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The first woman in Britain to cure her migraines by having a 'brow-lift'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1328544/How-having-brow-lift-cured-migraines.html
By Sophie Borland
Last updated at 8:13 AM on 11th November 2010
I've got my life back: Penny Radcliffe has been cured of her migraines after a brow lift
Penny Radcliffe's migraines were so debilitating that they left her bedridden for one day a week.
They could be triggered by anything from a glass of wine to her noisy grandchildren.
Now, however, the 57-year-old has just become the first woman in Britain to be cured of her crippling headaches by a 'brow lift'.
Since she had the surgery, normally carried out as a cosmetic procedure to reduce wrinkles, she has not had a single headache or dizzy spell.
She had the operation six weeks ago after suffering chronic migraines over the past seven years.
She was put under general anaesthetic while her surgeon removed part of the 'frown' muscle, the corrugator, just above each eyelid. Migraines are often caused by this muscle contracting and putting pressure on the surrounding trigeminal nerve.
Cosmetic surgeon John Pereira made five small incisions in her hairline above her forehead, then drilled down to the bone and cut away the parts of the muscle which were closest to the nerve and likely to be triggering her migraine.
Mr Pereira said: 'The muscle is similar to an elastic band. We cut a small section around the nerve to reduce the pressure.'
He later lifted her eyebrows by pulling up the skin and stitching it to the bone in her scalp.
So far the procedure has been performed on only a handful of sufferers in Britain, and Mrs Radcliffe is the first woman. None of the patients has since experienced a single attack.
Cosmetic cure: How a brow lift could relieve the agony of migraines
Mrs Radcliffe, who lives in Eastbourne, said: 'I feel fantastic. I've got my life back and I have so much more energy.'
At first she had tried painkillers and acupuncture, but they had little effect and all she could do was try to sleep it off. Even when the pain had subsided, she often felt exhausted for the next two days.
The surgery, carried out at the Esperance private hospital in Eastbourne, will be featured on Avia TV, a new cosmetic surgery channel.
Surgeons warn that it would work only for those whose attacks are caused by the corrugator muscle pressing on the nerve.
Norman Waterhouse, former president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said: 'This is not a miracle cure. It does not mean that everyone who has got a migraine will be better by having muscles taken out.'
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