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New Hope
for Migraine
Sufferers?
I feel like a new
person - it has been
miraculous for me.
– Aqua Marria Oliver
How one simple procedure gave
Aqua Marria Oliver her life back,
free of the pain that had plagued her.
Aqua Marria Oliver had tried to live with the pain. Fol-
lowing a series of operations beginning in her teen years
as well as brains surgery to repair a chiari malformation in
2012, she had gradually just accepted that her debilitating
migraines were always going to plague her. But with each
new attack, she was coming closer to her wits’ end, missing
church and spending the day in bed to block out the pain,
auras and nausea.
And then came hope, when a close friend urged Oliver
Dr. Matthew McLeod
& Patient, Aqua Marria Oliver
to visit her nephew, Dr. Matthew McLeod. “She’d watched
me deteriorate, and mentioned this new procedure he’d
been doing to help with migraines.” A relatively simple
outpatient procedure, the work being done by Dr. McLeod
in Savannah Plastic Surgery’s Migraine Surgery Pro-
gram has proven to be a life changer for people suffering
from migraines, offering relief when medications are not
working. “That’s what piqued in my interest in this ap-
proach, is that transformation.” Essentially, the procedure
alleviates pressure on the nerves that trigger migraines,
utilizing the techniques of plastic surgery to locate and
eliminate those pressures, whether scar tissue, enlarged
blood vessels or the underlying fascia. In Oliver’s case, it
was pressure on the occipital nerve. When that pressure
was relieved, the results were instantaneous. “I feel like a
new person,” said Oliver. “It has been miraculous for me.”
912-351-5050 • 1-800-424-8478
SavannahPlasticSurgery.com
7208 Hodgson Memorial Drive
Savannah, Georgia 31406
Doctors: Carl Pearl, Scott Vann, Matthew
McLeod, Barbara Davies & Luke Curtsinger.