The question I get asked the most is how much my nerve stimulator helps me. This simple question is surprisingly difficult to answer. The response depends on how I feel that particular hour, what the previous day or week or month was like, how resentful…
After I had my stimulator about a year, Medtronic began publishing Living Well, a newsletter about the company’s implanted stimulation devices and drug delivery systems. According to the newsletter’s nerve stimulation FAQs, these activities might be harmful: using an electric blanket, skiing, sledding, golfing, amusement…
After months of fruitless searches for headache or migraine related on NIH‘s clinical trials database, there’s a plethora of trials. The database currently has 43 headache and 36 migraine studies listed. Topics include: Improving migraine treatment in the ER New preventives and abortives Headache-specific studies…
The FDA has given Boston Scientific approval to begin a trial of occipital nerve stimulation for migraine. The specific device that will be studied is called Precision, which is the smallest rechargeable stimulator available. The study, which is being called PRISM (Precision implantable stimulator for…
I’m going to answer Molly’s questions one at a time so I can give more thought to each one individually. I also think it will be easier to get a dialogue going if there’s only one questions at a time. Of course, the only way…