Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain

In this groundbreaking and controversial work, Johns Hopkins neurologist Dr. David Buchholz - the "Headache Doctor of Last Resort" - takes headache sufferers out of the vicious cycle of misdiagnosis and rebound and puts them in charge of their lives with a simple, practical, patient-proven 3-step system. Step one: Avoid quick fixes - treating the symptoms and not the cause can lead to a cycle of escalating pain. Step two: Eliminate your headache triggers, especially easy-to-control dietary ones like caffeine, chocolate, MSG, and aged cheese. Step three: Raise your headache threshold - when necessary, use preventive medication. One, two, three - add them together and for nearly all sufferers, any headache problem can be dealt with, no matter how acute.