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What is Ocular Migraine?

23/04/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsMigraine, Migraine with aura, Pain treatment, Teeth

Ocular migraine is described as very severe and unilateral pain in the eye which feels like it is being carved out and going to pop out of its socket. In fact, there is no form of migraine such as ocular migraine but patients describe this symptom. Migraine which affects the eye is a common condition....

Reasons for Back Pain and Unknown Solutions

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsArt of healing, Back pain hernia, Fibromyalgia, Gokmen Approach

Various Things May Cause Neck and Back Pains There are a lot of people who have a pain spreading to the upper part of the back, starting on the neck. Many people think that these are caused by the air conditioner at the office or their poor posture and just ignore them. They do not...

How to Differ Fibromyalgia and Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsArt of healing, Fibromyalgia

Multiple Sclerosis and Fibromyalgia are the two diseases one might come across on the internet while searching for weird symptoms. Although fibromyalgia patients think that they have MS, these two are not related. Physicians do not confuse them because they are like apples and pears. Well, why do patients then? What is Multiple Sclerosis? Multiple...

Fibromyalgia Information

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsFibromyalgia, Gokmen Approach, Pain treatment

Being informed about fibromyalgia opens up a new window to the common problem of our day: widespread pain and fatigue. Are all those things a regular part of modern life or an actual problem? What is Fibromyalgia? Most important symptoms are pain and fatigue, and they affect the whole body. Pain is widespread and fatigue...

Chronic Pain That Controls Our Life

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsGokmen Approach, Headaches, Pain treatment

Chronic pain means long lasting pain. Usually, if the pain is there for over 3 months, it is called chronic. But for headaches, if it reaches 15 days, then it is chronic headache/migraine. When the individual is constantly in pain, their life gets restricted. The flexibility and durability decreases and the immune system weakens. Also,...

Resistant Toothache Story

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsStories, Teeth, Trigeminal neuralgia

Usual Treatment Methods of Toothache Patients There are some patients who develop toothache after dental treatments and for some, the pain that is already there can get worse. In such cases, dentists say that there is nothing wrong with their treatment. As a last resort, the tooth that is causing the pain gets pulled but...

Story of a Male Fibromyalgia Patient

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsFibromyalgia, Stories

Fibromyalgia, usually seen in women, is rare amongst men. And it is a remarkable thing that if the patient is male they are usually young and athletic. Fibromyalgia is hard to describe to anyone and for these patients, it is even harder. The Story of a 26-Year-Old Male Fibromyalgia Patient “I was mostly unhappy. Then...

Tinnitus and migraine patient. Dr. Emel Gokmen

Story of a Tinnitus and Migraine Patient

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsCreativity, Stories, Vertigo Tinnitus

Tinnitus and migraine may go together. This patient, in his 40s and suffering from headaches since he was a child, was also suffering from tinnitus for a year. “There is always a rustle in my ear. Like it’s in my brain, it affects both ears. When I talk, I do not hear it but at...

Changes on Migraine in 2015

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsGokmen Approach, Pain treatment

During 2015, lots of studies were made on migraine around the world but nothing has changed. Neuroscience studies are still looking for the reasons in the brain, and the drugs are still the same. American Headache Society (AHS) published last year’s best migraine medicines. But they are all the same with previous years. Triptan, NSAID,...

The Story of an Elderly Migraineur Couple

15/01/2017Emel GökmenNo CommentsGokmen Approach, Migraine, Stories

Migraine in Elderly Patients Migraine, getting severe in fertile ages of women, significantly recedes with menopause. Thus, most women wait for that time of their life to come. It is also not very common to see migraine in advanced ages. That’s when Gokmen Approach, with its custom treatment based on the reasons of headaches and...

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