Optimal health care can be achieved
only when patients are educated
about their health and patients and
physicians work together as
treatment partners in an
atmosphere of mutual respect.

• Migraine Aura Has Many Possible Variations
• The Patient As Consumer
• Anatomy of a Migraine
• When to See a Doctor for a Migraine or Headache
• Migraine and Headache Preventives: It's Impossible to Have Tried Everything!
• Types of Migraines and Headaches

Teri Robert is an award-winning patent advocate who received the National Headache Foundation's "Patient Partners Award" in 2004 for her "efforts in patient education, support, and advocacy." She is the the Lead Expert on the HealthCentral Network's MyMigraineConnection, and serves as the Support Advisor for MAGNUM, the National Migraine Association.

Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches is now available at:

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Clinical Pharmacology made Incredibly Easy!
     
Want to know what receptors, neurons, neurotransmitters, and the like are, how and why they work, and what all of it means in relation to our meds? Better yet, want to be able to understand it? Then this book is for you. Filled with all kinds of wonderful diagrams and margin notes, this book really does make it "Incredibly easy!"
       

Provides the truth about headaches and dispels many of the common myths. Provides current information and guidelines to control headaches and improve quality of life. Also covers medication use, including dosages, side effects, and limitations. Conquering Headache is richly illustrated and coauthored by top academic and clinical physicians in the field of Neurology and Headache management. Conquering Headache represents the best in patient information on the subject of headache management. The book relates to the patient, but does not "Talk down" to the reader.
               

Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for all Sufferers and Their Families
by Seymour Diamond, Mary Franklin
     
Across America, thirty-three million people suffer from Migraines, costing the nation millions of dollars in lost work and school days, medication, and countless visits to doctors and hospitals. At the world-renowned Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, Dr. Seymour Diamond has spent more than thirty years helping thousands of sufferers conquer their debilitating pain. At last, the resources of that institution are available in a book.
         

Handbook of Headache, 2nd Edition
by Randolph W. Evans, Ninan T. Mathew
     
This handbook is a practical and easily accessible guide to the diagnosis and management of headache patients. Geared to both primary care physicians and neurologists, the book presents a systematic approach to diagnosis and offers expert recommendations for treating all types of headaches, including migraine, tension and cluster headaches, headache during pregnancy, headache in children, headaches with onset after age 50, and head and neck trauma. Coverage includes detailed guidelines on the use of new antimigraine drugs that have recently been introduced. The book also includes patient education materials and alternative treatments. Written for physicians, but excellent for the educated patient.
         

A Handbook of Headache Management: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis & Treatment of Head, Neck & Facial Pain
by Stephen D. Silberstein, C. David Gordon, Robert L. Hamel, Sahar Swidan, Joel R. Saper
     
Whether you need info on migraine, cluster headaches, tension-type headaches, or any other headache problem, this book will have it. The outline format, tables, and illustrations make the content easy to access and understand. Includes an outstanding section on medications. Written for physicians, but excellent for the educated patient.
         

Headache is one of the most painful and disabling of common medical disorders. It is also one of the most treatable. Major advances in headache management offer new hope and help for chronic headache sufferers. Written by a leading headache specialist and a psychologist specializing in pain management, this comprehensive guide provides you with the latest, most up-to-date information on living headache free.
 

Headache in Primary Care
by Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Lipton, Peter J. Goadsby, Robert T. Smith
     
Written from the viewpoint of the family doctor, this book is fairly technical, but I found it not to be too technical to understand. Very well organized with excellent charts and illustrations. Deals with all kinds of headache disorders, their diagnosis, the appropriate medications, etc., with great explanations of the physiology of the headache or attack, how the drugs work, and more. Written by top experts in the field.
 

The Headache Prevention Cookbook
by David Marks, M.D.
recipes by
Laura Marks, M.D.
     
