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Title: Migraine by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0-375-70406-X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Oliver Sacks can't write about himself...
Comment: One of the things that mad "The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "Awakenings" so great were Dr.Sack's powerful (an human) powers of observation. Migranies is thin in these areas. Oliver Sacks suffered from migraines himself and finds the subject a bit more fascinating than people who have no experience with migraines might.
I'd recommend this book for some who suffers from migraines (no medical advice though, it about understanding the cause of the condition) or to someone who had a loved one who had migraine and wanted to get a better idea of what it was like.
For the average pop science fan the book is a little boring... skip it and get Anthropologist on Mars instead.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Necessary for Migraine Sufferers
Comment: I found this book at a time when I was having weekly migraines and feeling very lost as to how to handle them anymore. I was shocked to find not only my specific type of migraine dealt with here, but also the abdominal migraines I had as a child, which even a pediatric neurologist confessed he'd only read about.
It seems from this book that a crucial aspect of migraine is the holding-back of something emotionally. There is so much information from Dr. Sacks (yes, a bit dry at times, but at most other times readable and even entertaining) that you can read this book in a nonlinear fashion, picking it up and putting it down, skimming until you find what's useful to your specific situation. Dr. Sacks found in two years of his study that over half the people he examined stopped having migraines! Why? Because he was taking an avid interest in them several times a month, and the migraine was no longer necessary as an embodiment of something the patients weren't dealing with emotionally.
Obviously there are many more causes of migraine, but for me that was immensely helpful and, over time and with better communication, I now only get them a couple of times a year, knowing that I can turn to this book to find out virtually anything I need to know. When I had my first optical migraine, I didn't panic because I'd seen the drawings in this book of the schomata (sp?) and knew what it was.
If you have migraines and can read, do yourself a favor and get a copy of this book. I don't care if you find it new or used. Just get it, and start skimming. You will find yourself in its pages and can perhaps start on the road to healing.
Rating: 1
Summary: migraine by oliver sacks
Comment: It is a well known fact that migraine is hereditary and
incurable at this time. Sometimes the pain can be reduced to
a tolerable level for a time. Patients should be advised of
of this before any treatment is attempted. I find nothing in
the reviews of the book MIGRAINE by Oliver Sacks disclocing
this pertinent information.
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Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0684853949 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: An Anthropologist On Mars : Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0679756973 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Awakenings by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0375704051 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0375704078 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0375700730 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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