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Q: Nerve stimulator experiences
Melissa,
I have no personal experience with the stimulators, but have been following the clinical trials carefully so I can keep our readers informed. It was a topic of a good bit of conversation at medical conferences last year. You can read an update in Occipital Nerve Stimulation for Migraine and Headache Prevention - 2008 Update.
One thing to note is that these devices are not yet approved by the FDA for the treatment of Migraine. Thus, most insurance companies will not cover them.
There has been quite a bit of discussion of stimulators on our forum. Some people there are trying them. You might want to stop by the forum and check it out. If you want to post to the forum, you'll need to register again there since a separate user database, but you can use the same name, email address, and password as you did to register for this part of our site. You can find the forum at http://forums.healthcentral.com/discussion/migraine/forums.
Hope this helps!
Teri
I was in a clinical trial for the occipital nerve stimulator. It was great at first but then the wires slipped out of place. Now it's useless.
A friend of mine wanted to try one and her doctor said he could put occipital neuralgia on the insurance forms instead of migraine to get the insurance to pay for it. After she thought about it she realized that was really illegal and she changed to another doctor.
Luci
I had mine on 2/8/10. I'm just now starting to get some releif from it.
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