Migraine Headache Treatment - with Cosmetic Surgery?

You probably know someone with migraine - about one in ten in America suffers from it, often in more ways than one. As actively interested as researchers are in the field of migraine headache treatment and management, a real cure eludes them. And so, these 30 million Americans who see a doctor for their affliction, end up getting treatment that is experimental, more or less, and more often of questionable value than not. People who are struck by some of the more serious pains that lay them low more than 10 days every month, often regularly try different drugs one after the other, to find some relief from the pain. Once they start down this path, they often also struggle with the incidental effects of this pain - slow wind, and gastric trouble. Indeed, patients complain often and bitterly about the uncertainty of it all, having to experiment with a dozen drugs each time they have an attack.

Just at the time that migraine sufferers around the world have been giving up on any hope of a reasonable way to deal with life, comes news of a recent miracle migraine headache treatment method - plastic surgery. There have been incredulous accounts of relief and disbelief by people who have chosen to try this line of treatment, and hopes among the general population are on the rise. The plastic surgery procedure that has been named for migraine relief, is usually aimed at one of three trigger sites around the head; and it is set to enjoy an 80% success rate. What is more, a full 50% of all those who have this kind of treatment report a complete migraine cure.

The forehead lift is the plastic surgery procedure that finds the best results in migraine headache treatment. Until now, a forehead lift has always helped with the vanity needs in people: the surgery pulls and holds up the skin next to the hair line, to smooth out the wrinkles on the forehead. However, a few years ago, doctors began to notice that some clients who came in for forehead lifts who had trouble with migraine, often raved more about the mitigating effects on their headaches that the surgery had than the cosmetic effects themselves. After having seen the migraine effect in this surgical procedure in enough patients, a plastic surgeon, Dr. Bahman Guyuron, recognized that there might be something to these claims his patients made, so routine had they become. He organized and completed research into the reason why migraines yielded to forehead lifts as well as they did.

Trigger points play an important role in any migraine investigation. Investigations into this form of migraine headache treatment started with an attempt at identifying the most significant trigger points around the head . A trigger point is supposed to be the specific location in the brain where the headache is said to start. As the understanding goes now, several kinds of migraine are brought about when nerves are pressured by the wrinkling and sagging of the muscles in the forehead. Nearly numbing those nerves could often bring about long-term relief. Apart from the forehead surgery, the application of Botox to paralyze the offending nerve cells has fantastic results too. Doctors actually use the Botox application as a test for whether a particular migraine patient would respond well to a forehead lift. This would make it an off label use for Botox, though.

Since this surgery isn't entirely approved yet by the FDA, health care plans don't really pay for this; that would make this surgery quite expensive. Surgery isn't always an option for those who suffer from migraines. But when it is, people would be willing to sell any possessions to get it.