3 things Neurologists won’t tell you about Headaches.
If I knew this about headaches……
Hey all!
Jason here,
Your friendly, neighbourhood Pain expert and the owner of the Only place to go for Headaches.
This week I am going to talk about the research on Headaches and Migraines. You will find out things the Neurologists very rarely tell patients about Headaches and why pain killers are not the miracle cure for Headaches and Migraines it is advertised as.
1. Of the people with headaches that were studied 37% were dissatisfied with how fast the medicine worked, 50% with how the pain always comes back, and 42% with the needing to take a second dose of pain killers.
The Why: Pain killers and other drugs are ineffective for the treatment of headaches as they do not work on the cause of the headache. the reason being there is no recent injury or inflammation causing the headache that those kinds of pills will work on alleviating. That is why your headache either does not get better while using them or why they keep coming back no matter what kind of pills you use.
1. 70% of people said that stress was the factor that worsened their headache the most. Migraine sufferers said they avoided spending time with friends and family to try to manage their Headaches outside of the hospital. This, they said, was the major contributor to their depression.
The WHY: If you had a headache all the time no matter what you did, felt that everything made it worse and think you would spend the rest of your life like this, wouldn’t you be depressed, irritable, avoid spending time with your friends and family to not ruin their day or feel like a burden on them?
I would. IF headache is the problem being made worse by stress then shouldn’t we fix the headache first?
1. Of all people studied who had headaches and Migraines 79.7% said they were willing to try another treatment method to get a better result than the pain medication they were on.
The Why: Most people are so fed up with how poorly medication works to treat and prevent their headaches that they would be willing to try anything else to get a better outcome. Some are so fed up they stop their pain killers altogether.
Wouldn’t you stop if the pills you were told would work do absolutely nothing for you?
What would the point be to take them then?
Wouldn’t you want to try something completely different to get a different result?
BONUS FACT THAT SURGEON WON’T TELL YOU
The National Institute of clinical excellence in the UK said that “Paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (AKA NSAIDs) (these include aspirin and ibuprofen), benzodiazepines or opioids should not be offered for the management of Headaches and Migraines. This is because there was little or no evidence that they made any difference to people’s quality of life, pain, or psychological distress.
There you go. Even the experts from the UK that guide The Doctors and specialist have said that pain killers and anti-inflammatory do not work for old Headaches.
Why are you still trying to see if it will work?
Try something different by booking an appointment with us. You know from the reviews and testimonials that we are the only place to go for Headaches.
Jason