Using anecdotes from his own practice, Marks explains which ingredients can cause headaches. He also outlines a way to identify our own triggers. The potential triggers include a wide list of ordinary foods, such as beans, chili peppers, dried fruits, canned soup, certain cheeses, certain vinegars, nuts, chocolate, and ice cream. To help people with undiagnosed food sensitivities steer clear of the headache-causing culprits, Laura Marks, a doctor and an accomplished cook, has created more than one hundred easy-to-prepare recipes including Roast Garlic Linguine, Lemon-Glazed Chicken, Jewish-Style Baby Artichokes, and Moist Orange Pound Cake. I've tried some of these recipes. They're wonderful and easy.
         

Living Well with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know
by Mary Shomon
     
A comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia -- vital help for the millions of people suffering from pain, fatigue, and sleep problems. An estimated 6 million Americans suffer from fibromyalgia and 800,000 have chronic fatigue syndrome. Both conditions are characterized by severe and widespread pain, debilitating fatigue, and difficulty with concentration and memory. Getting diagnosed can be particularly difficult, and patients must then navigate conflicting information and the latest fads in order to choose from among dozens of treatment options. In her trademark accessible, easy-to-follow style, patient advocate Mary J. Shomon explores these often confusing conditions, highlighting the pros and cons of conventional and alternative approaches, giving you tips for developing a recovery plan, and providing clear direction and solutions for sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
          

Migraine and Other Headaches
by William B. Young & Stephen D. Silberstein
     
Migraine and Other Headaches is the essential guide for everyone who suffers from headaches, and will provide the information needed to obtain effective medical care and long-term relief. Different types of headache are thoroughly explained in easy to understand language, beginning with migraine, the most common severe headache, which occurs in approximately 12 percent of the U.S. population. Also discussed are rebound headache, tension-type headache--the most common primary headache disorder, cluster headache, unusual headaches, non-headache illnesses that frequently accompany headache, sinus headache, disorders of the neck, post-traumatic headache, and atypical facial pain and trigeminal neuralgia.
               

Pain: the Fifth Vital Sign
by Marni Jackson
     
Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign is a ground-breaking inquiry into the nature, treatment, and definition of modern pain. In the United States, there has been a recent campaign to treat pain as the fifth vital sign. Just as temperature, respiration, pulse, and blood pressure, the four traditional vital signs, must be charted, hospitals are now obliged to assess pain in their patients, too. If this indeed happens, it will be nothing less than groundbreaking—making pain far more visible. For too, pain has been a dark continent, both in the body and in our culture. However, medicine is finally learning to evaluate pain as something more than a symptom—a main focus rather than a frustrating side issue for doctors. Above all, Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign makes an elusive subject vivid and readable. We all know what pain is. Now it has a voice.
      

From patient advocate Mary Shomon, author of the best-selling Living Well With Hypothyroidism comes The Thyroid Diet -- the first book to tackle the critical connection between weight gain and thyroid disease, offering a conventional and alternative plan for lasting weight loss. More than 25 million Americans have diagnosed – and undiagnosed – thyroid conditions, which almost always result in a metabolic slowdown. The Thyroid Diet helps many previously unsuccessful dieters get diagnosed and treated – and proper thyroid treatment may be all that's needed to successfully lose weight. Even after optimal treatment, however, weight problems plague many thyroid patients. For those patients, The Thyroid Diet identifies the many frustrating impediments to weight loss, and offers solutions--both conventional and alternative--to help.
          

Understanding Migraine and Other Headaches
by Stewart J. Tepper
     
Understanding Migraine and Other Headaches provides up-to-date information on the causes and diagnoses, as well as current preventive measures, effective treatments, and surgical procedures. This overview includes discussion of every major type of headache, including the debilitating, nausea-inducing forms of migraine, episodic tension-type headaches (the most common form), chronic daily headaches, and more obscure headaches such as trigeminal neuralgia and cluster headaches. This book undertakes a comprehensive look at medications for acute "as needed" treatment of headaches and for preventing the onset of an attack. It offers guidelines for assessing headache pain, the level and type of medication needed, possible side effects, and drug effectiveness.