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Okay, So I Don't Have a Headache: What I learned (and what all women need to know) about PMS, hormones, stress, diet, menopause--and sex | 
| Author: Christina Ferrare
Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 1017931
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 031226366X
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.175
EAN: 9780312263669
ASIN: 031226366X
Publication Date: May 5, 2000
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Amazon.com Review
Former model Christina Ferrare has been a familiar face on TV for more than a decade, hosting and appearing on talk shows. Now she's famous for another reason: she bared all--in the emotional sense--on Oprah and in this book about the perimenopausal lack of sexual desire that changed her from lusty wife (making love in every room, greeting her husband at the airport wearing only an overcoat and high heels) to the mistress of avoidance maneuvers: "I have a headache/backache/wet nails." She shares her search for a solution to other perimenopausal symptoms ("I had my first hot flash at Neiman-Marcus, and initially I thought it was from seeing the bill from my purchases"), exploring changes that made her feel better outside the bedroom as well. Ferrare doesn't hold back, confiding her PMS-fueled chocolate rituals (she stuffed as many as seven unwrapped peanut-butter cups in her bra and walked them by her husband). Eventually she gave up foods that weren't good for her, turned to whole foods and exercise, and balanced her diet with herbs and vitamins. She decided against synthetic hormone replacement therapy in favor of natural alternatives: soy, natural progesterone, and herbs. Testosterone cream helped put the zing back in her sex drive. She wisely warns that she is not a doctor and that the program she presents is what worked for her. Readers will need to consult a doctor who knows about alternative medicine to find what will work for them--but she stresses that there is help out there. The book includes about 50 of her favorite healthy recipes. --Joan Price
Product Description
Christina Ferrare shocked the country-and herself!-when she revealed something very personal on her live talk show, Home and Family-that over the last few years she had experienced a lack of sexual desire. Her relevation prompted appearances on Oprah and Dateline NBC, and she began to hear from hundreds of women who described their own experiences and were glad to know that they were not alone.
Based on information from her own doctors and other medical experts and authoritative sources, Okay, So I Don't Have a Headache helps women understand their own bodies and begin to find answers for themselves. Ferrare talks about nutrition, stress, and sexual desire, dealing with the symptoms of menopause and PMS, and how diet, exercise, and relaxation rituals work to keep the body in balance. The book also includes Ferrare's own recipes designed to help out-of-whack hormones.
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 Fire your ghost-writer (or keep your day job) July 17, 2004
Manola Sommerfeld (California)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I couldn't stand her writing style. It was too chummy, too showy.At the end, i really didn't have all that great of a message to take home. For a better understanding of the tumultous landscape of your hormones at certain times in your life, there are excellent books up there (for example, A Woman's Book of Life by Joan Borysenko). This one, written by a quasi-celebrity, didn't seem useful to me.
I thought this would help December 20, 2001
7 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I thought it would help out my wife who wasn't feeling "in the mood" with me. Only I found out that not only did she not have a headache, but she still didn't want to fool around with me. Then she got angry at me for buying the book in the first place. Oh well, ya just can't win for losing.
Don't Spend Your Money On This Drivel December 3, 2001
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book has so little helpful information in it, that almost any woman could have written. What about the fabulous cream that she has touted for so long? We never learned much about that.
It makes me angry that I just made her a little richer with my hard earned dollars for no new information. One star isn't low enough!
 An Excellent Book By A Brilliant Woman August 27, 2001
Brandon Bailey (LA, CA)
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book was very helpfull to me in many ways. I better understand women now, and are more sensitive to their personal needs, both physically and emotionally. Not that I didn't before, but I am now more comforatable with my knowledge on the subject, and I wish my girlfriend would read this book!!!
 Just A minute.... August 21, 2001
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I just read this book and though she mentioned just a part of the details of her life (heaven knows, more than the rest of us chickens would do!) I found it helpful. A lot of what she said sounded very familiar. This gave me a springboard from which I could go and find more info on the subject of what I felt was my missing libido and what could be done to revive it.
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