Screaming Quietly

Migraine sufferers - Though there are 150 different diagnostic categories of headache, the most common headache syndromes are migraine, followed by tension-type headache, cluster, sinus, rebound, and menstrual headaches (which might also be migraine). About 26 million Americans suffer from migraine, but approximately 80% of migraine sufferers, 18 million Americans, are women.

Common characteristics of migraine headache include -
>A moderate to severe headache that lasts from 4 to 72 hours.
>Pain that is often, but not always, on one side of the head and throbbing.
>Pain aggravated by movement or physical activity.
>Pain associated with nausea, sometimes vomiting, and sensitivity to light, sound, & odors
>Pain associated with laughter…

Hadassah Bat Haim has been laughing through her pain for nearly sixty years. In Screaming Quietly, she shares both the laughter and her search for relief.

Screaming Quietly is a rueful, often hilarious, search for a cure to migraine, a personal journey most of us would prefer to experience vicariously and while laughing. Through drugs to gurus, via hypnosis, diet and the laying on of hands, author Hadassah Bat Haim takes us into her world. In her own words and her own voice, she leads us in pursuit of relief.