Migraine muscle surgery

Surgery certainly isn’t the first thing to try to relieve migraine, or even the second or third.  But for those who really have tried everything else and just can’t get relief, some types of surgery may be the way to go.

That was the situation Arlene from Cleveland was in.  At 53, her symptoms just seemed to be getting worse, and medication did little more than take the “edge” off the pain.  So, she went to Dr Bahman Guyuron, a professor of plastic surgery at Case Western Reserve University.  He did an operation which involved removing tiny bits of muscle to relieve the stress on the nerves.  Areas targeted include around the temples, forehead, neck and other parts of the face.  Three years later, Arlene is almost migraine free – she’s gone from a few attacks a month to a few a year.

For more on Arlene, and Dr Guyuron’s particular brand of migraine surgery, check out this article from The Globe and Mail.