Post on 22-Jun-2020
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How to Help a Headache 3 Things you can do TODAY!Learn THREE lesser known (yet often very effective) things you can do
TODAY to address the source of your pain -- not just the symptoms
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THE PROBLEMIt’s one of the most frustrating problems people suffer from.
Here’s why…
Imagine you’re startled awake by the shrill alarm of your smoke detector.
A wire to a lamp in your living room has shorted, and your smoldering
carpet has burst into flames. You dial 911; Help is on the way! The Heroes
arrive and race into your home carrying… fans.
Moving room-to-room, they work to blow the thick smoke away. Pleased
with their success, the firefighters pack up their fans and head back
outside to their trucks. All the while, the wire is left unattended to, and
your carpet continues to burn. Soon enough smoke gathers against your
ceiling… and you again call 911.
This is how most people deal with head pain.
Whether it’s a mild tension headache or a severe migraine, the truth is
that treatments most often just “blow smoke”. Eventually pain “gathers”
again. Why? Because you have not addressed the source of your pain.
If you’re reading this, you probably deal
with regular HEAD PAIN, even MIGRAINES,
or know someone who does…
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HOW NOT TO SOLVE ITIt doesn’t matter how much symptom relief you use: NONE are effective at
putting out the fire. This is why head pain is so frustrating.
“It is Neither LOGICAL nor SCIENTIFICALLY VALID to leave the cause of a
problem unaddressed, relieving symptoms only, and calling that
treatment a Success”.
While there are many causes of head pain, be assured that it’s NOT from a
deficiency of Advil, Sumatriptan, or other drug in your daily diet.
THE FIRST SET OF REAL SOLUTIONSIn this guide, I could have included any of the following in the “3
Things”… what you might call “the usual suspects.” You have surely
read or heard about these before… So if you haven’t already addressed
these in your quest to break your cycle of recurring pain, then do so:
DRINK ENOUGH WATER
REDUCE YOUR STRESS
GET ENOUGH SLEEP
EXERCISE REGULARLY
STOP DRINKING ALL SODA
GO GLUTEN FREE
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WHEN THE TREATMENT IS THE PROBLEMG44.40…That is the diagnostic code that doctors use for a common
cause of frequent headache known as: “Analgesic Overuse Headache” or
“Medicine-Induced Headache”. The first rule to getting yourself out of a
hole: STOP DIGGING!
Michael was a patient who suffered daily headaches. So following the
usual course of treatment, he took a popular over-the-counter pain killer
daily. The relief was temporary (at best) and before long the head pain
would return. Little did Michael know that his choice of “treatment” had
become the source of his perpetual head pain.
Many people are unaware that taking any kind of pain medicine… aspirin,
ibuprofen, anything prescription strength, etc as little as even 2x per week
may be enough to produce a rebound effect that CAUSES the pain to keep
returning(!)
Michael chose to break the cycle. Rather than wean himself slowly away
from his daily intake, he took a faster (but harsher) route and decided to
stop the pain medication “cold turkey”. “The next two days were hella-
cious”, he reported, as his body went through the predictable symptoms
of withdrawal and detox… But then…The cycle was broken. And his daily
head pain ceased.
1STEP
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REDUCE THE INFLAMMATIONYour head pain is very Rarely a “head” problem. Read that again.
The smoke (from the fire, from the bad wire) gathered against the ceiling
is not a ceiling problem. One step you can take to dampen the fire is to
reduce inflammation often present in the tissues of the neck…especially
at the base of the head.
Ice is your friend. If you have a soft-gel filled ice pack (as pictured below)
in your freezer, then Bravo! If you don’t (yet) a bag of frozen vegetables or
hash browns will work just fine.
Try this: Take a dish or hand towel, lay it flat, and place the cold pack on
one end. Next roll the towel from the other end so that when you are
finished, you’ll have a rolled towel with just one layer of cloth covering the
cold pack. Lie on your back and place the rolled ice pack under your neck
with the ends going from ear to ear.
* NOTE: If lying in this position is uncomfortable or makes you feel dizzy,
then stop.
