease who needs to take care of herself, and now I know how! Linda Lipko. This book is written by a Harvard Medical School faculty member and practicing neurologist. The author is very good at outlining possible causes and research in this field I suffer from severe headaches and thus thought the book could offer some suggestions.

Alas, because I've dealt with this condition for a long time, most of the book contained information I already know. However, I recommend this book to people who are new to this nasty condition and need to learn the triggers, the phases of headaches, and the medications available.

Adam heard this author interviewed on NPR and recommended it to me since I'm a migraineur. It's written by a Harvard MD who founded a migraine clinic and is a migraineur herself. I liked that she was straightforward about what's known and unknown about migraines. And she didn't offer a silver bullet which was refreshing. Informative and helpful. I'd recommend it to anyone who suffers with migraines. I took notes while reading this. New studies and research have led to the view of migraines as a complex neurological disease of the central nervous system.

Far from just a headache, the symptoms can include vomiting, scalp tingling, visual distortions, inability to speak, cold hands and feet, and problems in cognitive processing similar to a stroke, as well as a massive headache often centered behind one eye. All of these are things I experience, yay! What happens when a migraine occurs is that your nervous system has an out-of-control reaction, which triggers a wave of energy that flows across your cortex and causes your neurons to fire rapidly back and forth from positive to negative charge.

This would be when I see sparkly stuff in the corners of my vision. You don't want this. It involves a sudden catastrophic loss of serotonin and dopamine, leading to other badness: dilation of blood vessels and inflammation of nerves as they release neuropeptides, particularly the trigeminal nerves that run up the face and behind each eye socket. It's awful. Triggers can be a lot of different things, and the author is careful to emphasize that they depend on the individual.

She discourages the reader from blindly following rules that claim all people with migraine or migraineurs need to avoid certain foods or whatnot. A migraine isn't just a headache, it 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 is also a disease that you can improve and manage, as Dr. Carolyn Bernstein has discovered in her 17 years as a practicing neurologist. Bernstein explains why migraines happen, why they are misdiagnosed, and why so few people get the right treatment for them.