Surgery
Current surgical methods are only used amongst sufferers who have tried all of the available preventative and abortive treatments and hence are a last resort measure amongst carefully selected sufferers.
Only sufferers whose headaches are exclusively one sided should be considered for surgery because there is a risk that the CH will re-occur on the opposite side following the surgery. There are a number of surgical procedures available though few offer long-term results and the side effects can be devastating.
There have, however, been recent reports of less evasive surgical techniques involving electronic surgical implants (ONSI), which are currently being investigated further.
