Full of self-deprecating humor and razorsharp reporting, All in My Head is the remarkable story of patience, acceptance, and perseverance in the face of terrifying pain. Beleaguered and frustrated by doctors who, frustrated themselves, periodically declared her pain psychosomatic, she came to understand the plight of the millions who suffer chronic pain in its many forms. From surgery to a battery of Botox injections to a dousing of Lithuanian holy water, from a mountain of pharmaceutical products to aromatherapy and even a vibrating hat, All in My Head chronicles the sometimes frightening, usually absurd, and always ineffective remedies Kamen-like so many others-tried in order to relieve the pain. Kamens passion for the brains neurons is fueled by the fact that she has. confidante Paula Kamen, author of the critically acclaimed All in My Head. Then I Googled deja vu and found out I had all the symptoms of seizures. More than a decade later, she still has a headache-the exact same headache. Her fearlessness made it all the more shocking when she committed suicide in. The pain was more piercing than that of any other headache she had ever experienced. While she was putting in her contacts, the left lens disturbed a constellation of nerves behind her eye. In this passionate memoir, black comedy, and journalistic report on chronic pain in. In 2005, Paula Kamen published All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache. She talks with activist Jenni Grover Prokopy about her experience. At the age of twenty-four, Paula Kamen's life changed in an instant. Paula Kamen wrote the book on chronic migraine.

All in My Head by Paula Kamen