all of the people who go through chronic migraine must have popped 15 ibuprofen painkiller tablets on some days, banged your head against the wall even on certain occasions, visited numerous doctors everyday or at least every year...
but now their is a solution to drive away this pain...another step which every one can take to drive away the pain...
a five hour long brain procedure at mumbai's jaslok hospital which is the second time it has been performed successfully in india. people whose migraine attacks lasted for five days in a row and would be too disoriented to do even simple tasks on these days, and would have two such attacks around every month are now applying to this method.
people who have taken years of medication with no signs of complete relief or signs of treatment have taken help of neurosurgeons who fix an implantable device near the patients optical nerve.
migraine is the most common of all 150 different conditions that can produce a headache to an individual, and can tend too be one of the most painful as well...it is a chronic disorder that wont go away with just a 2-4 month treatment and unfortunately there is no awareness in india about the need to handle it like other common chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes etc.
doctors have estimated that 20% of the women between ages of 15 to 40 and 8% of men suffer from this disorder. it is one of the most researched headache disorders in places like the usa....showing results that it is infact a genetically inherited vulnerable disorder of the brain.
the surgery of the occipital nerve stimulation procedure is not complex or very complicated like the other brain surgeries, the surgeon does not need to cut or go deep inside the brain but inly place two thin wires at the back of the skull. the migraine attacks are felt in the fifth nerve of the twelve in the brain called the trigeminal nerve. this nerve communicates with the occipital nerve which lies inside the spinal cord of our body; therefore any stimulations to the occipital nerve will lead to communication in the fifth nerve through the pathways in the brain system, changing the neuro transmissions in it.
the implants provide electrical impulses, through a power source implanted just below the collar bone, that stimulates the occipital nerve, in other words the migraine patients pain circuit is broken. it is believed that the surgery works in three ways; the implant increases the the patients pain threshold, they jam the pain signals and or change the neuro-transmitter patterns....even though surgeries for migraine are rare in india it is still very much possible.
