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Summary: Excellent Overview & Guide
Review: As a 20-year migraine sufferer, I must have 50 books on the subject including textbooks used in medical schools and costing $100 or more. This book gives a great overview and introduction to the person who is trying to find out where to start to take charge of their own medical treatment for Migraine and what questions to ask your Doc to see if he really knows what he is talking about. Most don't. This is a "First Step" book and not a book full of answers, but it will help you find more definitive information and save you wasting your time and money on a Doc who hasn't got a clue as to the discoveries about Migraine using Positive Emission Tomography since the late 1990's. Everything "taught" MDs about Migraine prior to about 1995 is just simply UNTRUE and this book will help you find sources for the latest material.
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Summary: Excellent Overview & Guide
Review: As a 20-year migraine sufferer, I must have 50 books on the subject including textbooks used in medical schools and costing $100 or more. This book gives a great overview and introduction to the person who is trying to find out where to start to take charge of their own medical treatment for Migraine and what questions to ask your Doc to see if he really knows what he is talking about. Most don't. This is a "First Step" book and not a book full of answers, but it will help you find more definitive information and save you wasting your time and money on a Doc who hasn't got a clue as to the discoveries about Migraine using Positive Emission Tomography since the late 1990's. Everything "taught" MDs about Migraine prior to about 1995 is just simply UNTRUE and this book will help you find sources for the latest material.
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Summary: Too general, not enough information
Review: I agree with the review that reads, "Save yourself the headache . . ." This book is far too general. If you read the brochures in your doctor's office and some informative information on the web, you already know more than you'll find here.If you want a good, thorough book on migraines, consider "Headache Help: A Complete Guide to Understanding Headaches and the Medications That Relieve Them," which you can buy from amazon.com
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Summary: Too general, not enough information
Review: I agree with the review that reads, "Save yourself the headache . . ." This book is far too general. If you read the brochures in your doctor's office and some informative information on the web, you already know more than you'll find here. If you want a good, thorough book on migraines, consider "Headache Help: A Complete Guide to Understanding Headaches and the Medications That Relieve Them," which you can buy from amazon.com
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Summary: Save yourself a headache, don't buy this book
Review: If you just had the first headache of your life and wonder whether or not it is a migraine maybe this book is for you, but even then you would be better off going searching on the web for information. For anybody who suffers from migraines (I have had them for 25 years by now), this book offers little help. In fact, it is a complete waste of your headache-free time. It touches on different subjects in the most superficial way and adopts a "happy-go-lucky" tone whatever the subject. Migraines are not fun or funny so the tone of the book is completely inappropriate, e.g. "the big Kahuna Migraine pitches a tent in your head to stay for a while" or "For a moment, forget about medium- to hard-driving terminator prescription drugs and all those totally groovy over-the-counter meds." Some of the recommendations don't even make sense or the authors contradict themselves: you do not want to watch TV with a migraine, or have soft music playing or flowers that smell in your room! Medications and their side-effects are treated rather lightly, in an inappropriately "funny" way - as if you are supposed to get a laugh out of the "positive" side effect of Botox of smoothing out your wrinkles, or that you might lose weight while taking Topamax. If your migraines are so bad that you have to resort to these medications, the chirpy sense of humor of the authors eludes you, especially given the serious side effects of the latter medication. Maybe somewhere in those 300 pages is buried some helpful information, but by the time you get to page 300 you will feel like a dummy because of the tone of the book and not because you are having a migraine. My recommendation is, search the web for the sites of the various headache associations to find helpful information presented in a way much less insulting to your intelligence and to find a good neurologist with expertise in the treatment of headaches.
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Summary: Review of Migraines for Dummies
Review: My mother has been a Migraine Suferer for over 70 years, and she has tried everything for her debilitating migraines. She was quite impressed with the information contained in this book by Diane Stafford. For the migraine sufferer, she indicated that all the information that you might need was included in this book. She also indicated that it was a refreshing outlook, easily understood and helpful in terms of where to look for more information. She indicated to me that she would recommend this book to anyone suffering from Migraines.
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Summary: Review of Migraines for Dummies
Review: My mother has been a Migraine Suferer for over 70 years, and she has tried everything for her debilitating migraines. She was quite impressed with the information contained in this book by Diane Stafford. For the migraine sufferer, she indicated that all the information that you might need was included in this book. She also indicated that it was a refreshing outlook, easily understood and helpful in terms of where to look for more information. She indicated to me that she would recommend this book to anyone suffering from Migraines.
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Summary: Very helpful information
Review: This book was not only helpful, but enjoyable to read as well. I would definitely recommend this book to migrane sufferers or anyone trying to understand migranes. It's nice to not only gain beneficial information, but enjoy the way the information is relayed and given. I give kudos to author's presentation and writing style given the subject matter. I would share this book with anyone who needs their questions answered about migranes.
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