Migraine Headaches Don’t Own My Life Anymore
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You can feel it coming. The pain starts to grow at the back of your neck or behind your eyes. Lights are becoming too bright to tolerate. Loud sounds are making you nauseous. You want to crawl into a hole and hide. Another migraine headache is here. Was it stress at work? Was it the pollen in the air? Was it something I ate or something I did? I wanted answers to make this all go away.
Like millions of people around the world I suffer from migraine headaches. I lay in bed for hours or sometimes even days sick and in pain. I miss work. I miss social events. I’ve gone to my doctor and gotten prescriptions. But I’ve never been comfortable with taking medications. Although they offer relief, I wondered what toll they were taking on the rest of my body.
I was determined to find a better solution. After researching on the Internet I discovered a resource called “The Migraine Relief Guide” that has changed my life. In it I found the answers to my questions and more. Who would have thought that reading a guide book would solve so many of my problems? It took the years of research from fellow migraine headache sufferers to show me what to do. Here are some of the many things I’ve learned through simple study…
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In their book, Heal Your Headache: the 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain, by David Buchholz and Stephen G. Reich M.D. state that all headaches are variations of the same thing. We’ve just decided categorize them into different headings based on how they manifest themselves.
Although they’ve had great success altering diet to fix headaches, I’ve had great success at correcting musculoskeletal causes of neck pain and headaches. It turns out it’s quite simple for most people. This is outlined in my book, Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches.
Because of this and other items I’ve read, I believe that headaches are a threshold phenomenon. What I mean by this is above a certain threshold of stress, we experience headaches. Three of the stresses that can cause us to break this threshold are dietary, musculoskeletal, and psychological.
Some people are more sensitive to certain stresses than others. Keeping any one or all three of these stressors under control seems to relieve all types of headaches. I’ve also posted two tests for neck pain and headaches on YouTube if you’re interested.
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