We know how exhausting it is. The pills that only half work. The days lost in a dark room. The family moments you had to miss. Being told, again and again, that this is simply something you have to live with. We would like to gently offer you a different thought: for many people, there is a specific, physical cause, and a small, superficial operation can take it away.
Do You Suffer From Treatment-Resistant Migraine?
with Dr. Karim Sarhane, Migraine Surgeon
Take a moment and think about where your pain begins. Not where it ends up, where it STARTS. Many people who have lived with migraine for years notice that every attack begins at the very same spot, and they can put one finger right on it:
If this sounds like you, please know that it is not "all in your head" and it is not something you have done wrong. Here is what may be happening. At each of these spots there is a small sensory nerve lying just a few millimetres under the skin. In some people that nerve is being squeezed, by a tight muscle, a small blood vessel, or a band of tissue. The constant pressure irritates the nerve, and that irritation is what sets off your migraine. Your pain is real, and it has a reason.
Migraine surgery simply frees the nerve from whatever is pressing on it. It is done through a small incision hidden in the eyebrow crease, the hairline, or inside the nose. Nothing goes inside the skull. Nothing touches the brain. Once the nerve is released, the irritation settles, and for most of our patients, the migraines stop or become rare and mild. Life opens up again.
Fewer attacks, gentler pain, and for many, no migraines at all
This is not a quick fix that fades, it lasts
A superficial procedure, nothing inside the skull, nothing near the brain
We understand that the word "surgery" can be frightening, especially when it concerns your head. Many of our patients felt exactly the same before they came to see us. So let us be very clear and very honest about what we actually do:
The nerves we release lie only a few millimetres below the surface. This is gentle, superficial surgery.
We never open the skull. This is not neurosurgery.
You come in the morning and you sleep in your own bed that same night, with your family around you.
Under general anaesthesia or local anaesthesia with sedation, whichever you prefer, after discussing it with us.
In the eyelid crease, the hairline, or inside the nose. Once healed, most people cannot find the scar themselves.
Supported by more than two decades of published research and thousands of patients worldwide.
And most importantly: the years you have spent in pain were never "normal", and you do not have to accept them as the rest of your story. If your migraine starts from one of the five trigger zones, there is a real chance, a very real chance, that we can help you get your life back.
