Living with Severe Headache?
Learn from an Expert.
Try to Get Your Life Back.
If you have a severe headache, it usually means that you have headaches every day....
...and you want someone like me to do something about it.
Most people who attend me with headaches are describing what is called "chronic daily headache".
As a person with chronic daily headache you start to feel trapped by pain but there are several key things you can do to get back in control......
How to get back in control
Severe Headaches start to run your life, and if you have suffered for many years you will have forgotten what life was like without pain.
Other people are aware that headaches are starting to take hold but are not sure what steps they can take to maintain a decent quality of life.
What you read here is what I tell my own patients who consult me about bad headaches.
These are based on years of experience and are backed up by medical research.
There are several key steps you should take:
- Take a Baseline Assessment of Your Headache Problem
- Have a General Health Check and Review your Headache Diagnosis
- Use Medication Effectively
- Consider Scientifically-based Drug Free Treatments
- Live a Headache Friendly Lifestyle
- Identify and Deal with Stress or Unhelpful Thinking
If you follow these you should reassure yourself that you have taken all reasonable steps to look after your headaches.
Instead of waiting for someone to give you an answer, YOU become the answer to your severe headache problem.
This is a powerful process that psychologists call regaining 'The Locus of Control'.
I hope what you read here will help you get back in control.
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Kindest regards
Raeburn Forbes
Dr Raeburn B. Forbes MD(Hons) FRCP Ed FRCP Lond
Consultant Neurologist and Author of Severe-Headache-Expert
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