Victory Over Vestibular Migraine:
The ACTION Plan for Healing & Getting Your Life Back
Now in its third edition, Victory Over Vestibular Migraine contains everything you should now about this condition, including symptoms, neuroscience, diagnosis, tests, triggers, treatments, nutraceuticals, acupressure, exercise, lifestyle changes, and symptomatic management. The book is lays out a roadmap for you to take your life back with the ACTION plan.
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Harness the healing power of vitamins, herbs, acupoints, and exercise
Vitamins and herbs can help heal your brain. Learn what vitamins and herbs are scientifically proven to improve migraine, who should and should not take them, and how to take them. This book also discusses the growing science behind cannabis and the emerging use of psychedelics for treating vestibular migraine.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are meridians through which one’s life energy flows and diseases arise from disharmony or imbalance in these meridians. Treating certain acupoints helps restore harmony and balance in the body by targeting a specific disease state. In acupunture, needles are inserted and stimulated at this acupoints. Learn what acupoints can help the symptoms of vestibular migraine and how you can use acupressure at home to treat them.
Exercise is the cornerstone to brain health. Tap into the power of exercise on neurophysiology and neuroplasticity to control vestibular migraine. This book explores what exercises can help people with vestibular migraine and includes simple exercises you can do at home.
How to Change Your Life and Control Vestibular Migraine
Recognize what triggers your vestibular migraine attacks. Learn about the common triggers for vestibular migraine, how they apply to you, and what steps to take to mitigate their effect on your symptoms.
Change your life and gain control of your symptoms. Learn what you can do to fortify your brain against vestibular migraine. This book gives you straightforward, simple, and practical steps you can implement every day to control vestibular migraine.
Can your diet heal your brain? This book delves into the exciting and growing body of research into the gut-brain axis, the highway between the brain and digestive tract, and discusses how the gut microbiome communicates and affects the brain. Learn about what foods can trigger and worsen migraine attacks. Finally, practical diet roadmap is detailed in this section of the book.
Learn about Therapeutics Options for Vestibular Migraine
There are many treatments available to treat vestibular migraine. It can be daunting to sift through what these medications are, what side effects to expect, and if they are safe for pregnancy. This book distills this body of knowledge to highlight the important points about all these treatments. Learn about how these treatments can help vestibular migraine and their potential adverse effects. This book delves into many important questions, including:
What are preventive treatments? What are rescue treatments?
How many options do I have?
How do I know if a treatment helps?
What side effects can I expect with each treatment option?
What should I not take if I'm pregnant, thinking of getting pregnant, or breastfeeding?
What are Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) medications and can they help vestibular migraine?
Can neuromodulation devices help vestibular migraine? Which device would work for me?
Overcome the Symptoms and Conditions that Coexist with Vestibular Migraine
You can have symptoms even if you are not experiencing a migraine attack. You can be dizzy almost all the time. Many disorders can and often coexist with vestibular migraine.
This book discusses the symptoms and disorders that coexist with vestibular migraine and how you can recognize them. For example, learn about benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), motion sickness, persistent postural perceptual dizziness (PPPD), mal de debarquement syndrome (MDDS) temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD), Meniere's disease, and cervicogenic (neck-related) dizziness.
Most importantly, gain mastery over these symptoms. This book discusses simple, practical steps you can take to overcome them.
Hormones affect the vestibular migraine. Learn how pregnancy, breastfeeding, menstruation, polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, in vitro fertilization, and testosterone impact vestibular migraine.
Tap into the Power of Your Mind and Social Network. Prepare for the Future
Vestibular migraine affects how you feel and think. This book will help you recognize maladaptive thinking patterns and overcome them. Understand and tap into neuroplasticity and change how your brain works. Transform the way you think to heal your brain. This book reveals how different mental techniques, including guided imagery, mindful meditation, metacognition, visualization, and biofeedback, can be used to process and overcome daily symptoms.
Harness the power of your social network to overcome your limitations. Learn how to work with your medical allies, family, friends, and support groups to manage your symptoms and heal.
Prepare for the future. The final chapter will help equip you for a future with vestibular migraine. Learn about working, going to school, and dating while dealing with vestibular migraine. You will also learn about bumps in the road (e.g., finances, disability, and insurance denials).
