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Book Description
Symptoms of a migraine can include debilitating pain, extreme sensitivity to sound and light, sweats, double vision, nausea and vomiting, slurred speech and more. Current treatments and prescription drugs often fail to help, but now theres a safe, all-natural triple therapy program that can relieve the pain and often prevent recurrences. Discover a migraine-free life.

About the Author
Barry Fox, PhD, is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller The Arthritis Cure. He serves as chair on the Consumer Advisory Cuncil of the American Nutraceutical Association and editor-in-chief of Natraceutical Report an online health journal. He has made more than 200 guest appearances on national and regional television and radio.

Spotlight Reviews

By Harvey S. Karten "Director, NY Film Critics O… (Brooklyn, NY
United States)

You may have seen headlines in your local newspaper from time to time that
go something like this: "Saddam Hussein Continues to Cause Headaches for
President Bush." You think: doesn’t this trivialize the tense relationship
that the U.S. has with Iraq–to equate this long-term, antagonistic connection
with a mere headache? Quite the reverse. Ask migraine sufferers: they’ll tell
you that the excrutiating pain has often driven them to thoughts of suicide.

Headaches are no laughing matter, but for the past twenty years or so, Dr.
Alexander Mauskop has helped thousands of agonized victims of the malady in
the offices of the New York Headache Center. An associate professor of neurology
at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, Mauskop has focused his practice
exclusively on the treatment of headaches, the migraine version affecting some
twenty-five million Americans (70% women). He has pushed back the frontiers
of knowledge in his books for the layman and articles in professional journals.

Preferring alternative therapy over prescription drugs, he often starts patients
off with biofeedback and acupuncture, moving on to both prophylactic (preventive)
therapies and abortive drugs in his skirmishes against cerebral soreness.

What is it that your own doctor may not tell you about migraines–as the suggestive
title seductively suggests? Most doctors tell you little about headache treatment
beyond "take two aspirins and call me in the morning," because they
simply do not keep up with the research, but Mauskop tells us plenty in this
easy-to-read volume replete with anecdotes, humor, and insight. His treatment
du jour, which he personally developed from research with scores of patients,
is the use of a product that combines magnesium, riboflavin and feverfew; i.e.
a mineral often found deficient in chronic sufferers, a vitamin that works
because, well, who knows why…and a herb which has often been used especially
by Europeans in their fight against pain but which is only recently commanding
the attention of Americans.

While this triple therapy may not reduce headaches for everyone who tries
it (allow 4-6 weeks for the supplement to take effect), there are many other
programs that an individual can employ. Mauskop describes isometric exercises
and ordinary physical activities that can indeed help to strengthen neck muscles
and provide an overall sense of well-being, but since headaches may plague
the patient even after using these techniques, "What Your Doctor May Not
Tell You" lists a barrage of prescription drugs of various sorts that
can be summoned to service, from the relatively benign to those containing
narcotic agents.

Don’t let the ease of delivery fool you. "What Your Doctor May Not Tell
You About Migraines" gives headache sufferers valuable information on
the latest approaches to attacking a malady that could well be more effective
than what our ancestors in Egypt employed. A doctor in the time of the pharaohs
might bore a hole in your head to let the evil spirits out. They had one thing
right: headaches are the work of the Devil. This book could provide the exorcism
you seek.

By Jonathan B Whitcomb "Emery’s Misery" (New Hampshire USA)

I’ve been suffering with migraines for over thirty years. I’ve had to structure
my life around coping with them. Over the years I’ve tried so many things:
medicines, diets, managing my eating and sleeping schedule, even some alternative
medicine (accupuncture, biofeedback). I found ways to avoid triggers and ride
out the migraines, but they were taking their toll on my life, work and family.

For me, medicine didn’t help. The various preventative medicines had side
effects and didn’t seem to help much, and the abortive medicines were ineffective
or had side effects worse than the migraines. I’d resorted to regularing my
sleep schedule, avoiding my trigger foods and resigning myself to lost weekends
and missed work. I’d surrendered to just living with migraines.

Last spring I had a particularly bad rash of migraines and decided to research
the most recent treatments on the internet. There were some new drugs and a
dietary supplement that I’d not heard of before. Armed with this information,
I visited my doctor and we discussed the possibilities. He recommended one
medicine but told me I’d need to take monthly blood tests to make sure it wasn’t
damaging my liver. This was too scary for me, so I asked him about the dietary
supplement I’d read about called Migrelief. He shrugged and said go ahead.

