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| View Larger Image | The Magnesium Solution for Migraine Headaches
by Jay S. Cohen
| | List Price: | $5.95 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 31767 | | Studio: | Square One Publishers | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 64 | | Publication Date: | December 31, 1969 | | Publisher: | Square One Publishers |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 11 reviews)
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Well Researched, But No Help 
I tried following the directions in this book. He provides quite a lot of research for his findings (reads more like a medical study than a book) and lots of options for different types of magnesium to try. I ended up using the one that he uses (magnesium chelate with ammino acids) as this didn't upset my stomach as much as the others, but now I have a bunch of bottles of supplements just sitting in my medicine cabinet. By the time you are taking the magnesium (4-8 tablets / day), B2 (1 / day), feverfew (2-6 / day), plus anything else you might already be taking (calcium, multivitamin etc) I was up to 14 pills per day!! It was upsetting my stomach so much (diaherrea all the time) that I just had to stop. Plus all the pills were like a meal in itself, and who wants to take all those pills every day for the rest of your life?!? I would rather just take whatever I need when I actually get migraines, and trust me, I get whoppers, sometimes 3 days long, and up to 5 days per week, so I know what I am talking about with headaches. If this book helps some people, that is great, but it didn't help me.
July 23, 2008 | |
Good book with one flaw 
I had read on the internet that magnesium might help my migraine problem, but I took too much and certainly didn't feel better. I then bought this book and got exactly what I wanted -- an explanation on why magnesium might work, directions on exactly what kind to buy (it's an unstable element so it must be combined with something else, but some combinations are more likely to make you ill than others), and how much to take (hint: start small!).
I only gave this four stars because even after I read the book and took magnesium properly, it -- once again -- seemed to *cause* a migraine instead of preventing one. The book does not describe this possibility or explain why it might happen. (Has this happened to anyone else?)
March 22, 2008 | |
headache free- finally! 
I can't recommend this book highly enough...It has changed my life. My family and friends have never seen me go a month without a headache....I am so happy, and it's like an entirely new life.
If you've tried magnesium before (like I did) but it didn't work for you, you may not have understood how much you need to take and why. Once I read this book, I made connections between a whole slew of problems/triggers.
I used to take Imitrex at least twice a week. I haven't taken one in a MONTH. I had two small headaches that asprin killed....and I also worked out heavily and did a few other things that usually bring on migraines.
Not one yet.
I expect to still get a few, but honestly I can say I am just beginning to see what I've been missing all of these years.
Please, please try this book. I do not know the author in any way. I just hate to think of anyone suffering needlessly after the relief I've achieved so far.
In order to give full disclosure, I ordered another book with the migraine diet in it at same time. I had been on that diet before, but not understood how tracking the foods worked. Two weeks after starting the magnesium supplements, I started the diet as well. I am off Diet Coke and all MSG. However, I had migraines when I was a kid, long before I ate or drank that kind of junk. I think all of this (mg and diet) helps to significantly improve the migraine threshold.
When I feel a headache coming on, I've taken the magnesium as he suggested and it has vanished.
Thank you for this book! It is the best money I've ever spent.
February 17, 2008 | |
great book
This book makes a lot of sense and opened my eyes to Magnesium as help for migraines. I have been taking Migrelief for a while now (it did help reduce the number of migraines for me) but thought the key benefit in it comes from Feverfew. Having read this book, I realized it may be magnesium that is really helping. I started taking Migrelief more regularly and supplementing with additional magnesium on high trigger days (e.g. rainy) and I am experiencing improvement.
I don't know if magnesium alone is a solution (I am also following diet and other recommendations from the "Heal your headache: 1-2-3 program" book), but I think it is worth trying and the book offers some good info.
November 30, 2007 | |
Thank you, Dr. Cohen
I have been a chronic daily headache sufferer for 6 years. The first breakthrough for me was reading Dr. Buchholtz's book Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain. It helped me identify my triggers, it helped more than all the neurologists, alternative doctors and chiropractors combined, but I still had a headache about 15 days out of the month. Then I read Dr. Cohen's book and started taking 800mg of magnesium and this seems to be the last piece of the puzzle for me. I haven't had a headache since starting it a month ago, which hasn't happened in 6 years.
Another interesting thing, I started giving my 12 year old son magnesium too and the facial tic that he has had for years stopped. The neurologist had given him an MRI and said his brain was fine, but he had Tourettes syndrome and would need medication when the tics became too pronounced. I looked into the "dopamine inhibitors" that they were going to give him and they were pretty scary big time drugs. I'm so grateful that we won't need to put him on these drugs now. It's amazing how little doctors know about magnesium deficiencies.
My whole family is now taking magnesium, and we all feel better in different ways. Thank you, Dr. Cohen!
Good Luck to all you headache sufferers, I hope this is your answer too.
September 03, 2007 | |
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