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Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Headaches Paperback – 1 Aug. 2002
| David Buchholz (Author) See search results for this author |
- Print length262 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWorkman Publishing Company
- Publication date1 Aug. 2002
- Dimensions15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-109780761125662
- ISBN-13978-0761125662
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- ASIN : 0761125663
- Publisher : Workman Publishing Company (1 Aug. 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 262 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780761125662
- ISBN-13 : 978-0761125662
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 101,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 187 in Neurology
- 560 in Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology
- 810 in Popular Medicine
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Dr. David Buchholz, an Associate Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins, has a private practice in Baltimore, Maryland. The former head of the Division of General Neurology at Johns Hopkins and Director of the Neurological Consul-tation Clinic, he has published more than 150 papers and delivered more than 450 lectures, nearly all on the subject of headaches.
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I felt at sea not understanding why the diet might work etc until I saw a recommendation for this book on a Dizzy forum. I promptly ordered and had it delivered by amazon. It really is a great book - it explains the migraine diet in detail - what exactly is allowed and why the not allowed foods are potential problems. The book also explains what we know about how the migraine mechanism works and also what we don't quite know. It also - in a revalation for me described how meningitis and head trauma can trigger a migraine problem that can evolve and mutate in symptoms over time ( so I have probably had the same problem all along - just an evolving in my symptoms).
Some sections were not that relevant for me - I am not addicted to very strong caffeine/codeine headache pills and so don't need to come off medication - that's fine as Bucholz tries to cover all types and degrees of headache related complaints. He believes all headaches, no matter how weak or severe are basically migraines (except for cluster headaches)and how our threshold for triggering a headache works. He also discusses HRT, problems with the pill, weather headaches etc and migraine medication and its side effects.
The book is easy to read - detailed but not too technical and quite chatty.
I don't necessarily agree with all his theories and I think a more detailed discussion of female hormones and menstruation and especially how this could be treated would have been really helpful.
Unfortunately despite strictly keeping to the diet - my symptoms have not significantly improved. However, I do feel I understand why I get headaches and how all my symptoms are connected. If I decide to try medication for migraine the book has a whole section on the drugs used and their uses and problems so I will feel much better informed on my next hospital visit.
A must buy for anyone experiencing headache or dizzy ears, nausea, pressure in the ears, vertigo and all other related symptoms.
Don't get me wrong on the star rating, the book is informative and really helpful for me and has taught me a lot I didn't know and now I'm more convinced of my diagnosis, and I'm going to try the method and will update my review, however the cocky writing style just did not do it for me.
It's hard to take any doctor or author seriously when they write like a know it all and that they can and will fix your issues. The constant references to the fact he could have prevented people having brain surgery annoyed me, and the fact he put so many random illnesses down to migraine too. This is fine, but I don't like how sure of himself he sounds - I'd rather an empathic writing style that is willing to see both sides of something rather than constantly saying you could fix everybody. There's also a bit where he seems to insult ENTs who think sinus issues can relate to the inner ear and says they are quite far apart, and I really don't think that is true. It's fair enough being sure of oneself but if you are not unbiased then it's harder for people to trust you!
There are glimmers of the book where he sounds like he genuinely likes to help people and this makes me wonder whether he's just a good doctor and maybe not so great at portraying that in words (I think a lot of doctors are like this).
I also think the book could have been two thirds smaller had it had less repetition. I did end up skipping pages because this was hard for me.
But all in all it is worth a read especially if you are suffering. It just frustrated me personally! I will keep it though and refer back to it.
August 2013
I have recently come back to this book as my migraines have become worse and I followed stages one and two previously. My only option seemed to be to take some form of stronger preventative medicine. The book was useful because a) I did not feel a failure for thinking this way as this is actually what the author suggests if you can not make improvements yourself, and b) he lists the available options and their side effects, so I was able to discuss with my doctor what I wanted to take rather than what was recommended. So I upgrade this book now to 4 stars.