I purchased a bottle and though the label said to wait up to 90 days for results,
I saw immediate improvement. My migraines have reduced tenfold and suddenly
the whole world has opened up for me. I became curious about this miracle treatment
and sought out Mauskop’s book. It too is a revelation.

Two hours of reading summarized everything I’d learned about managing migraines
over 30 years, and more. Tips that took me years of trial and error to discover
are plainly spelled out. Simple things like avoiding caffeine, sleep regulation,
allergy avoidance and stress management. Lists of trigger foods to monitor.
And some basics that are so simple and obvious that most Americans are ignoring
them: eat better food and you’ll feel better. Avoid unnecessary chemicals.
Excercise. Take care of yourself.

You won’t see the Magnesium-B2-Feverfew formulation promoted by doctors because
doctors are driven by the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical companies
can’t make money off of stuff they can’t patent. If Glaxo had developed this
formulation and put millions of dollars behind an ad campaign, millions of
migraine sufferers would be finding relief. But because it is a natural supplement
most doctors will overlook it and most migraine sufferers will never know about
it. And that’s tragic.

Buy this book. Pick up a bottle of Migrelief (right here on Amazon). If the
supplements don’t help you, likely some other information in the book will.
For me, this is a new lease on life.

WOW! what a Great Book, April 12, 2007
By Wendy L. Kocik (Wisconsin)

Thank you so much Dr. Mauskop for all of your hard work; that you are doing
on migraines. I found this book to be very helpful, and I have a better understanding
of migraines. Thank you again for all your time that you put into this book
This book is a MUST for everyone; but those that suffer from migraines it is
gold in your hands. The approach that Dr. Mauskop shows in this book is very
helpful, and anyone can read this book and understand. It is not over someones
head, it is for the lay person. THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Excellent information about a little-known treatment for migraine sufferers,
April 11, 2007
By Beth Cholette "doctor_beth" (Upstate NY USA)

This book supports the use of Magnesium to treat migraines, a treatment option
which has unfortunately received little press to date. Author Mauskop reviews
specifics about why Magnesium is thought to be effective, citing a significant
amount of research which has been done in this area. I actually discovered
Magnesium treatment for my own migraines prior to reading this book, and given
how helpful it has been for me, I am definitely a believer. What I have not
yet tried is Mauskop’s "Triple Therapy" recommendation, which involves
daily use of Magnesium along with two other substances, Riboflavin (Vitamin
B2) and the herb Feverfew. I do plan to try this recommendation in the hopes
of achieving even greater efficacy in treating my own headaches.

The only complaint I have about this book is regarding how it is organized.
The author seems to jump around quite a bit–i.e., the relevant discussion
of Magnesium appears in various locations throughout the book rather than being
more sensibly offered all in one place. Regardless, the information is still
readable and extremely valuable, and so I would not hesitate to recommend this
book to my fellow migraine sufferers.

Changed my life, January 15, 2004
Reviewer: A reader

I can’t believe that none of my previous doctors, including several neurologists,
never mentioned most of the advice I found in this remarkable book. Not only
my migrianes are gone, my PMS symptoms disappeared. If I forget to take my
supplements, after a few days both my migraines and PMS return.

Relief After 34 Years!, January 13, 2004
Reviewer: A reader

I have been a migraine sufferer for most of my life, and have explored treatment
after treatment (both mainstream and alternative) to alleviate the frequency
and severity. After reading this book 8 months ago, and beginning all the non-prescription
supplements recommended by Dr. Mauskop, I can gratefully acknowledge that I
have a tremendous reduction in the frequency of attacks! Until I had been on
the supplements for 3 months, I had been getting 3-5 migraines each week, and
loading up on Imitrex. I now have just a few migraines each month, which is
something I had thought was an impossibility! Plus, when I do get a migraine,
they tend to respond to half the dose of Imitrex I was taking in the past.
In addition, while I had been aware of and adhering to the dietary changes
recommended in the book for many years, and which I had discovered on my own,
it was a relief to find out that there is a scientific basis to the changes
I have made! This book is a must-read for any migraineur!