{"product_id":"migraine-now-what-most-doctors-still-get-wrong-9798197748652","title":"Migraine NOW: What Most Doctors Still Get Wrong","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tae Ho Guak\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"So... that light I've seen my whole life - that was my brain?\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nun in her seventies, who had spent decades quietly interpreting her recurrent visual flashes as a spiritual experience, asked this in clinic. The diagnosis was migraine aura - without headache. She had lived her entire life never told what it actually was. She is not unusual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a quarter-century of headache practice, I have learned one pattern more than any other: \u003cb\u003ethe patients who reach my clinic have usually been everywhere else first.\u003c\/b\u003e The migraine was called Meniere's disease in ENT for ten years. The migraine sent a patient through five dental implants before reaching a neurologist. The migraine was treated as depression in a middle-schooler who hadn't been to school for months. The migraine was the relentless \"vertigo\" that emptied a young woman's calendar for a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the other gap. A woman in her fifties, after twenty-five years of chronic migraine and four failed traditional preventives, asks two months into a CGRP antibody: \u003ci\u003e\"Wait - is it normal for your head to feel this clear?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMigraine NOW: What Most Doctors Still Get Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e is the book I wrote because too many of these patients arrive too late - the conversation I wish every patient could have in clinic, in plain language, grounded in 25 years of subspecialty practice and the science of the CGRP era.\u003c\/p\u003eTwo specific gaps\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMigraine that doesn't look like migraine.\u003c\/b\u003e Vertigo. Tooth pain that survives five dental procedures. Episodic nausea blamed on the stomach. Visual aura without headache. Limb numbness mistaken for stroke. Migraine is not \"a headache\" - it is episodic activation of a sensitive brain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMigraine treatment that is no longer current.\u003c\/b\u003e Many patients are still told what migraine was thought to be in 2010. In 2026, CGRP monoclonal antibodies (Ajovy, Emgality, Aimovig), gepants, ditans, and a clearer model of migraine have rebuilt the field. Yet many offices still repeat the old story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWhat you'll learn\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe hidden faces of migraine - vertigo, facial pain, GI, aura without headache, sensory aura\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 4 phases of every attack, and why they change what you do\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed flags that mean go to the ER - and the larger list of things that look scary but aren't\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcute treatment in 2026: triptans, gepants, ditans, NSAIDs - used correctly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreventive medication, traditional and new - the CGRP era without the marketing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNon-drug options with evidence (magnesium, riboflavin, CoQ10) and the popular ones without\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe truth about triggers (most \"triggers\" are misread premonitory symptoms)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA migraine diary you can actually use\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to have a productive conversation with your doctor in five minutes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWho this is for\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone whose headache, dizziness, or unexplained pain has been bounced between specialists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatients whose medications \"don't seem to work\" - often a use problem, not a drug problem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamily of someone with chronic headache\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClinicians and students wanting a current view of headache care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eAbout the author\u003cp\u003eDr. Tae Ho Guak is a board-certified neurologist, director of EOS Brain Science Institute and Riche Clinic, and a lifetime member of the World Headache Society. Across 25 years he has cared for over 100,000 headache patients and is one of the highest-volume prescribers of triptans and CGRP monoclonal antibodies in his region. He writes at \u003cb\u003eheadachefree.doctor\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition, 2026. 19 chapters plus appendices including a working diary, a one-page decision table, and self-assessment tools (MIDAS, HIT-6). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKorean Edition also available: https: \/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B0H3KZSPZZ","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891036864663,"sku":"9798197748652","price":1455.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197748652.webp?v=1781182145","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/migraine-now-what-most-doctors-still-get-wrong-9798197748652","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}