Welcome to the journey of learning and being informed about migraine surgery with Aesthetics & Plastic Surgeon Dr. Ufuk AskeroÄŸlu. Since you joined us on this adventure probably you our your loved ones in your life have serious problems about migraine. Please carefully review all the processes, fill out surveys, and feel free to contact us.
21.8 percent of women and 10.9 percent of men in Turkey suffer from migraines, a severe type of headache that also causes neurological symptoms (e.g., nausea, visual disturbances). Migraines are being diagnosed at the age between 15-35 and usually starts with a single-sided severe and disturbing pain.
The patient's daily life activities are affected in the most cases of severe pain, and the patients can not continue to their daily life or business. Physical activity increases the severity/intensity of the pain. Dark and quiet rooms can be solution to the patient and at the end of hours, migraine patients turn back to their life and start waiting for the next episode of pain. Chronic migraine patients- considering the frequency/duration of attacks is sometimes several days-, it can be said that migraine is a discomfort that makes their life unbearable. Moreover, a lot of patients can think about suicide which is a very critical information.
Despite these dramatical figures and facts, unfortunately there was no reasonable treatment for migraine till nowadays. Still, traditional pain relievers or dark rooms are accepted as a migraine treatment which is a really sad. The goal of this website is increasing the quality of life of migraine patients and give their life back with migraine surgery.