As long as this is not uncomfortable, keep the cold pack against your neck/
base of your head for up to 20 minutes per hour, repeating as often as
necessary. Doing so often reduces or relieves head pain, as you will be
getting closer to its source.
2STEP
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GET YOUR “WIRES” CHECKEDReading the story about the house fire, how absurd would it be for
firemen to arrive, blow the smoke around, and declare it a success? But
THIS is why most headache treatments have failed to give you significant,
lasting results. Addressing your persistent pain requires more of you (and
frankly, more of your Doctor).
The question to answer should NOT be, “how can we relieve your pain?”
It MUST be, “what is the actual, physical problem causing your pain to
occur in the first place?” And then, “…how can we address/correct
THAT?”
A chemical (pill or injection) cannot and WILL NOT fix a physical problem…
it’s only a fan blowing smoke.
In most cases, the pain you feel is your body operating the way it is
designed… it’s getting your attention telling you something is wrong…
and telling you to “do something about it”. You just need to do the
right something.
The reason for your recurring pain most often goes beyond “stress”,
“barometric pressure”, or “it runs in my family”.
It’s most often the shorting wire causing the fire that needs to be found
and “fixed”.
ROOT CAUSES {NEUROLOGY NERD TIME }
So where does head pain come from?
If you couldn’t care less about the “Why?” and just want to know,
“What do I do next?” then skip to the next page to the section titled,
“A Step you can take”.
3STEP
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A BRIEF LESSON IN NEUROLOGY:
The “shorting wire” in the house fire analogy
represents a nerve that is being irritated. What
specifically happens is beyond the scope of this report.
For our purposes here, understand that nerve
irritation is a common origin of symptoms such as
pain.
Your nerves act like telephone lines carrying
information between your brain and your body.
If a nerve is irritated, it’s causes something like
static on the phone line – the communication trav-
eling through the nerve becomes distorted… Like
driving through a bad cell signal area. The result is
distorted output (often felt as pain).
There are multiple pathways by which irritated nerves
lead to headache or migraine, which might be felt
“anywhere” in the head. Here’s one of the most
common:
Your “Trigeminal” nerve has three branches… one
to your jaw, one to your nose/sinus, the third to your
temple/eye area.
Before reaching your brain, this nerve runs through
a “communication-sharing” center (a nucleus) with
nerves from your neck. This means information
coming from each one overlaps.
This cross talk of communication is the reason why you
may feel pain in your head, yet there is nothing wrong
with your head.
The brain mistakenly feels it’s your head calling out for
help.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS?
You’ve probably heard that in the early stages of a
heart attack, a person might feel pain in their left arm.
Yet there is nothing wrong with their arm.
Before reaching the brain, nerves from the heart cross
talk with nerves coming from your arm… and the brain
is often fooled and mistakenly “thinks” the arm is the
problem…
Question: Would taking pain medications for arm
pain be a wise approach to treating this condition?
This is Key to understanding how to effectively treat
headaches and migraines, especially those felt in the
temple, side of head, eye, sinus, or even face and jaw.
A STEP YOU CAN TAKE
Get your wires checked. Assessing the nerves to see
if they’re the cause of your headaches takes a specific
level of understanding of this phenomenon. And it’s
an area that most doctors frankly lack knowledge.
My name is Dr. James Saeli. At my clinic, Carolina Head
& Spine, headaches are our main focus. It’s something
we help people overcome on a daily basis.
We’ve helped literally HUNDREDS of chronic head-
ache and migraine patients. All WITHOUT the use of
Medications.
Allow us to help you see if YOUR pain is from the same
source. If it is, NO amount of medication will fix it.
When the status quo isn’t working, taking a different
path is necessary to move you from “frustrated” to
“back in CONTROL”.
TRANSFORMATION STORY
“Conventional medications either made me sick or provided no appreciable benefit. The relief that Dr. Saeli
conveyed to me was exceptional. The severity of the headaches lessened and the tightness in the shoulder
muscles was substantially reduced after the first few visits. The headaches became less frequent and finally
went away altogether.”
- Robert F.
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