Did this woman's piercing cure her migraines?

Anyone who suffers from migraines knows they aren’t just any old headache. Some people find themselves having to spend the day in bed surrounded by darkness, while others suffer through days of vomiting and nausea. For one woman, her symptoms were so extreme she was confined to her home.

Mara Kroyer, a yoga instructor in Perth, Australia, suffered from extreme migraines where she was left feeling nauseous for days and unable to leave her home. With daily occurrences, Kroyer began to feel desperate for a change.

“I can’t remember not having them on a regular basis,” she told Today Tonight. “When it gets really bad, it would get to the nausea, very rarely I would get to the vomiting and I’m in bed for the day type scenario.”

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After hearing about how a strategic ear piercing had changed the lives of migraine sufferers, the Perth mom decided on a particularly bad day she had nothing to lose.

A daith piercing is “an ear piercing that passes through the ear’s innermost cartilage fold, the crus of the helix” — and according to alternative medicine experts, it replicates the sensation of acupuncture, and is known to ease migraine pain.

“One particular day I had a really bad migraine, I just thought ‘I’m just going to give it a go’,” she said.

While the piercing was painful, she claims it has completely eliminated her migraines.

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“Basically, the head[ache] I had went away straight away but I think it’s because my ear hurt so much, it took away the pain from my head,” said Kroyer. “But that was the last headache I’ve had since then.”

According to Statistics Canada, 2.7 million Canadians suffer from migraines, but doctors believe that number is even higher because most don’t seek medical intervention for migraines. When it comes to gender, it turns out women are twice as likely to report a migraine as men.

However, some doctors argue that there’s no actual science behind a daith piercing helping to ease migraine pain

“There is no evidence that daith piercing work to help migraine,” said Dr. Fayyaz Ahmed, a neurologist and trustee of Migraine Trust.

As for Kroyer, two months have passed since she got her piercing and the migraines — which were daily — have disappeared entirely.

“It has absolutely changed my life for the better.”

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