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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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