Knock Yourself on the Head. The Whole Truth About Migraines and Other Headaches

At mother’s—hurts, at the neighbor’s—hurts, at colleagues at work—also hurts. And mine hurts too—what’s strange about that? Many people have grown accustomed to the idea that headaches are part of their life, and they don’t treat it as an illness that can and should be managed. One of the goals of this audiobook is to explain that if your head hurts, that is abnormal—it’s a disease (fortunately, in most cases not dangerous). And it’s not worth putting up with this pain by taking painkillers every other day. You can help yourself and significantly improve the quality of your life in other ways. In his audiobook, Kirill Skorobogatykh, a neurologist, candidate of medical sciences, co-founder and head of the University Clinic of Headache, explains in a clear language what kinds of headaches exist and how they arise. What hurts, anyway? After all, “the head is bone, and bone can’t hurt,” as we know. Why is everyone familiar with migraine specifically, and not with other types of headaches? What kind of disease is it, and can it be cured? Another task is to show how a doctor thinks and reasons when a patient comes to him complaining of headaches—how he unravels the patient’s history of life and illness, how he works his way through hundreds of diagnoses that must be ruled out to arrive at the right one, and finally how he decides whether additional tests are needed or not.