cover image Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for All Sufferers and Their Families

Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for All Sufferers and Their Families

Seymour Diamond. Fireside Books, $13 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-684-87310-7

Headache specialist Seymour Diamond, with Mary A. Franklin, offers advice and encouragement in Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for All Sufferers and Their Families. Collaborators on Coping with Your Headaches and colleagues at the Diamond Headache Clinic, they here examine the most debilitating form. Their manual identifies and discusses the various types of migraines, offers self-help measures and alternative therapies as well as the latest drug treatments available, and concludes with a list of resources, a glossary and a worksheet. ( Apr.)