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Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest For Relief From The Headache That Wouldn't Go Away (2011)

by Jennette Fulda(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1439182027 (ISBN13: 9781439182024)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Gallery Books

review 1: One of the problems with having a chronic condition is that people always want to offer you advice. They always know just what will help, the one simple thing that will cure you. And of course, they know just what you are doing wrong--how you caused this! And the more obscure your condition, the more advice you'll get.I picked this book up because (a) it was remaindered and cheap and (b) I work with a lot of people with chronic pain, and like to find more to offer when I can. Insider reports are always good.Thus, my observation about friendly advice. Fulda had a blog about weight loss (she had lost a couple hundred pounds and written a book about that) and she was posting occasionally about her ongoing headache, and she heads each chapter with an email from a reader w... moreith some weirdo advice about her headache. My favorite is the guy who told her she had a saint in her causing her headache. (Why not?)She spent two years going through all kinds of testing and conventional and non-conventional treatments, including acupuncture, chiropractic, IV medications, counseling, and marijuana, none of which made much difference. She never really got a definitive diagnosis. At the end of that time, along about the time she decided to give up the quest for treatment and live with the pain, quit her boring job and start a web design business at home, the pain began to let up a little. But it never really did go away. I'm not really sure what the message is for my clients, but one scene stays with me: When she is greeted by the acupuncturist, who asks what she is there for, and she explains she has had a headache for several months. The acupuncturist winces and says honestly, "Oh, so, so sorry." "She had earned her $70 in just that half second," writes Fulda. "I had a witness to my pain, someone who acknowledged that it was real and that it was a true burden."
review 2: Read when it first came out. I'm a sufferer of daily migraines, status migranosus,etc... and was hoping this book would help deal with living with this. I was not impressed and, frankly, got tired of her complaining and feeling sorry for herself; it was not uplifting at all and was actually depressing. It was frustrating to me that she would rather eat the things that gave her migraines than stay away from those triggers. The only thing I got out of it, which I have found useful is her motto " I have migraines but they don't have me". (Which is why I gave the book two stars instead of one) I am happy for her that she learned to stop feeling sorry for herself and learned to live with the migraines, but on the whole, I don't think it was a book that was helpful for anyone newly diagnosed with the illness or who is suffering with depression along with it. It does not help you "see the light at the end of the tunnel". Getting on the Internet and talking to people going through the same thing as you is much more helpful. less

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