Migraine Headache Treatment and Too Much Bad Advice

Too often, a migraine headache suffer is told, to start their migraine headache treatment, to find their dietary migraine headache triggers, cut them out, and when that doesn't work, take this pill, this pill and this pill.

When they ask how they're suppose to achieve this, they are told:

"1-2 days prior to a migraine headache, keep a headache journal and look for things in common."

WHY IS THIS BAD ADVICE?

Starting a migraine headache treatment with 8 different doctors over 15 years, I have been told, over and over again:

• Keep a headache journal.
• Look for things in common.
• Look at the foods you ate 1 to 2 days prior to your migraine headache.
• Look at your sleeping habits 1 to 2 days prior to a migraine headache.
• Look for common triggers 1 to 2 days prior to a migraine headache.

This is just plain bad advice from doctors who should know better. If a patient comes to you asking for migraine headache treatment, tells you that they suffer from nearly daily migraine headaches -- or migraine headaches 3 days a week or even once a week, or they are suffering from a migraine headache that has lasted for 6 days and counting...PLEASE PRESCRIBE ME SOMETHING...

...PLEASE PUT ME ON A MIGRAINE HEADACHE TREATMENT...

...PLEASE HELP...

...and you give them the above advice as migraine headache treatment, there are several assumptions you can easily make as to why this migraine headache treatment will fail:

If you're suffering from daily migraine headaches, the foods you ate 1 to 2 days prior to each migraine headache are going to be different, possibly ENTIRELY different. Any intelligent person would listen to this migraine headache treatment suggestion and dismiss entirely.

Why?

Because logically it wouldn't apply. Because if I eat a different food everyday and still get migraine headaches everyday, then you (the doctor) are telling me that EVERY food is a migraine trigger. You (the doctor) are telling me that EVERY habit is a trigger. That all bed times are triggers.

The headache journal advice is similar. Every migraine headache treatment I have been prescribed started with a headache journal.

If I'm living a varied lifestyle, if I go to bed and wake up at different times on a regular basis, if I eat a varied and healthy diet, and I'm suffering from DAILY migraine headaches, then either EVERYTHING is a trigger or NOTHING is a trigger.

Simply, the above migraine headache treatment leads me to conclude that my headaches are simply too frequent to single out commonalities.

Plus, 1 to 2 days is so vague. There are so many potential triggers that can be encountered in a 1 to 2 day period PRIOR to a migraine attack.

Think about this: if you are suffering from daily migraine headaches, the EVERY DAY IS 1 TO 2 DAYS PRIOR TO A MIGRAINE HEADACHE ATTACK.

Why pay for this migraine headache treatment?

You are not being treated individually with this migraine headache treatment. You're not stupid, so you can sense this immediately and rightfully dismiss it.

What advice SHOULD a doctor give?

I wish I didn't have to write this because every doctor SHOULD start every migraine headache treatment this way:

• I'm going to start you on a migraine headache treatment program that will make migraine headaches a very rare and preventable part of your life.
• The first step of this treatment is to take this complete list of migraine headache triggers....
• And eliminate ALL of these triggers.
• Come back and see me in one month. We'll move on to the next phase of your migraine headache treatment. The severity and frequency will have SIGNIFICANTLY decreased.
• After a couple of months, you will never worry about migraine headaches again.

I have never been told this by any doctor. I have never been told there's a light at the end of the tunnel. I have never been told how to identify and cut out my triggers.

I have never been told WHY TRIGGERS NEED TO BE CUT OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Here I get into the dark side of migraine headache treatment -- why almost all migraine headache treatment in this country either prolongs or exacerbates the migraine headache condition.

It's frustrating, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Start with the first step in this free migraine headache treatment and the severity and frequency of your migraine headaches will SIGNIFICANTLY decrease almost immediately.

Move onto step two of the migraine headache treatment and start living migraine free.