Migraine

OK guys, I promised a review of this book when I was finished with it and I have to say, I'm not going to finish it likely, and here are the reasons why.

The author, Richard Grossinger, is totally irresponsible as an aura "sufferer" and as a writer.

Somewhat of a semi-strike for me was his general pooh-pooh and mum attitude towards drug therapies for migraine prevention and attack abortives.

Next, he really started to lose me by calling asthma psychosomatic.

Apparently, he's also confused about surgery relieving migraine symptoms, because according to him, migraine is not a disease even though he admits a genetic marker, especially for hemiplegic migraine, is present in sufferers. However, along the same vein, having PFO closure is fine since it's a trigger--and yet, to him surgery is useless since migraine is all in the head.

His quote is thus: "If migraines were 'real' diseases, they would be lethal ones (strokes or tumors), but they are simulcra and therefore provide a clue to the disease-and-healing mechanism itself: actually most ailments distort and purge along a migrainoid spectrum. There is nothing in the brain-mind-body that is not migrainoid..." (p. 129). In other words, migraine is a self-perpetuating state of death and renewal that the body constantly cycles through. Can you say WHAT?

Also, supposedly auras may eventually be the link to opening our telepathic or telekinetic pathways. You know, I like to think that there are people out there tuned to some things others aren't, but come on.

Medications used to treat migraine?: "In fact, probably all migraine medicines have more serious side effects than the symptoms they are treating...physicians and patients are choosing to treat a brief functional or clinical disturbance rather than an actual disease..." (p. 170)

He also doesn't understand that PFOs aren't closed right now except under controlled studies, telling his readers that chronic migraine sufferers can have their PFOs closed as a therapy option.

I don't think I have to say anything more about this book. It's a waste, a tragedy, an angering volume written sloppily and taking only one viewpoint into consideration, that migraine should be a transcendental experience that opens humanity's past and brings us into the future, treatable only for those who find it burdensome, and only cautiously at that since, you know, migraines aren't lethal.

Do you ever buy books on Amazon? If you've bought anything from them, you can sign in and post reviews of books you've read, whether you bought those specific books there or not.

I hope you'll consider reviewing what you've read on Amazon. I always look at the reviews before buying a book.

When I bought this book, there was no review on Amazon for it. This is the only other book I've read on migraine other than the one you wrote. As far as Amazon goes, it looked like there were maybe one or two other books that might be worth buying.

I should post my review of this book there, once I get organized and can step safely down from the soap box, lol.

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Originally posted by Teri Robert:
Do you ever buy books on Amazon? If you've bought anything from them, you can sign in and post reviews of books you've read, whether you bought those specific books there or not.

I hope you'll consider reviewing what you've read on Amazon. I always look at the reviews before buying a book.

Good show! Just the information we all need!

I agree with Teri. Post this review on Amazon.

Yay! Wish I could write more but I'm pounding.

Leeloo, there is a doctor named John Sarno who has some whacky ideas about migraines.

I read and wrote a review on his book, "The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing The Pain." Here is a excerpt from his book that is hard to swallow:

"On page 111, Sarno writes of his own experience with Migraine. He had suffered with Migraines for six years when a colleague mentioned a medical paper (not cited) that suggested that “migraine headache was the result of repressed anger.” Sarno had already started to form his theory that psychological factors were common in day-to-day medical problems, so he gave the idea a try. “When next the premonitory ‘lights’ began, I sat down and thought about what anger I might be repressing. Years later it is clear to me what I was repressing, but at the time I had no idea. However, to my astonishment, the headache never came. Nor have I ever had another migraine headache, though I have continued to have the ‘dancing lights’ to this day. The ‘lights’ tell me that I am repressing anger, and sometimes I have to think very hard to figure out the reasons for the anger.”"

So you don't have to know what you're supressing anger about, just recognize that you are!

!!!

That's what I have to say about that!

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Originally posted by DebHOST:
Leeloo, there is a doctor named John Sarno who has some whacky ideas about migraines.

I read and wrote a review on his book, "The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing The Pain." Here is a excerpt from his book that is hard to swallow:

"On page 111, Sarno writes of his own experience with Migraine. He had suffered with Migraines for six years when a colleague mentioned a medical paper (not cited) that suggested that “migraine headache was the result of repressed anger.” Sarno had already started to form his theory that psychological factors were common in day-to-day medical problems, so he gave the idea a try. “When next the premonitory ‘lights’ began, I sat down and thought about what anger I might be repressing. Years later it is clear to me what I was repressing, but at the time I had no idea. However, to my astonishment, the headache never came. Nor have I ever had another migraine headache, though I have continued to have the ‘dancing lights’ to this day. The ‘lights’ tell me that I am repressing anger, and sometimes I have to think very hard to figure out the reasons for the anger.”"

So you don't have to know what you're supressing anger about, just recognize that you are!

Welp, I posed my amazon review. I hope it shows up within a couple of days.

It's there now. Wow! Bet that stops a few people from wasting their $$ on the book. Oh, and thanks for your kind words about my book.

I really think reviewing books you've read, good or bad, is a great service to other customers.

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Originally posted by Leeloo:
Welp, I posed my amazon review. I hope it shows up within a couple of days.