Migraine in Elderly Patients
Migraine, getting severe in fertile ages of women, significantly recedes with menopause. Thus, most women wait for that time of their life to come. It is also not very common to see migraine in advanced ages.
That’s when Gokmen Approach, with its custom treatment based on the reasons of headaches and migraine steps in. The couple, whose story is told below, had completely different migraines and hence, their treatments were applied accordingly.
The Story of an Elderly Migraineur Couple
Although the common expectation for migraine is to have it reduced by elderly ages, this couple at the ages of 60 and 75 were long suffering from headaches and also increasingly. However the characteristics and causes of their headaches were completely different.
To begin with, the man had been suffering for 30 years. Pain, coming from always his left side and affecting left eye and left temple was beginning at his stomach. Patient, taking pain killers very often, was describing his condition as: “If I take a pill when the first sign of the pain, that is twisting and unease at my stomach, I can make it stop. Otherwise it goes right up to my head.”
On the other hand the woman was having headaches for 17 years. The pain was either covering the whole head or just the right side and almost every day, she was waking up like this. When asked, she was saying that her headaches began after she had her uterus removed around the age forty.
The Solution
Gokmen Approach finds the different causes of migraine of each patient. In this case, this couple also had different causes. The characteristics of the man’s headache was signaling his teeth so an evaluation had been made. Then the treatment was planned and the pain was taken under control.
But on the contrary, teeth were the last source to come to mind for the woman. After treating her throat and the scar tissue in her uterus, the headache was gone together with blood pressure problems. Also, she was no longer suffering from fatigue either.