![]() 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. More than a decade later, she still has a headache-the exact same headache. 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. At the age of twenty-four, Paula Kamen's life changed in an instant. ![]()
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