Migraine
by Oliver Sacks
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Book Reviews of Migraine
Book Review: Brilliant, Sensitive Investigation by a great and probing mind.
Summary: 5 Stars
Are migraines curable? Mine are gone. And during the time when they were at their worst, this book by Oliver Sacks was my salvation, my companion, and my way of coping. Information about the symptoms of migraine was invaluable to me; aspects of my health that had baffled, frightened and defeated me were explained here in ways that I could comprehend. Migraines left me, apparently forever, several years ago, and I'm convinced that this book was instrumental in that. The more I read, the more I understood, the easier it was for me to deal with the problem. Oliver Sacks is a healer, and this book was a healing experience for me. Highly recommended. I recommend for all migraine sufferers that they explore this. And of course, the book is beautifully written as are all Oliver Sacks' books. His contribution to health care and health study in our time is immense -- beyond calculation. --- In response to other reviews posted here, let me suggest that there are many things migraine sufferers can do which might help them. To say simply that migraine is incurable, that it's genetic -- that perhaps invites a pessimism about the problem which does not serve the people experiencing this pain. This is a great book.Book Review: Run don't Walk!
Summary: 5 Stars
Run, don't walk, to get this book, if you or anyone you know suffers from migraine. By a terrific doctor who is a migraine sufferer himself, you will be amazed at how many symptoms a migraineur can have that are not even a headache. This is a widely misdiagnosed and incorrectly treated malady and sufferers need to be INFORMED about what is happening to them and why it is happening. Save yourself lots of grief and pain, read this book and you will be well armed in your fight for relief from this horrible malady.
I'm updating this review due to some of the unbelievably idiotic negative reviews some have given this book, one who admits they haven't even read it! After reading this book several years ago and most anything else published on migraine since, I can still say this is the book that is an absolute "Must Read" for any migraineur. You can't properly seek treatment until you understand what migraine actually is, not a 'headache' but a neurological disease, and this book will arm you with the most important weapon there is - correct information!
Book Review: Glad to be over this Migraine
Summary: 4 Stars
I had migraines with headache from age 25 to 60. The headaches stopped a couple of years ago, but I still have very mild epidodes of the other symptoms. And I get the scotomata completely independent of the migraine. They are beautiful and I lie down to watch and enjoy them until they go away because I can't read or drive or do much else with all that shimmering in the middle of my visual field. I learned something from this book, but not a great deal. It was just too much of a drag to read and I started to lose interest about half way thru it. I was surprised to find that there was actually very little in it that resembled my own experience with migraine; I fit none of the case histories and there were probably not two pages in total that I could relate to personally. Nevertheless, this is a good book, if you have the stamina and stomach for it. The author has obviously done his homework but better work by his editors might have livened this book up a bit more for the average reader. Sometimes I wondered whether I was reading Borges instead of Sacks.Book Review: The more up-to-date a migraine book, the less space given to the aura
Summary: 4 Stars
Sacks wrote in this book that the more up-to-date a book about
migraine, the less space it is given to the neurological conditions
called the aura. This statement is still true, and yes, I agree with
some of the other reviewers, Sacks book is not really up-to-date. But
Sacks at least devoted a large part of this monograph to illustrating
the varied presentations of visual auras, e.g. a selection of 13
images from the Migraine Art collection. Beside the visual aura many
more neurological symptoms are described. Given that migraines are
frequently misdiagnosed due to the strange symptoms, the focus on the
aura alone makes this book worth buying. It open up to many people,
not just the migraine sufferers, the fascinating world of brain function
(and unfortunately dysfunction), as do all the other wonderfull books
from Sacks.
Book Review: My migraines improved when I stopped referring to this....
Summary: 3 Stars
I was diagnosed with migraines when I was 13. As a teenager they were would be debilitating. I assumed that it was just something that I was unlucky enough to inherit from my father. I ran across this book and devoured it. When ever I went through episoses, I would turn to this book. Plenty made sense in this book, but then it also increased my sense of frustration and helplessness. I eventually earned a degree in psychology and learned a lot more about migraines from other sources (as well as personal experience). I learned about food triggers and enviromental triggers and took that information and changed my lifestyle. I also stopped reading this book. I now get migraines only a couple times a year. It is informative, but missing a lot.