Weightloss Surgery Can Alleviate Migraines
Weightloss Surgery Can Alleviate Migraines
Weight loss surgery appears to alleviate migraine headaches.
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" Barry -- surgery not only helps so be patient with -- it appears to alleviate painful migraines as well researchers followed twenty or severely obese women with a history of migraine -- underwent two types of weight loss surgery six months later half of the patients had 50% fewer migraine regardless of which surgery they had in fact they're heading to improve even though most of the women were still considered obese during the follow up."
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