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I've been having headaches for several years, but in the last year,...

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Monday, August 25, 2008
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This is a question my husband, family, and I have discussed.  My headaches are daily, with 2-3 severe headaches a week, ususally.  I don't have a lot of the normal symptoms people have with migraines.  My Mom found this article on abcnews.go.com about a cure for chronic headaches. 

 

"Dr. Pamela Blake, of Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital in Houston, has pioneered a new minimally invasive surgery for patients with chronic daily headaches. She said that usually, the headaches aren't migraines or tension headaches, but, rather, an irritation of one or more of the nerves that emanate from the back of the skull.

 

Find out more about the procedure at www.migraineheadachesurgery.com.

"It's kind of like a pinched nerve you might have in your neck or back, and the pain radiates down your arm or down your leg," she said. "In this case, the nerve gets pinched in the musculature of your neck, and the pain radiates along the distribution of the nerve, which is up into the head or down into the neck."

For her procedure, Blake carefully chooses patients who might respond, and then pairs up with a plastic surgeon who performs the surgery, called nerve decompression."

 

 

They make an incision at the back of the neck, and decompress the nerve.

 

 

Opinions?  Anyone experience with this???

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