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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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Sage advice for migraine sufferers, November 16, 2005
I've been suffering with migraines for over thirty years. I've had to structure my life around coping with them. Over the years I've tried so many things: medicines, diets, managing my eating and sleeping schedule, even some alternative medicine (accupuncture, biofeedback). I found ways to avoid triggers and ride out the migraines, but they were taking their toll on my life, work and family.
For me, medicine didn't help. The various preventative medicines had side effects and didn't seem to help much, and the abortive medicines were ineffective or had side effects worse than the migraines. I'd resorted to regularing my sleep schedule, avoiding my trigger foods and resigning myself to lost weekends and missed work. I'd surrendered to just living with migraines.
Last spring I had a particularly bad rash of migraines and decided to research the most recent treatments on the internet. There were some new drugs and a dietary supplement that I'd not heard of before. Armed with this information, I visited my doctor and we discussed the possibilities. He recommended one medicine but told me I'd need to take monthly blood tests to make sure it wasn't damaging my liver. This was too scary for me, so I asked him about the dietary supplement I'd read about called Migrelief. He shrugged and said go ahead.
I purchased a bottle and though the label said to wait up to 90 days for results, I saw immediate improvement. My migraines have reduced tenfold and suddenly the whole world has opened up for me. I became curious about this miracle treatment and sought out Mauskop's book. It too is a revelation.
Two hours of reading summarized everything I'd learned about managing migraines over 30 years, and more. Tips that took me years of trial and error to discover are plainly spelled out. Simple things like avoiding caffeine, sleep regulation, allergy avoidance and stress management. Lists of trigger foods to monitor. And some basics that are so simple and obvious that most Americans are ignoring them: eat better food and you'll feel better. Avoid unnecessary chemicals. Excercise. Take care of yourself.
You won't see the Magnesium-B2-Feverfew formulation promoted by doctors because doctors are driven by the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical companies can't make money off of stuff they can't patent. If Glaxo had developed this formulation and put millions of dollars behind an ad campaign, millions of migraine sufferers would be finding relief. But because it is a natural supplement most doctors will overlook it and most migraine sufferers will never know about it. And that's tragic.
Buy this book. Pick up a bottle of Migrelief (right here on Amazon). If the supplements don't help you, likely some other information in the book will. For me, this is a new lease on life.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
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You don't have to suffer from headaches., November 22, 2002
Most people seem to regard headaches as a natural consequence of the stresses of life. I used to think this way myself -- one or more headaches were a weekly occurrence for me. Then I began to learn about the importance of vitamins and minerals in human health and starting taking nutrient supplements including magnesium and B vitamins. Since then my headaches have virtually disappeared. One of the major causes of headaches -- including migraines -- is deficiency of magnesium, which is a natural relaxant. And studies have found that about 80% of Americans don't get enough magnesium in their diet. The result is that Americans suffer inordinately from headaches (including migraines), muscle cramps, and various forms of anxiety and stress disorders. But magnesium deficiency --which causes these ailments -- is easily remedied by taking supplemental magnesium. The preferred form of supplemental magnesium is chelated magnesium because it is readily absorbed by the body and because other forms of magnesium supplements sometimes cause diarrhea. As pointed out by the authors of this book, the B vitamin niacin and the herb feverfew are also helpful in preventing and treating migraine headaches. If you suffer from migraines -- or any form of headaches -- please read this book. And, to help optimize your health, be sure you get enough magnesium and B vitamins as well as other essential nutrients.
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49 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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Fighting headaches the Mauskop way, September 1, 2001
You may have seen headlines in your local newspaper from time
to time that go something like this: "Saddam Hussein Continues
to Cause Headaches for President Bush." You think: doesn't this
trivialize the tense relationship that the U.S. has with Iraq--to
equate this long-term, antagonistic connection with a mere
headache? Quite the reverse. Ask migraine sufferers: they'll tell
you that the excrutiating pain has often driven them to thoughts
of suicide.Headaches are no laughing matter, but for the past twenty years
or so, Dr. Alexander Mauskop has helped thousands of
agonized victims of the malady in the offices of the New York
Headache Center. An associate professor of neurology at
Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, Mauskop has
focused his practice exclusively on the treatment of headaches,
the migraine version affecting some twenty-five million Americans
(70% women). He has pushed back the frontiers of knowledge in
his books for the layman and articles in professional journals. Preferring alternative therapy over prescription drugs, he often
starts patients off with biofeedback and acupuncture, moving on
to both prophylactic (preventive) therapies and abortive drugs in
his skirmishes against cerebral soreness. What is it that your own doctor may not tell you about migraines--
as the suggestive title seductively suggests? Most doctors tell
you little about headache treatment beyond "take two aspirins
and call me in the morning," because they simply do not keep up
with the research, but Mauskop tells us plenty in this easy-to-
read volume replete with anecdotes, humor, and insight. His
treatment du jour, which he personally developed from research
with scores of patients, is the use of a product that combines
magnesium, riboflavin and feverfew; i.e. a mineral often found
deficient in chronic sufferers, a vitamin that works because, well,
who knows why...and a herb which has often been used especially by Europeans in their fight against pain but which is
only recently commanding the attention of Americans. While this triple therapy may not reduce headaches for everyone
who tries it (allow 4-6 weeks for the supplement to take effect),
there are many other programs that an individual can employ.
Mauskop describes isometric exercises and ordinary physical
activities that can indeed help to strengthen neck muscles and
provide an overall sense of well-being, but since headaches may
plague the patient even after using these techniques, "What Your
Doctor May Not Tell You" lists a barrage of prescription drugs of
various sorts that can be summoned to service, from the
relatively benign to those containing narcotic agents. Don't let the ease of delivery fool you. "What Your Doctor May
Not Tell You About Migraines" gives headache sufferers valuable
information on the latest approaches to attacking a malady that
could well be more effective than what our ancestors in Egypt
employed. A doctor in the time of the pharaohs might bore a
hole in your head to let the evil spirits out. They had one thing
right: headaches are the work of the Devil. This book could
provide the exorcism you seek.
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