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7. Do you have classic migraine (migraine with aura) or common migraine (migraine without aura)? When did it begin?

8. What do you take for your classic or common migraine and does it help?

9. Have you been diagnosed with persistent aura (prolonged migraine aura status)?

10. What is your visual problem and how long does it last?

11. Any other problems that you think might be related?

12. What do you take or do for your vision problem and does it help?

13. Have you found a trigger for your vision problem?

14. What tests have you had and the results?

15. Drug history (pre VS)

16. Drug history (post VS - effect on VS - negative, positive, not at all)

17. Do you have a positive family history for migraine? If yes, who is affected?

18. Other information you want to provide?

No doctor would express to a patient feeling VERY confident he can do something about the VS because up to now all known therapies ( http://www.migraine-aura.org/content/e27891/e27265/e42285/e42287/index_en.html ) have only limited effects. That is not to say that a doctor cannot do anything of help for a patient with persistent vs, in fact he can do a GREAT deal in giving information, allowing better coping, prophylaxis of further worsening, treating psychiatric complications such as anxiety and depression. But there are no treatments which have a predictable effect to reduce the VS in a high percentage of treated cases. There are some medications that helped in some patients, and one should try these, but there is (unfortunately) no evidence which would allow to feel VERY confident.

So, in principle, one would have reason to be cautious with any claim of feeling VERY confident someone can do something about the VS.

As regards the "neck" hypothesis, we had discussions about this earlier on the board, and as a neurologist I can only say that I can see no way (in terms of anatomy and physiology) how a neck problem (that could be treated by a chiropractist) could cause symptoms such as bilateral VS affecting the entire visual field. No way.

If a cure that lasts 6 months is announced, that means, implicitly, that the claim is you might need a long therapy, so you will be treated at least 6 months (and you can calculate how much this will cost). If there is a small improvement (which may occur, over 6 months, due to spontaneous remission, or due to some positive "psychotherapeutic" effects resulting from the therapy), it is likely that you will be recommended to continue with another 6 months or so (and again you can calculate the costs...)