Because there's so much nonsense out there when it comes to migraine headache treatment. There are so many myths and misconceptions. Migraine headache treatment, in this country at least, is appalling difficult to find.
No. Sorry. EFFECTIVE migraine headache treatment is appalling difficult to find.
Any doctor you go to will do his or her best to convince you that what they are prescribing is an effective migraine headache treatment.
The problem is, if you believe everything your doctor tells you about migraine headache treatment, if you do everything your doctor tells you to do, like a good girl or boy, then you will lose years...yes, YEARS of your life to a cycle of pain and suffering that is difficult to manage and even more difficult to understand.
So stop here to clear the air.
Stop here to get perspective.
Stop here to get some new ideas that your doctor isn't going to tell you.
Why Won't My Doctor Recommend What You Recommend?
--Because she's a doctor.
Doctors are in the business of migraine headache treatment. It's a business. It involves securing customers (i.e., patients) and ensuring the customers you have become REPEAT customers.
The sales adage goes: Don't sell the guy one car, sell him 5 cars over 20 years...
A migraine headache treatment that ELIMINATES migraine headache and requires little or no medication or repeat visits to the doctor is simply BAD BUSINESS.
--Because she's never suffered from daily migraine headaches.
Straight talk about migraine headache treatment is hard to come by because the people who need it the most are the ones capable of delivering the goods. Translation: it's the pain-addled migraineur who's dying to get to the heart of the discussion, and when you're in constant pain, it's hard to see the forest for the trees.
If you wake up with a migraine headache every day, it's very difficult to do anything but follow a routine migraine headache treatment set out for you in simple terms. In my experience, it's impossible to question your migraine headache treatment when you are in the midst of a rebound headache cycle or when you're suffering on a nearly daily basis.
--Because she relies on patient feedback to evaluate the effectiveness of her migraine headache treatment prescriptions.
As I discuss in detail in Migraine Headache Treatment and Too Much Bad Advice, the ways in which doctors recommend certain migraine headache treatment processes (e.g., identifying and eliminating migraine headache triggers) will sabotage the process and aggravate the chronic pain patient. Headache journals are all well and good...but if I have a migraine headache EVERY DAY, then it seems like EVERYTHING I DO is a migraine trigger. And if everything's a trigger, nothing's a trigger.
Ultimately, it's just easier to prescribe a pill.
--Because the best, most effective migraine headache treatment doesn't come with a quick fix.
ANY doctor that doesn't have a quick fix in his med kit will find himself losing patients. This goes back to the repeat business concept. Remember, migraine headache treatment is a business. When you're purchasing migraine medication, when you're visiting your doctor, you are delving into a multi-billion dollar industry. When there's that much money at stake, you'd better believe there are many many levels of revenue safe-guarding at work.
Wait, No Quick Fix?
Yes and no. There is a quick fix. But there's no instant fix. Starting with eliminating your migraine triggers is the first step in the best migraine headache treatment you can receive -- and it's free.
HOWEVER, you need the discipline to eliminate all POTENTIAL migraine triggers before finding the ones that apply to you. And then the discipline to keep away from the triggers for good.
In some cases, this requires significant lifestyle changes.
These lifestyle changes are ALL for the greater good of your life. But it certainly takes some discipline and determination to undergo some self-examination and personal development for the sake of living a migraine-free life.
So where's the straight talk? I want the truth.
The truth is, it's no surprise that eliminating migraine triggers is the first and most significant step to any migraine headache treatment. But if you need to monetize a cure, then you'd better have something new to sell. Which is where all the drugs come in. And, for all the blessings of Axert and Imitrex and whathaveyou, these drugs have caused more migraines than they have aborted.
They are not a migraine headache treatment plan. They are a crutch that keeps you going back for more.
A more effective migraine headache treatment is implied by Samuel Butler...in the 19th century:
“It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwords, it would be moral to get drunk.”-Samuel Butler
Of course, quitting drinking alone will not cure migraine headaches.
I tried that.
I was, well, pissed off, to say the least, to find that I still suffered from daily background headaches and four or five full blown migraine headaches every week after COMPLETELY quitting drinking.
So it's a little more involved.
But it's quick and it's completely FREE.
So start at this link and you can virtually eliminate migraine headaches from your life with an effective migraine headache treatment.
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